Malayalam Movie Review Ishtam - Cast & Crew

Navya Nair is a familiar face on Mollywood. Navya is known for her portrayal as a native Malayali girl in her movies. Navya Nair, also known as Dhanya Veena was born on 14th October 1985. She was born to Raju and Veena in Allepey, Kerala. She is related to the famous director to K.Madhu. She completed her schooling in Bethany Balikamadom High School.

Navya was so passionate about movies that, she started her film career when she was just 16. She debuted with the film Ishtam in 2001, which was a blockbuster. There onwards her career gained a momentum, and she acted with many biggies on Malayalam screen. She shared the screen with Mammootty, Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Jayaram, etc., her movie Saira had been displayed at the prestigious Cannes film festival in 2007. She came to lime light...

Sibi Malayil is an acclaimed director in Malayalam movies and known for his work which is pure melodrama. He has provided many popular melodramatic movies in the 1980s and 1990s. Sibi was a second unit director for director ‘Fazil’ in a movie named ‘Virinja Pookkal' (1980) which had ‘Shankar’ and Poornima Jayaram in the lead roles.

In the year 1982, he assisted in directing Jijo Punnoose for a movie 'Padayottam' which had Prem Nazir, ‘Madhu’, ‘Mammootty’, ‘Mohanlal’ and ‘Shankar’ in the lead roles. In 1983, he was an associate director for the movie 'Ente Mamattukkuttiyammakku'. It was baby ‘Shalini’’s first hit movie. In the year 1984, he assisted director ‘Priyadarshan’ for two movie...

Venugopal, also called Venu, is an Indian director, writer, and cinematographer. He predominantly works in the Malayalam industry. Venu is a founder member of the Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC), the first-ever in India.

Venu was born on August 26th, 1961 as the grandson of Karur Neelakanta Pillai, a Malayalam literature writer and founder of the Sahithya Pravarthaka Society. Venu’s mother, B. Saraswathy, is also a famous writer who has authored Indulekha. He married Beena Paul on August 26th, 1983. She is a film editor from the Mollywood industry. The couple has a daughter, Malavika. She works as the Outreach Programme Manager at the prestigious Cambridge University. 

Venu graduated from the prestigious Film and Television Institute of India, or FTII, in Pune with a diploma in motion picture ph...

Mohan Sithara is a Malayalam music composer who made his debut into movie world in 1986. Since his childhood, he was deeply interested in music. At the age of 14, he became an expert violinist, and he began his music career as a violinist. He joined a music troupe ‘Mohan Sithara’ and got his name credited as Mohan Sithara too later in his career. Later he engaged himself playing violin with leading music composers such as M G Radhakrishnan, Shyam, etc. He even played orchestra in music composer Perumbavoor G Raveendranath’s film ‘Thoovanathumbikal’ which became a hit. 

As an independent music director the first film for which Mohan Sithara composed music was ‘Onnu Muthal Poojyam Vare’ and still a famous song...

Dileep was born in Kerala as Gopalakrishnan Padmanabhan Pillai in the year 1968. His career started as an assistant director to Kamal. He was named as Dileep through the character he performed in his debut movie. His debut movie as a hero was in the year 1994 through Manathe Kottaaram as Dileep. Sallapam and Punjabi House made him get popularity among the Malayalam audience. Before his film entry, Dileep was a mimicry artist. He worked in Kalabhavan too.

While assisting Kamal in his films, Dileep showed off his face in some films too. His natural acting skill paved him a way to reach good heights in the Malayalam cinema. One of his best movies is Kunjikoonan, in which he acted as a hunchbacked man. He got the special Jury Award for his performance in thi...

Balachandra Menon has various feathers to his caps including actor, distributor, director, script writer, music composer, singer, producer and editor. He predominantly concentrates on Malayalam cinema. The 1980s and 90s were heydays in his career. He has the credit of gaining the National Award for his good performance as a lead actor in the 1998 flick Samaantharangal. This flick is also his directorial venture. 

Menon has the credit of introducing actors and actresses in the Malayalam film industry including Shobana, Maniyan Pillai Raju, Annie, Karthika and Nandini. His films that set the cash registers ringing during the early 1980s were Chiriyo ...

Nedumudi Venu was born on 22nd May 1948. He is commonly known as Kesavan Venu Gopal. His parents are PK Kesavan Nair and Kunjikkuttiyamma in Nedumudi Alappuzha in Kerala. He had four siblings, all brothers. His father was a schoolmaster. Nedumudi completed his primary education at NSS Higher Secondary School and St Mary's Higher Secondary School, Champakulam. During school days, he was interested in music and arts.

He graduated from Sanatana Dharma College in Alappuzha. After graduation, he started his career as a journalist and also worked as a teacher in a tutorial institute. While staying in Trivandrum, he became friends with Padmarajan, Bharath Gopi, Aravindan which made him expose his talent and enter into the domain of movies. In his married life with TR Sushil...