Malayalam Awards Kerala State Film Award 2020 - Cast & Crew

Swasika Vijay is a budding Malayalam actress. She has acted in the serial Dathuputhri which started to air on 2015. She played the lead role in the serial and it was challenging for her since she had to portray two different roles. She won the hearts of the Malayali audiences through that serial. She garnered the best new face award in the function of Drithya TV awards 2015.

Kani Kusruti is an Indian model and actress born on 12th September, 1985 in Thiruvananthapuram. Kani lives in Mumbai with her husband, Anand Gandhi who is an activist and a rationalist. Her father’s name is Maitreya Maitreyan and mother’s name is Jayasree AK. Kani Kusruti’s mother Jayasree is a community health specialist, a social activist and a lecturer at Pariyaram Medical College. Kani’s father has worked and led many human rights in Kerala.

Born on 8^th June, 1986 to parents Thirumala Shahul and Rehma in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, Najim Arshad is a famous Indian playback singer working in Malayalam, Hindi and Tamil film industries. His father is a retired administrative officer from Vigilance Department while his mother is a music teacher. He has two brothers one is a doctor, and the other is an engineer. He feels proud to say that both of them are musicians too. He has been undergoing training in Carnatic music vocal under Gurunathan Sri H. Raja in S.S.T College of Music since 1995 and in violin by Sri Rathinam and Sri Kadanad Haridas.

Vineeth, is the nephew of yesteryear actress Padmini  and cousin of actress Shobana. He had grown to be a classical dancer due to inspiration that he got from aunt Padmini. It was Ragini (sister of  Padmini)  who saw him dancing at age of  four,  and both Padmini and Ragini, had  instructed Vineeth’s parents to send him to a dancing school. Since then his journey into dancing had begun and even today dancing is his just a passion and not a past time work.

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.

Sushin Shyam is a playback singer. He is related to the Malayalam Music Industry. He has even worked in movies. People loved his performance in the flick Thattathin Marayath. Thattathin Marayath was a musical. The genre of the film was romance. Sushin's appearance in the movie made him famous. Kisa Paathiyil, a song sung by him, got popular. The song Kisa Paathiyil, is included in movie Kismath. The song dealt with the topic of love and romance.

Harikumar Madhavan Nair is an award-winning Sound Designer and audiographer who has the credit of working for Hindi and Malayalam films alike. Born to parents Madhavan Nair and Madhavi Amma, the audiographer is an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India.

Vasudev Sajeesh Marar is a famous Malayalam actor. He started his career with Sullu which was released in 2019. In the same year, Vasudev won the Kerala State Film Award for Sullu and Kalla Nottam. He also got a Film Critics Award. He's appeared in films such as Sullu, Malik, Kalla Nottam, Aby, Puzhu, Pournamiyum, Vijay Superum and Gauthamante Radham. His younger brother portrayed the role of Appu in the film Puzhu. In the psychological drama film Puzhu, directed by newcomer Ratheena, he played Mammootty's son. He was in 9th grade when he acted in this film. His most recent album is Jailer. He has been featured in various commercials. 

Known for his work on Malayalam films, Lijo Jose Pellissery is a film director. He was born in Chalakudy in Thrissur district and is the son of the actor Jose Pellissery. He studied at Carmel High School and went to junior college at The Union Christian College, Aluva. He later studied at IPM, Bangalore and attained his Bachelor's in Marketing HR and Master in Business Administration. Because he came from a family with a cinematic background, he ventured into the industry by making short films. Akira Kurosawa, K.G. George, and Padmarajan are his idols. He made his directorial debut in 2010 with a crime movie titled Nayakam.

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.

Madhu Ambat was born on 6th March 1949 to Prof. K Bhagyanath and Smt. Ambat Sulochana. The Ambat family was an incredible group of individuals, with a father that quit being a professor to pursue his love for magic as full time career and a sister who grew up to be an incredible actress. Not only this, his younger sister, Vidhubala went on to become a leading actress in the Malayalam film industry. In a time when everybody was focused on getting into good colleges and getting well-paid jobs as soon as possible, Mr. Ambat was lucky to have a family that believed that he deserved to love what he did. So, despite extreme pressure, he went to the renowned Pune Film Institute. He had also got admitted into IIT, but instead decided to go the other way.

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