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Actors In Malayalam Cinema Whose Performances Have Gone Unnoticed

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1. Kalpana

Kalpana Priyadarshini or Kalpana was born in 1965 in Kerala. She is one of the most popular actresses in comic roles in Malayalam. She won the National Award for the Best Supporting Actress for the movie Tanichalla Njan in 2012. Her parents were theatre artists and her sisters Kalaranjini and Urvashi are both famous actresses in South Indian Films. She started acting as a child artist. Kalpana’s journey as a heroine in films started in 1983 in the movie Manju directed by M.T. Vasudevan Nair. She then acted along with Bhagiyaraj in the Tamil Movie Chinnaveedu, which was a super hit. Later on, she began getting more comedy characters in supporting roles. She has done many combination roles with Jagathy Sreekuma...

Date of Birth: 05-10-1965

Date of Death: 25-01-2016

Age: 58

Star Sign: Libra

Gender: Female

Language: Malayalam

Skills: TV-Actress, Movie Actress, Supporting Actress

Kalpana Biography

Date of Birth: 05-10-1965

Date of Death: 25-01-2016

Age: 58

Star Sign: Libra

Gender: Female

Language: Malayalam

Skills: TV-Actress, Movie Actress, Supporting Actress

2. Manju Pillai

Manju Pillai famous for her comic role in Malayalam TV serials and films is the grand daughter of yesteryear actor S.P Pillai. She is famous for her role in 'Life is Beautiful' and the TV series 'Chila Kudumba Chitrangal'. Manju used to act in Drama competitions during her school days. She acted in 'Sthree Parvam' directed by famous play writer Soorya Krishnamurthy while she was in 10th standard. By seeing little Manju's performance on Drama's her teachers used to congratulate her and always used to bless her on her skills. As she was the granddaughter of S.P Pillai, she used to get many 'big fans' on her performance while on-stage ...

Date of Birth: 17-11-1975

Age: 48

Star Sign: Scorpio

Gender: Female

Language: Malayalam

Skills: TV-Actress, Supporting Actress, Comedian

Manju Pillai Biography

Date of Birth: 17-11-1975

Age: 48

Star Sign: Scorpio

Gender: Female

Language: Malayalam

Skills: TV-Actress, Supporting Actress, Comedian

3. Bindu Panicker

Bindu is an Indian movie actress who has predominantly worked in a Malayalam movie Industry. She was born in Pune, Maharashtra in a middle-class family. Her father was a government official and her mother used to stay at home. She was raised by her grandparents. Her grandmother was a singer who used to teach children when she was young. Bindu learned singing from her grandmother and used to love singing a lot. At a very young age, she developed a keen interest in singing. She started taking part in singing competitions. She also gave a lot of stage performances. She was also an intelligent student. She has received a lot of medals in academics. Bindu was considered among the toppers of the class. Since her childhood, she ...

Date of Birth: 21-04-1968

Age: 56

Star Sign: Taurus

Gender: Female

Language: Malayalam

Skills: Movie Actress

Bindu Panicker Biography

Date of Birth: 21-04-1968

Age: 56

Star Sign: Taurus

Gender: Female

Language: Malayalam

Skills: Movie Actress

4. Biju Menon

The tall, dark and handsome Biju Menon started his acting career from the small screen. He acted in serials like Mikayelinte Santatikal and Ningalute Swantam Chandu. Mikayelinte Santatikal focused on the life of a family and their complex relationships. In movies, he started with villain roles, second hero roles, and character roles and then graduated to main hero roles. Biju Menon married actress Samyukta Varma, and they have a son Daksh. Biju and Samyukta have acted together in a couple of movies during which they developed a likeness for each other. After the marriage, Samyukta decided to quit her acting career to become a full-time homemaker. Biju Menon resides with his family at Trichur. Th...

Date of Birth: 09-09-1970

Age: 53

Star Sign: Virgo

Gender: Male

Language: Malayalam

Skills: TV-Actor, Movie Actor

Biju Menon Biography

Date of Birth: 09-09-1970

Age: 53

Star Sign: Virgo

Gender: Male

Language: Malayalam

Skills: TV-Actor, Movie Actor

5. Manoj K. Jayan

Manoj Kadampoothramadam Jayan is a South-Indian actor, born on 15 March 1966 in an Ezhava family. His father, Sruthiyil K.G. Jayan, is a famous Carnatic musician, whereas his mother works as a teacher. He completed his schooling from the Government College, Nattika. It is known that since childhood, he was much of an introvert. He made up his mind on pursuing acting as a career. His parents encouraged him by sending him to the Southern Film Institute, Trivandrum to learn to act. His professor at the Institute, Adam Ayub, later directed his debut on television in ‘Kumilakal’, a television serial airing on Doordarshan in 1988. Manoj debuted with ...

Date of Birth: 15-03-1966

Age: 58

Star Sign: Pisces

Gender: Male

Language: Malayalam

Skills: Movie Actor

Manoj K. Jayan Biography

Date of Birth: 15-03-1966

Age: 58

Star Sign: Pisces

Gender: Male

Language: Malayalam

Skills: Movie Actor

6. Vineeth

Vineeth, is the nephew of yesteryear actress Padmini and cousin of actress Shobana. He had grown to be a classical dancer due to inspiration that he got from aunt Padmini. It was Ragini (sister of Padmini) who saw him dancing at age of four, and both Padmini and Ragini, had instructed Vineeth’s parents to send him to a dancing school. Since then his journey into dancing had begun and even today dancing is his just a passion and not a past time work. Born to a father who was a lawyer and a mother who was a doctor, Vineeth learnt dancing just because he enjoyed doing so and because it gave him real p...

Date of Birth: 23-08-1969

Age: 54

Star Sign: Virgo

Gender: Male

Language: Malayalam

Skills: Model, TV-Actor, Movie Actor, Supporting Actor, Dancer, Theatre Artist

Vineeth Biography

Date of Birth: 23-08-1969

Age: 54

Star Sign: Virgo

Gender: Male

Language: Malayalam

Skills: Model, TV-Actor, Movie Actor, Supporting Actor, Dancer, Theatre Artist

7. Saikumar

Saikumar is a renowned Malayalam actor born in Kollam district of Kerala. Born to actor father Kottakaram Sreedharan Nair, he married Prasanna Kumari in the year 1988. After ten years long marriage he divorced her, making Actress Bindu Panicker his wife in the year 2009. However, his previous marriage did not end on good terms facing a lot of legal difficulties. He also had a daughter, Vaishnavi with Prasanna Kumari. His ex- wife had also blamed actress Bindu on worsening their marriage. This personal drama has indeed inked his career, but his films are still being acknowledged. SaiKumar has popularly played serious roles and villain characters in Mal...

Date of Birth: 14-04-1963

Age: 61

Star Sign: Aries

Gender: Male

Language: Malayalam

Skills: TV-Actor, Movie Actor, Supporting Actor, Villain

Saikumar Biography

Date of Birth: 14-04-1963

Age: 61

Star Sign: Aries

Gender: Male

Language: Malayalam

Skills: TV-Actor, Movie Actor, Supporting Actor, Villain

8. Mamukkoya

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 Mamu...

Date of Birth: 05-07-1946

Date of Death: 26-04-2023

Age: 77

Star Sign: Cancer

Gender: Male

Language: Malayalam

Skills: Movie Actor

Mamukkoya Biography

Date of Birth: 05-07-1946

Date of Death: 26-04-2023

Age: 77

Star Sign: Cancer

Gender: Male

Language: Malayalam

Skills: Movie Actor

9. Narain

Narain is a famous South Indian Actor who hails from Thrissur. His original name is Sunil Kumar. He was born to Mr. T.M.Ramakrishnan and Shantha Kumari in Calcutta. He did a cinematography course at Adayar Film Institute and after that, he joined with Rajeev Menon as an Assistant Director. After that, he moved to acting and done his first movie Nizhalkuthu directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. People identified him through his movie Four the people directed by Jayaraj . He played the role of a police officer and later he acted in the movie Achuvinte Amma directed by Sathyan Anthickad. Meera Jasmine did the female lead. He played the same police officer role in the remake version of four the people in Tamil, Bengali and Tel...

Date of Birth: 07-10-1979

Age: 44

Star Sign: Libra

Gender: Male

Language: Malayalam

Skills: Movie Actor

Narain Biography

Date of Birth: 07-10-1979

Age: 44

Star Sign: Libra

Gender: Male

Language: Malayalam