Malayalam Awards Asianet Television Awards 2017 - Cast & Crew

Prayaga Rose Martin is an Indian actress and a native of Kerala. She was born on 18th May 1995 in Kochi, Kerala.

Prayaga likes dancing. She is a trained classical dancer also. Prayaga commenced her career as an actress in the film industry. She appeared in the Malayala Manorama as the cover girl. She made her debut in the Tamil movie ‘Pisaasu,’ which is directed by ‘Mysskin’ in 2014. Her second movie was also a Tamil production in 2015 named ‘Poda! Andavan en Pakkam’. Her next Malayalam movie, with Fahadh Faasil, is going to release. Another movie to be released is ‘Ore Mugham’ in which she shares screen space with Aju Varghese, Dhyan Sreenivasan. The movie is directed by Sajith Jaganathan.

Prayaga is 20 years old, and she has already achieved fame an...

Keerthy is the daughter of yesteryear actress Menaka and producer 'R Suresh Kumar' who made her debut with Priyadarshan’s ‘’Geetanjali’’. Naturally, she had dreamt always to become an actress. And then she also had the support of her parents who wanted Keerthy to grow up as an actor. She never had any second thoughts about her career and she had always wanted to become an actor only. Although she is from a family where acting is the only passion, she had naturally gotten to the skin of many characters and had left a mark with each character that she had played.

Date of Birth: 17-10-1991

Age: 32

Star Sign: Libra

Gender: Female

Language: Tamil

Skills: Movie Actress

Biography About Keerthy Suresh

Biography About Keerthy Suresh

Date of Birth: 17-10-1991

Age: 32

Star Sign: Libra

Gender: Female

Language: Tamil

Skills: Movie Actress

Shweta Mohan is a female playback singer in Indian cinema who is also the daughter of playback singer Sujatha Mohan. Like her mother, she also had sung in various languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. She was born on 19 November 1985 in Chennai.  In fact, earlier she was a bit hesitant to take up singing as her career. But as she sung, she enjoyed singing very much. Had not she been in singing, she could have opted for doing MBA and got settled other way. 

Shweta grew up watching her mother sing and eventually looked her as a role model for her life. She has always aspired to be like her. Taking inspiration from her mother’s versatile career in Indian cinema, she eventually made her ground too in film music. She is well...

Anikha Surendran is a child actor. She was born on 7th of February in 2004. Her birthplace was Manjeri in Kerala. Her dad name is Surendran. She is known as Baby Anikha. She has studied in The Choice School of Tripunitura. Coming to her acting career, she had her debut in 2010 with Kadha Thudarunnu.

It is a Malayalam picture. She portrayed herself as Laya. Sathya Anthikad wrote and directed it. Thankachan Emmanuel produced it. Asif Ali Jayaram performed in it and it was a blockbuster at the box office. It won several awards. He got appraised with the tags of Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, Best Character Actor, Most Popular Actor, Best Child Artist, Best Male Playback Singer, and Best Cinematographer at the Asianet Film Awards.

It also won some awards at the Filmfare Awards, and Kerala State Film Awards. Then, s...

Reba Monica John is an Indian artist. GALLERY OF REBA MONICA JOHN She was born on the 4th of February in the year 1994 in Kochi, Kerala, India. She is a model as well as a film actress in the Indian Cinema. Shemade her debut in the South Indian Film Industry recently in 2016. The Malayalam film - Jacobite Swarganayam marked her debut in the South Indian Film Industry.

In the movie she worked under the direction of V. Srinivasan. The name of her role in the film was Chippy. So in her debut film she got the chance to portray the lead role alongside actress Nivin Pauly. . She was the Second-runner up in the popular South Indian reality show – Mid...

Aishwarya Lekshmi is an Indian actress who has worked in Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil movies. She has acted in many movies of these film industries. She is best known for her movies like ‘Rasukutty’, ‘Butterflies’, ‘Gardish’, ‘Aambala’ and many more. She has been a part of many Malyalam television series. She was born in Chennai as Shanta Meena Bhaskar. Her father K Bhaskaran was a Malayali and mother Lakshmi was a Tamil actress. She was interested in the film industry as she grew up watching her mother working hard in the industry and got inspired to become an actress. She debuted with the movie ‘Nyaayangal Jey Kattum’, a Tamil movie in 1990.

The film was made by her mother and stepfather Sivachandran. In the same year, she did ‘Oliyampukal’, a Malayal...

Versatile and talented, Shanthi Krishna is an actress who is also one of India’s leading Bharatha Natyam dancers. She is most popular for her exceptional work in the Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada movie arena, having also won the prestigious Kerala State Film Award for best actress in 1994.

Born to parents R. Krishan and Sharada in Mumbai, her Tamil Brahmin roots only strengthened her foray in to Malayalam movies where she earned several accolades. Her career with the movie industry began with the Malayalam movie Shalini Ente Kootukaari.  Her success was also seen in movies including Chaoram, Ennum Nanmakal, Pakshe, Visa, Ithu Njangalude Katha, Saagaram Santham, Mangalam Nerunnu  among others.

Her career has spanned nearly 32 years, from 1980...

Srinda Arhaan was born on 20 august 1985 in Kochi, Kerala, India. She is an Indian film actress by profession. Srinda preferably works in the Malayalam film industry. Srinda even worked in both the Tamil and Kannada film industry. She did her primary and secondary education from St. Mary's Anglo Indian Girls High School, Fort Kochi, Kerala, India. For her secondary education, she shifted to Palluruthy for her Higher Secondary School Certificates, and later at the Sacred Heart College, Thevara. She got married at a young age of 19, and the couple has a son together.

Srinda was passionate about movies, photography, and all sort of things from a very young age. Then she started working on it. Soon she got bored with her job and shifted herself from a film career as an assistant director. She even tried her luc...

Anu Sithara is an Indian Film and Television Actress. She works in the Malayalam and Tamil Film Industries. Anu hails from Wayanad district in Kerala. Anu was born on the 21st of August in the year 1995. Her father’s name is Abdul Salam, and her mother’s name is Renuka Salam.

Anu worked as an actress for the first time in the Malayalam Film Pottas Bomb (2013), she played the role of Aswathy, a child. She appeared in more films such as Happy Wedding (2016), Fukri (2017), Johny Johny Yes Papa (2018), Adhyarathri (2019), and many more Malayalam films. She also worked for two Tamil films which are Veri Thimiru 2 (2015) and Podhu Nalan Karudhi (2019).

Parvathi is an Indian actress and dubbing artist. Mainly, she is a Malayalam actress and has done a lot of Malayalam movies. She began her career as a Radio Programme Producer. She made her debut in the film industry with the movie, ‘Out Of Syllabus’. It was directed by renowned director Vishwanathan. He has given many great hits to the film industry. For many years, before she stepped in the film industry, she did a show on the radio where many celebrities were frequently interviewed. She is an actor, model, and an anchor as well. After doing the movie ‘Out Of Syllabus’, she did an ad film. After that, she was approached by Director Lijo Jose Pellissery for his next venture ‘Double Barrel’.

She had to work a lot for this film as ...

Rafeeq Ahammed was born on 17 December 1961 at Akkikavu, Trichur, Kerala, to Syed Sajjad Hussain and Thithayikutty. Rafeeq is a Malayalam poet, lyricist, and novelist. He has won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005 for his Poetic work, Aalmara, and is a Five-time winner of the Kerala State Film Award for Best lyrics.

Rafeeqis considered as one of the finest and successful Malayali artists, with more than 600 songs in his credit for about 400 Malayali films.

He graduated in English literature from Sree Krishna College, Guruvayur. Rafeeq married Laila, and today, he is blessed with two children, Maneesh and Lasya. His first work as a lyricist was in 1999, in the film Garshom, directed by P.T. Kunju Muhammed. After the success of his first film as a lyricist, there was no looking back for him.

His second work ...

Do you remember the funny side-kick of Mohanlal from Jeetu Joseph’s brilliant Drishyam (2013)? Yes, it was played by Neeraj Madhav. Today, he is one of the most promising actors. His younger brother Navneeth is also a well-known actor. Before acting, he had started off his career in dance. He is a professional Bharata Natyam artist. So, it was not surprising to see him making into the final round of the first “Super Dancer.” He is an SRM University graduate and an alumni of School of Drama and Fine Arts, Thrissur. Thanks to Drishyam, Neeraj’s comic side is now used in various films. But before, films like Homely Meals and Sapthamashree Thaskaraha (2014) gave him the right experience.

The year 2015 marked a milestone as he had eigh...

Jayasurya is a versatile actor who hailed from Kerala. Born in Thrippunithura in 1978, this actor has done varieties of characters in Malayalam films. He has also acted in a few Tamil movies. His parents are Mani and Thankam. His wife is Sarita and this couple has a daughter and a son. Oomapenninu Uriyadapayyan is the debut movie of Jayasuriya. Swapna Koodu with Prithviraj, Meera Jasmine and Bhavana gave him a reputation. His movie Pulival Kalyanam also earned more fans for him. Kilukkam Kilukilukkam was the next version of Mohan Lal movie Kilukkam, and Jayasuriya’s performance was applauded well. Shakespeare M.A Malayalam and De Inkottu Nokkiyae, Bus Conductor, Arabikatha are some of his blockbuster movies. Sankaranum Mohananum was the film by Jayasurya, in which he appeared in 20 different getups. Cocktail was ...

Kunchacko Boban is a handsome young guy who got introduced as a hero in the Malayalam movie, Aniyatthipraavu, in the year 1997. His first movie was the most populous director Fazil, and the film is a super hit, with Shalini, alongside. Before his debut as a hero, he has acted in Dhanya, as a child artist. He is loved by all his female fans for his cute smile and tiny expressions that boost his beauty. This charming guy is the grandson of the popular film producer Kunchacko. His grandpa’s studio is the first studio in Kerala. Kunchacko Boban’s father is also a person who is related to the film industry through acting and production. Anu and Mini are his siblings. Kunchacko Boban is married to Priya Ann from the year 2005. After marriage, Kunchacko Boban had a break to cinemas and came back after three y...

Nedumudi Venu was born on 22nd May 1948. He is commonly known as Kesavan Venu Gopal. His parents are PK Kesavan Nair and Kunjikkuttiyamma in Nedumudi Alappuzha in Kerala. He had four siblings, all brothers. His father was a schoolmaster. Nedumudi completed his primary education at NSS Higher Secondary School and St Mary's Higher Secondary School, Champakulam. During school days, he was interested in music and arts.

He graduated from Sanatana Dharma College in Alappuzha. After graduation, he started his career as a journalist and also worked as a teacher in a tutorial institute. While staying in Trivandrum, he became friends with Padmarajan, Bharath Gopi, Aravindan which made him expose his talent and enter into the domain of movies. In his married life with TR Sushil...

Shahbaz Aman is an Indian Playback Singer and Music Composer. He works in the Malayalam Film Industry. Shahbaz was born on the 27th of December in the year 1969. He was born in Malappuram, Kerala. He is not only a singer in the Malayalam Film Industry but also performs Ghazal music on stage. He is well known for his unique style of singing and producing romantic and soulful songs.

He made his debut as a Playback Singer in the Malayalam Film Industry with the song Chaanthu Kudanjoru of the film Chanthupottu (2005). He later sang more songs such as Ishtamalle from Chocolate (2007), Mohabath from Double Barrel (2015), Kaatil from Mayaanadhi (2017), and many more. He started composing music with the Malayalam film Paradesi (2007). He composed for more movies such as Indian Rupee (2011), Spirit (2012), Mayaanadhi (2017), Thamaasha (...

Bijibal Maniyil is an Indian composer and a singer born on 21 May 1973. Bijibal is not only a playback singer but also an expert Keyboardist. Bijibal field of interest includes film scores, classical and dance music. Bijibal is a very renowned composer and has won many prestigious awards including a National Film Award. Bijibal made his debut in the Malayalam film industry as a music director with the film Arabikatha in 2007. The film won him Mullassery Raju Music Award for the best music director in 2007. Some of the remarkable works of Bijibal includes Njaan, Balyakalasakhi, Kaliyachan, Salt N’ Pepper and Arabikatha. Bijibal won the Asiavision Movie Award for the Movie Salt N’ Pepper in 2011. Recently Bijibal is working on some movies My God, Salt Mango Tree, KL. 10 and much m...

Kiran Das is a Malayalam film industry editor. He is best known for movies like Joseph in 2018, Moothon in 2019 and Samaksham in 2018. He won Asianet Film Award for best editing in 2018 for the movie Thondimuthalum Dhriksakshiyum. This film is a National award-winning film. In 2019 he has done movie Ishq. This romance thriller drama was written by Ratheesh Ravi and directed by Anuraj Manohar. Kiran has not learned to edit, he learned it himself by experience and learning. He has also worked for documentaries, short films, ads, and music videos. He worked as an assistant editor with V Sajan on Tamaar Padar. This movie was directed by Dileesh Nair.

Life usually is unexpected, and it takes a turn when we least expect it. Sanjeev Pazhoor’s life has been nothing but a series of unpredictable events and opportunities. From being an Indian novelist to screenwriter and a director and then a government employee, Sanjeev has been actively associated with the Indian Film Industry. Sanjeev Pazhoor was born on 8th April in the year 1974.

He is married to Deepa Sanjeev and, the couple is blessed with two children. At the start of his adventurous journey In the film Industry, Sanjeev, worked as a senior sub editor for Deshabhimani Daily. Sanjeev’s first film as screen writer was ‘Swaoaanam.’ This incredible piece of work had been released in the year 2014. It is a Malayalam Film and was jointly screen written by Hari Krishnan and Sanjeev. He has also been a par...

Antony Varghese, of Angamaly Diaries, is pleased that he got selected to retain his position in Angamaly instead of taking an aircraft to Singapore. Or else, this new chap who generated a Tsunami of all kinds in Mollywood with his entrance in the cult flick would have taken a seat in an agency at Singapore organizing logistics for some Multi-million corporation.

He had two choices— either to transfer to Singapore or to halt at Angamaly and expect his chance for the big opening in the cinemas. His parentages—Alphonsa and Varghese — had spent wealth on his educations. And he supposed that if he could forfeit this post-graduation due to his obsession with flicks, why not the Singapore job! That choice turned out to be correct and got him an opportunity to meet manager Lijo Jose Pellissery. He had viewed a short p...

Sarath Kumar, born on 28 December 1992, also known by his stage name Appani Sarath, is an Indian actor who works in Tamil and Malayalam movies. Sarath first earned notoriety for his portrayal of Appani Ravi in the Lijo Jose Pellissery-directed film Angamaly Diaries, which propelled him to stardom. Later, he appeared in the Lal Jose-directed film Velipadinte Pusthakam as Franklin, a character who appears in the well-known Jimikki Kammal song. In Pokkiri Simon and Sachin, he played significant parts. In addition, Sarath has appeared in a few Tamil films, including Sandakozhi 2 opposite Vishal, a follow-up to the 2005 film Sandakozhi, and a small part in the 2018 Mani Ratnam film Chekka Chivantha Vaanam. In the ZEE5 series, he portrayed the legendary serial killer and criminal Auto Shankar.

Sarath worked in many films, some of the...

Dharmajan Bolgatty is a Malayalam actor, writer, television presenter and stand-up comedian. He was born in Mulavukad, Kochi in India to Madhavi and Kumaran. After finishing his primary education at Mulavukad High School, he attended St. Albert’s College in Ernakulam. He started his career as a mimicry artist, but became popular on Asianet’s Bluff Master, along with Ramesh Pisharody, who became his partner. The two had met while working as writers for Cinemala and when they realized that their tandem clicks, they have decided to put up their show. Later on, he has done over 30 films, and he is now part of Asianet’s Badai Bungalow. He turned film actor through the 2010 Malayalam film, Paappi Appacha, which stars Dileep, Innocent and Kavya Madhavan in the lead roles. He play...

Sooraj Venjaramoodu was born on 30th June, 1976 in Kerala. He is an Indian actor, television presenter, and comedian. He has acted in over 250 films. His father is a retired soldier and, his mother is a housewife. Sooraj began his career as a stand-up comedian. He was successful in this and was most famous for his mockery of the Thiruvananthapuram accent. At first, when he started his acting career, he was not well- accepted by the audience.

His first movie was 'Jagapoga.' This film received a lot of bad reactions. Later, he started playing minor roles in movies as a Bus conductor, Rasika, and Rasathanthram. His role that got his attention was Thuruppugulam in 2006. Apart from that, he has appeared in many movies such as Hallo, Chotta Mumbai, Classmates, Pachakuthira, etc.

Throughout his acting career, Sooraj re...

Alencier Ley Lopez is an Indian film actor and theatre artist, popular amongst the regional audience for his work in movies like Rosapoo (2018), Kala VIplavam Pranayam (2018), Oru Kuprasidha Payyan (2018), Parava (2017), Mayanadhi (2017), Vimanaam (2017), etc. Mostly known for his predominant involvement in Mollywood movies, Malayali TV shows, dramas, short films, and theatres, he was awarded the Best Character Award at the 48th Kerela State Film Awards for the film Thondimuthalum Drikasakhiyum (2017). Born on 11th December 1965, Alencier hails from a Latin Catholic family in Puthenthope, Thiruvananthapuram.

After completing his graduation from St. Xavier’s College, Thumba and University College of Thiruvananthapuram, he married Suseela George, who worked as a mathematics teacher. The couple has two sons, namely Alen Stev...

Born in 1982, Fahadh Faasil is known for his works in Malayalam cinema. He is the son of renowned Malayalam director Fazil. He debuted in the Malayalam film industry during the year 2002 in his father’s film Kaiyethum Doorath. Unfortunately, his status as star kid didn’t help him and the film bombed at the box office. He was 18-year old then and the audience didn’t accept the image of a chocolate boy with a mustache. 

Fahadh was not seen in films for around 7 years. But behold.. he indeed returned only to be accepted by the audience. He had a bald head, but that only favored him, since it provided a professional look. He did a film...

Mahesh Narayanan is an Indian writer and film editor, popular amongst the regional audience for his work in movies like Take Off (2017), Traffic (2011), Vishwaroopam (2013), and Ennu Ninte Moideen (2015). Mostly known for his predominant involvement in Mollywood movies and Malayali TV shows, he has been working in the film industry for more than ten years now.

Born on 2nd May 1982, Mahesh graduated from the University College, Thiruvananthapuram, before joining the MGR Government Film and Television Training Institute, Tamil Nadu. After training a lot and working for short advertisements, he entered into the film industry with a bang as the film Rathir Mazha, which featured him as the editor won five Kerela State Awards. Since then, Mahesh has featured in many movies and won various awards.

Anish M. Thomas is an Indian movie producer who is active majorly in the Malayalam film industry under his production house, Urvasi Theatres. He was born on 16th May in Trivandrum, Thiruvananthapuram. He attended the St. Goretti Higher Secondary School in Punalur, Kerala and graduated from Mar Ivanios College in Trivandrum. He married Tanima Chinnu Tomi on in 2013 and has a son, Nathanael Anish Thomas. He is recognized for producing the family drama film “Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum” (2017), starring Suraj Venjaramoodu and Fahadh Faasil. The movie is built around the story of extraction of a gold necklace from the stomach of a thief, Prasad (played by Fahadh Faasil), who steals the necklace from a lady, Sreeja (played by Nimisha Sajayan) on a bus and swallows it to avoid getting caught.

However, Sreeja sees him com...

Sandip Senan is a known Indian film Producer who has worked in Malayalam Cine industry. He started his career after graduating as an executive producer 19 years ago. Assisting in many movies, he gained on experience as Producer. After that, he went on establishing his own production house called Urvashi Theatres along with his classmate and close friend Aneesh in the year 2011.

The first movie produced under their production was Nee Ko Njaa Cha. A less known fact about Sandip is that he is the nephew of the famous producer K Suresh Kumar. He has also won a National Award for his movie Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum which is considered a masterpiece of Malayalam cinema.