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Malayalam Awards Kerala State Film Awards 2008 - Cast & Crew

1. Beena Paul


b/e/e/n/a/0/beena-paul.png Born in 1961, Beena Paul is a renowned film editor of the Indian Cinema. She has given her contribution in ‘Malayalam’ films mainly. She was brought up in the city of ‘Delhi’ by her father A P Paul, who is a ‘Malayali’, and her mother, Sharada Paul, who is a ‘Kannada’. She had graduated in the field of ‘Film Editing’...
Date of Birth: 28-01-1961
Age: 63
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 28-01-1961
Age: 63
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Editor

2. Manjari


10-12-2019/manjari.jpg Manjari was born on April 17, 1986. She was born in Thiruvananthapuram and was brought up in Muscat. Kannur is where her family originated from. She is a Hindustani vocalist and an Indian playback singer. Babu Rajendran is her father, and Dr. Latha Manjari is her mother. Madhuri is her younger sister. She studied in the Sultanate of Oman in...
Date of Birth: 17-04-1986
Age: 38
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 17-04-1986
Age: 38
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Playback Singer

3. Sreeja Ravi


s/r/e/e/j/a/sreeja-ravi.png 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,...
Date of Birth: 07-04-1964
Age: 60
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 07-04-1964
Age: 60
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam

4. Brinda


brinda.png Brinda is one of the best choreographers of South Indian cinema and Bollywood. Her name comes in the list of the greatest artist of the 21st century. Brinda through her talent and dance moves made it to the South Indian film industry and Bollywood also. Brinda has worked in the glamour industry for past 20 years as a professional choreographer....
Date of Birth: 1971
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1971
Gender: Female
Language: Tamil
Skills: Choreographer

5. Meera Jasmine


06-01-2020/meera-jasmine.jpg Born on 15th February 1982, Meera Jasmine belongs to Kerala. She did B.sc. In zoology from Assumption College, Changanassery. She is a bright name in the Malayalam film industry, very well known for her role in ‘Soothradharan’ released in the year 2001. Later she worked in films like ‘Gramaphone’, directed by Kamal and commercial hits and critically acclaimed projects like...
Date of Birth: 15-02-1982
Age: 42
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 15-02-1982
Age: 42
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actress

6. Nivetha Thomas


14-10-2019/nivetha-thomas.jpg A young, pretty actress Niveda Thomas is a popular face in Malayalam and Tamil audience. Every viewer remembers her as the chirpy child they used to see in their television screens. She has grown with the television and movie industry from her childhood. The 19-year-old actress was born to Malayali parents in Kannur on 15th October 1995. She first appeared...
Date of Birth: 02-11-1995
Age: 29
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills:

7. Priyanka Nair


Priyanka-Nair.jpg Born in the year 1985, this twenty-nine year old is a model turned actress. From Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, she mainly works in Malayalam  films. She wanted to be a lecturer in a college, but destiny had it all worked out otherwise. Priyanka started acting in college just for the sake and little did she know that she would turn into a...
Date of Birth: 30-06-1985
Age: 39
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 30-06-1985
Age: 39
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam

8. Praveena


10-08-2019/praveena.jpg Praveena is a noted Malayalam actress featured in numerous Malayalam movies, TV serials, reality shows and TV commercials. Praveena is a very famous and popular actress among the audiences and she is best known to her fans and audiences for her mesmerizing smile. Praveena has also participated and featured in numerous ad campaigns and TV commercials for many popular brands like KSFE, Aqua...
Date of Birth: 11-04-1978
Age: 46
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 11-04-1978
Age: 46
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: TV Actress

9. PS Radhakrishnan


28-04-2021/ps-radhakrishnan.jpg   PS Radhakrishnan is an author and film critic. He finished his MA and Ph.D. in Malayalam from the School of Letters Mahatma Gandhi University. He joined Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (SSUS) as a Lecturer of Malayalam in 1995. In 1998, his job was made permanent. In January 2010, he became a Reader in Malayalam at the same University....
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:

10. KM Madhusudhanan


28-04-2021/km-madhusudhanan.jpg KM Madhusudhanan was born in 1956 in Alapuzha, Kerala. He is a director, producer and talented artist who is popular for his paintings. He did his painting course at Fine Arts College in Trivandrum. He did his Print Making course at the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University located in Gujarat’s Vadodara. Madhusudhanan is much interested in narrating films of...
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:

11. A Chandrasekhar


28-04-2021/a-chandrasekhar.jpg   A Chandrasekhar was born on December 18, 1968, at Thiruvananthapuram. Chandrasekhar did his B.Sc in Chemistry at the University College, Thiruvananthapuram, in 1989. He got his first master's in English Language and Literature from the University of Kerala in 1991. He joined the Master's Degree in Journalism and Mass Communications in the Department of Journalism, University of Kerala. He quit his...
Date of Birth: 18-12-1968
Age: 55
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 18-12-1968
Age: 55
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Film Critic, Author

12. N Harikumar


18-12-2020/n-harikumar.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 19-07-1955
Age: 69
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 19-07-1955
Age: 69
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Sound Designer

13. K. Ravindranathan Nair


15-10-2020/k.-ravindranathan-nair.jpg   K Ravindranathan Nair is an Indian producer who worked for the Malayalam film industry. He was born in 1932 in Kollam, Kerala. Nair is a multi-talented producer, industrialist, and philanthropist who worked in more than 10 South Indian movies. He was born in a rich family who has a business in cashew production and export....
Date of Birth: 03-07-1933
Date of Death: 08-07-2023
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 03-07-1933
Date of Death: 08-07-2023
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Producer

14. T Krishnanunni


25-08-2018/t-krishnanunni.jpg "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...
Date of Birth: 12-06-1960
Age: 64
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 12-06-1960
Age: 64
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Sound Designer

15. Aryadan Shoukath


a/r/y/a/d/a/aryadan-shoukath.png Aryadan Shoukath is an Indian filmmaker and a politician. He had achieved awards both as a producer and a local politician. He had been around for 14 years of filmmaking. His father Aryadan Muhammed is a prominent political figure. Aryadan Muhammed is one of Kerala’s most senior Indian National Congress leaders (former Kerala State Minister of electricity). He graduated in...

16. Vinod Sukumaran


v/i/n/o/d/0/vinod-sukumaran.png Vinod Sukumaran is a renowned filmmaker of the Indian Cinema. He was born and brought up in the city of ‘Calicut’ in ‘Kerala’. In terms of education, he had learned ‘Theatre Arts’ in his hometown i.e, from ‘School of Drama’ which is situated in ‘Kerala’ State. After this, he had done his Master’s from ‘Film and Television Institute of India’...
Date of Birth: 20-01
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 20-01
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

17. Antony Perumbavoor


a/n/t/o/n/y/antony-perumbavoor.jpg Antony Perumbavoor was a driver earlier in his life (he had been a driver to veteran actor Mohanlal) and later became a famous producer in the film industry. Eventually, his life took a drastic change, and he became Mohanlal’s business partner. Antony Perumbavoor owns a production house named Ashirvad Cinema and the first film that this production Studio produced was...
Date of Birth: 25-05-1968
Age: 56
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 25-05-1968
Age: 56
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Producer

18. M J Radhakrishnan


18-08-2019/m-j-radhakrishnan.png M J. Radhakrishnan was an indian cinematographer, who works mainly in malayalam films. He had won the kerala state award for best cinematography 7 times. In his early days, he worked as a still photographer and then worked as an associate to well-known cinematographer turned director shaji n. Karun....
Date of Birth: 1957
Date of Death: 12-07-2019
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 1957
Date of Death: 12-07-2019
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Cinematographer

19. Ranjith Ambady


r/a/n/j/i/t/ranjith-ambady.jpg Ranjith Ambady is an eminent Make-up artist from India. He is well known for his prominent skills in the field. He has worked abundantly in the South-Indian film industry. His best-known work includes Thanmatra, Paleri Manikyam, Palunku, How old are you? and Takeoff. He has acted as a paragon of efficient completion of the task. Ranjith went to Veteran actor...
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:

20. Girish Kasaravalli


17-06-2017/girish-kasaravalli.png Girish Kasaravalli took birth on December 3, 1950. He is a director of the Kannada Cinema World. He is well known as one of the pioneers of Kollywood. His films like Thaayi Saheba, Tabarana Kathe, Ghatashraddha and Dweepa won the ‘National Award for Best Feature Film’ more than three times. He was awarded Padma Shri in 2011 for his contribution...
Date of Birth: 03-12-1950
Age: 73
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills:
Date of Birth: 03-12-1950
Age: 73
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Kannada
Skills: Director

21. Adoor Gopalakrishnan


adoor-gopalakrishnan.png 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...
Date of Birth: 03-07-1941
Age: 83
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 03-07-1941
Age: 83
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

22. Ouseppachan


24-04-2017/ouseppachan.jpg Ouseppachan is well-known music composer in the Indian film industry, who is mainly seen to be doing background scores as well as the music for Malayalam films as well as for few of the Hindi films. Mechery Louis Oseppachan was born on 13th September 1955, in Thrissur. Ouseppachan had been interested in music and had a flair for it from...
Date of Birth: 13-09-1955
Age: 69
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 13-09-1955
Age: 69
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Composer

23. Sathyan Anthikad


sathyan-anthikad.png Sathyan Anthikad is a film director who has even tried his hands at writing lyrics. He also has been an eminent screenwriter in Malayalam movies. He has a long association with  Mohanlal, Jayaram, and even Mammootty. He has made 19 movies with Mohanlal, 17 movies with Jayaram, and eight movies with Mammootty. Hence, he has given the most successful movies...
Date of Birth: 03-01-1955
Age: 69
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 03-01-1955
Age: 69
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Director, Lyricist

24. O. N. V. Kurup


o.-n.-v.-kurup.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 27-05-1931
Date of Death: 13-02-2016
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 27-05-1931
Date of Death: 13-02-2016
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Lyricist

25. M. Jayachandran


m.-jayachandran.jpg M Jayachandran is an Indian musician, music composer, and singer; he works in Malayalam Film Industry. Jayachandran was born on 5th April 1971 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. His parents are Madhusudhanan Nair and Sukumari Amma. He took his Electrical Engineering degree from TKM College of Engineering. On 12th November 1995, he got married to Priya. At the age of 5, he...
Date of Birth: 14-06-1971
Age: 53
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 14-06-1971
Age: 53
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Musician

26. Lal


lal.jpg Paul Michael alias Lal started his successful journey in Malayalam film industry with the blockbuster movie “Ramji Rao Speaking” (1989) which was later re-made even in Hindi as Hera Pheri. In this film he took the effort to tie up with Siddidque who was his childhood friend, and their partnership continued for five or six films, after which they had...
Date of Birth: 02-12-1958
Age: 65
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 02-12-1958
Age: 65
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Writer, Movie Actor

27. Mamukkoya


24-03-2017/mamukkoya.png Mamukkoya also known as Mamu Koya is a popular cine artist and Malayalam comedian. He was born on July 5, 1946, to Chalikandiyil Muhammed and Imbachi Ayisha and is currently 69 years old. He has done over 450 movies in his career. He is a very simple and yet so talented. He did his primary school education from Calicut, MM...
Date of Birth: 05-07-1946
Date of Death: 26-04-2023
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 05-07-1946
Date of Death: 26-04-2023
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actor

28. Mohanlal


08-08-2019/mohanlal.jpg Mohan Lal is the Super Star of the Malayalam film industry. He is the Son in Law of a famous producer cum veteran actor Balaji. Mohan Lal is married to Suchithra, the elder daughter of Balaji. Mohan Lal was born in the year 1960 in Elanthoor in Kerala. He is very popular for his natural acting and simplicity. The first...
Date of Birth: 21-05-1960
Age: 64
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 21-05-1960
Age: 64
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actor

29. T V Chandran


T-V-Chandran.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 23-11-1950
Age: 73
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 23-11-1950
Age: 73
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

30. Jagathy Sreekumar


24-06-2017/jagathy-sreekumar.jpg 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...
Date of Birth: 05-01-1951
Age: 73
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 05-01-1951
Age: 73
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actor

31. Shankar Mahadevan


Shankar-Mahadevan.jpg Shankar Mahadevan, a well-renowned, talented and famous music composer, and singer. An accomplished musician in Tamil cinema, he is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that provides music to Bollywood and other International films. He has won various Indian and multiple National Film Award. His most famous albums include, “Breathless“- Album that first gave him fame, including...
Date of Birth: 03-03-1967
Age: 57
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi
Skills:
Date of Birth: 03-03-1967
Age: 57
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Hindi

32. Madhupal


Madhupal.jpg Madhupal Kannambath popularly known as Madhupal is a well-known actor, director, scriptwriter and short story writer. He hails from Calicut but has spent much of his childhood in Palakkad where his father owned a movie theater. That was how he developed liking towards cinema. Before acting in films, he worked as assistant director to Bharath Gopi and Rajeev Anchal and...
Date of Birth: 13-07-1963
Age: 61
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 13-07-1963
Age: 61
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Director

33. Anoop Menon


Anoop-Menon.jpg Anoop Menon is an Indian film actor, script writer and lyricist born on Aug 3, 1977 in Kozhikode and bought up in Thiruvananthapuram. Anoop is a law graduate and completed his degree in Government law college, Thiruvananthapuram. During his academic years he was anchoring shows in Kairali TV and Surya TV.  He started his career by playing a leading role in...
Date of Birth: 23-03-1976
Age: 48
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:
Date of Birth: 23-03-1976
Age: 48
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

34. Pattanam Rashid


26-08-2020/pattanam-rashid.jpg Bio coming soon......
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: