Malayalam Awards Kerala State Film Awards 2002 - Cast & Crew

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...

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...

Navya Nair is a familiar face on Mollywood. Navya is known for her portrayal as a native Malayali girl in her movies. Navya Nair, also known as Dhanya Veena was born on 14th October 1985. She was born to Raju and Veena in Allepey, Kerala. She is related to the famous director to K.Madhu. She completed her schooling in Bethany Balikamadom High School.

Navya was so passionate about movies that, she started her film career when she was just 16. She debuted with the film Ishtam in 2001, which was a blockbuster. There onwards her career gained a momentum, and she acted with many biggies on Malayalam screen. She shared the screen with Mammootty, Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Jayaram, etc., her movie Saira had been displayed at the prestigious Cannes film festival in 2007. She came to lime light...

Bhavana, a Malayalam Actress, was born in Thrissur, Kerala in the year 1986. by an acting bug at a very early age, this actress started her first movie at the mere age of sixteen while still studying. Her first movie in Malayalam she debuted was Nammal opposite Siddharth, Jishnu and Renuka Menon. This movie received great reviews and acclaimed awards in the cinema industry.   

Not only does she act in Malayalam movies, but she also acts in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films too. Language is no barrier, is the point which clearly comes out in her acting talent. Having shot to fame in her first movie, she started getting a lot of offers to act. 

The year 2010 saw her enter the Kannada movie industry where she acted in her first movie titled Jackie opposite Puneeth, directed by Duniya Soori. She plays the role ...

Jyothirmayi, the prominent Malayalam actor is known to be one of the few artists who has ruled the world of the TV first and then, with her popularity and talent went on to become one of the top notch actors of the Mollywood industry. After rising to fame as an actor, she’s worked in nearly 30 Malayalam films.

Starting off her career as a model, Jyothirmayi bagged a chance to anchor a local cable channel while she was still very young. She took it up, not expecting the superstardom that lay ahead of her. For some time, she ruled the world of TV anchoring some local programmes and acting in some popular TV serials like the “Indraneelam”, a popular daily serial that was aired on Surya TV.

Jyothirmayi’s fate turned around when she was featured in the film “Pilots” ...

Bhagyalakshmi is a popular artiste who has worked in around 18 Malayalam films and has worked as a dubbing artiste in more than 2000 Malayalam Movies. Bhagyalakshmi is mostly known as a dubbing artiste who has mostly dubbed for another famous and noted Malayalam movie actress Shobhana. She is also known as Bhagyam. Bhagyalakshmi was born on November 1, 1962 to her parents Kumaran Nair and Bhargavi Amma who hails from Powaat Tharavadu Calicut and Kurupath Tharavad, Shoranur respectively in Kerala, India. She is the youngest of three siblings. She has an elder sister named Indira Nair and brother Unni Nair. Bhagyalakshmi completed her PUC degree (Pre-University Course) from Calicut before venturing into the glittering world of Malayalam movies. Bhagyalakshmi lost her parents in early childhood. Bhagyalakshmi started her ...

Sudheer Parameswaran is a Malayalam writer, drama activist, and Kerala Film Censor Board member. When his work life had nothing to do with it, he tried committing suicide. Even at that time, he did not think to take the help of his teacher-mother. Meanwhile, many of his friends in Kerala were becoming good writers and were having successful careers. He grew shy, taking help from others and wasting a lot of his time reading and writing. After he pulled himself together to choose a career, he began writing film reviews. He has now become the most successful person to give film reviews for Ee Naadu Magazine.

He then became an actor and playwright. He used to write dialogues that would create an emotional pain in the hearts of audi...

Raveendran was born in Kollam, Kerala on 9 November 1941 as Kulathupuzha Ravi. He is associated with the Malayalam and Tamil Music industry. He began his career in music as a singer. He worked as a playback singer and then as a music composer. His first song was ‘Parvanarajanithan’ in the Malayalam movie ‘Velliyazhcha’ in 1969. He married Shobha and has three sons.

Ravi met a sad demise at the age of 63 after suffering from cancer. M. Raveendran is a famous singer and music composer of South Indian film industry. He has contributed greatly to the Carnatic music, Hindustani Classical, and world music. He was first praised for his music composition in the movie ‘Chola’ in 1979. He was thoroughly involved in music beyond these periods. After the tremendous success of his album &...

Suresh Kollam is an Art Director who works primarily in the Malayalam film industry and resides in Kollam, Kerala, India. He received the best art director at the Kerala State Film Awards for his film Nammal in 2003, directed by Kamal. Suresh Kollam is most famous for his work in movies such as Ordinary (2015), Utharam Parayaathe (2017), and Salt n` Paper (2011). He worked with the director Kamal in eleven movies, including Madhuranombarakkaattu (2000), Meghamalhaar (2001), Nmmal (2003), Swapnakkoodu (2003), Gramophone (2003), Karutha Pakshikal (2006), Gaddaama (2011), and many more.

Suresh Kollam has established himself as a well-known Art Director. He has worked in movies such as Choonda (2003), Karutha Pakshikal (2006), Thakarachenda (2007), Annam Thambi (2008), Kutti Srank: The Sailor of Heart (2009), Daddy Cool (2009), Ord...

SB Satheesan is a Malayalam singer. Satheesan spent his childhood in Chemboor, Venjaramoodu, Kerala. He opened his career as a tailor. He owns a tailoring shop named S.B. Stitchings at Chembur. He was introduced to the Malayalam film industry by producer Adoor Gopalakrishnan. 

The first film in which he functioned as a costume designer was Kathapurushan, released in 1995. Films in which he has worked are Ring Master, it got released in 2014 and was directed by Rafi Martin; Ennum Eppozhum, the 2015 movie was produced by Sathyan Anthikad; Mili was released in 2015 and was produced by Rajesh Pillai; Motorcycle Diaries, the movie was released in 2016 and was directed by Rajesh Pillai. Another movie he has worked in is Mamangam; it was released in 2019 and was ...

N Harikumar, aka, Narayan Nair Harikumar was born on 19 July 1955 in Kollam, Kerala, India. He has done his early education from govt. Model boy’s high school, Kollam and has gone to Thumba St. Xavier's for completing higher education. After that, he moves to the M.G.R Govt film and TV institute to finish a diploma in sound engineering. Delhi Doordarshan Kendra was the point from where he started his journey. Afterward, he worked with renowned P. Devadas as a sound recordist at the Gitanjali studio.

Mr. Harikumar is a sound editor and designer by profession and works in Malayalam films. He amazed the audience through his work in Audiography and has won nine Kerala state film awards plus two national film awards. You can take a look at his captivating work in the movies directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. He ha...

Palissery Narayanankutty Menon, famously known as P.N. Menon, was an Indian film director and an Art Director, mainly in the Malayalam film industry. Besides, director Menon is also known for designing promotional posters.

He was born in Vadakkancherry, Kerala, in 1928. He completed his schooling at the School of Art in Chennai, Thrissur. Arriving in Chennai at the age of 20 with no job - life was challenging for him in the initial phase. He did not find a job in Chennai and thus traveled to Salem, where he worked as a production boy in a studio. However, he had to go back to Chennai after two and a half years as the studio he was working for shut down. In Chennai, he started doing sketches, painting, and designing magazine covers. He also got an opportunity to work for Nagi Reddy’s Magazine cover. Impressed by his talent...

Satheesh Menon was born on 10th March 1950, in Irinjalakuda of Thrissur District of Kerala. He is a Malayalam movie actor. He completed his schooling from Govt Model Boy’s High School and then went to Christ College, Irinjalakuda for completing his degree. In 1979, he moved to Dubai and settled there for some years.

Some of his performed plays are Samathalangal, Ponnuvilayicha Thampuram, Uthrarayanapakshi and few more. He has also dubbed for few ads in the 1990s.

He has also appeared in the Malayalam television industry like in Manal Nagaram. He has won many stage awards for his performances. He later returned to Kerala in mid-2013 and started working in the Malayalam film industry. He has wife Sunanda (niece of late Panampilly Govinda Menon), two daughters and one son in his family. His two daughters are both mar...

C. V. Balakrishnan is a noted writer and novelist who tried to shine in the film industry too. As he had a big dream, he had to follow the hard principles required to attain such dream. He also became a successful screenplay writer and assisted the Malayalam film industry in providing the necessary script and story to fetch a critical acclaim in the industry.

This influential writer was born on 24 September 1952 in Kerala. He got the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 2000 for Atmavinu Seriyennu Thonnunna Karyangal book. Later on, he published a book titled ‘Cinemayude Idangal’ which received the Best Book on Cinema award in 2002 from Kerala State.

It was in the year 1997, his story was considered for a film. ‘Irattakuttikalude Achan’ was a film w...

T.A. Razzaq was born on April 25 in the year 1958 in Thurakkal, Kondotty. In the year 1991, T.A. Razzaq started his career. He worked in Malayalam movies as a screenwriter. His father’s nameiss T.A Bappu and mother’s name is Vazhayil Khadeeja. He also has a younger brother whose name is T.A. Shahid who was a scriptwriter and screenwriter as well popular for the films like Rajamanikyam and Balettan.

T.A. Razzaq started his career with the movie named “Dwani” directed by A.T. Abu as an assistant director. He has also done a movie with Lenin Rajendran named “Vachanam”. Later on the advice of an actor named “Thilakan”, he worked as a screenwriter in the movie named “Fasaq”. He worked as a story writer, screenwriter,...

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.

Madhu Balakrishnan is an Indian playback singer. He sings in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Tulu languages. Madhu Balakrishnan was born on 24th June, in the year 1974. The singer does playback singing for south Indian films. Balakrishnan began his singing career in the year 1999 and since then, sung in several films. He has also been a judge on Malayalam singing reality shows. Apart from doing playback singing, Madhu Balakrishnan has also released a few solo albums.

His sung spiritual songs in the 2012 album Greatest Verses Of Bhagavad Gita. In his long career, he has received several awards and nominations. The greatest honors received by the singer include Kerala State Film Award in the year 2002 for the 2001film ‘Vaalkannadi’, Tamil Nadu State Film Award in the year 2006, Tamil Nadu State government’s Kalaima...

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...

Kamaluddin Mohammed Majeed, more prominently known as Kamal, is a movie director, producer, and writer. Kamal has predominantly worked in Malayalam cinema. He was born in Mathilakam, Kodungallur in Thrissur, Kerela on 28 November 1957. He had started his career after completing his graduation from Sree Kerala Varma College, Thrissur and Christ College, Irinjalakuda. He got married to Saburabi and had two children with her, Hanna Mohamed and Jenuse Mohamed. His son, Jenuse also made his debut in the year 2015 with the film 100 Days of Love. It was also a Malayalam film. His career in the industry started when he scripted for the film Thraasa.

Thraasa was directed by Padiyan in the year 1981. He was an associate director in the film. He directed his first ...

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...

Naturally, veteran actor Mohanlal, who is the father of Pranav Mohanlal, is the inspiration for Pranav to enter film industry. Pranav in fact treats his father as his role model, both in reel and real life. Born on 13 July 1990, Pranav hails from Thiruvananthapuram district. Pranav was born in a well-to-do family and had the right amount of inspiration. Having done his schooling in Ooty, he was good at studies and arts both in college and school days. He did his higher studies in University of New South Wales, located in Australia. Pranav learnt the nuances of acting from his family itself. The year 2002 saw him enter the film industry. Onnaman was his debut venture which had his father Mohanlal playing main role. Here, Pranav was just seen in a special appe...

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...

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...

Oduvil Unnikrishnan was a classic, versatile actor in Malayalam Industry. Unnikrishnan was born in 1944 to Krishnan Menon and Parukutty Amma. His house name is Oduvil later from his house name he got his screen name as Oduvil Unnikrishnan. He had a great interest in music and took vocal training under Kalamandalam Vasudeva Paniker, he also played the instruments like Mridangam and Tabla. He joined in K.P.A.C as a tabla artist .He had a great interest in music and finally that made him sang so many songs and he composed music for an album Parasuram Express. He also did music for an unreleased movie Sarvam Saha directed by Ravi Gupta.

His first movie was Drashanam directed by P.N Menon. He did many character as well as comic roles. Devasuram , Meleparambil Aanveedu, Sreekrishna Prundu, Po...

Jagathy Sreekumar, a famous Indian film actor known for his comedy roles. His original name is Sreekumar Achary known by his screen name Jagathy. Sreekumar was born in 1951 in Jagathy, Trivandrum.His father was a drama artist, and he worked for all India radio. He did his schooling in Trivandrum and completed his graduation from Mar Ivanious College Trivandrum. He first started his career as a medical representative and due to his immense passion towards the film, he turned to the film industry and became an actor.

During his school and college days itself, he acted in dramas and play and became a theater artist. He started his film career in the movie Chattambi Kalyani directed by J Sasikumar in 1975.After that, he did small roles, and later he became popular for his comedy roles. In 1...

Dileep was born in Kerala as Gopalakrishnan Padmanabhan Pillai in the year 1968. His career started as an assistant director to Kamal. He was named as Dileep through the character he performed in his debut movie. His debut movie as a hero was in the year 1994 through Manathe Kottaaram as Dileep. Sallapam and Punjabi House made him get popularity among the Malayalam audience. Before his film entry, Dileep was a mimicry artist. He worked in Kalabhavan too.

While assisting Kamal in his films, Dileep showed off his face in some films too. His natural acting skill paved him a way to reach good heights in the Malayalam cinema. One of his best movies is Kunjikoonan, in which he acted as a hunchbacked man. He got the special Jury Award for his performance in thi...

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