Sukumari was a legendary South Indian actress who was active in the industry for more than 50 years. She has acted in close to 3000 movies and several serials. Sukumari was facilitated with Padma Shri for her great contributions. She was married to late Dr.Bhim Singh and they have a son named Suresh. Suresh has also acted in a few...
KM Vasudevan Namboothiri was a well-known Indian line sketch artist, illustrator, and sculptor. He was born on 13 September 1925 in Ponnani, Kerala. His parents were Parameshwaran Namboothiri and Sreedevi Antharjanam. He was married to Mrinalini. Since childhood, he has been fascinated by the sculpture of the Sukapuram Temple near his house. To pursue an education in arts, he got...
Manakda Ravi Varma was born on 4th June, 1926 in Malappuram, Kerala. Ravi Varma passed away at the age of 84on 22nd November, 2010 in Tamil Nadu, India. People also know him as Raviettan. He started his career in the year 1966. He is a very popular Malayalam Film Director and Cinematographer. He has worked with many famous Directors such...
G. Aravindan, full name Govindan Aravindan was an exceptional personality with many talents. Aravindan was a screenplay writer, painter, director, and cartoonist of Indian origin. He was born in Kottayam in present-day Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala in 1935. He was born to a family of artists, his father being M.N. Govindan Nair – a comedy writer. Aravindan went to University College in...
Valayar Ramavarma was an Indian poet and lyricist. He was a modern Malayalam lyricist as well as a poet. Some of his famous works are Padamudrakal, Oru Judas Janikkannu, Mulankaadu, Sargasangeetham, etc. Valayar was born on 25 March 1928, in a village of Valayar, Alappuzha, Kerala. His father was Vellarappally Kerala Varma while his mother was Raghavaparambil Ambalika Thamburatty. He...
Pamman was born on 28th February 1920 in Kollam, Kerala. Pamman is regarded as one of the most gifted and prolific writers in the history of Keralite literature. Most of Pamman’s novels and writing pieces always tackled taboo subjects like human sensuality and sexuality. Pamman wrote around 50 novels, few of which were made into films....
K. S. Sethumadhavan is a famous screenwriter and film director in India dedicating his works to Malayalam movies. Madhavan is famous for his movies in Tamil, Oriya, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi also. Some of the landmark films directed by him are Yakshi, Odeyil Ninnu, Achanum Bappayum, Anubhavangai Palichakal, etc. He won 9 Kerala State Film Awards and 10 National Film...
Balanathan Benjamin Mahendran was born in a Sri Lankan Tamil family on the 20th of May 1939 and passed away on the 13th of February 2014. He was a cinematographer, film editor, director and a screenwriter. He has worked in some Indian film industries but mostly worked in the Tamil film industry. BaluManhendra had developed an interest in photography in...
Hailing from the city of Kerala, Adoor is an actor and a director. He was born on 1st March 1927 in Vazhuthacaud, Thiruvananthapuram. He spent his childhood with his parents at Travancore. He was the fourth son to E.V. Krishna Pillai, who is a revolutionary story writer, a lawyer and a member of Travancore Legislative Assembly, and Maheshwari Amma, who...
Balan K. Nair was a Malayalam actor born on 4 April 1933 in Chemancheri, Calicut. He made his reputation acting as a villain in most of the southern films. Balan started his acting career at a very young age of 14 with the association of Sangamam Theatre, Kozhikode. He was the eldest among his siblings and his parents died when...