Malayalam Awards Kerala State Film Awards 2015 - Cast & Crew

Sreebala K. Menon is the winner and recipient of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005 for her novel, ‘19, Canal Road’. This citation was enough for her to become a renowned figure in the Malayalam literary field. She started writing this book when she was doing her post graduation in Madras University. Later, she went on to write short stories titled, ‘Slyviaplathinte Masterpiece’.

This writer even found filmmaking to be an art, and eyed the film industry. She tired to work as an assistant director to get the relevant knowledge as a director. Although, she is believed to not have taken a course in filmmaking, she finished her post graduate diploma in development communication and started searching for assistant director openings in the Malayalam film industry. She then did a document...

Joy Mathew has various feathers to his cap; he is an actor, director, writer and a political persona. But he is very humble in this real life. Hailing from an upper-class Christian family he had his initial days in Kozhikode. He initially joined Pune Film Institute but later opted for post graduation in Mass Media and Journalism. But films always remained his passion. 

Born on 20th September 1961, Joy Mathew hails from Challissery, Thrissur. Joy Mathew’s films reflect his childhood days and fervent association with left-wing politics. He believes in giving equal t...

Sandeep Madhavan, who was earlier known as Sandeep Kurissery is a film sound designer, location sound recordist and a sound editor. He worked for many popular filmmakers in the south. Sandeep was born on March 29th 1982 in Vanchiyoor in Trivandrum, Kerala to Mohan Kurissery and Retnakala.

Kurissery Gopala Pillai (author and scholar) was his paternal grandfather and Dr. R.P Chittezham, an ayurvedic physician was his maternal grandfather. Sandeep studied at SMV High School, Trivandrum and completed his graduation from Govt. Arts College which is also situated in Thiruvananthapuram. Sandeep did his diploma in Journalism and Mass communication from University of Kerala.

He discusses about films whenever he meets his cousin and a Prashanth Vijay. His passion for audio encouraged him to take up a diploma in audio engineering ...

Ramesh Narayanan is a Malayalam Composer, Music Producer, and vocalist. He was born on 3 November 1959 in Kuthuparamba. His parents' are Narayani Amma and Narayana Bhagavathar. He got married to Hema Narayan. He has two children named Madhushree Narayan and Madhuvanti  Narayan. The music genres he usually works in are Filmi music, Indian classical music, and World music. 

He has been active in the entertainment industry since 1972. He is a part of music labels such as PMN, Sangeet Gurukul, IME, and Arty Entertainments. He has also learned sitar from Ravi Shankar. Ramesh Narayanan has arranged music for the following films and television shows Gharshom, Elayum Mullum, Magrib, Meghamalhar, Makalkku, Anyar, and Sheelabathi. He has also sung ghazal-like Nee ponytail pinned. It was released in 2020. ...

Bijibal Maniyil is an Indian composer and a singer born on 21 May 1973. Bijibal is not only a playback singer but also an expert Keyboardist. Bijibal field of interest includes film scores, classical and dance music. Bijibal is a very renowned composer and has won many prestigious awards including a National Film Award. Bijibal made his debut in the Malayalam film industry as a music director with the film Arabikatha in 2007. The film won him Mullassery Raju Music Award for the best music director in 2007. Some of the remarkable works of Bijibal includes Njaan, Balyakalasakhi, Kaliyachan, Salt N’ Pepper and Arabikatha. Bijibal won the Asiavision Movie Award for the Movie Salt N’ Pepper in 2011. Recently Bijibal is working on some movies My God, Salt Mango Tree, KL. 10 and much m...

Rafeeq Ahammed was born on 17 December 1961 at Akkikavu, Trichur, Kerala, to Syed Sajjad Hussain and Thithayikutty. Rafeeq is a Malayalam poet, lyricist, and novelist. He has won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005 for his Poetic work, Aalmara, and is a Five-time winner of the Kerala State Film Award for Best lyrics.

Rafeeqis considered as one of the finest and successful Malayali artists, with more than 600 songs in his credit for about 400 Malayali films.

He graduated in English literature from Sree Krishna College, Guruvayur. Rafeeq married Laila, and today, he is blessed with two children, Maneesh and Lasya. His first work as a lyricist was in 1999, in the film Garshom, directed by P.T. Kunju Muhammed. After the success of his first film as a lyricist, there was no looking back for him.

His second work ...

Dulquer Salmaan is a popular Malayalam actor, who appears in Tamil films too. He is the son of the Malayalam Super Star Mammooty. Dulquer Salmaan is married to Amal Sufiya in the year 2011, before his film entry. Dulquer Salmaan has plans to act in Telugu films too, and discussions are going on. Dulquer wanted to make his debut through his friend’s film and hence rejected many opportunities. His debut was through the film Second Show by Srinath Rajendran in the year 2012. His second movie was Ustad hotel by Anwar Rasheed and the film was a hit. In the year 2013, he starred in ABCD American Born Confused Desi. This film revealed his singing talent too. Dulquer Salmaan sang a song Johnny Mone in this film ABCD. He entered the Tamil film industry through Vaayai Moodi Paesavum, a bilingual movie in Malayalam, Samsaar...

Martin Prakkat is a movie director who works in the Malayalam movie industry. He is also a producer, writer, and photographer. Martin went to Changanassery SB College. It was here at Changanassery that he started doing theater. He won the Best Actor Award several times in his college dramatics fest. After college, Martin took up photography and worked with the Vanitha Publications, a sister publication of the magazine Manorama, for ten years. He got into photography as a means to enter the films. After his stint at photography, he started writing scripts with Byju Chandran, his college friend. He was spotted by South superstar Mammootty, with whom Martin did his first film. He has directed three movies in a short span of time. Martin made his directorial debut with the movieBest Actor, which released in 2010. The movie...

Manoj Kana is an Indian film director, popular amongst the audience for his work in movies like Chayilyam (2012) and Amoeba (2016). Mostly known for his predominant involvement in Mollywood movies, dramas, and Malayalam TV shows, he has often been praised for his managing skills and creativity in the sequences. In 2012, Manoj made his directorial debut with the drama movie Chayilyam, starring M.R. Gopakumar, Chempil Asokan, and Anumol K Manoharan.

Four years later, he came up with yet another drama film titled Amoeba, starring Aneesh Menon, Anumol K Manoharan, and Indrans alongside him. The amount of exposure he got through his stint at the theatres certainly helped him all this time.

Shaji Mathew is a Malayalam independent art movie producer in Kerala and has won international and national accolades with just two or three films he had in his kitty. Despite his films get no help from big fishes (producers) of Mollywood film society, but Shaji’s Mathew earns his prestige as an independent art film producer through crowd funding procedures.

His latest film 'S Durga' (Sexy Durga) has been dragged into the unnecessary controversy by the Central Board of Film Certification, that asked the producers to re-submit the movie once again. The film could not be screened for the International film festival in Goa because the CBFC sought clarification over U/A certificate too.

The maker of the film moved to Kerala High Court challenging the CBFC’s recent order and felt that the order of the Ker...

Sanal Kumar Sasidharan is a Film Director known for his vivid work in the Malayalam industry. His father Sasidharan and his mother Sarojam gave birth to him in the village of Perumkadavila in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala. He graduated from both Zoology and Law but later chose filmmaking as it was his passion. He did his Zoology from VTM NSS College in Dhanuvachapuram, later pursuing a law degree from Govt. Law College in Thiruvananthapuram. He began his career as a Lawyer, but his real destination was somewhere else.

He started his career in 2000 as an Art Director in Malayalam film Mankolangal, later he made his first short movie Wonder World in 2001. This movie was produced by Kazhcha Chalachithra Vedi by crowd funding. He tied his knots wi...

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