Jaya Bharathi is a legendary actress who has contributed immensely to the South Indian entertainment industry. She has acted in many films and serials in most of the South Indian languages. Jaya Bharathi started her career as a dancer and then moved to the world of movies. She debuted in a Tamil movie Anubavi Raja Anubavi at the age of...
Kaviyoor Ponnamma is the evergreen mother of Malayalam cinema. Ever since she was just 22, she had been portraying effectively the mother role in Malayalam movies. Even after 55 years of her contribution in silver screen, she continues to play the “evergreen amma” character. Her first offer was in Thommante Makkal (1965) where she played mother to Sathyan and Madhu....
P Madhuri is an Indian playback singer. She mainly works in the South Indian film industry. Madhuri gave her voice for various songs in Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam. She has got the Kerala State Film Award twice for a best playback singer. Madhuri took birth as Shivagnanam in a place named Tiruchirappalli. She was born in a Tamil family in...
P J Antony was an Indian soap and film actor, vastly appreciated for his performance in the 1973 movie Nirmalyam, where he acted as a medium between a goddess and her worshipers, for which he also won the Bharath Award(now National Film Award for Best Actor). The movie won him a lot of appreciation and established him among the greats...
M B Sreenivasan is an Indian director who worked for the Malayalam film industry. He was born on 19th September 1925 in Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh. Sreenivasan completed his school at P.S. High School, Chennai, and graduated from Madras Presidency College. His first song was released in the Tamil language with popular Tamil lyricist Jayakanthan for his movie Paadhai Theriyudhu Paar....
Born in Tellicherry, Kerala, India, K.Raghavan is a music director. He is famously known as Raghavan Master. Raghavan was born to a folk singer. K.Raghavan had been awarded the J.C. Daniel Award, which is considered the Kerala government’s highest honour for contributions to the Malayalam industry. Raghavan has composed more than 400 songs and had been active in the Malayalam...
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....
Vaikom Chandrasekharan Nair (1920 – 12 April 2005) was an Indian writer and journalist who mostly wrote in Malayalam. He was born in Vaikom, a small village in Kottayam district of Kerala. He began writing early in his childhood. He also became a member of the Communist Party at university. Although Vaikom was a journalist by profession, he was a...
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...