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1. Remya Nambeesan


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Remya Nambeesan is a chirpy young Indian actress, whose primary focus is Mollywood. Born on January 1, 1986, Remya Nambeesan was introduced into the film industry with the 2000 Malayalam flick Sayahnam. R Sarath helmed direction for this flick. After that, she went on to work in various Malayalam films as a child artiste. Then she was seen in insignificant supporting roles including Narendran Makan Jayakanthan Vaka, Gramophone, etc. She had worked under the direction of Sarath for three times. Eventually, she got lead roles since the year 2006. 

The 2006 flick Aanachandam is her first film as a lead heroine. This film was not well received. However, Remya’s performance was appreciated to an extent. Then she acted in a couple of flicks and success ...

Date of Birth: 01-01-1986
Age: 38
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Date of Birth: 01-01-1986
Age: 38
Star Sign: Capricorn
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam

2. Kavya Madhavan


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Kavya Madhavan is an Indian artist but shines in the Malayalam cinema. She made her debut in “Pookkalam Varavayi” in the year 1991 when she was a child. As a lead actress she made her appearance in Lal Jose’s “Chandranudikkuna Dikhil” on the silver screen in the year 1999. It was a great hit. She was crowned twice as the best actress for her outstanding performance in “Perumazhakkalam” & “Gaddama” in the year 2004 & 2010 respectively. She was born September 19, 1982 in Nileashwaram in city, Kasargod district in Kerala.

She did her schooling in Nileshwaram GLP School and stepped in the film industry as a child artist. She was skilled in dancing in her school da...

Date of Birth: 19-09-1982
Age: 41
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actress
Date of Birth: 19-09-1982
Age: 41
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actress

3. Karthika Kannan


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Karthika Kannan is a popular serial artist, who could do all the roles flawlessly. She is a Malayalam serial artist, who has acted in lots of serials. Most of the roles done by her are negative roles, and she is criticized positively by the viewers for her natural performance. Karthika is very much popular for her roles in Devi mahatmyam, Vadhu, Amma, Amala and much more. In the serial, Devi Mahatmyam, she has performed as the villainy sister in law of the queen, which is portrayed by Kanya Bharathi. She has also acted in a Tamil serial called Maharani, which was a remake of the Malayalam serial, Ente Manasa Puthri. In this serial, she had two different performances, as she was depicted as a negative character in the beginning, then as a good one. Karthika Kannan showed all her talents in acting through the serials. Sh...

Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: TV-Actress
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: TV-Actress

4. Shweta Menon


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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...

Date of Birth: 23-04-1974
Age: 50
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Date of Birth: 23-04-1974
Age: 50
Star Sign: Taurus
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam

5. Dhanush


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This lanky superstar Dhanush is an actor from Tamil cinema but has appeared in two Hindi films too. He credits R Balki and Anand L Rai for making him consider acting in Hindi films (‘Shamitaabh’ and ‘Raanjhana’). In the year 2011-12, his song  “Why This Kolaveri Di’’ continued to rise on the charts and gain millions of viewers on YouTube. Dhanush happens to be the youngest actor to receive the national film award for his performance in “Aadukalam”. 

This actor had carved a place for himself in the world of cinema by his acting prowess. He has so far featured in 25 movies. Dhanush has ventured into production with his company Wunderbar Films. He is married to southern superstar Rajinikanth's daughter...

Date of Birth: 28-07-1983
Age: 40
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Movie Actor, Singer
Date of Birth: 28-07-1983
Age: 40
Star Sign: Leo
Gender: Male
Language: Tamil
Skills: Movie Actor, Singer

6. Baburaj


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Baburaj is an Indian cinema actor and director. He has appeared in villain roles in Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi movies. He was born to T.I.Karmali Thottungal and P.J.Jacob Oleekkal. He entered into wedlock twice and has four children, two from his first marriage named Akshay and Abay, and with his second marriage to Vani Viswanath, they have a daughter Archa and son Adrith.  

Baburaj started his acting career as a small kid. In 1994, he debuted with a Malayalam movie Beeshmacharyar. The movie was directed by  Cochin Haneefa. He had got a role of notorious villain in the movie. He also acted in the remake of Malayalam film, Godfather, that was remade as Hulchul, in the Bollywood industry. He has produced one Tamil and four Malayalam movies. 

Date of Birth: 05-03-1970
Age: 54
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Date of Birth: 05-03-1970
Age: 54
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

7. Mohanlal


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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 movie, he committed was Thiranottam, but the first to release was Manjil Virinja Pookal. This movie had Poornima Jayaram as his pair and that is the debut movie in Malayalam for her too. Rajavinte Makan was the movie that made him to reach super heights. Mohan Lal is not choosey in particular character; but he acts in all types of film that give him a good performance scope.

Till now he did not show him as a Super Star. His humbleness is r...

Date of Birth: 21-05-1960
Age: 63
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actor
Date of Birth: 21-05-1960
Age: 63
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actor

8. Vijay Yesudas


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Vijay Yesudas (Born: 23rd March, 1979) is an Indian classical musician and playback singer from Chennai. He is known for his work predominantly in the south Indian film Industry, especially Malayalam, and Tamil films as well as in other Indian Languages such as Telegu, Kannada, and Hindi.

Vijay is the son of prominent singer K.J. Yesudas and the grandson of stage singer Augustine Joseph. His mother’s name is Prabha, and he is the second son of the family. He studied in Chennai until the 9th grade and moved to the US for further studies. He graduated from the University of Miami with a B.A in Music.

Vijay Yesudas started learning Carnatic music in early 2000. He is popular for his songs with composer Yuvan S...

Date of Birth: 23-03-1979
Age: 45
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Singer, Musician
Date of Birth: 23-03-1979
Age: 45
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Singer, Musician

9. Vijayaraghavan


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Vijayaraghavan is an Indian actor from Kerala, who mainly acted in Malayalam films. He is popular for his versatility playing different character and villain roles. He is the son of great Malayalam drama writer and director N. N. Pillai, who is known to many by his role Anjooran in the Malayalam movie Godfather.

Vijayaraghavan was born in Malasia in 1951 and brought up there until he was six months old. Being from a drama family Vijayaraghavan had the acting talent inherited from his father. Vijayaraghavan debut in Malayalam movies was in 1973 through Kaapaalika, a film based on N N Pillai’s famous drama with the same name. He did a small role in this movies. A decade later he did a throughout role in movie Surumayitta Kannukal (1983). The 1987 Mamooty-Joshi movie New Delhi was the real breakthrough...

Date of Birth: 20-12-1951
Age: 72
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Date of Birth: 20-12-1951
Age: 72
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

10. Unni Mukundan


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Born on the 22nd of September, 1987, Unni Mukundan is the son of M Mukundan Nair and Roji Mukundan. He was born in Villadom in Trichur, but grew up in Ahmedabad. Unni made his foray into the film industry after the completion of his Plus Two in commerce, and is currently pursuing his B.A. in English from the Prajyothi Nietan College, Thrissur. Unni is a firm believer in having a good education, and is usually found to be busy with his classes when he is not shooting for his movies, even quoting “I believe that I am in a space where I can fix my dates”, showing his confidence in his ability, and also in his belief that a good education is absolutely essential.

 

Known as the “Muscle Aliyan” of M-Town, Unni made his debut in the Tamil movie Seedan in 2011, which was ...

Date of Birth: 22-09-1987
Age: 36
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actor
Date of Birth: 22-09-1987
Age: 36
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actor

11. Anoop Menon


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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 a popular Malayalam TV serial called “Swapnam” broadcasted by Asianet. Anoop made his debut as a script writer in the movie “Pakal Nakshatrangal” in which Mohanlal got Mathrubhumi award and Kerala film critic award for best actor. 

Anoop Menon made his debut as an actor through the Malayalam movie “Kattuchembakam” in the year 2002. He acted in around 7-8 movies, including “Pakal Nakshatrang...

Date of Birth: 23-03-1976
Age: 48
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Date of Birth: 23-03-1976
Age: 48
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

12. O. N. V. Kurup


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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 his graduation with a Bachelor's Degree from the SN College in Kollam. He had an interest in literature, so he shifted to Trivandrum and pursued Masters in Malayalam literature from The Travancore University, also called The Kerala University. After completing his Masters of Arts, he worked as a Professor at Maharajas College in Ernakulam, Arts and Science College in Kozhikode, University College in Trivandrum, and Brennen College in Thalassery. He also...

Date of Birth: 27-05-1931
Date of Death: 13-02-2016
Age: 92
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Lyricist
Date of Birth: 27-05-1931
Date of Death: 13-02-2016
Age: 92
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Lyricist