Malayalam Awards Kerala State Film Awards 1990 - Cast & Crew

K.P.A.C Lalitha is known for her character Mayavathi Amma in the super hit comedy serial ‘Thattiyum Muttiyum.’ She is one of the finest Malayalam Cinema and Serials actors, known for her acting in very distinctive and versatile roles in hundreds of movies. She has won National Award twice for the movies Amaram (directed by her husband) in 1991 and Shantam in 2000. She has also won several state awards and many television awards.

In 2013, her autobiography Kadha Tudarum won the Cherukad award. She was born Maheshwari in 1947, in Alappuzha, Kerala, India. She is a part of the Malayalam Cinema Industry and Tele Serial Industry. She began her career at the age of 10 by acting in plays. Her first play was Geethayude Bali. Later she joined K.P.A.C, a renowned drama troupe in Kerala. K.P.A.C Lalitha b...

Widely known as Baby Shamili, Shamili is an actress whose claim to fame comes from acting as a child actor in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada films and TV serials. 

Shamili was born in the family where acting was aplenty. She is the younger sister of Shalini and Richard Rishi, both actors. 

Shamili started her acting career as early as when she was two years old. She acted in Bharathan's movie Malotty. She won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Child Artist. However, Shamili's biggest claim to fame came after starring in award-winning director Mani Ratnam's “Anjali”. Shamili portrayed a mentally challenged kid in this movie. This stunning performance won her the National Film Award for Best Child Artist. 

Her f...

Urvashi is the stage name of Kavitha Ranjini, a producer, film actress, TV anchor and a script writer from India. She was born on 1970 at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Her father is Chavara V. P. Nair and her mother is Vijayalakshmi. Her siblings are actress and classical dancer, Kalaranjini, Malayalam actress and comedian, Kalpana Priyadarshini, Kamal Roy and Prince who is also a Malayalam actor. Urvashi has been married twice. Her first marriage was held on October 11, 2000 with actor Manoj K. Jayan but they got separated in year 2008 because of some differences. They have been divorced in Chennai and later separated by an order from the court. Urvashi’s daughter, Tejalakshmi or better known as Kunjatta now lives with his father Manoj. Then Urvashi was married again to a Civil Engineer in November 2013. U...

G Jayakumar is an Indian Malayalam Producer. He has predominantly worked for the Mollywood movie industry. He has worked in popular movies like Kallukondoru Pennu, Padheyam. Jayakumar’s film was hit to the theatres Kallukondoru Pennu in 2000. He recently produced Kozhipporu, Perumthachan. He has produced many stage shows and plays.

Perumbavoor G Raveendranath is an Indian musician from the state of Kerela. He is so known for his work because he uses pure Karnatak music in his composition. He works very seriously. He was born in Perumbavoor, Ernakulam, in 1944 on 5th January. Now he lives in Thiruvananthapuram. His work is seeing in many Malayalam movies like Innale.

He has his music in some of the best Malayalam movies of all time. His album named Thrimadhuram is one of the best devotional music albums. His parent’s name was Adv. V. R. Gopalapillai and Bhargaviamma. His father lost his life when he was young. He has won the award for the film Innale for best Kerela state film Award for best music director.

Ajayan is also known as Thoppil Ajayan (8^th April 1950 – 13th December 2018). He was a Malayalam cinema director. On 13^th December 2018, he passed away.

Ajayan is best known for his one feature film, “Perumthachan (The Master Carpenter). Critics worldwide praised the movie. In 1990, he received the “Indira Gandhi Award” as the Best Debut Film Director. He also earned “the Kerala State Film Award” for the film as the Best Debut Director.

Thoppil Ajayan demonstrated that one might achieve worldwide fame with a single movie. Many directors churn out hundreds of commercial films with no creative value and still fail to earn a place in the hall of fame.

M. T. Vasudevan Nair claimed in the afterword to his book “The Master Carpenter” that Ajayan app...

Chintha Ravi aka K. Ravindran is an acclaimed journalist, writer, and a film critic too who later added another feather in his cap by becoming a film director. But the path has not been so easy. He also directed many documentaries which won him a state-level award and even acted in a movie too.

He was born in 1945 in Thrissur and completed his journalism course from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan after completing his formal higher schooling at Malabar Christian School. He also began his film critic journey with Searchlight mead where later got associated with CPI's mouthpiece Chintha and wrote an editorial. Thus, he got a pen name 'Chintha'.

He excelled in writing travelogues and even made television travelogue ‘Ente Keralam’ capturing the scenic beauty of Kerala. It won him best Kerala Sahitya Akademi a...

Madhu Ambat was born on 6th March 1949 to Prof. K Bhagyanath and Smt. Ambat Sulochana. The Ambat family was an incredible group of individuals, with a father that quit being a professor to pursue his love for magic as full time career and a sister who grew up to be an incredible actress. Not only this, his younger sister, Vidhubala went on to become a leading actress in the Malayalam film industry. In a time when everybody was focused on getting into good colleges and getting well-paid jobs as soon as possible, Mr. Ambat was lucky to have a family that believed that he deserved to love what he did. So, despite extreme pressure, he went to the renowned Pune Film Institute. He had also got admitted into IIT, but instead decided to go the other way.

He spent the next few years working his hardest and ultimately, it all paid off, w...

Rajiv Anchal is an Indian Film Director, Sculptor, Screen Writer. He works in the Malayalam Film Industry. Rajiv was born on the 20th of December in the year 1956. He was born in Kerala, India.

Rajiv won a state award for sculpture from Kerala Lalitha Kala Academy in the year 1977. He contributed to the statuary of Kerala. One of his sculptures is 40 meters long, it is in Alleppey, Kerala.

He also contributed to building the Jatayu bird sculpture at the Jatayu’s World Center in Kollam. Rajiv started his career as a Director with the Malayalam film “Butterflies” (1993).

He later worked for the films “Kashmeeram” (1994), “Guru” (1997), “Rushy Vamsam” (1999), “Pilots” (2000), and “Pattinte Palazhy” (2010). He made his debut in Hollywood w...

Jerry Amaldev’s real name is Jerome Thomas Veleeparambil. He is a music director in the Indian film industry who works majorly in the Malayalam films. He was born on 15 April 1939 and belongs to Cochin which is in Kerala, India. His father was V. C. Joseph and mother were Mary Joseph. He completed his schooling from St. Albert’s High School and the bachelor degree in Philosophy from Papal Athenaeum in Pune.

He got married to a woman named Jolly Jerry Amaldev who unfortunately died due to cancer in the year 2008. They had three daughters named Meera, Sangeeta, and Dahlia. He worked as an assistant with Naushad who is a famous music director. He took training in the field of North Indian Vocal Music from Vishnu Digambar Sangeet Vidyalaya in Pune under the music teacher named Madhusudan Patwardhan.

B. Lenin (Bhimsingh Lenin) is primarily a Tamil film editor who has also worked as a writer and film maker. Apart from Tamil movies, he has worked in Malayalam and Hindi films. His career as an assistant editor started in 1979 with Uthiripookkal by director J. Mahendran. He worked as assistant editor with his father in many films before he debuted as an independent editor. He has also worked as a lab technician and he is an experienced sound engineer. During the decades of 1980s and 1990s, he partnered with his old assistant V. T. Vijayan and worked with him in over 100 Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada and Telugu films, including Geethanjali, Nayakan, and Anjali and Kadhalan, for which they were honoured with the National Award for best editing.

Lenin has won five Nation...

Murali is a well-known Malayalam film actor who has also acted in Tamil films. Murali pocketed a National Award for playing the role of a communist freedom fighter in the 2002 movie, “Neythukaran.” Murali is considered to be one of the best actors to have blessed Malayalam cinemas and is revered for his character portrayals of playing the lead as well as the villain in his films. Murali was also the chairperson of the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy. Murali was a staunch supporter of the Communist Party of India and was the director of Malayalam Communications, which was driven by the Party. Besides cinema, Murali was also a theater actor. Murali was born to Krishna Pillai and Devaki Amma in Kollam, India. Murali pursued his education at the M. G. College in Thiruvananthapuram a...

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, eighteen short stories, three children literature, two plays, three essays and three travelogues. He is hon...

G. Venugopal is an Indian singer, playback singer, and a television personality. In a little duration of time, he has had a big name in the industry. He has sung over more than 30 movies and 500 musical albums. He has also anchored many musical television reality shows. He was born in Kerala, a South Western state of India. He was the eldest son of Shri Gopinathan Nair and Sreemathi Sarojini. His upbringing was in a musical family. His mother is a retired head of the department of music in Govt Women's College in Trivandrum. His aunts were K Sh.aradamani and K Radhamani. The two were known as Paravur sisters. He went to Carmel School in Trivandrum. After his fourth standard, his family shifted to Thycaud in joined Thycaud Model School. He had wanted to become a doctor and joined BSC Zoo...

Ottaplakkal Neelakandan Velu Kurup also known as O.N.V Kurup, was a famous Malayalam lyricist and amazing poet of Kerala in India. His father was O.N. Krishna Kurup and mother was K. Lakshmikutty Amma. He was born on 27 May 1931 in Chavara, Kollam, Kerala. His father died when Kurup was eight years old. He somehow tackled the situation and completed his graduation with a Bachelor's Degree from the SN College in Kollam. He had an interest in literature, so he shifted to Trivandrum and pursued Masters in Malayalam literature from The Travancore University, also called The Kerala University. After completing his Masters of Arts, he worked as a Professor at Maharajas College in Ernakulam, Arts and Science College in Kozhikode, University College in Trivandrum, and Brennen College in Thalassery. He also...

Surendranatha Thilakan, more popularly known as Thilakan was one of Malayalam cinema’s most prominent actors. He was one of the few actors who was awarded a Padma Bhushan (India’s highest Civilian Award), and was affectionately called Perumthachan (Master Craftsman) of the Malayalam Cinema industry.

Born on the 15th of July, 1935 in Ayroor, Travancore, Kerala, he began his acting career as a thespian when he left intermediate college mid-way to pursue this career as a fulltime option in 1956. Having formed a troupe with a few friends, called the Mundakayam Nataka Samithy, he performed at various venues including the Kerala People’s Arts Club till 1966, followed by sessions at the Kalidasa Kala Kendra, P.J Antony’s troupe, Changanacherry Geetha, and several radio ...