1. Bhavana
Bhavana was born at Anakapally, and she was brought up in Chennai. She came from a middle-class family. Bhavana’s father was a railway employee, and her mother was an actress. Due to some reasons, her father left them, and her mother alone struggled to maintain her family. Bhavana has one sister. When she was studying in her 4th standard, she got an acting chance through her father’s friend.
She started her acting career through movies, and her first film was Kutra as a child artist, and after that, she worked for movies like Lawyer Suhasini, Barathamlo Balachandrudu, Rajeshwari Kalyanam, and so on. She acted as a child artist in nearly 25 films. When she was studying in 4th standard, she got many offers, and because of shootings, she wa...
2. Bindu Murali
Bindu is a well known Malayalam media artist, dancer and a social worker. Bindu was deeply interested in dance and music since her childhood. She is married to Muralidaran Nair. They have two sons, Balu and Vinu. It was her husband Muralidaran Nair who encouraged her to pursue her passion. She has performed several stage shows and during one of the shows, she was offered role in a telefilm. Bindu further advanced her acting career with Narma Kairali, which is an association of humor writers.
Bindu has acted in several serials like “Ente Manasaputri” and “Aniyathi”. Aniyathi is a popular Malayalam television serial being telecasted in Mazhavil Manorama channel. The serial which started its journey on 14th July, 2014 is already garnering good response from the viewers and critics. She late...
3. Sukumari
Sukumari was a legendary South Indian actress who was active in the industry for more than 50 years. She has acted in close to 3000 movies and several serials. Sukumari was facilitated with Padma Shri for her great contributions. She was married to late Dr.Bhim Singh and they have a son named Suresh. Suresh has also acted in a few films and is a doctor by profession. Sukumari passed away in the year 2013. Her death was a huge loss to the industry.
Sukumari was born in the year 1940 as the daughter of Madavan Nair and Satyabama Amma at Tamil Nadu. She started her dance training at a very young age and travelled all over India with her dance shows. Her debut movie was Oru Irav in Tamil. The journey whic...
4. Johny Antony
Born to C. J. Antony and Liduwa Antony in Changanassery in Kerala, Johny Antony is an Indian film director. He is well known for his comedy movies in the Malayalam film industry. Having assisted various talented directors like Thulasidas, Taha, Kamal, Jose Thomas, etc. Johny Antony has been active in Indian cinema since 1991. Johny is married to Shyni Antony since 2002 and has two beautiful daughters- Aswathi and Lakshmi with her. He completed his initial school education from St. John’s Baptist High School in Nedumkunnam and his higher education from NSS College in Changanassery. Johny started his career by assisting acclaimed Malayalam director Thulasidas in 1991 in the movie Chanchattam starring Jayaram, Urvashi, Jagathy and Manoj K Jayan.
He worked as the assistant director with Thulasidas in his next two movies- Ezha...
5. Jagathy Sreekumar
Jagathy Sreekumar, a famous Indian film actor known for his comedy roles. His original name is Sreekumar Achary known by his screen name Jagathy. Sreekumar was born in 1951 in Jagathy, Trivandrum.His father was a drama artist, and he worked for all India radio. He did his schooling in Trivandrum and completed his graduation from Mar Ivanious College Trivandrum. He first started his career as a medical representative and due to his immense passion towards the film, he turned to the film industry and became an actor.
During his school and college days itself, he acted in dramas and play and became a theater artist. He started his film career in the movie Chattambi Kalyani directed by J Sasikumar in 1975.After that, he did small roles, and later he became popular for his comedy roles. In 1...
6. Harisree Ashokan
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 ...
7. Salim Kumar
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 ...
8. Cochin Haneefa
His other name was ‘Salim Ahmed Ghoush’. He has done many of the things in the Indian movies like he was a director an actor and as well as a screenwriter in Indian movies. He has started performing in the movies since the year 1970 and has done villainous roles in the movies. He was a comedian in the movies of the Malayalam. He in his complete life has done more than 300 of the movies in all 3 languages movies like ‘Malyalam’, ‘Hindi’ and ‘Tamil’. He has also done direction in many of the movies and his famous movies are ‘Vaitsalyam’ and ‘Tharattu’. His life was like he took birth at the place known as Kochi. He has also done his education in Kochi as he has done his schooling from St. Augustine's school and has graduated from the college...
9. Oduvil Unnikrishnan
Oduvil Unnikrishnan was a classic, versatile actor in Malayalam Industry. Unnikrishnan was born in 1944 to Krishnan Menon and Parukutty Amma. His house name is Oduvil later from his house name he got his screen name as Oduvil Unnikrishnan. He had a great interest in music and took vocal training under Kalamandalam Vasudeva Paniker, he also played the instruments like Mridangam and Tabla. He joined in K.P.A.C as a tabla artist .He had a great interest in music and finally that made him sang so many songs and he composed music for an album Parasuram Express. He also did music for an unreleased movie Sarvam Saha directed by Ravi Gupta.
His first movie was Drashanam directed by P.N Menon. He did many character as well as comic roles. Devasuram , Meleparambil Aanveedu, Sreekrishna Prundu, Po...
10. Ashish Vidyarthi
11. Captain Raju
Captain Raju, the tall, handsome and bold ex-Army man, denounced his uniform for art. This six feet, three-inch tall actor who glorified the villain characters in Malayalam cinema was born in 1950 as the son of Mr. Daniel and Mrs. Anna. Raju is married to Prameela, and they have a son Ravi. Raju completed his graduation and joined Indian army at a very young age. He started working with drama clubs before moving to the world of movies. Captain Raju has acted in several Malayalam serials and TV shows.
Captain Raju’s first movie was Rakhtham, from the talented director Joshi. Captain Raju completed close to 100 movies in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, English and Kannada languages. After portraying many negative characters, Raju made a conscious decision to focus on comedy and character roles. Thus, the au...
12. Vijayaraghavan
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...