Malayalam Awards Kerala State Film Award 2022 - Cast & Crew

Devi S. is a well-known Malayalam film actress and dubbing artist. She was born at Cherukodu Peyad in Thiruvananthapuram. She got married to Alwin, an Engineer by profession and they now have a daughter named Athmaja.

Devi started out as a child artist in Vijayakrishnan’s television serial, Kadhasangamam. Subsequently, she acted in Doordarshan’s Oru Kudayum Kunju Pengalum, where she bagged the Best Child Artist award at the State Awards in 1993. Her voice was used for children in many films and television serials such as Minnaram, Swam, Swaroopam, Thalolam, My Dear Kuttichathan, Sammohanam, Johnny and a lot more. At 13, she lent her voice to the heroine of the film, Salute, which was directed by cinematographer, Azhagappan. Devi also lent her...

Fowzia Fathima is a well-known Indian director and cinematographer. Fowzia was born and brought up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She was born on the 24th of January in the year 1972. Fowzia hails from a family of doctors. Fowzia was a very brilliant student and did very well in her academics. Fowzia's first passion was painting. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Painting, history, and Art from Stella Maris College in Chennai. Fowzia did her MA in art criticism from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. There she secured the first rank.  She even loved studying airplanes and therefore learned bit engineering from the Madras Flying Club, Chennai. Fowzia developed an interest in cinematography and did her Diploma in Cinematography from Film and Television Institute of India. She was also a top rank holder.

Fowzi...

Unnimaya Prasad is an Indian Assistant Director. She is also an actress. She mainly works in the Malayalam Film Industry. She is born and brought up in Kochi, Kerala, India. She got married in 2012 with Syam Pushkaran. Syam Pushkaran is a director and a screenwriter.

Some of the movies in which she has worked include Maheshinte Prathikaaram, which released in 2016. Mayanadi, which released in 2017. Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum, which released in 2017. Some of the movies in which she has worked as an actress include 5 Sundarikal, which released in 2013. Maheshinte Prathikkaram, which released in 2016. Anuraga Karikkin Vellam, which released in 2016. Parava, which released in 2017. Virus, whichreleased in 2019.

She is architecture too. She completed her graduation from the College of Engineering, Thiruvanthapuram. She did...

Jayashri Ramnath or Bombay Jayashri, as she is known, is an Indian Carnatic musician, composer, and singer. Born in Kolkata, Jayashri belonged to a family of musical cognoscenti. Her parents, N. Subramaniam, and Seeta encouraged her to pursue the art of Carnatic music right from the tender age of four. Later on, Jayashri continued her education in music under T. R. Balamani for nearly a decade. She completed her scholastic education from St. Anthony’s High School in Chembur and graduated from the R.A.Poddar College in Mumbai. Jayashri also pursued a Diploma from the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya in New Delhi. Her thirst for music led her to Hindustani music greats Shri. Mahavir Jaipurvale, and Pandit Ajay Pohankar, with whom she spent more than six years acquiring the skill of Hindustani vocals. Jayashri al...

Sithara Krishnakumar, or as we call her Sithara, is a splendid playback singer. She started off her career in 2007 with her first song ‘PammiPammi’. She got a kick to her profession after winning several musical talent shows like AsianetSapthaSwarangal (2004), Kairali TVGandharvaSangeetham and Jeevan TV Voice. She has now given her voice to over fifty film songs in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. Her forte is folk and fusion genres of music. Sithara is on a musical roller-costar with a specialty in various styles including Hindustani classical, Carnatic and Gazals. Born in Kozhikode, Kerala, this lady started to sing at the age of as early as four. She was born and brought in the music world as the family was already inclined towards classical art.

Sithara Krishnakumar, or as we call her Sithara, is a splendid playback singer. She started off her career in 2007 with her first song ‘PammiPammi’. She got a kick to her profession after winning several musical talent shows like AsianetSapthaSwarangal (2004), Kairali TVGandharvaSangeetham and Jeevan TV Voice. She has now given her voice to over fifty film songs in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. Her forte is folk and fusion genres of music. Sithara is on a musical roller-costar with a specialty in various styles including Hindustani classical, Carnatic and Gazals. Born in Kozhikode, Kerala, this lady started to sing at the age of as early as four. She was born and brought in the music world as the family was already inclined towards classical art.

Date of Birth: 01-07-1986

Age: 37

Star Sign: Cancer

Gender: Female

Language: Malayalam

Skills: Playback Singer

Biography About Sithara (Singer)

Biography About Sithara (Singer)

Date of Birth: 01-07-1986

Age: 37

Star Sign: Cancer

Gender: Female

Language: Malayalam

Skills: Playback Singer

Revathi is a popular south Indian actress, who has appeared in Hindi films too. Born as Asha Kutty, she changed her name to Revathi, for the stage. Right from the beginning of her career, she did not lose her popularity, because of her excellent performances. Mann Vasanai, directed by Bharathi Raja is her first movie. Pudhumai Penn was the movie that showed her in a different angle and she was praised for her performance. Pagal Nilavu is one of her top snatched films and in Aan Pavam she acted as a dumb girl, who lost her voice in an accident. In this film, she paired with Pandiya Rajan and the movie was a super hit. Kai Kodukkum Kai is the only film, she paired Rajini Kanth. She has acted with Kamal Hassan in a number of films, among which Oru Kaidhiyin Diary, Magalir Mattum, Thevar Magan and Punnagai Mannan are memorable. In Magalir ...

Visakh Subramaniam is a well-known Indian producer, distributor, and film exhibitor. He predominantly works in the Malayalam film industry or the Mollywood industry.  He was born on 10 April 1988 in Kerala, India. He is a son of S. Murugan and Suja Murugan. His grandfather P. Subramaniam founded the second film studio in Kerala named Merryland Studio. He was married to entrepreneur Advaita Srikanth. He stepped into his career as a producer with the film Love Action Drama, directed and written by Dhyan Sreenivasan under the banner of Funtastic Films starring Nivin Pauly, Nayanthara, and Aju Varghese on 5 September 2019. He is a partner of a production company titled Funtastic Films. As a distributor, he was a part of the film Helen, directed by Mathukutty Xavier, starring Anna Ben, Lal, Noble Babu Thoma...

Vineeth Srinivasan is known to the music industry for his popular and hit song, Karale, karalinte. Being the son of film star Sreenivasan, he never had even thought of singing as a career. But of course, he likes popular Hindi songs and admires voice of K.J. Jesudas, Brad Paisley, and Udit Narayan.

This young lad used to sing a folklore Muslim song often known as ”Mappilapattu” even in youth festivals at school. It was then director Priyadarshan insisted him to render a’’ Mappilapattu’’ for his upcoming flick ‘Kilichundan Mampazham.' After hearing Vineeth’s voice that matches so well with the folk songs sung by Mapillas of Malabar, another Malayalam director, Roshan Chetan gave him the offer to sing for...

Justin Varghese is an actor who has mostly works in the Malayalam film industry. In 2017 he appeared in director Sunil Ibrahim's film titled Y in 2017. The film was based on suspense and thriller, and most of the film casts were new faces, and Justin was one of them.  

Hareendranath Dwarak Warrier is associated with sound designing in the Indian movie industry. He has been associated with Bollywood, Mollywood, and French movies. Dwarak graduated from Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. His connection with Ram Gopal Varma is well known. He is known for movies including Ek Tha Tiger, Bhoot, Dhoom 2, Kaal, Company etc.  

Sumesh Moor, is an Indian actor, born on 31st July 1993 in Cherupuzha, Payyannur, Kerala, India. He did schooling at GHSS Peringome. Moor worked in Malayalam Language films. He is well known for his film Kala which was a Psychological action film directed by Rohith VS (2021). Moor worked in movies such as Pathinettam Padi (2019), Gangs of 18 (2019), Captain Miller, and Mindscapes. Moor’s Masterpiece performance with his signature move in the Kala movie resulted in building his Career as an Actor in the Indian film Industry. He was the Kerala State Award Winner in SIIMA for The Best Supporting Actor category in 2022.

Tara Ramanujan, born in Kerala, India, is a Mollywood director, writer,  and screenwriter. She is well known due to her screenwriting for movies such as ‘Forbidden,’ ‘Samarpanam’ and ‘Nishiddho.’ One of the awards for which she’s widely known is the ‘Kerala State Film Award for Second Best Film’, which she won for ‘Nishiddho’ (2021) at the 52nd Kerala State Film Award.

Tara Ramanujan gained well-deserved recognition as a woman screenwriter in Mollywood due to the message ‘Nishaddho’ sent to the public. The movie features female leads and their journeys, which makes a bold entrance into the cinematic area of women story writers. Her film seems to have an iconic message. It is not just a lov...

K Gopinathan is a famous philosophy professor, filmmaker, and critic in Kerala. He is associated with the Malayalam film industry. K. Gopinathan started his career as a writer in the 1980s as a JNU student. He was actively involved in student politics, film, and theater movements during college. Gopinathan also developed close associations with several film and theater personalities, like Chintha Ravi and Suresh Pattali.

To pursue his interests, Gopinathan took several courses at the School of Drama, Film, and Television Institute of India. He has directed three documentaries, Mundassery: Kalaghattathinte Muzhakkam (1997), Swaathanthrya Sangeethika (1999), and Maythil (2010). Gopinathan also directed two feature films, Ithramatram (2012) and Samarppanam (2017).

Rajesh Rajendran was born in 1979 in Kulappadam, Kollam district, Kerala, India, to J Rajendran and Usha Kumari. He married Abbey Prakash in 2009. They named their baby boys, Janardh and Jagan. He is an Indian film editor who contributed to the Malayalam cinema industry. He started as an assistant editor in the Mollywood entertainment industry and has worked with famous directors like Mahesh Narayanan, Rosshan Andrrews, V.K. Prakash, and many more. He debuted as an independent editor with the movie Evidey. He also worked as a co-editor, along with Mahesh Narayanan, in the film Nayattu. As an assistant editor, some of his famous movies are Casanova, Beautiful, English Artist, How Old are you, and, Ennu Ninte Moideen.

Shahi K M, also known as Shahi Kabir, is a screenwriter, actor, and director in Malayalam cinema from India. He was born on September 28, 1978, in Alappuzha, Kerala, India. Furthermore, he completed his graduation from Mahatma Gandhi University. He is well known for his film Joseph released in 2018 and Nayattu released in 2021. Shahi made his debut as an assistant director in the film Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum, which was released in 2017. In addition, he made his debut as a director in the movie ElaVeezhaPoonchira, released in 2022. Shahi K M is married to Sabeena A, and they have two children. His achievements include the Kerala State Award in 2021, the Vanitha Film Award in 2018, and the Janmabhoomi Award in 2018.

In the Indian film industry, A. V. Gokuldas works as a production designer (Art Director). Three times he has won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Production Design. He received international acclaim for his work in Kammatipaadam. He has established himself as the state's most renowned art director throughout the years. Gokuldas was born in Kerala and went to Ambalapuram School and Aryampadam Sarvodaya High School for his education. He earned his bachelor's degree in fine arts from the Thrissur College of Fine Arts. After completing his fine arts diploma at the Government College of Fine Arts in Thrissur, he was offered the opportunity to do the art direction for R. Sarath's film Sayahnam, which earned him his first Kerala State Award Best Art Direction in 2000. Before pursuing a career as an art director, he began assi...

Suresh Triveni, an Indian Filmmaker, is the man behind the famous television advertisement Mauka Mauka and the blockbuster film Tumhari Sulu. Suresh Triveni is a Malayali born on March 4 in Palakkad, Kerala, and grew up in Ranchi, Jharkhand. He completed his studies in Chennai and Delhi. Being a bright student till his tenth grade, Suresh, unfortunately, couldn’t live up to his expectations in twelfth. But because of hard work, Suresh joined Times School of Marketing and completed his post-graduation course in Marketing Management. After watching Director Mani Ratnam’s Bombay movie, Suresh Triveni aspired to become a filmmaker. But eventually, he had to look up for a job in Sales and marketing and finally landed in an advertising agency as the Clients Servicing Executive.

To quench the thirst for his dream to be a f...

Madhu Neelakandan is also called to be Madhu Neelkanthan, was born in Kochi, Kerala. he is an Indian cinematographer by profession. he completed her graduation from the film and TV institute of Pune. he is highly educated.

He is a member of the Collective phase-1: a group of people who are forming a committee or a kind of club, where a various number of people visit and produce films like ID, Njan Steve Lopez, etc. She has been featured in different films, namely Annayum Rasoolum, Kammatipadam, Rani Padmini, and many others as well. She uplifted her career right from 2003.

In that very year, she depicted herself. Ivar was her first movie. In the next year, Saphalam has been launched. In 2004, he played her role in the film Vajram. In 2009 and 2010 she got two films back to back to play her characater in which was Chal C...

Hesham Abdul Wahab was born on 14th October, 1990 in Kerala India. His genres are Sufi Music, World Music and Film Score. He is a very popular Music Director, Composer, Singer, Music Producer and Audio Mixing Engineer as well. His favorite instruments are Piano and Keyboard. He started his career in the year 2007. He is also a Malayalam playback singer.

Hesham was born in Riyadh, which is the capital of Saudi Arabia. Most of his family members are related to music only. Therefore, he was very much interested in music from his childhood. He was very much into music and he also took professional training in Indian Classical music and Carnatic music. He started singing when he was of the age 8 and he learned to play Piano when he was of the age 11. Hesham completed his educ...

T Sivakumar is an indian actor and a visual artist who has played a vast range of roles, both leading and supporting, in the tamil cinema. His first appearance was in the movie kakkum karangal in 1965. Syam pushkaran is a scriptwriter well known for his work in malayalam cinema. He began his journey in the industry with salt n pepper co-written with dileesh nair.

Syam wrote screenplays for famous films like 22 female kottayam, da thadiya, idukki gold, rani padmini and the recent one mayaanadhi. He got married to architect ms. Unnimaya prasad in 2012.

He was born as a second child to ms. Geetha devi and mr. N. Pushkaran on 6th september 1984. His birthplace was thuravoor town in alappuzha district, kerala.

He did his schooling from government u.p. school and t.d. higher secondary school, thuravoor. He has done gr...

Hari Narayanan is a Tamil and a Malayali song lyricist. It is hard to find a native Malayali who has never heard any music composition or song made by this famous lyricist. They are very fond of his music and almost hear him regularly. The most popular and famous Malayalam music and song of 2014 was composed and written by Hari. The name of the song was Olenjali Curuvi. The lyrics of the song were so touching and soothing that it captured the attention of not only the young generation, but also the old people couldn’t resist themselves from loving this composition. Even the song Kaatumooliyo Pranayam was a great hit.

But this song was restricted to youngsters and teenagers only. His lyrics are a great hit always. The year 2015 saw great success in his career. His songs filled the TV station telecasts, radio stations, thea...

Sundar Das is a film director in the Malayalam film industry. He was born in Calicut in Kerala, India. Sundar Das has directed more than ten movies in Malayalam. He is famous for his films Sallapam which released in the year 1996, Sammanam in 1997 and Kuberan in 2002. His debut movie as a director was Sallapam which was also the Malayalam Actress Manju Warrier's debut movie.

After his work in the film Akasham in the year 2007, Sundar Das took a break from the field and returned in 2013 with the movie Rebecca Uthup Kizhakkemala. He has been in the field since 1996. Sundar Das has two children Arjun Das and Arun Das. Sundar Das worked as a second unit director or assistant director from 1990 starting with the movie Parampara.

Then in 1993, he worked in film Akashadoothu and the movies Aksharam, Sadara...

Born in the quaint seaport town of Kochi, Kerela, Renganaath Ravee is an Indian sound designer and sound editor who has worked on more than eighty films. Even though he currently resides in Mumbai, where he follows his occupation, he did his schooling in Kerala.

He had no formal education in any sort of film school, however, and thus realized that he had a passion for art after his college years faded away. In 2005-2006, he started his career as a sound recorder at K. J. Yesudas Tharangini Records Studios after which he moved to Bollywood in 2006 to find a larger amount of exposure for his works.

Ravee has been a master at the art of manipulating sound for various different films. So far, he has worked on films that tell the story in eight different languages, including English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi,...

Sharafudheen is an Indian Film actor. He mainly works for Malayalam Cinema. He was born in Kochi, Kerala, India. His spouse name is Beema. Their marriage year is 2015. They have a child. Sharafudheen has a nickname Sharaf U Dheen. Sharafudheen did his acting debut with the Neram in the year 2013. He has appeared in movies 1983 in the year 2014, Ohm ShanthiOshaana in the year 2014, Pavada in the year 2016 and Pretham in the year 2016.

His amazing break is Premam in the year 2015. Director for this is Alphonse Puthren. Moviegoers loved his character GirirajanKozhi. He did acting with Mohanlal in MunthirivallikalThalirkkumbol in the year 2017. It is a movie directed by Jibu Jacob. He has associated with Malayalam comedy dramaThobama in the year 2018. This has directed by MohsinKassim and Johny Johny Yes Appa. He d...

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.

Dileesh Pothan is a prominent Malayalam film actor-turned-director. He was born as Dileesh Philip on February 19, 1981, in Manjoor, District of Kottayam in Kerala, India. He studied at Emmanuel’s High School in Kothanalloor and later pursued a pre-degree at KE College in Mannanam. Later, he took Bachelor of Science at St. Philomena’s College in Mysore. He showed deep interest in cinema and drama, and so he decided to take a Master of Arts (MA) in Theatre Arts and attended the Sree Sankaracharya University of Kerala and a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Theatre Arts at the MG University in Kottayam. Initially, he has worked as an actor and associate director in several films including director Aashiq Babu’s Salt N’ Pepper (2011), 22 Female Kottayam (2012), Da Thadiya (2012), 5 Sundarika...

Joju George was born on 22nd October in 1977. He was born in Mala, Trichur, in Kerala. He was originally named Joseph George but is known in the industry by the name Joju George. He is a Malayalam actor who made his debut in the year 2003. Early Life George was born in Mala, a village in Kerala. He was born to Malayali parents, George and Rosy. He completed his schooling from GHS in Kuzhur. He later joined the Christ College before dropping out to pursue a career in acting. He started his career as an assistant director in 1991. His acting career began later in 2003. He holds a degree from Christ College in Irinjalakuda. Work Joju George started his career has a director. He has assisted for films like Friends and Dada Sahib. After a short stint in direction, Joju turned to acting. He made ...

Saeed Akhtar Mirza is a screenwriter and director. He is known for Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai, which was released in 1980, then four years later another hit film- Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! in 1984, then Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro in 1989 and six years later Naseem in 1995, which grabbed two National Film Awards in 1996. He also directed television serials like Nukkad in 1986 and in 1988 Intezaar, which was a hit on television. He was born on 30th of June 1943 in Bombay. He decided to become a screenwriter and took to documentary filmmaking at the beginning of his career but later got into films with Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan in 1978, which was about the mental trauma a youth went through after he found himself struggling in the midst of feudal money culture. Then in 1980 followed his very acclaimed wo...

The tall, dark and handsome Biju Menon started his acting career from the small screen. He acted in serials like Mikayelinte Santatikal and Ningalute Swantam Chandu. Mikayelinte Santatikal focused on the life of a family and their complex relationships. 

 In movies, he started with villain roles, second hero roles, and character roles and then graduated to main hero roles. Biju Menon married actress Samyukta Varma, and they have a son Daksh. Biju and Samyukta have acted together in a couple of movies during which they developed a likeness for each other. After the marriage, Samyukta decided to quit her acting career to become a full-time homemaker. Biju Menon resides with his family at Trichur. Their love and relationship is going strong day by day. 

Born in September 1974, Biju...

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