Malayalam Awards Kerala State Film Awards 2013 - Cast & Crew

Gayatri Asokan is a female playback singer in Malayalam movies who is trained vigorously in classical vocal music. She is a versatile singer who is an expert in singing Bhajans, Hindustani music, and Ghazals. This singer was born on March 2, 1979. She has a moderately successful career in singing in Malayalam movies. Her life was very much connected to music, and she was keen on learning more about her musical journey. She also did some albums and jingles to understand the music technique. Moreover, she has performed on stages with eminent playback singers like Yesudas, S.P.Balasubramanyam, S. Janaki, Shankar Mahadevan, Jayachandran, Madhu Balakrishnan and Pradip Somasundaran. 
 

Gayatri does some private albums for ‘Art of Living F...

Vaikom Vijayalakshmi, is a singer and a musician, specialized in playing a rare and a beautiful instrument, Gayatri Veena. She was born on 7th of October, 1981, with visual impairment. Gifted with a beautiful voice, but she was deprived of the pleasure of seeing the world. And that hasn't stopped her ever from reaching high and chasing her dreams. She won special jury mention for her very first song Katte Katte for the movie Celluloid. She learned about 100 ragas in just a year, all by herself from listening to them, and started making her compositions. Though all the great musicians of all times have said music requires having training from a knowledgeable teacher. But this lady, surprised everyone with her talent and lust for learning, all by herself by getting better and better. With...

Carrying the acting tradition in the family is nothing uncommon in the film industry, and so it was almost natural for Anate Augustine one of the current crop of promising Malayali actresses to have chosen an acting career following in the footsteps of her father Augustine, who himself had acted in more than 100 films in his lifetime. While entering films, however, she chose to abbreviate her name from Anate to ‘Ann’ and this change may have brought her luck as her current standing in the industry bears out, having been a recipient of so many awards right from her debut film in 2010. Like many others in the current generation of actor and actresses, Ann too comes with a solid educational background, having earlier studied in Calicut and Thiruvananthapuram, and then graduated in psychology from Bangalore. Wh...

Lena Abhilash is known for her character Jancy played in the hit mega serial Omanathinkalpakshi where she played along with the famous actress Sreevidya. She has won accolades for playing several characters in Television and Cinema. She won the Kerala State Film Awards in 2013 as Best Actress in supporting role for her roles in Left right Left and Kanyaka Talkies. She won the Filmfare Award and Amrita TV Award in 2011 as Second Best Actress Award for the movie Traffic.

She won the Kerala State TV Award in 2008 for Best Actress for her role in Aranazhika Neram telecasted on Amrita TV, and in the same year, she received Atlas Film Critics TV Award as Second Best Actress for her role in Chilluvilaku. She has been doing plays and films since her school days. Her first movie was Sneham direc...

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 his early days itself. The inborn talent in him came out as melodious songs played on his violin. This great musician started his journey with this simple string instrument. He had joined certain troops and bands after his formal education was over. He was seen to play the violin in the troop “Voice of Thrissur”, which is popular music troop of the time. Ouseppachan’s violinist skills were greater than ever. From doing music for troops, he ...

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...

Shyamaprasad is an eminent screenwriter, director, and actor in Malayalam cinema. Although he had made a very few films, his art and meaningful cinema has always had a sweet flavor. His notable films include ‘Agnisakshi’, ‘Akale’, ‘Arike’ and ‘Ore Kadal’. He always made his movies based on some novels. Novels had inspired him a lot, and he tried to create a literary masterpiece in celluloid.

Since film and novels are two different media, hence he always had urged people not to compare his films with the novel as he had tried to be as close in spirit to the work which inspired him a lot. For instance, ‘Agnisakshi’ had released on 1999, but he wanted to make the films ten years ago. That was his s...

Sanoop Santhosh is an Indian famous, brilliant child artist. He is from Malayalam film industry. He was born on December 12, 2004, in Kannur. He does his schooling currently in Sreepuram English Medium and Junior College. Now he is a 6th-grade student. In 2013, at the age of 9, he started his acting career by performing a center role in Malayalam language children’s movie ‘Philips and the Monkey Pen’. In this film, he performed the role of Ryan Philip, a wicked 5th-grade school boy, poor in Mathematics. Sanoop says that in reality he is poor in Hindi but not in Mathematics.

 The critics highly appreciated this movie as well as won numerous awards at Kerala state awards. All children’s performance was wonderful, but Sanoop mad...

Jeethu Joseph is a Malayalam film screenwriter and director. He was born on 10th November 1972 in a politically based family where his father was an MLA of’ Muvattupuzha’. He always wanted to be in entertainment, but his father forced him to become an engineer. He later joined Nirmala College in Muvattupuzha to study economics. Jeethu began his career under the director ‘Jayaraj’ as an assistant. He worked under him for the Malayalam film ‘Bheebhatsam’.

Later he individually started directing a film but eventually it did not work out, and he was back on the starting line. In the meantime he urbanized single line plot of ‘Detective’ but he couldn’t find any producer, so his mother sponsored him with th...

Sooraj Venjaramoodu was born on 30th June, 1976 in Kerala. He is an Indian actor, television presenter, and comedian. He has acted in over 250 films. His father is a retired soldier and, his mother is a housewife. Sooraj began his career as a stand-up comedian. He was successful in this and was most famous for his mockery of the Thiruvananthapuram accent. At first, when he started his acting career, he was not well- accepted by the audience.

His first movie was 'Jagapoga.' This film received a lot of bad reactions. Later, he started playing minor roles in movies as a Bus conductor, Rasika, and Rasathanthram. His role that got his attention was Thuruppugulam in 2006. Apart from that, he has appeared in many movies such as Hallo, Chotta Mumbai, Classmates, Pachakuthira, etc.

Throughout his acting career, Sooraj re...

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 parted due to some differences. Siddique-Lal partnerships had given many new faces in Mollywood. The duo had teamed up to make many social films which had understanding of the public taste and a sense of box-office too. They had launched a production house named “Siddique-Lal” and made another movie “In Harihar Nagar”, which was a tremendous hit. Even their third productio...

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...

Ashok Kumar hails from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. His mother tongue is Telugu. He has pursued a Law degree and has practiced as a lawyer for some time. 

Ashok Kumar is a Telugu TV and film actor. He has 25 years of acting experience. He has acted in theatre plays since his childhood. Acting is a passion and hobby for him. He has acted in many hit serials on DD. Some of them are- Tenali Rama Krishna, Bhojaraja Kathalu, Bhatti Vikramarka etc. Tenali Ramakrishna serial has brought him fame and popularity. His role as Tenali Ramakrishna was well received by the audience. With this serial, he became a television super star over night. He has acted in the serial Sri Bhagavatham directed by the famous director Bapu in the role of Narada. This role was also received well by the a...