M Thankamani
Sabitha Jayaraaj
KS Chithra
Suhasini Maniratnam
Manjima Mohan
Vani Viswanath
Bindu Murali
Samyuktha Varma
Murali Malayalam
K G Jayan
K J Yesudas
M. G. Radhakrishnan
Kaithapram Vishwanathan Nambudiri
Priyanandanan
Kamaluddin Mohammed
Gireesh Puthenchery
T. K. Rajeev Kumar
Aswin Thampy
Sunny Joseph
Pandiyan
T V Chandran
Jayaram
Cochin Haneefa
1. M Thankamani
M.Thankamani is an immensely talented and well-recognized voice dubbing artist. Her voice is known as the evergreen voice of the radio. M Thankamani has predominantly worked for Akashvani (All India Radio). She is one of well-known India’s national broadcasters, talks to KK Moidu during her first visit to Dubai, and as a film dubbing artiste.
M Thankamani has won an Academy for her excellent voice dubbing skills, which benefited the country. She has made her place in the hearts of the people by giving her voice to many characters on radio dramas like Sooryakanthiye Snehicha Penkutty, Moodhevi, Theyyam, Indulekha, etc. She has a unique talent for making sounds of young girls, aged women, young ladies, which shocks everyone.
M Thankamani was born in Palghat district, Kerala, India, in a Namboothiri family. Her fathe...
2. Sabitha Jayaraaj
Sabitha Jayaraaj is a well-known Indian costume designer and actress who mainly works in the Malayalam Cinema. She was born on 10th November 1974 and started her career as a costume designer in the 90s. She has worked as a designer in nine Malayalam and Hindi movies. One of her movies, “Kannaki,” won her the ‘Kerala State Award’ for Best Costume Designer. Later, she did small movie roles and appeared in the lead role of the movie “Pakarnnattam” opposite Jayaram. She appeared in the short movie “Prakriti” was released in 2017, where she played the role of a photographer. The film’s story is narrated from the point of view of a photographer who is on a tour of Kuttanad. Sabitha also played the role of ‘Moly,’ a compassionate mother in Jayaraj&r...
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, Tulu, Punjabi, and Urdu. She has a record of being able to record more than 25,000 songs and the number...
4. Suhasini Maniratnam
Suhasini Maniratnam was born on 15th August 1961 in famous city Chennai. Her original name was Suhasini Charuhaasan. She was born in prominent Hasaan family. She was cousin to the most prominent Indian film hero Kamal Haasan. She was a cinematography student from Madras Film Institute. She started her career as a camera assistant and later became an actress. She was married to greatest Indian film director Maniratnam in 1988.
After her marriage, her name became Suhasini Maniratnam. She is an atheist and presently lives in Chennai; she has a son named Nandan. She acted in all south Indian languages and she was awarded National Award in 1986 as best actress. She worked as a makeup artist, camera assistant, Actress, Dialogue writer and even she directed a film. She was an extremely popular star in Kannada. She started her ac...
5. Manjima Mohan
Manjima Mohan is an Indian film actress who has mostly worked in Malayalam cinema. She did her first movie when she was just five with the movie Kaaliyoonjal in 1998. She did her secondary education from Nirmala Bhavan Higher Secondary School, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
6. Vani Viswanath
Vani Viswanath is an Indian film actress from Kerala active in Malayalam film industry. She became popular for her action roles in Malayalam movies in 1990s, but has done many lead roles and character roles since then. She has bagged the second Best Actress Award of Kerala State once in her career. She is married to Malayalam actor Baburaj.
Vani Viswanath hails from Thrissur. She was born in 1971 to Viswanadhan and Girija. Her acting debut was in movie Mangalayacharthu as heroine with actor Shafeeq in 1987.Even though this movie was not a big success, it opened the way for Vani to get into the South Indian film industry. She was also casted in an important role in Malayalam thriller movie Evidence directed by actor Raghavan in 1988. Vani Viswanath did two dozen movies in Telugu from 1989 to 19...
7. Bindu Murali
Bindu is a well known Malayalam media artist, dancer and a social worker. Bindu was deeply interested in dance and music since her childhood. She is married to Muralidaran Nair. They have two sons, Balu and Vinu. It was her husband Muralidaran Nair who encouraged her to pursue her passion. She has performed several stage shows and during one of the shows, she was offered role in a telefilm. Bindu further advanced her acting career with Narma Kairali, which is an association of humor writers.
Bindu has acted in several serials like “Ente Manasaputri” and “Aniyathi”. Aniyathi is a popular Malayalam television serial being telecasted in Mazhavil Manorama channel. The serial which started its journey on 14th July, 2014 is already garnering good response from the viewers and critics. She late...
8. Samyuktha Varma
Born on November 26, 1982 in Kerala, Samyukhta Varma is a renowned actress in the Malayalam industry. She entered the Malayalam industry with the film Veendum Chila Veetukaryangal. Satyan Anthikad is the director of the film.
Samyuktha worked in several Malayalam films and has even bagged few awards. After her marriage with co-star Biju Menon, she quit the film industry.
Samyuktha is blessed with good looks. She never dreamt of entering into the film industry as an actress.
9. Murali Malayalam
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...
10. K G Jayan
KG Jayan is a Malayalam cinematographer. He has worked in movies such as Sufi Paranja Katha(2010), directed by Priyanandanan. The film revolves around British rule in India, in the Malabar region. The story revolves around Karthi and her love and marriage to a Muslim trader.
Another film he has worked in is Dan, released in 2002. The movie was produced by T.V; Chandran. Kadhavaseshan was another movie he worked in. It was released in 2004. It is produced by T.V; Chandran. The story is about a suicide issue and how Renuka goes through Gopi's past to solve the situation. Another movie he has worked in is Padam Onnu Oru Vilapam(2003); the story revolves around a pregnant girl.
KG Jayan has also accepted many awards, such as Kerala State Film Awards(2001) and Kerala State Film Awards(2009).
...11. 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 huge hit songs in Tamil and Telugu film industries as well. His first song in Tamil was in a film Bomm...
12. M. G. Radhakrishnan
Born on 29 July 1940, in Alappuzha district, Kerala, Malabar Gopalan Nair Radhakrishnan (M.G. Nair) is a classical music director and even a vocalist, who is considered as a senior most musician in Malayalam movies. . His father was a renowned music composer and harmonium player and mother was a Harikatha exponent. His brother M.G. Sreekumar is an eminent playback singer in Malayalam cinema and his sister K. Omanakutty is a renowned vocalist too. Malabar Gopalan Nair was a classmate of renowned singer K. J. Yesudas.
Gopalan’s journey began as a composer in Akashvani in Trivandrum. Soon he joined All India Radio as a music composer and was given a chance to hold a 15-minute program in AIR, which became a favorite. He forayed into musical...
13. Kaithapram Vishwanathan Nambudiri
Kaithapram Vishwanathan Nambudiri is a Malayalam film industry music composer. He is from Kerala, India. He has studied at Thiruvananthapuram Music College in Kerala. In 1996, he handled the music for his brother’s songs in the movie ‘Desadanam’. His brother’s name is Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri, and he is a Lyricist and poet. He did his debut from movie ‘Kaliyattam’ in 1997. This movie was directed by Jayraj. He has done almost 20 films since then. He has also worked in movies like ‘Kannaki’ and ‘Thilakkam’. He has also worked with some famous singers including K.J. Yesudas, K.S. Chithra, Jayachandran and G. Venugopal.
...14. Priyanandanan
Hailing from Kerala, India Priyanandanan is a film and drama director. He was born to father Thottipparambil Ramakrishnan and mother Kochammini. Priyanandanan began his career as a performer on stage. His profession took-off as a female character. Afterward, he started into a course of stage shows. He used the stage name of Priyan Vallachirain his performances.His film career began under famed directors K. R. Mohanan, and Manilal. He initiated shooting numerous documentaries and biopic shorts, which consists of Man or Manninum Manushyanum Vendiyulla Samarangal (about Comrade Achudanandan). Jana Nayakan was based on E. K. Nayanar, Gurunathan (the movie was on the Sanskrit writer K P C Narayanan Bhattathiri), and Thrissur Jillayile Samara Charithrangalor The History of Strikes in Thrissur District.
His first flick was Neythukaran...
15. Kamaluddin Mohammed
Kamaluddin Mohammed was born on 28 November 1957. His birth place is Mathilakam. His mother name is Sulaikhabhi. His father name is K. M. Abdul Majeed. He is a film director and screenwriter. He mostly works in Malayalam cinema. He had done his education from Christ College in Irinjalakuda. He also did his study from Sree Kerala College in Thrissur. By writing the film, he started his career. His first movie named Thraasa. Padiyan directed Kamaluddin Mohammed first picture named Thraasa. He got married with Saburabi. He has two kids. Their names are Hanna Mohammed and Jenuse Mohammed. In 2015, Jenuse Mohammed played the role as a director. In 1986, Mizhineer Pookkal was his first film. More than 43 movies have been directed by him. Among 43, only two movies are not Malayalam pictures. Multiple administrativ...
16. Gireesh Puthenchery
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...
17. T. K. Rajeev Kumar
Rajeev Kumar is a legendary movie Director, who takes predominantly, Malayalam films. He is also a gifted musician. He plays the Mridangam and in the year 1980, founded the band Blue Birds. He was born and brought up in Kottayam, a town in Kerala. He did his Under Graduation in Trivandrum Government Arts College and completed his Post Graduation from the University College in Trivandrum.
In 1982, he also studied Law and got a bank job. He began his stint in the cinema field at an early age of 19, by joining as an Assistant Director in the famous Mollywood Navodaya production house. He made his debut through the kid’s film My Dear Kuttichathan in the year 1984. Rajeev’s second flick as a Cameraman was a dream-come-true movie. He worked as a Cinematographer in the Universal Star Kamal Haas...
18. Aswin Thampy
Aswin Thampi,born on January 4, 1991, was an actor in the South Indian film industry.He came to the film industry as a child artist. His main movie areas are Malayalam and Tamil. He acted in the Tamil movie Kannadi Pookkal (2005). The role of “Vasu son of Sakthivel” is played by Aswin Thampi. His co-star was the famous actor and filmmaker R. Parthiban from the Tamil industry, who was playing the role of Sakthivel.
Aswin Thampi’s Malayalam movies are The Godman (1999), Saphalyam (1999), Priyam (2000), Madhuranombara kattu (2000), Achaneyanenikkishtam (2001), www.anukudumbam.com(2002). Aswin Thampi won the Kerala State Film Award in 2001for for the Best Child Artist category for the movie Madhuranombarakattu (2000). After finishing his graduation in Engineering, he is working in Mumbai as an Engin...
19. Sunny Joseph
Sunny Joseph is a very well-known cinematographer from India who works predominantly in Malayalam films. He was born in the state of Kerala on the 12th of October in 1957. He is best known for his incredible work in Piravi, a Malayalam feature movie directed by the famous director Shaji n. Karun. His parents CV Joseph and Thressiamma brought him up with two brothers and six sisters.
From 1972 to 1974 he studied in St. Michael’s college in Cherthala and got his P.D.C. Then he pursued a B.Sc in the field of Zoology from a college named Deva Matha under Mahatma Gandhi University, from 1974 to 1977. He also did a PG Diploma in Motion Picture Photography from FTII in Pune and graduated in 1983. He began his career in 1983 by working as an assistant cinematographer with Shri. Madhu Ambat and Shri Venu. From 198...
20. Pandiyan
Pandiyan is a Tamil actor who has appeared in almost seventy-five movies in the 80s and 90s. He also became active in the politics. He joined the DMK party, but later changed his ideas and joined the AIADMK party in the year 2001. He was well known for his looks and most of his films were based on the rural background. Pandiyan was a bangle seller in Madurai when the ace director Bharathiraja noted him and the latter gave Pandiyan the chance of appearing in the lead role in his film. Pandiyan's debut film, Mann Vasanai, was a blockbuster hit.
This paved way for him to receive chances for many projects. Some of his notable movies were Pudhumai Penn, Aan Paavam, Kizhakku Cheemayile, Periya Marudhu, etc. He last appeared in the film Kaivantha Kalai directed by Pandiarajan. Pandiyan got affecte...
21. 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.
In the year 1989, he directed a film ‘Alicinte Anveshanam’. This feature was nominated in the Locarno International Film Festi...
22. Jayaram
Born on December 10 1965, Jayaram’s main region of interest is the Malayalam film industry, though he had acted in some Tamil films too. Jayaram entered the Malayalam film industry with “Aparan” which was directed by Padma Rajan. They both worked together in two more films. Jayaram was known for his films Peruvannapurathe Visheshangal, Georgootty C/O Georgootty, Nagarangalil Chennu Raparkam and Thoovalsparsham.
During the 90s his films with Rajasenan turned to be commercially successful. The family audiences embraced him with both arms. Jayaram has carved a niche for himself in films such as Ayala...
23. Cochin Haneefa
His other name was ‘Salim Ahmed Ghoush’. He has done many of the things in the Indian movies like he was a director an actor and as well as a screenwriter in Indian movies. He has started performing in the movies since the year 1970 and has done villainous roles in the movies. He was a comedian in the movies of the Malayalam. He in his complete life has done more than 300 of the movies in all 3 languages movies like ‘Malyalam’, ‘Hindi’ and ‘Tamil’. He has also done direction in many of the movies and his famous movies are ‘Vaitsalyam’ and ‘Tharattu’. His life was like he took birth at the place known as Kochi. He has also done his education in Kochi as he has done his schooling from St. Augustine's school and has graduated from the college...