1. Jaya Bharathi
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 16. Her first Malayalam movie was Thokkukal Kadha Parayunu against the super star Prem Nazir. Jayabharathi was quite active in movies and serial till early 2000, after which she started concentrating on her dance career. She has been performing at various temples and cultural societies. Jaya Bharathi is also running a chain of dance schools in Tamil Nadu.
...
Gender:
Female
2. Kaviyoor Ponnamma
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. After this role, the industry had heaped so much praise on her performance and there was no looking back at all. For her wealth of experience in the industry, she only gets love and acceptance from the viewers. That is why she finds playing mother role in cinema as honor. Actually,...
Age:
78
Gender:
Female
Age:
78
Gender:
Female
3. P. Madhuri
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 1943.
She married to V Jayaram when she was thirteen years old. Madhuri became the mother of two children by 16. She worked in an amateur drama group when popular Malayalam music director G Devarajan incidentally watched one of her performances at Madras (Chennai). Madhuri was introduced to movies by Devarajan via Kadalppalam (1969), in which she gave her voice for the popular Mappila song Kast...
4. P. J. Antony
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 of Malayalam Film Industry. However, the role was not initially offered to him, as it was a veteran actor who declined this offer and proposed the name of P.J.Antony.
He established the Pratibha Theatres and P.J.Theatres in the city of Kochi. Both these theatres are still active. Before his ventures in the field of acting, he served in the Ro...
Date of Death:
14-03-1979
Gender:
Male
5. M. B. Sreenivasan
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.
He also played a vital role in IPTA which stands for Indian Peoples Theatre Association. Sreenivasan won several awards like Best Music Director in 1973, 1978, 1979, 1981 and won Kerala State Film Awards in 1987....
Date of Death:
09-03-1988
Age:
98
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
09-03-1988
Age:
98
Gender:
Male
6. K Raghavan
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 industry for nearly four decades. Raghavan loved to play football too. Mr.Raghavan began his career by producing music in the movie NeelaKuyil in 1954. As it is said, true talent runs in the blood. He married Yashoda and had five children. K.Raghavan passed away on 19 October 2013, at the age of 99....
Date of Death:
19-10-2013
Age:
110
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
19-10-2013
Age:
110
Gender:
Male
7. M. T. Vasudevan Nair
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.
Nair was born on 9 August 1933, in a small village of Kudallur in Kerala. Vasudevan won his first award at the age of 20 when he wrote a short story in Malayalam for Best Short Story Writing Competition held by The New York Herald Tribune in 1953.
Nair penned down his first novel Naalukettu in 1958 and won the prestigious Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award. Since then he has written about eight novels, eightee...
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
Age:
90
Gender:
Male
8. Vaikom Chandrasekharan Nair
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 man of many talents throughout his life, working as a poet, actor, novelist, dramatist, speaking, singing, drama, and working.
He edited many magazines- Janayugam, Malayala Manorama, Kerala Bhooshanam, Kaumudi, Pourraprabha, Kunkumam, Chithrakarthika, Kumari, and Keralam. Some famous books like Nakhangal, Panchavankadu, and ...
Date of Death:
12-04-2005
Gender:
Male
9. K J Yesudas
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 great classical Malayalam musician. His first song was Jaathi Bhedam Matha Dwesham (music: M B Sreenivasan) recorded on 14 November 1961. This song is so close to Yesudas, that he signs it even today very often in any of the concerts. His journey started with this song. He got his first hit through a movie Bharya under the music direction of G. Devarajan. He made hu...
Age:
84
Gender:
Male
Age:
84
Gender:
Male
Our Youtube Channels
Nettv4u
Sillaakki Dumma
Crazy Masala Food
Cinemakkaran
Thandora
AskMirchi
Copyright © 2024 NetTV4u.com
Home