Noted South Indian actress Sharada, a three-time recipient of National Award, is a South Indian Actress. Initially, she has done many supporting roles in Telugu films, later on, she moved to Malayalam film industry and gained success there. She is also known as Urvashi Sharada because earlier the National Film Award for Best Actress was officially designated as Urvashi Award....
As popularly known, The Nightingale of South, S. Janaki was born as Sishtla Sreeramamurthy on 23rd April 1938 in Repalle, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. Her childhood love for music turned out to be her talent, and she started performing at a tender age of three. Her voice is compared to Lata Mangeshkar, and Janaki has a large fan following because of...
Philomina was a well-known Malayalam personality known for her dynamic roles in her movies. She was a veteran actress working for more than 35 years in the film line. She was born in Mullurkara village in Kerala. Her parents were Devassia and Mariam. She completed her primary education from the Valapad GVHS School. She used to sing church choir, but...
Sreedharan Nair is an Indian Actor who works in the Malayalam Film Industry. He is popularly known as Kottarakkara. Sreedharan was born on the 11th of September in the year 1922. He is from Kottarakkara, Kerala. His father’s name is Padinjattinkara Korattiyode Narayana Pillai, and his mother’s name is Ummini Amma....
Palissery Narayanankutty Menon, famously known as P.N. Menon, was an Indian film director and an Art Director, mainly in the Malayalam film industry. Besides, director Menon is also known for designing promotional posters....
Kattassery Joseph Yesudas shortly called as K J Yesudas is an exceptional Carnatic singer and playback singer in Indian Cinema. Born on Jan 10 in 1940, he is fondly called as Gana Gandharvan and Dasettan. He has set a record of recording more than 60,000 songs. He is born in a Roman Catholic family, in Kochi. His father was a...
P Bhaskaran (full name Pulloottupadathu Bhaskaran)was an actor, poet, lyricist, and filmmaker from South India. He was born in Kodungallur, Thrissur district, Kingdom of Cochinon April 21, 1924, to a lawyer, freedom fighter, poet, and journalist Nandyelathu Padmanabha Menon, and house-wife Pulloottupadathu Ammalu Amma. However, Nandyelathu died when Pulloottupadathu was just ten years old. Within two years, he started writing...
A Malayalam actor and artist, Sankaradi originally named as Chandrasekhara Menon was one of the finest and realistic actors of the South Indian Cinema. He almost has 700 movies registered to his name and has been quite a popular figure from the 1960s to the 1980s. The posthumous actor had a very different life before his Bollywood career. He pottered in...
M T Vasudevan Nair is a renowned writer and director. He is famous for Kadavu, Oru Vadakkan Veergatha, and several other movies. He has written about 54 screenplays for movies and did direction for about seven movies. He has been rewarded by several awards for his direction, screenplay and for his novels....
Bahadoor is a legendary stage actor, who has predominantly been a part of the Malayalam film industry. He has made many prominent changes in the industry. He made sure comedians were given noteworthy and significant roles in movies. Bahadoor’s birth name is P. K. Kunjalu. He was born in a poverty-stricken family, in Thrissur, Kerala, in the year 1930. Bahadoor...
G. Devarajan was a successful and highly respected South Indian music director. His full name was Paravoor Govindan Devarajan and was also called Devarajan master. He was one of the most successful Malayalam music songsmiths. He was born in the year 1927, at Paravur near the Kollam district of Kerala. Later on, he graduated in music and performed his first...