A well known Indian TV actress who has also worked in Oriya, Kannada, Malayalam Telugu, Bengali and Tamil cinema. This is one kind of achievement working on 300 films and that too after 17 years of her career. She began her career in Telugu films and this was a turning point in her life. Thereafter, she got too many roles...
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...
The veteran Malayalam actor Jalaja is a blend of pure timeless beauty and impeccable talent that to this day, she’s got strong admirers nearly 15 years after she quit acting. In the 1970’s and 1980’s, among the few Malayalam actors who have been recognised as both commercial actors and artists who’ve worked with some top notch directors, Jalaja was one.
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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....
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...
Nedumudi Venu was born on 22nd May 1948. He is commonly known as Kesavan Venu Gopal. His parents are PK Kesavan Nair and Kunjikkuttiyamma in Nedumudi Alappuzha in Kerala. He had four siblings, all brothers. His father was a schoolmaster. Nedumudi completed his primary education at NSS Higher Secondary School and St Mary's Higher Secondary School, Champakulam. During school days,...
Muhammed Kutty Ismail Paniparambil is the original name of Mammootty, the Malayalam superstar. Having working in more than 300 movies he is still a star to reckon with, in Malayalam film industry. Apart from acting, he was also a lawyer. Currently he is busy with philanthropic works too.
Born on 7th September 1951, Mammootty also donned the role of...
Vipin Mohan is an Indian actor, director, and cinematographer in the Malayalam movie industry. This multifaceted artist is a popular name in his own regional film space. He has been tirelessly working for a long time, and some of his films worth remembering are Krishna Rajapuram, Pattanathil Sundaram. He is a seasoned cinematographer having an aesthetic sense of art, married ace...
M Sukumaran is an Indian writer who worked for the Malayalam film industry. He is well-known for his novels and short stories. Some of his famous novels and short stories are Janithakam, Seshakriya, ChuvannaChihnangal, and Marichittillathavarude Smarakangal. He also wrote a biographical book Swadeshabhimani, Kelappan, and AbdurRahiman....
Bichu Tirumala is an Indian Lyricist and Writer. He works in the Malayalam Film Industry. Bichu was born on the 13th of February in the year 1941. He was born in Trivandrum, Kerala. His father’s name is C. G. Bhaskaran Nair, and his mother’s name is Sasthamangalam Pattanikkunnu Veettil Parukutty Amma. He is married to Prasanna Kumari....
Born into a family in Kerala, Adoor Gopalakrishnan started doing amateur plays at a young age. Later, he wrote and helmed few plays. His interest in this field was imbibed in him by his family. He had studied Economics, Political Science and Public Administration at Gandhigram Rural University in 1961. Then he studied screenwriting and filmmaking at the Pune Film...