Malayalam Movie Review Dum - Cast & Crew

A confident girl, who knew ever since she performed in a college play that she wanted to be an actress- Parvathy was born in a Malayali family in Abu Dhabi, UAE. She is an Indian model and actor. She completed her secondary education in Abu Dhabi and resumed senior secondary education in Kerala, India. Parvathy graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Software Engineering and worked for a brief period before committing to the silver screen. Before taking onto acting as a full-time job, Parvathy ventured into modelling and bagged the titles of “Miss Karnataka” in 2009 and “Miss Navy Queen” in 2010.

The ‘Ordinary’ girl’, proved to be extraordinary, right from her first film. Born by the name, Parvathy Sivadas in Ernakulam, Kerala, later moved to Dubai, UAE. Shritha started out as an anchor, for the program, Dew Drops on Kairali TV and then progressed to anchor one of their other programs, Tharolsavam.

Anu Ram or Anuram is a Malayalam screenwriter and film director. He was born on March 6, 1983 in Kadakkavoor, Thiruvananthapuram to Ramachandran and Sujatha. He took up a film making course at the Manhattan Film Academy in Dubai. He helmed the short film Demolish that bagged five major awards at the Al Ain Short Film Festival in 2014, including the Best Director Award.

Jassie Gift is a music composer and singer who hails from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He predominantly works for Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil movies and is currently, based in Bengaluru.

Bineesh Bastin is a Malayalam actor who is well known for his appearances as a henchman in the films, Theri and Porinju Mariam Jose. He worked as a villain in many Malayalam movies making his appearance small.

Joju George was born on 22nd October in 1977. He was born in Mala, Trichur, in Kerala. He was originally named Joseph George but is known in the industry by the name Joju George. He is a Malayalam actor who made his debut in the year 2003. Early Life George was born in Mala, a village in Kerala. He was born to Malayali parents, George and Rosy. He completed his schooling from GHS in Kuzhur. He later joined the Christ College before dropping out to pursue a career in acting. He started his career as an assistant director in 1991. His acting career began later in 2003. He holds a degree from Christ College in Irinjalakuda. Work Joju George started his career has a director. He has assisted for films like Friends and Dada Sahib. After a short stint in direction, Joju turned to acting. He made his debut in 2003 featuring in War and Love. His official debut was regarded in the film Pattalam in the same year. Since then he has been prolific in his work. Joju did many supporting roles in the beginning.

Juby Ninan is a Malayalam film actor. He was born at Kottayam in Kerala, India. Juby has worked as a supporting artist in many movies. He appeared as lead actor in a film called “Dum” which had Lal and Shine Tom Chacko also. Juby’s first movie was Pershiakkaran which starred Mukesh.

Kochu Preman is a noted, popular and famous actor who acts in the Malayalam films and is mostly seen playing comical characters. Kochu Preman is the actor’s screen name or the stage name and is real recordial name is K.S. Premkumar. Kochu Preman was born on June 1st 1955 to parents Kamaramathil Shivaraman Shastri and T.S Kamalam in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Kochu Preman completed his education from M.G.College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. From his college days, he became interested in acting and gradually became passionate about the same. After completing his college education, Kochu Preman was associated with a theatre group for 18 long years named Kalidasa Kala Kendram. In the year 1995, he got an offer for acting in films and made his debut as an actor in the Malayalam movie Dilliwala Rajkumaran. Preman’s performances in a character with a comic touch were well liked and appreciated by both the audiences, directors and producers. K.S.Premkumar then took the screen name Kochu Preman and went to star in over 100 Malayalam films till date. In the year 1984, Kochu Preman married another famous Malayalam TV serial actress Girija and together they have a son named Hari Krishnan. Some of the notable Malayalam film of Kochu Preman are- Zachariyayude Garbhinikal, Udayon, Thenkasipattanam, etc.
 

Padmaraj Ratheesh is a famous actor from the Malayalam industry. He was born in Kerala to the couple Diana and the well-known veteran hero Ratheesh. His dad passed away when he was little, and his mother too is no more. Though his father already belonged to the industry Padmaraj along with his siblings were not given much exposure to the cinema field and considered their dad's office was just another "office." As they grew up, everyone studied very well and are in high positions now. But the junior Ratheesh always had the interest to become an actor and to follow his dad's footsteps. But before joining in films the actor had majored in Business Management and worked in a reputed company for about five years, but he had to resign as there was no one there to look after his sick mother.

Sreejith Ravi is a famous Malayalam movie actor and also an industrialist. He is the child of T. G. Ravi, who was a famous veteran actor. He is a graduate in Mechanical Department from the NIT Surathkal. He got his MBA degree from the ICFAI Business University from the city of Bangalore. He is the child of T. G. Ravi, famous movie actor and late. V.K.Subhadra who was an Associate Teacher of Medicine in the Amala Institute of Medical Sciences in the city of Thrissur. He married Sajitha. The couple has two children, Rijarashwa and Ritunjay.

Sudhi Koppa was born in Kerala, India. He is an actor by profession who works in Malayalam movie Industry. He started his career in acting in the year 2009. His debut movie was “Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded” which was a Spin-off of “Irupatham Noottandu” released in the year 1987. His role in the movie was uncredited. His most appreciated roles are Kanjavu Soman in the movie “Aadu” released in the year 2015 and Unni in the movie “You Too Brutus” released in the year 2015.

Shine Tom Chacko is a renowned film actor in the Malayalam film industry. He was born on September 15, 1983, in Chalakudy, Kerala, India to CP Chacko and Mariya Carmel. He started his career as an Assistant Director to Kamal, a Malayalam filmmaker. After 9 years of working together, he finally laid his hands and venture into acting through Kamal’s 2011 drama film, Gaddama. The same year, he played as dubbing director in Aashiq Abu’s romantic comedy film, Salt N’ Pepper.

Paul Michael alias Lal started his successful journey in Malayalam film industry with the blockbuster movie “Ramji Rao Speaking” (1989) which was later re-made even in Hindi as Hera Pheri. In this film he took the effort to tie up with Siddidque who was his childhood friend, and their partnership continued for five or six films, after which they had parted due to some differences. Siddique-Lal partnerships had given many new faces in Mollywood. The duo had teamed up to make many social films which had understanding of the public taste and a sense of box-office too. They had launched a production house named “Siddique-Lal” and made another movie “In Harihar Nagar”, which was a tremendous hit. Even their third production “God Father” turned out to be a blockbuster in Malayalam film industry, which had one-year successful run in the theaters. Siddique-Lal production had never been dependent on star value or superstar formula that was witnessed in those days in Malayalam cinema. They had always opted out from casting Mohanlal or Mammotty. Ultimately, both of them had changed their thoughts later and when their fourth production film was to get launched, Siddique-Lal had opted for Mohanlal and made “Vietnam Colony” which did wonders in the box office too. The duo again had combined in their fifth production and made Kabuliwalla, which was also a success. 

After success of Kabuliwala, the duo had got separated, as Siddique wanted to concentrate on direction and Lal had taken interest in total film making concepts such as production and distribution. After they had parted, Lal produced his first film Hitler with Mammotty in the lead role, which had the direction of Siddique. With “Hitler”, Lal’s journey had begun as a producer and he went to make many successful movies in the future such as Friends and Kalyanaraman to name a few. Actor Lal was a genius actor who could blend aspects of both comedy and serious forms. His first film as an actor was Jayaraj’s Kaliyattam (1997) where he got to play a villain role. Later on, he acted in around 50 films. The year 2009 saw his comeback again as a director. He directed the sequel to “In Harihar Nagar” named “2 Harihar Nagar”, which got released in 2010 and was declared a hit. He was the winner of two state film awards for best actor in “Thalapavu”( directed by Madhupal) and “Ayaal”,(directed by, Suresh Unnithan).

Ganesh Hegde is a popular singer, choreographer and presenter who have worked for a number of Bollywood songs and movies. He has also choreographed for some Indian television shows.

Ganesh Hegde is a popular singer, musician and choreographer who have worked for Indian television industry and Bollywood. Some of his finest works as choreographer include Lagaan and Company. Ganesh Hegde has worked as a choreographer for various stage shows too. He was the main choreographer for the stage show Temptations 2004 which included performances of Preity Zinta, Rani Mukherjee, Saif Ali Khan, Arjun Rampal, and Shahrukh Khan. He has also choreographer for Filmfare Awards and Zee Cine Awards. In addition, he has also choreographed a number of item songs for various movies including Mast Mahaul Mein Jeene De for movie Fiza.

Ganesh Hegde started his career as a choreographer and performer with legendry singer Asha Bhonsle. He has also choreographed and sung the title rap song ‘Ek Sawaal Ka Sawaal Hai’ for Indian television quiz program Kaun Banega Crorepati Season 3. The host of the show during the third season was Shahrukh Khan. He also appeared as a judge for the dancing competition television series Kabhi Kabhii Pyar Kabhi Kabhii Yaar which was aired from July 2008 to August 2008 on Sony TV. He also judged a singing competition television show Fame X 2006. His co-judges for the show were Daler Mehndi and Nikhil Chinapa.

Ganesh was born on 10th November 1973 to Harishchandra Subbaiah Hegde and Vidya Hegde in a Tulu-speaking family in Mumbai. He completed his schooling at Umedbhai Patel English School and graduated from Prahladrai Dalmia Lions College, Mumbai. Ganesh married Sunayna Shetty in 2011. The couple has two sons, Giaan and Hriyaan. Ganesh’s choreography has made many songs and stars to a top level, including some special songs, Mehboob Mere, featuring Sushmita Sen, Babuji Zara Dheere Chalo, featuring Yana Gupta, and Khallas, featuring Isha Koppikar. Chammak Challo from Shah Rukh Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan’s movie Ra One was one of Ganesh’s masterpieces. In one of his album songs titled Bolydude Ganeshan, he choreographed for Deepika Padukone.

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