1. Madhavi
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 in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi Films. She had won Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress for her role in the film Ormakkayi. She was born in Hyderabad.
Her career began with a starring role in a Telugu film followed by her role in a Hindi remake –‘ Ek Duje Ke Liye’. It was one of the top movies in 1981. Her role in both the movies was of a...
Age:
61
Gender:
Female
Age:
61
Gender:
Female
2. Shobana Chandrakumar Pillai
Shobana Chandrakumar Pillai known by the short name 'Shobana' is a well renowned Bharatnatyam artist and film actress. She is proficient in several languages such as English, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, and Tamil and worked in 200 such films. For her phenomenal performance in 1993's 'Manichitrathazhu' and 2001's 'Mitr, My Friend', she won two National Film Award for Best Actress. The first film is a Malayalam psychological horror film based on cataclysm happened in Alummoottil Tharavadu, which is a famous Travancore family. The film turned out to be one of the most successful films in Alummoottil Tharavadu, which is a famous Travancore family. The film turned out...
Age:
58
Gender:
Female
Age:
58
Gender:
Female
3. KS Chithra
Chithra is a worldwide known Indian soulful singer. Her original name is Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra. Born in July 1963, Chithra has grown into a versatile singer who can sing all variants. Though she is a born Malayali, she sang in more than 13 languages so far, and the number is still going on. She is fondly known as Chinna Kuyil and Keralathinte Vanambadi, which translates into English as Little Nightingale and Nightingale of Kerala. This is due to her exceptionally melodious singing which has never known any boundaries. She made the excellent contribution to the Music industry in languages like Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Odia, Assamese, Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit, Badaga, Tul...
Age:
60
Gender:
Female
Age:
60
Gender:
Female
4. Fazil
Director A.M. Fazil has various roles to his credit, including filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. Though his father dreamt of his son to become a doctor, Fazil was mainly interested in extracurricular activities during schooling. He did a post-graduation in Economics. Fasil has directed around 30 movies. He debuted in the Malayalam film industry with the film Manjil Virinja Pookkal. Incidentally, it was also the first movie of Mohanlal. Fazil has the credit of introducing some of the big stars in the Southern film industry; he introduced Mohanlal, Nadhiya, Baby Shalini and Kunchacko Boban. Also, Nagma and Khushboo were introduced to the...
Age:
75
Gender:
Male
Age:
75
Gender:
Male
5. P. T. Kunju Muhammed
P. T. Kunju Muhammed is a producer and director who mainly works in Malayalam industry. His debut film name was Magrib. At the state level, Kunju has won many awards for his contribution to the industry. He was born in Pancharamukku which is near to Chavakkad in Thrissur which is a district in Kerala.
He is also a politician. He went to St. Thomas College which is situated in Thrissur to complete his degree of graduation in mathematics. Kunju Muhammed has produced and directed many movies like Paradeshi which was released in the year 2007, Garshom released in the year 1998, Veeraputhran released in the year 2011, and much more. All these movies were appreciated and had bag...
Gender:
Male
6. Adoor Gopalakrishnan
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 Institute. His debut film was Swayamvaram, which became a milestone in the history of the Malayalam cinema. The film won four National Awards including Best Script, Best Film, Best Actress and Best Director. His third film Elippathayam fetched him the British Film Institute Award for Most Original and Imaginative Film in 1982. The International Film Critics Priz...
Age:
82
Gender:
Male
Age:
82
Gender:
Male
7. Yusufali Kechery
Yusuf Ali Kechery was an Indian poet, director, film lyricist, and film producer from Kerala, who was born on May 16th, 1934. He was one of the most known poets of the of Malayalam poetry and received numerous awards including Kerala Sahitya Academy Award, Odakkuzhal Award, and Vallathol Award. Yusuf was born in 1934 in Trichur district of the City of Cochin. After getting his Bachelor's degree in Arts and Law, he began his career journey as a freelance writer and lawyer. Professor KP Narayana, who was a highly regarded scholar, was Yousuf’s Sanskrit teacher and taught him without any fee for four years.
Yusuf is remembered as one of the leading poetry artists of the Malayalam Poetry. Some of his significant poetry work...
Date of Death:
21-03-2015
Age:
89
Gender:
Male
8. T V Chandran
T. V. Chandran is a Malayalam film director whose films belonged to art-house audiences in the large Indian cities or even to film buffs on the international circuit. Most of his films in which he had acted had only achieved fair amount of success at the box-office. Sometimes he appeared in other regional cinemas too which balanced elements of art and popular cinema together. It is for his love for art cinema in Malayalam film industry that helped the art cinema grow further.Â
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 In the year 1989, he directed a film &...
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
Age:
73
Gender:
Male
9. S. P. Venkatesh
S.P. Venkatesh is popular in the Malayalam film industry as a music director and a composer. He was considered to be one of the best music directors in the early and mid-90’s. He composed music for various blockbuster hits of Mohanlal’s movies. The well-known music director has his roots in Kochi, Kerala. His father, Pazhani is a skilled mandolin player. As a young boy, he was interested in playing Guitar, Banjo, and Mandolin.
Dennis Joseph is the person who introduced him to the Malayalam film industry. He kickstarted his career as an assistant music director, working under Shyam and Raveendran Master. Thampi Kannanthanam discovered the musical talent of Venkatesh, and he got his first break in the film Rajavinte Mak...
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
Age:
69
Gender:
Male
10. M R Gopakumar
M. R. Gopakumar is an actor, who acts in Malayalam films and is mainly seen playing the roles of supporting characters. M. R. Gopakumar also works in Malayalam daily soap operas and has acted in over 50 films in Malayalam language. M. R. Gopakumar was also the first Indian actor to work with Hollywood’s ace director Steven Spielberg in his film A Lost World. Other than pursuing acting as a passion Gopakumar collaborated with the Postal-Accounts department of the Government of Kerala in Thiruvananthapuram, India.Â
M. R. Gopakumar is considered an actor of exceptional and extraordinary caliber who can slip into the soul of any character with considerable ease. He originally hails from Kottayam district i...
Age:
72
Gender:
Male
Age:
72
Gender:
Male
11. Mammootty
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.Â
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Born on 7th September 1951, Mammootty also donned the role of a producer. He has worked in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Kannada, other than Malayalam films. He garnered the National Award for his acting skills, thrice in his career. He shares this feat with veteran actor Kam...
Age:
72
Gender:
Male
Age:
72
Gender:
Male
12. Narendra Prasad
Narendra Prasad was born on 26th December 1946 at Mavelikkara, Kerala. He obtained his pre-degree from Bishop Moore College, a degree in Mathematics from N.S.S College, Pandalam and later joined Institute of English-University of Kerala to do his post-graduation in English Literature and Language. He entered the film world at a young age as a stage actor and acted in nearly 150 films. He was quite ambitious, and his career was not limited to acting.
He joined Bishop Moore College as an English Lecturer in the year 1967 where he taught only for a year as he joined the government service in the year 1968. He continued as a government lecturer for almost 21 years and worked at Government...
Date of Death:
03-11-2003
Age:
77
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
03-11-2003
Age:
77
Gender:
Male
13. 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
14. Navodaya Appachan
Navodaya Appachan was a film producer and director in the Malayalam Film industry. Appachan was a man of vision who changed the dimension of Indian cinema and took it to the next level. Navodaya Appachan was born February 6, 1924, in the Pulinkunnoo village of Alleppey district in Kerala. His real name is Malliampurackal Chacko Punnose. Appachan graduated from the St. Xavier’s College in Pallayamkottai, Tamil Nadu. Appachan came into the field of cinema because of his elder brother Kunchakoo, a producer-director in Malayalam Cinema. Appachan was the first person in Malayalam film industry to make a cinemascope film. He directed and produced the film ‘Thalacholi Ambu.’ He owned his own production house 'Navodaya Stud...
Date of Death:
23-04-2012
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
23-04-2012
Age:
100
Gender:
Male
15. Shammi Thilakan
Son of the late actor Thilakan, Shammi Thilakan is one of the more versatile actors in the Malayalam movie industry having nearly 30 years of experience as an actor, and as a dubbing artist. He is the recipient of the State Award for Best Dubbing Artist for lending his voice to Nassar in the movie Gazal  in 1993. He also lent his voice for Napoleon in the movie Devasuram.
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Shammi Thilakan began his career in 1986, having to work under the shadow of his immensely talented father Thilakan. However, through his quality work and his extremely professional attitude, he has made a name as prominent as his father in the movie industry. His debut was in the 1986 movie directed by K.G. George,...
Age:
52
Gender:
Male
Age:
52
Gender:
Male
16. K. Ravindran Nair
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