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Malayalam Tv Serial Cinemala - Cast & Crew

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1. Diana Silvester


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Diana Silvester is a well-known and accomplished Malayalam film and television producer and director. Diana Silvester is the assistant vice president of Asianet, Kerala's major television network. Her TV series “cinemala”, which is based on movies, and “badai banglavu”, a celebrity chat show, and entertainer, were instant blockbusters as producers. Both programmes have been on the air for a long time and are among the most popular Malayalam shows outside serials and soaps. As a television producer, she has a 25-year career and is usually linked with programs about people and comedy. Cinemala has reached the milestone of 20 years and 1000 episodes.

The program has won numerous honors, including the renowned Limca Book of Records for India's "longest-r...


2. Sithara (Singer)


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Sithara Krishnakumar, or as we call her Sithara, is a splendid playback singer. She started off her career in 2007 with her first song ‘PammiPammi’. She got a kick to her profession after winning several musical talent shows like AsianetSapthaSwarangal (2004), Kairali TVGandharvaSangeetham and Jeevan TV Voice. She has now given her voice to over fifty film songs in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. Her forte is folk and fusion genres of music. Sithara is on a musical roller-costar with a specialty in various styles including Hindustani classical, Carnatic and Gazals. Born in Kozhikode, Kerala, this lady started to sing at the age of as early as four. She was born and brought in the music world as the family was already inclined towards classical art.

Date of Birth: 01-07-1986
Age: 37
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Playback Singer
Date of Birth: 01-07-1986
Age: 37
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Playback Singer

3. Shamna Kasim


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Shamna Kasim is a well known Indian film actress and model. She is popularly known by her stage name ‘Poorna.' She was born in Kannur to a Muslim-Malayalee couple Kasim and Ramla. She has done her schooling from St. Teresas Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School in Kannur after shifting from Ursuline Senior Secondary School. She shifted her school to concentrate more on her dancing skills.

Since childhood, she started learning different forms of classical dance. The different classical dance forms she knows are Kathak, Bharata natyam, Mohiniyattam. She represented her school in various competitions. In school, she also secured Kalathilakam of Kannur for four years. She completed her Bachelor of Arts from correspondence.

She won third place in a reality show named Super Dancer on Amrita TV. Super...

Date of Birth: 23-05-1989
Age: 34
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Date of Birth: 23-05-1989
Age: 34
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam

4. Usha Uthup


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Song ‘Ramba Ho’ from the movie Armaan mesmerizes all of us today also and that masculine voice of legendary lady Usha Uthup thrill the listeners.

Usha Uthup was born on 7 November 1947 in a Tamil Brahmin family in Mumbai. She did her education from St.Agnes High School, Mumbai and she has sung in 15 Indian Languages and Various Foreign Languages. Her next door neighbours daughter Jamila, inspired her to learn Hindi which later helped her to create a...

Date of Birth: 07-11-1947
Age: 76
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Singer
Date of Birth: 07-11-1947
Age: 76
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Female
Language: Hindi
Skills: Singer

5. Thesni Khan


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Known in the Malayalam movie industry for her comic timing and impeccable work ethic, Thesni Khan is one of the more prominent comedian and character actors’ within the movie scene. Born on the 5th April, 1970 to parents Alikhan and Rukhiya, Thesni studied at the famous Cochin Kalabhavan. She also studied and performed magic under her father’s tutelage on several stages. 

 

Thesni made her debut in the movie Daisy in 1988, as a supporting actress, following which she acted in famous movies including Vaishali, Moonnam Pakkam, then in Dasharatham, and In Harihar Nagar, Pappi Appacha, Tournament, Avatharam, Punyalan Agarbattis, Bhaiyya Bhaiyya. 

 

Her first movie Daisy, was a Malayalam musical-romance showing separation, and the longing...

Date of Birth: 05-04-1970
Age: 54
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Date of Birth: 05-04-1970
Age: 54
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam

6. Ponnamma Babu


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Ponnamma Babu is a noted character artist known for portraying satire roles. She is a trained Bharathanatyam and Mohiniyattam dancer as well. She entered into theater when she was 15 years. After her marriage to noted theater director Babu, she quit acting in her early age. She made her movie debut in 1996 in Padanayakan playing wife to the noted actor Rajan P Dev. Even though it was a small character she got recognized with her unique acting skills. She has done many character roles as mother, sister, sister-in-law, which were all performance oriented. She never looked for the length of the role she had, but how important the role was in the movie. She started dubbing for herself after Ennu Swantham Janakikutty which gave her recognition for her unique voice and her humorous dialogue delivery. She has acted in almos...

Date of Birth: 26-01-1964
Age: 60
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Date of Birth: 26-01-1964
Age: 60
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam

7. Subi Suresh


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Subi Suresh is a Malayalam actress and a TV anchor. She is one among the few women specialising in comedy in both big and mini screens. She has proven her skills as a comedian and a character artist in a few Malayalam movies. She started her career as an anchor in the Famous Malayalam Comedy show Cinemala broadcasted by Asianet channel. She is a product of Cochin Kalabhavan, which is a grooming center for aspiring artists for learning performance arts. 

Though she was doing many stage shows and Malayalam movies, her career shot to fame when she started to anchor a show for kids called Kuttipattalam in a Surya TV. 

The channel tried many anchors to compare the show, but nothing turned up so well. Subi was reluctant to take up the comparing project because she was not having any previo...

Date of Birth: 23-08-1981
Date of Death: 22-02-2023
Age: 42
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam
Date of Birth: 23-08-1981
Date of Death: 22-02-2023
Age: 42
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Female
Language: Malayalam

8. Manoj C Mathew


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Manoj C Mathew is an Indian lyricist, playback singer, the Music director who was actively working in the Indian Film Industry and is well known for Malayalam cinema since 2007. Before coming into Film Industry. He works an Assistant Director and Casting Director in Advertising for eight years. After that, he begins making short films on social issues in 2015. He was working in Voice Over industry in Kerala since 2002. He Can do voice-overs for many Entertainment platforms, and he actively works in Malayalam, English & Hindi. Top 8 songs from album named"Snehapoorvam" are Thennilavil, Aduvilente, Mazhavilkkodi, Engine Njanente, Ee Raavithalppoo, snehapooravam, I can feel your love, Virahinee.

He had worked with Manju Mathew as an artist, Gino, and Shijo Manual as a lyricis...


9. Manoj Guinness


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Manoj Guinness is a Malayalam film actor. He is best known as the comedy mimicry artist. Manoj was born in Karimugal, Ambalamedu, Kochi, India. He was brought up in Ernakulam, Kerala. He went to Govt High School in Ambalamugal. He went to Al-Ameen College EdathalaAluva for higher college studies. Manoj has three siblings. Ajith C. Lokesh who appeared in Minnale and Elayanila that was aired on Jeevan TV is Manoj’s younger brother. Ajith has also co-written the script of Money Ratnam along with Anil Narayanan. It is a film starring Fahadh Faasil and directed by Santosh Nair, released on 26th September 2014.

Manoj is married and also has a child. His residence is in Karimugal, Kerala which happens to be his hometown. At a young age and apparently from his school days, Manoj used to perform on stage. He used to be a mimicry a...

Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills:

10. Ramesh Pisharody


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Ramesh Pisharody, a mimicry artist and anchor, was born on October 1, 1983, in Karikode, Kottayam. He is also known as Kannan. He belongs to the Malayalam TV industry. In his career, he has also appeared in a few films as the supporting actor role and also in the lead role. Along with Dharmajan Bolgatty, who supported him as the female lead most of the times, he hosted a comedy show, Bluff Masters, which helped him gain popularity. The awesome duo, Ramesh-Dharmajan, as the lead comic actors, created a great impact on the audience, and the show, Bluff Masters, achieved great success. He is a great anchor, and nowadays, he is anchoring celebrity show like Badai Bungalow, screened on Asianet, which portrays the Malayalam version of Comedy Nights with Kapil.

Ramesh, with his wife Soumya, live in Thrippunithura. The...

Date of Birth: 01-10-1983
Age: 40
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Date of Birth: 01-10-1983
Age: 40
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

11. Kottayam Nazeer


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Kottayam Nazeer is an actor-cum-director in Malayalam cinema. He is also screenplay writer and dialog writer and even a well-known stage performer. He is also a popular Malayalam-language mimicry artist, comedian, and actor. He has worked in over 50 films in Mollywood. He is popular for his imitation of popular film actors and politicians too. He is one of the top mimicry artists in Kerala and had done several supporting roles in Malayalam cinema. He kickstarted his career as a mimicry artist and went to achieve name and fame in Mollywood. He had stepped up the ladder of success by doing small roles in movies and later bagged some prominent roles in cinema.

As a mimicry artist, the actor has performed in stages across the globe and provided entertainment to people. As a mimicry actor, he used to take a dig at a...

Date of Birth: 29-01-1973
Age: 51
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Date of Birth: 29-01-1973
Age: 51
Star Sign: Aquarius
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

12. Tini Tom


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Tini Tom is a famous Indian movie actor, TV awards presenter and also a mimicry artist. He was born on 1 February in 1972, and his birthname was Devassy. He began his profession as mimic.  

Tini worked with several well-known groups like the Seven Arts,  Kalabhavan, and Cochin Guinness. He additionally created a TV drama program called the Tom and Jerry which was made with the help of Guinness Pakru. The show turned into a huge success. This project helped them to get chances in the silver screen. He made his debut with the movie Panchapandavar in the year 1998, but it’s the film Pattalam which starred Mammoty that increased his name and fame. 

Tini Tom received his first professional break with t...

Date of Birth: 14-03-1976
Age: 48
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Date of Birth: 14-03-1976
Age: 48
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

13. Dharmajan Bolgatty


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Dharmajan Bolgatty is a Malayalam actor, writer, television presenter and stand-up comedian. He was born in Mulavukad, Kochi in India to Madhavi and Kumaran. After finishing his primary education at Mulavukad High School, he attended St. Albert’s College in Ernakulam. He started his career as a mimicry artist, but became popular on Asianet’s Bluff Master, along with Ramesh Pisharody, who became his partner. The two had met while working as writers for Cinemala and when they realized that their tandem clicks, they have decided to put up their show. Later on, he has done over 30 films, and he is now part of Asianet’s Badai Bungalow. He turned film actor through the 2010 Malayalam film, Paappi Appacha, which stars Dileep, Innocent and Kavya Madhavan in the lead roles. He play...


14. Salim Kumar


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Salim Kumar is a person who deserves the title of a film legend. He was born on 1969 in Kerala to parents Gangadharan and Kausalya. He has worked in nearly two hundred and fifty films, mostly in Malayalam and is a very popular public figure in Kerala. He did his higher education in BA from Maharajas College in Ernakulam, which has a reputation for nurturing budding artists. During his course at Maharajas, he had won the University title for mimicry three years in a row.

He had wanted to be a singer when he was young, but realizing his latent talent in mimicry and other performance arts; He decided to pursue acting instead. From the late 1980’s, he had been an active figure in the television industry, being the host of a comedy program for a private channel. His first appearance in films was with the 1989 ...

Date of Birth: 10-10-1969
Age: 54
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Date of Birth: 10-10-1969
Age: 54
Star Sign: Libra
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

15. Suraj Venjaramoodu


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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...

Date of Birth: 30-06-1976
Age: 47
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actor
Date of Birth: 30-06-1976
Age: 47
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actor

16. Mamukkoya


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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 High School.

He got married to Suhara, and they have four children, Muhammed Nisar, Nadiya, Shahitha and Abdul Rasheed. He did his education till 10th and candidly says that he didn't want to spend his hard earned money on stationary and books. He started his acting career through theater and got his debut movie as Anyarude Bhoomi (1979). The movie Perumazhakkalam marked with ease than Mamukkoya is just not a comedy actor but can play non-comedian roles too. Acting is one thing that he sa...

Date of Birth: 05-07-1946
Date of Death: 26-04-2023
Age: 77
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actor
Date of Birth: 05-07-1946
Date of Death: 26-04-2023
Age: 77
Star Sign: Cancer
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Movie Actor

17. P. Jayachandran


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P. Jayachandran is a South Indian playback singer. Often, he is also affectionately called the Bhava Gayakan in the industry. This singer had worked in close collaboration with A R Rahman and even Illayaraja. With Illaryaraja, he had given numerous popular hits in Tamil movies, and he even sang a Hindi song for an A R Rahman’s composition. For a Malayalam movie’ Pennpada’ that released in 1975, a song that he had sung is considered to the first composition of A R Rahaman. This singer also had given his voice for music composer M S Viswanathan, who is also known as ‘Mellisai Mannar’ in Tamil cinema...

Date of Birth: 03-03-1944
Age: 80
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Date of Birth: 03-03-1944
Age: 80
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

18. Guinness Pakru


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Malayalam comedy star Pakru, has the prefix Guinness to his name. Ever wondered the reason? He owns the record of a leading role enacted by a shorted actor in a full-fledged film. Born on 31st August 11976, being 2 feet 6 inch tall, Pakru worked as the male lead in the 2005 flick Albhuthadeep. He was adjudged the Special Jury Awards given by Kerala State Film association. His record was recorded in the year 2008 in Guinness Book of World Records. Albhuthadeep is a flick which has various specialties. It has 300 dwarfs, which is distinctive. The plot of the story is about dwarf men and normal ladies in an island. Prithviraj also acted with Pakru in this movie. This movie was a great success in the box office. 

Date of Birth: 31-08-1976
Age: 47
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Date of Birth: 31-08-1976
Age: 47
Star Sign: Virgo
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

19. Indrans


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Indrans, who was born as K. Surendran, is a Malayalam actor and costume designer. He has acted predominantly in many comedy films and over 250 films. He is the second child out of the seven children of Gomathi and Palavila Kochuvelu in Thiruvananthapuram, India in the year 1951. Indirans made his schooling at the Government Higher Secondary School in Kumarapuram until his fourth grade. 


Subsequently after, he assisted his uncle in his tailoring business. He participated in amateur arts and performed dramas. After this, he established a tailoring shop called Indrans, from where he got his stage name ...

Date of Birth: 12-03-1956
Age: 68
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Date of Birth: 12-03-1956
Age: 68
Star Sign: Pisces
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

20. Harisree Ashokan


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Harisree Ashokan is a well-known Mollywood Actor, who is known for his comical roles in movies. Before taking the step to act in Films, Harisree first joined the Kalabhavan of Cochin, as a mimicry artist. The legendary Actor Jayaram was also a part of the Kalabhavan. Ashokan’s birth name is Babu, and he was born in Thrissur, in Kerala. He studied till his Tenth Standard in Ernakulam and then went to Cochin to complete his schooling. He came back to Thrissur to gain a Diploma in the field of Telecom Engineering.

In the year 1984, he joined the Telecom services of Cochin, as an assistant to the lineman. In the year 1987, He was persuaded to join Kalabhavan, for his mimicry talent, while working as a lineman. He worked as a mimicry artist for another ...

Date of Birth: 06-04-1964
Age: 60
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Date of Birth: 06-04-1964
Age: 60
Star Sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

21. Dileep


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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...

Date of Birth: 27-10-1968
Age: 55
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Date of Birth: 27-10-1968
Age: 55
Star Sign: Scorpio
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

22. Saju Kodiyan


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Saju Kodiyan is a famous comedy actor in Malayalam television and film industry. He started his acting career through dramas and stage shows and now is a very popular actor in Malayalam film industry. Saju started with acting in dramas and through one of his drama “Swathanthrintynte Sangaganam” by Sangeetha Nadaka academy, he entered into the mimcry field. The drama was a political one and the chief minister E K Nayanar at that time gave the troop permission to perform that drama throughout different stages in Kerala. During their travelling from one stage to another Saju tried to make everyone happy by imitating sounds. At first he didn’t imitated the sounds of actors and one of his friends suggested him to mimcry field, later he tried and successfully rendered all of them.

 

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23. Kochu Preman


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Kochu Preman is a noted, popular and famous actor who acts in the Malayalam films and is mostly seen playing comical characters. Kochu Preman is the actor’s screen name or the stage name and is real recordial name is K.S. Premkumar. Kochu Preman was born on June 1st 1955 to parents Kamaramathil Shivaraman Shastri and T.S Kamalam in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Kochu Preman completed his education from M.G.College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. From his college days, he became interested in acting and gradually became passionate about the same. After completing his college education, Kochu Preman was associated with a theatre group for 18 long years named Kalidasa Kala Kendram. In the year 1995, he got an offer for acting in films and made his debut as an actor in the Malayalam movie Dilliwala Rajkumara...

Date of Birth: 01-06-1955
Age: 68
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Date of Birth: 01-06-1955
Age: 68
Star Sign: Gemini
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam

24. Jayaraj TC


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Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Actor
Gender: Male
Language: Malayalam
Skills: Actor

25. Shinod Malayatoor


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