Malayalam Movie Review Dominic And The Ladies Purse - Cast & Crew

Muhammed Kutty Ismail Paniparambil is the original name of Mammootty, the Malayalam superstar. Having working in more than 300 movies he is still a star to reckon with, in Malayalam film industry. Apart from acting, he was also a lawyer. Currently he is busy with philanthropic works too.

Born on 7th September 1951, Mammootty also donned the role of a producer. He has worked in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Kannada, other than Malayalam films. He garnered the National Award for his acting skills, thrice in his career. He shares this feat with veteran actor Kamal Haasan. 5 Kerala State Film Awards and a dozen Filmfare Awards also decorate his cupboard. Mammootty was bestowed with Padmashri during 1998. He is fondly called as Mammukka or Megastar by Malayalam fans.

Hailing from Kottayam, Kerala, Mammootty, after studying in Maharajah College, he pursued law at the Ernakulam Government Law College. Mammootty entered the film industry through the insignificant role in the film Anubhavangal Paalichakal in 1971. The flick Devalokam was the first flick in which he played the lead role. Sphodanam and Trishna made Mammootty a star to reckon with in Malayalam cinema.

Mammootty was very much lauded for his performance in the flick New Delhi. Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha is the another film which provided the perfect fodder to his acting skills. Some of the other notable films of Mammukka include August 15, Pranchiyettan & The Saint, Drona 2010, Kutty Shrank, Nazrani, Pazhassi Raja, Ee Pattanathil Bhootham, Yugapurushan, Maunam Sammatham, Thalapathy, Swathi Kiranam, Balram vs Tharadas and Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. Mammootty’s penchant towards acting made him to take both commercial and offbeat roles with equal panache. Mammootty’s son Dulquer Salman is a rising star in Malayalam film industry now.

In his career, Mammootty acted with several actors and actresses. Mammootty also involved himself in the production of some serials in television. Mammootty is credited with the responsibility of Akshaya project’s goodwill ambassador. He also supports various other social causes, including a project pertaining to health.

Gautham Vasudev Menon is known for his directional capabilities and bringing his intense films to life in the Tamil Industry. He was born on 25th February and has established himself as a heroic director. He is most known for his work where he, portrayed the life of real men on screen. One of such work named Vaaranam Aayiram was a blockbuster and won him the prestigious National Film Award for the category of Best Feature Film in the Tamil Language. And since then, he started his try to produce such films in multiple languages. He got much acclaim when another of his film Thanga Meengal, brought him another very prestigious and devoured National Film Award for Best Feature Film in the Tamil Language.

However Gautham Menon, has not always been a film personality, he has completed Mechanical Engineering from Trichy, where he was highly influenced by English movies to bring the characters to celluloid that he has dreamt of. He has been an avid movie buff and has celebrated the growth of his cinema from one genre to another. He has been at the helm of Tamil direction for much longer now. He is married to Preethi Menon and is also known by a short form GVM. He is loved for his work not just in Tamil Cinema, but his work is appreciated by throughout the country.

Darbuka Siva is a famous self-taught Indian musician, drummer, percussionist, music producer, actor and radio jockey. He was born on 13th March 1982 in North Chennai. He was critically acclaimed for his musical projects "Yodhaka" and" La Pongal". Siva was seventeen when he started learning drums and percussion. His professional career began when he joined the Bengali Baul band "Okiyotaan" in 2002. It also meant the end of his college education as he had to skip exams to perform. In 2003, Siva formed his band with singer Tanvi Shah called "Zahrra" which performed music from all over the world including Arabic, Cuban, African and South American.

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