Malayalam Awards Kerala State Film Awards 1997 - Cast & Crew

Suma Josson is a filmmaker and Indian-American journalist. She is well-known for her documentary films like You are still alive, Niyamgir, etc. which has won the first prize in short film in the category of Environment at International Film Festival of India held in the year 2010. She was born in Kerala which is a state in India. She has completed her degree of graduation from the University of Minnesota situated in the United States in English Literature. At Press Trust of India, she began her career. In the year 1992, she switched over to Visual Media. She has also written three books named A Harvest of Light which is a collection of plays, Circumferences which is a novel, and Poems and Plays.

Her debut film name was “Janmadhinam” which was much appreciated...

Sreeja Ravi is one of the most prominent veteran in the world of Indian dubbing artists. Lending her voice to  more than a thousand film for the  last three  decade,is an excellent linguistic who knows several languages such as English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam, and Kannada. Her voice was also expended for various commercial advertisements as well.Her voice, described as bewitchingly sweet, mirthful and jovial, is quite versatile. She has the extraordinary talent of shifting from one type of voice to another with ease. 

Her father, Kunjukuttan, was a mechanical engineer and her mother, Kannur Narayani, was a famous theater actor and dubbing artist. Her family consist of her parents, sister and  two brothers namely; Rasik Lal and Jyothish Kumar. Sreeja never intended t...

Jomol is a known name in Malayalam film industry. Though she is a Christian, she rechristened her name as Gowri, owing to her wedding with Chandrasekhara Pillai. Her husband was initially her chat buddy. This couple is blessed with two children, Aarya and Aarja. 

Jomol was busy during the latter half of the 1990s. She also endeavored into films as a child artist. She was born as Joma John. The 1997 flick Ennu Swantham Janakikutty fetched her Kerala State Awards in the best actress category. This film also won the best actress award in the Special Jury Mention cate...

R.S. Madhu is a well-known Mollywood artist. His talent for the arts has shown up in various ways, and he paints portraits, creates sets, directs films and plays, writes scripts, and makes stage. His long career as a teacher had no impact on my love of the arts. Nellimoodu Ramakrishna Pillai, his father, was a well-known theatre personality and activist in Venganoor.  He worked as social studies and English teacher at a local school. He earned the title of the best teacher, and he retired as the headmaster of Venganoor High School. He has directed and scripted several plays, some of which were inspired by the works of Kerala's literary giants. He has done the make-up for several theatrical legends over the years. Many performers continue to demand that he find time to do their theatrical make-up. Calicut University, Kannu...

L. Bhoominathan is a well-known Malayalam movie editor. He has worked predominantly in Malayalam cinema only and so far has edited more than 115 movies. His best works include editing the movie Ninnishtam Ennishtam, Bharatham, His Highness Abdullah, Aaram Thamburan, and Narashimham. He has worked closely with many well-known film directors who are also well recognized, such as Sibi Malayil, Ranjith, and Shaji Kailas. He is a critical analyzer and has worked as a jury member of the 50th Kerala State Film Awards.

The blockbuster movies which L Bhoominathan has edited are Vasthavam(2006), Pranayakalam(2007), Time(2007), De Ingotu Nokiye(2008), Commissioner(1994), Police Ante Veedera(2007), Chenkol(1993), Devadoothan(2000), Valliettan(2000), and Kaliveedu(1996). L Bhoominathan has won Kerala State Film Awards 3 times for being the ...

Beypore Mani is a cinematographer, director, and writer based in India. He has worked predominantly in the Malayalam film industry. In 1974, he worked in Swarna Vigraham, directed by Mohan Gandhi, written by Mankombu Gopalakrishnan, and starring Adoor Bhasi, Rani Chandra, and Jayabharathi. In 1980, he worked in Daaliya Pookkal, directed by Prathap Singh, written by P.N. Chandran, and starring Mala Aravindan Jameela Malik, and Venukuttan Nair. In 1981, he worked on Elaneer, directed and written by Sithara Venu, and starring Nedumudi Venu, Sreenivasan, and Nilambur Balan. In 1983, he worked on Kingini Kombu, directed by Jayan Adiyatt, written by K.P. Jayan, and starring Nedumudi Venu, Jalaja, and Jagathy Sreekumar.

In 1987, he worked in Janangalude Shradhakku, directed by M.S. Mani, written by Beypore Mani, and starring Nedumudi ...

V K Joseph is a cultural activist, writer, and media and film critic. He got the National Film Award for critic of the year in 2007. He has written five books about cinema and was awarded the Kerala State Government's Film and Ideology Award. He is the secretary of the Federation of Film Societies of India, Kerala Region, and has served as primary coordinator and vice-chairman of the International Film Festival of Kerala. In collaboration with the Jan-Vrijman Fund Amsterdam, he was also the primary coordinator and director of a short film and documentary-making workshop for women. V. K. Joseph is a cinema reviewer from India.

In 2009, he received the Indian National Film Awards' Best Critic Award "for his intellectual and artistic integrity in writing about regional, national, and world film." Joseph is a...

Hari P Nair is a renowned Indian Director and Scriptwriter who is known for his contribution to the Malayalam film industry. His unique take on cinematography in Mollywood has made him a prominent figure among media circles. Hari has worked on many different facets of cinema and has produced several inspired works. He graduated from Sree Kerala Varma College in Thrissur, Kerala, and began his career as an anchor on Malayalam television channels. He progressed to making independent documentaries and movie shorts through the experience he gained watching the experts at work.

Hari is married to the movie actress, Sree Lakshmi, whose paths crossed on the set of a shoot. His most notable works are the movies, ‘’Punchirikku Parasparam (2015),’ ‘Panchavarnathatha (2018)’ and ‘Ganagandharvan (2019).&...

V R Gopinath is a well-known Malayalam director who hails from Kerala. He has been honored with the Kerala State Film Award for Best Movie and National Film Award for Best Educational/ Instructional/ Motivational Film. He has directed movies such as Greeshmam, Our Lady of Lourdes, Oru Maymasappularayil, Poothiruvathiranalil, Unnikuttanu Joli Kitti and Poothiruvathira Raavil.

Apart from direction, Gopinath was also interested in writing, acting, and editing. He has written scripts and dialogues for movies such as The Divine Touch, Parasparam and Greeshmam. He has acted in his own direction, Our Lady of Lourdes and has played a role in editing the very same movie. He has also been the producer of a film named The Divine Touch ,i.e. Devasparsam.

"T Krishnanunni is a 59-year-old Sound designer who was born on 12th of June 1960 at Ottapalam, Kerala. He was a Physics graduate from St. Joseph’s College, Kozhikode. He then joined the Film and Television Industry of India at Pune for a Sound engineering and sound designing course. He initially worked at Space Application Centre at Ahmedabad as a Sound recordist. He then joined the Chitranjali Studio at Trivandrum which was under the Kerala State Film Development Corporation for a period of 28 years.

He has done the sound design for films such as Kuttysrank, Bhoomiyute Avakasikal, Swapanam, Oralpokkam He has also directed several documentaries for the Archaeology Department of Kerala Government and has authored a book called ‘Sound in Moving Pictures.’ He has been awarded the Kerala State Film Award for...

He is an Indian art and film production designer. He is famous for his works in Malayalam, Telugu, and Hindi Cinema. His work in ‘Angadi Theru’, ‘Pazhassi Raja’ and ‘Nanban’ was highly appreciated and critically acclaimed. In his career, he has contributed in more than 43 movies and 185 commercials. He has been awarded the ‘best art director’ award for his creative works. He was born to N. Thangavel and T. Muthulakshmi in Coimbatore. He was raised in Coimbatore along with his two younger sisters and an elder brother. He graduated with the degree of B. Sc Visual communication from the Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai in 1991. After graduating, he started assisting Sabu Cyril. After that he started getting offers from many production companies for set design.

He first came i...

Popularly known as A.K. Lohithadas, his detailed work on Malayalam Cinema as a scriptwriter, playwright, director, and producer has bought him a lot of fame. He was born in Kerala on May 5, 1955. Writing a film story was his real passion, but he was unable to make a mark in that industry. In 1986, he made his debut in script writing in the Malayalam Theater, and his work was accepted by the legendary stage actor, Thoppil Bhasi. This recognition led him to bag a state award. Actor, Thilakan introduced him to Malayalam film director, K.G. George, but it didn’t help him in starting a film career. Although this did not do wonders, the latter gave Lohithadas, a core idea which then turned out to be the story of Kireedam. Sibi Malayil was also searching for talented writers when he came acr...

Kaithpram Damodaran Namboothiri is a famous Malayalam Lyrist, Actor, Singer, Writer and Music Director. Born on January 1^st, 1950 in village Kaithpram, he is also a famous performer of Carnatic music. His father is Keshavan Namboothiri who is widely known as Kannadi Bhagavatar, known as the disciple of Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar. His mother is Anjali Antharjanam. His preferred language of performance remains to be Malayalam. He has completed music and acting at the school of Natyagruha. His wife is Devi Antharjanam who is the daughter of actor Unnikrishnan Namboothiri. His kids are Deepankuran and Devadarshan. Deepankuran has also sung for Desadanam and many more songs for various films.

One of his first ventures as a lyricist was "Devadundubhi Sandralayam” which came out in the m...

Gireesh Puthenchery is one of the most prolific lyricists of Malayalam cinema. Over the last two decades, he has penned about 2000 songs that had been just like a poetic flow out of his mind. He has won the Kerala State Award seven times, of which four were given to him for consecutive years (2001-04). Besides being a lyricist, he tried his hand even as a screenwriter.

He was successful in scripting story for four films of which ‘Pallavur Devanarayanan’ (1999), ‘Vadakkumnadhan ‘(2006), and ‘Kerala House Udan Vilpanakku’(2004) were the average success in the box-office. He was born on 1 May 1961, in Kozhikode. He has worked for about 328 Malayalam films. This lyricist had a good association with two music composers, and...

Rajamani is a late music director who had been associated with music in every form right from his childhood. Music had run in his generation, and his father and grandfather too were renowned musicians in Malayalam industry. Not many know he is associated with over 700 movies in providing background score and has recorded in more than ten language movies. 

As we all know music has no language barrier, this musician’s father was really instrumental in shaping his son’s career many times. Also, this music composer hails from a reputed musician family who are experts in Carnatic instruments. His father B.A. Chidambarnanthan was a reputed mridangam player and Carnatic vocal artist who has scored music independently in more than 30 Malayalam m...

Malayali by birth, Suresh Gopinath, also known as Suresh Gopi, is a homebound film actor and also shows keen in music, and is a singer by profession too. Suresh was born into a Hindu Nair family. He was born in Kollam to Gopinathan Pillai and Gnanalakshmi Amma. Suresh has featured in about 200 Malayalam Films. The movie Kaliyattam in the year 1997 had got him the National Film Award for the best actor category. Later on, he became the host of the show named Ningalkkum Aakaam Kodeeshwaran, which was aired on Asianet.

This show was very popular in the year 2012. He was seen in T.P. Balagopalan M.A in the year 1986, where he was given the role of a prospective groom. Since then he was seen in many of the villainous and supporting roles. After acting for man...

Balachandra Menon has various feathers to his caps including actor, distributor, director, script writer, music composer, singer, producer and editor. He predominantly concentrates on Malayalam cinema. The 1980s and 90s were heydays in his career. He has the credit of gaining the National Award for his good performance as a lead actor in the 1998 flick Samaantharangal. This flick is also his directorial venture. 

Menon has the credit of introducing actors and actresses in the Malayalam film industry including Shobana, Maniyan Pillai Raju, Annie, Karthika and Nandini. His films that set the cash registers ringing during the early 1980s were Chiriyo ...

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. 

 In the year 1989, he directed a film ‘Alicinte Anveshanam’. This feature was nominated in the Locarno International Film Festi...

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 huge hit songs in Tamil and Telugu film industries as well. His first song in Tamil was in a film Bomm...

Raghavan is a Malayalam film actor who is now doing TV serials. He was born in Kozhikode and did his schooling in Kozhikode itself. In his schooldays, he was interested in acting and performed numerous dramas. He acted in a number of dramas in Kerala as well as outside of Kerala, such as Coorg, Mangalapuram, etc. Later, he joined the Tagore Drama troop and did his Diploma in Delhi National School of Drama. He started his career as an assistant to the famous director, G. V. Ayer. He directed a Kannada movie called, “Oruka Mahasabha.” His first Malayalam film was “Kayalkaryil” in 1968.

Raghavan not only played roles as the hero but also as the supporting actor. “Ammayenna Sthree,” “C.I.D. Nazir”, “Bhoogolam Thiriyunnu&r...

The tall, dark and handsome Biju Menon started his acting career from the small screen. He acted in serials like Mikayelinte Santatikal and Ningalute Swantam Chandu. Mikayelinte Santatikal focused on the life of a family and their complex relationships. 

 In movies, he started with villain roles, second hero roles, and character roles and then graduated to main hero roles. Biju Menon married actress Samyukta Varma, and they have a son Daksh. Biju and Samyukta have acted together in a couple of movies during which they developed a likeness for each other. After the marriage, Samyukta decided to quit her acting career to become a full-time homemaker. Biju Menon resides with his family at Trichur. Their love and relationship is going strong day by day. 

Born in September 1974, Biju...

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