K. Padmanabhan Nair

K. Padmanabhan Nair was a director in the Indian Film Industry and also a scriptwriter in the Malayalam films. He was born in 1919 in Payannur in the Kannur district. He was the son of Kaithari Raman Nambiar and Kutty Nambiar. He got married to Santha P. Nair who was a famous playback singer and had a child named Latha Raju Latha Raju is a prominent Indian playback singer a >> Read More... . Their son-in-law is J. M. Raju who is also a playback singer.

His grandson’s name is Aalap Raju Aalap Raju is an eminent playback singer and a mel >> Read More... is a playback singer too. He died in the year 1990. Since 1944, he was working at “All India Radio.” He also got awarded Kerala State Awards for some of his stories such as ThacholiOthenan and Kunjalimarakkar. He made his debut as a writer into the Malayalam film industry in the year 1963. He did dialogue writing in many films such as Moodupadam released in 1963, ThacholiOthenan in 1964, Kochumon in 1965, Devatha Devatha was a successfully running Telugu TV seria >> Read More... in 1965, Kadathukaaran in 1965, KunjaaliMarakkaar in 1967, NGO in 1967, Vidhi in 1968, and Sandhya in 1969. He also did the screenplay for films like ThacholiOthenan, Kochumon, Devatha, Kadathukaaran, KunjaaliMarakkaar, NGO, and Vidhi.

He directed the films ‘Kochuman’ and ‘Devatha.’‘Kochuman’ is an Indian Malayalam. Its producer is Mamman Varghese. It released on 8 October 1965. In this film, he worked with Devadatta who was its writer, Prem Nazir Prem Nazir was born on 7th April 1926 and his actu >> Read More... , Sheela, Thikkurissi Sukumaran, Nair, T. S. Muthiah, Ammu, CR Lakshmi, and Meena who are the cast member or actors, Alleppey Usman who gave his music, BG Jagirdhar was the cinematographer, PJ Eezhakkadavu and P. Bhaskaran were the lyricist and PP Varghese who did the editing part. The film was made under the production company named “St. George Movies.”

It is a story of a girl names Annamma who falls for a man who is very rich and gives birth to a child named George, but the man refuses to accept her child, later she also abandons the child, and he grows up without knowing about his father and mother. He directed the film “Devatha” with the director WR Subba Rao and producer Bharathi Menon. It released in theatres on 14 January 1965. Prem Nazir, Sathyan, Adoor Bhasi Hailing from the city of Kerala, Adoor is an actor >> Read More... , and T. S. Muthaiah play the lead roles in the film. He approached PS Divakar for the music of the film and WR Subba Rao for cinematography. He did the story writing and screenplay himself.