Malayalam Awards Kerala State Film Awards 2011 - Cast & Crew

Rajalakshmy is a popular singer in the Malayalam film industry. She made herself popular as a singer in the Malayalam film industry by winning the ‘Kerala State Film Award’ for the position of the best playback singer in the year 2011. Apart from the Malayalam movies, she also gave her voice to the Tamil and Kannada movies also. She was born on 13th of October in Ernakulam. She belonged to the musical family. Her passion for the music was recognized by her mother when she was so young. Her mother’s name was Parvathy. She was an excellent singer of her age. She had done her matriculation from St.Ann’s English Medium Higher Secondary school located in Eloor and also from the Government Girls Higher Secondary School situated in Ernakulam. She had completed her Bachelor&...

Nilambur Ayisha is a theater and film actress of the Malayalam entertainment industry. Her first name comes from the place where she belongs to. She is seen as one of the most inspiring personalities of the industry. She started her career as a theater artist. Ayisha, a Muslim woman, entered the stage when it was taboo for a Muslim woman to do so. Despite people pelting stones at her during her performance, Ayisha remained unflinching. She belonged to a rich family, but some section of the society was not acceptable to a woman taking part in plays.

Though she admitted of not having much of a talent, she loved being on the stage. And that is what matters, right? The plays she starred in were all about social changes and were a huge crowd puller nonetheless. Her father die...

Shreya Ghoshal, one of the most famous singers in Bollywood today, was born on March 12th, 1984, in Berhampore, West Bengal. Her father Biswajit Ghoshal is an electrical engineer and mother Sharmistha Ghoshal is a postgraduate in literature. She started singing since the age of 4 when her mother taught her. She started her formal training in Hindustani classical Gharana of music when she was only six years old. She was trained for 18 months after which she continued her training in Mumbai with Late Mukta Bhideji. She completed her graduation in Arts with majors in English. Her first on-stage performance was at their club’s annual function. Her first studio album was in Bengali in 19998 and was named Bendhechhi Beena, and her first onscreen performance was in Awaz Nayi Andaaz Wohi. In 1995, she became ...

Shweta Menon is a Malayalam and Hindi movie actress in addition to being a model and television presenter. She has also appeared in some Tamil films. She started her career with Malayalam films after which she changed her line for a bit and tried her hand at modelling due to which Shweta gained a lot of recognition as she won quite a few beauty pageants. She won the distinguished title of Femina Miss India Asia Pacific in the year 1994. Shweta Menon was born in Chandigarh but comes from Valanchery district in Kerala. Her father was an Indian Air Force Officer. She is the cousin of actor Anoop Menon. She first appeared in the movie Ishq in the item song ‘Humko Tumse Pyaar Hai’. She went on to make appearances in about 30 films in Bollywood. She had a turning point in her career w...

They are sons of the legendary film actor and producer Prem Prakash and nephew of the veteran star Jose Prakash, who are noted script writers of Malayalam movies. Bobby, the elder brother, is also a practicing physician and is settled in Kottayam whereas Sanjay is in Kochi. They started their career as script writers with Sibi Malayil’s Ente Veedu Appuvinteyum in 2003, which did really well commercially and was also critically applauded.

Bobby and Sanjay also scripted the serial television Avicharitham in 2004 which was telecasted for the period of 40 days in Asianet, breaking the stereotypical Gaga of never-ending serials. It attracted a large number of audiences and also won TV Critics award. After this, their next big venture was The Notebook in...

Blessy is a Malayalam film director and screenwriter who was earlier associated with veterans of film industry such as Padmarajan and Lohithadas and was an assistant director to both of them. Blessy got his first break as a director and screenwriter in the movie ‘Kaazcha’ in 2004. It was his debut movie which depicted Mammootty as a film operator who tours the countryside with his 16 mm projector and shows his films at festivals and functions. The film also dealt with an orphaned boy who was a victim of Gujarat earthquake and meeting Mammootty changes his life. This film fetched him Kerala State Film Awards. The biggest asset of Kaazcha is the story, and screenplay by Blessy and even Mammootty proved that no other actor can match up to his skills of acting in such roles. He was ...

Sreekumaran Thampi is a director, producer, lyricist, and screenwriter. He is known for his performances mainly in Malayalam cinema. Sreekumaran was born on March 16, 1940. He debuted in the Malayalam industry as a lyricist in the year 1966 by P. Subramaniam in the movie Kaattumallika. He has written more than a thousand songs, produced 22 films, written scripts for around 78 movies and directed 29 films. Sreekumaran believes that he is more of a lyricist than a producer. His works as a composer include "Hridayasarasile pranayapushpame", Chandrikayilaliyunna Chandrakaantham", Swonthamenna padathinendhartham.

He has also written four novels and several poems. He usually writes about romantic love. Thampi was born to Kalarikkal Krishna Pillai and Karimpalayathu Bhavaniamma Thangachi in Harippad, Alappuzha District....

Sujith Vasudevan is a music director and a singer who mainly composes film scores for Malayalam films. He is prominently known by his stage name ‘Sharreth’. He composed music for some of the Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films as well.

He was born on 3 October, 1969 in Kollam, Kerala. His parents are Vasudevan and Indiradevi. He is a student and a disciple of M. Balamuralikrishna. He is also an excellent Playback singer and sung songs in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada films. In his early days, he worked as a keyboard player under music director Raveendran. His music directorial debut took place with Malayalam film Kshanakkathu in 1990.

His first song as a playback singer was along with K. S. Chithra which is ‘Dum Dum Dum’ for the Malayalam film Onningu Vannengil. He recorded...

Born in 1982, Fahadh Faasil is known for his works in Malayalam cinema. He is the son of renowned Malayalam director Fazil. He debuted in the Malayalam film industry during the year 2002 in his father’s film Kaiyethum Doorath. Unfortunately, his status as star kid didn’t help him and the film bombed at the box office. He was 18-year old then and the audience didn’t accept the image of a chocolate boy with a mustache. 

Fahadh was not seen in films for around 7 years. But behold.. he indeed returned only to be accepted by the audience. He had a bald head, but that only favored him, since it provided a professional look. He did a film...

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...

Bijukumar Damodaran, known as Dr. Biju is a multiple award winning Homeopathic doctor turned director. 

Born on the 31st of May, 1971, in the village of Kudassanad in Kerala, Dr. Biju completed his schooling from the Kudassanad NSS School and the Pandalam NSS College. He then joined the Kottayam Homeo Medical College, obtaining a diploma in Homeo Medical Science, and then graduated with the same degree from the Trivandrum Homeo Medical College. As a practicing medical doctor, he currently works in Kasargode as the District Medical Officer.

He started his movie career through his debut as a writer and director for Saira (2005), which was an award-winning, internationally recognized film; featuring as the opening f...

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...

A great Indian film director Mr.Ranjith Balakrishnan Nair was born on 4^th September 1964 in Balussery Kerala. Apart from directing Malayalam Cinema he is also known for variegate aspects of filming like screen writer , producer as well as actor. Two of his most famous film ventures are “Thirakkatha “ and “Indian Rupee “that  won the National Film Award for the Best Feature Film in Malayalam in 2008 and 2011 resp.

When he graduated from THE School  Of Drama And Fine Arts,Thrissur, he tried his luck at skits and t.v serials as an actor for Doordarshan. His debutant films were OruMaymasPulariyil . Later on he made his ingression by writing stories for a fun- adventure film directed by Kamal. The success of the story eventually lead to the commencement of omnifarious script writing for s...