Sathyan Anthikad

Sathyan Anthikad is a film director who has even tried his hands at writing lyrics. He also has been an eminent screenwriter in Malayalam movies. He has a long association with  Mohanlal, Jayaram, and even Mammootty. He has made 19 movies with Mohanlal, 17 movies with Jayaram, and eight movies with Mammootty. Hence, he has given the most successful movies in Kerala. He even tried to make some low-budget movies too and was moderately successful. He chose to direct ‘Pappan Priyappetta Pappan’ which was the 100th film of Mohanlal. 

In 2015 Sathyan’s much-awaited film ‘ Ennum Eppozhum Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ created a buzz in the industry as it had Manju Warrier Manju Warrier is a South-Indian film actress, born >> Read More... and Mohanlal in the lead roles. He gave roles that suited their age in this movie. He has given chances to many actors and new technicians in his movies including Reenu Mathews It seems like Reenu Mathews leads a very busy life >> Read More... , Jacob Gregory Jacob Gregory has mainly worked in Malayalam films >> Read More... , and Renji Panicker A firebrand script-writer, actor, director, and pr >> Read More... . He is very much known for his political satire ‘Sandesham’ (1991). This movie is still fresh and popular in minds of the young generation too. 

Not many know that cinematographer Neil D’Cunha, a renowned cinematographer, before making his entry in cine field, had met this director on the set of Manasinakkare and took Sathyan’s autograph . Neil was a student then. Later when Neil met Sathyan in the sets of ‘Ennum Eppozhum’, Neil told him that he wanted to join the industry. This is how the director always encouraged young talents in his movies.  He is most notable for his works in movies like ‘ Manassinakkare Manassinakkare is a TV show in the Malayalam langu >> Read More... ’(2003) that had Sheela and Jayaram in the lead. It fetched him Filmfare best director award and the film won Filmfare award for the best film too. 

In 2000 Sathyan made a film ‘Kochu Kochu Santhoshangal’ which had Jayaram and his son Kalidas Jayaram Kalidas Jayaram was born on December 16th, 1993. H >> Read More... in the lead. The film had won the National Film Award for the best feature film in Malayalam. Sathyan has been very truthful to his comrades from film industry be it a technician, screenwriter, actor, cinematographer or even music composer. He repeated screenwriter Sreenivasan, cinematographers Vipin Mohan Vipin Mohan is an Indian actor, director, and cine >> Read More... and Venu, and music composer Johnson in many of his movies. Needless to say, even character artists like Innocent, Oduvil Unnikrishnan Oduvil Unnikrishnan was a classic, versatile actor >> Read More... , Mamukkoya, Nedumudi Venu Nedumudi Venu was born on 22nd May 1948. He is com >> Read More... and K. P. A. C. Lalitha are common cast in every movie of Sathyan.  His association with screenwriter Sreenivasan has created many gems in Malayalam movies and they are T. P. Balagopalan M.A. (1986), Gandhinagar 2nd Street (1986), Nadodikkattu (1987), Varavelpu (1989) etc. Sathyan Anthikad is still hopeful in churning out the new story in Mollywood as his recent release ‘‘Ennum Eppozhum’ proved to be the biggest hit. Born on January 3, 1955, Sathyan is married to Nimmi.