Malayalam Movie Review Kilichundan Mampazham - Cast & Crew

Sujatha Mohan (Sujatha or Baby Sujatha) is one of the most prolific singers after S. Janaki, P. Susheela, and K.S. Chitra. She has sung nearly 10,000 songs in many Indian languages and has performed over 5000 live concerts in her career. She came to spotlight while singing songs with K.J. Yesudas in musical concerts. This fetched her recognition, and she got her first break as a playback singer when she was in the sixth standard. 

Soundarya Raghu was born on 18 July 1972. She was the producer of movies and a film star in India. She is mostly famous for her work in the cinema of Telugu. Even she has worked in some movies of Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil and Bollywood in the leading roles. As being the producer of the kannadian movie called ‘Dweepa’ in 2003, she has achieved National Film Award.

Geetha Vijayan was born on June 22, 1972. She hails from Thrissur in Kerala. Her first movie was the super duper hit Malayalam movie In Harihar Nagar in 1990, in which she played the character, Maya. Malayali Film audience still remembers for her role in In Harihar Nagar. Actress Revathy is her cousin, and it was Revathy who suggested her name to Siddique Lal for In Harihar Nagar. Her other popular movies are Ganamela, Sthreedhanam, Gandharvam, Thenmavin Kombath, Vettam, Janapriyan, Sakudumbam Shyamala, etc. She was a regular in all Priyadarshan movies including his Hindi films and his popular Tamil movie Kanchivaram. The audience noted her role in Kanchivaram as Venkadi’s (Prakash Raj) sister. She kept acting in many films as the lead actress and the supporting role in movies as well as teleserials. In the tele screen, she did very popular roles in Sthree oru Santhwanam, In Jawahar Colony, and Sree Ayyappanum Vavarum. She is also a reality show judge in many television channels. She has also anchored the reality show Golden Couple on Jeevan TV. She is married to Satheesh and the couple has decided not to have children. They are settled in Chennai.

Born in 1955, Murali Nagavally was an Indian Film Director and Script Writer prominently known for his artwork in the Malayalam and Hindi Film Industries or Mollywood and Bollywood. He resided in Ramankari near Alappuzha, Kerala, with his daughter, Parvathy and son, Gopikrishnan. Murali was the cousin of Actor Venu Nagavally. He initially worked as an assistant director for the Romantic Action-Drama film Kabhi Na Kabhi which was released on 17th April 1998 and directed by Priyadarshan. He was the Associate Director for films such as Kakkakuyil, Megham, Kalapaani, Midhunam, Eyi Auto, Lal Salaam, Sarvakalashala, etc.

Antony Perumbavoor was a driver earlier in his life (he had been a driver to veteran actor Mohanlal) and later became a famous producer in the film industry. Eventually, his life took a drastic change, and he became Mohanlal’s business partner. Antony Perumbavoor owns a production house named Ashirvad Cinema and the first film that this production Studio produced was Narsimha.

Actor Sreenivasan is a Malayalam actor who had ruled the regional cinema graph for over 25 years and has earned the credit of having acted in over 200 films so far. But he never attributes his success even once for the quantity of films that he had done so far. He is an actor who lacked star appeal always. Instead of relying on his looks, he concentrated more on his talent that helped him carve a niche in Mollywood. He could perform any character on screen whether it is a villain role or a comedy role which drew a parallel recognition when compared with the ranks of superstars.

Ravi was born in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. By profession, he is a cinematographer. Also, he penned the script and directed one movie. He has got some nominations and awards for his brilliant works. With a connection to the South Indian movie industry, he also has worked in Bollywood, and his work won acclamation. His great zeal for literature helped him to create a magazine (online) named Yavarum Kelir. His interest in photography is linked to the death of his mother, who he lost at a very young age.

Vidyasagar is an Indian Playback Singer, Composer, Music Director, Record producer Music director, Arranger, Keyboardist, and Keyboard Programmer with a melodious voice. The particular contributions of the talented Singer and music Editor came in the south Indian movies. He has the unique ability to play all kinds of instruments, particularly Keyboard, piano, guitar, vocal. He has worked dominantly in the Indian Film industry and keeps coming up with some gratifying work. Vidyasagar was born in a Telugu musical family, as the son of a self-led musician and music composer Ramachander, and Sooryakantham. He is also known as "Gaanaa" Vidyasagar, and he is an Indian composer, musician, and singer who is best known for his super hit blockbuster songs. He works predominantly in the Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi film industries.

BR Prasad is a well-known lyricist of the Malayalam cinema. He had written lyrics for a lot of Malayalam movie songs. Born in the village called Mankombu of Kuttanadu in Kerala, B R Prasad is a multi-talented celebrity who has completed his BA Literature in Malayalam. B R Prasad has written many librettos for the Kathakali dance. In the year 1993, B R Prasad scripted the movie Johny, which won Kerala State Film Award for Best Film. In the year 2001, B R Prasad had played a role, Narayanan in the film Theerthadanam starred by Jayaram and Suhasini Maniratnam.

Kailash Kher was born on 7 July, 1973 in New Delhi. He is an Indian pop Singer, Music Director and his music style is influenced by, Indian Sufi and folk music. His family belongs to Kashmiri roots. His father named Pandir Mehar Singh Kher was a famous Folk Musician and Singer. Kailash was very interested in singing and music from his childhood. He left his home at the age of 14, for learning music and took proper lessons from his guru.

After many attempts, he didn’t get the right teacher. He began to learn music, by listening to the classical music of Indian singers like Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Kumar Gaurav, Pandit Gokulotsav Maharajand and also Lata Mangeshkar. After that, he started to teach music for his expenses in Delhi. Because of some problems in the family, he left singing and completed his graduation from Delhi University. When he was staying in Delhi, he met Paresh Kamath and Naresh Kamath in a concert. They together, started his band named “Kailasa”. Thus, he started his journey in his music career. 

He has sung more than 5000 songs in 20 different languages of India. He got the opportunity to sing in the movie “Andaaz” (Rabbaa Ishq Na hove). After this, his song “Allah ke Bande” from movie “Waisa Bhi Hota Hai 2” became very popular, and made him a popular singer in Bollywood. The song "Teri Deewani" from the album of the same name by his band Kailasa and the song "Ya Rabba" from the movie Salaam-e-Ishq had record sales. His band albums are Kailasa(2006), Jhooma Re (2007), Chaandan Mein (2009), Rangeele (2012),Naina Chaar (2013) etc. 

He won Filmfare award as Best Male Playback singer for the film Fanna (2007) and also won the Filmfare award as Best Male Playback Singer-Telugu for the film Mirchi.

This singer got two national awards for his playback in his career. Once he got for a song “Nadha Roopini’ which was picturized on Mohan Lal for his film ‘His Highness Abdulla” (1990). In 1999, he got another national award for film ‘Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njanum’ for the song "Chanthu Pottum". Malayalam star Mohan Lal is one of the most natural actors to have graced the screen. He is spontaneous, lively and expressive, and there was something very refreshing about his every role, hence when Sreekumar sang for him – this became on a deadly combination. This singer has shown equal mastery and musical aesthetics while handing classical songs in other films too. The versatile playback singer had a depth of his musical knowledge and had handled the toughest of the songs with consummate ease. Every song that he had rendered will speak more on musical sensibilities that had emotive musical expression too. This singer was born on 25 May, 1957 in Haripad, Kerala. His family had a tradition of classical music, and his brothers are too singers and music composer in the industry. He also appeared as an anchor for musical reality TV shows for the younger generation( SaReGaMA and Star Singer).

Vineeth Srinivasan is known to the music industry for his popular and hit song, Karale, karalinte. Being the son of film star Sreenivasan, he never had even thought of singing as a career. But of course, he likes popular Hindi songs and admires voice of K.J. Jesudas, Brad Paisley, and Udit Narayan.

Sabu Cyril was born on January 27th in Kerala’s Kozhikode district.

Mohan Lal is the Super Star of the Malayalam film industry. He is the Son in Law of a famous producer cum veteran actor Balaji. Mohan Lal is married to Suchithra, the elder daughter of Balaji. Mohan Lal was born in the year 1960 in Elanthoor in Kerala. He is very popular for his natural acting and simplicity. The first movie, he committed was Thiranottam, but the first to release was Manjil Virinja Pookal. This movie had Poornima Jayaram as his pair and that is the debut movie in Malayalam for her too. Rajavinte Makan was the movie that made him to reach super heights. Mohan Lal is not choosey in particular character; but he acts in all types of film that give him a good performance scope.

Baiju Santhosh is a Malayalam actor who was born and brought up in Trivandrum, Kerala. He was born in 1971. He is married to Ranjitha since 1995 and has two kids, Aishwarya and Lokanath. Baiju started his acting career in 1981 when he was ten years. He played in the movie Maniyan Pilla Adhava Maniyan Pilla, directed by Balachandra Menon. In his career span of 4+ decades, he had completed 300+ films. Baiju is popular for his comedy and character roles. Puthan Panam, directed by Ranjith, is one of his notable films. In 2019, he played a lead role in Mera Naam Shaji with Asif Ali and Biju Menon. The film directed by “Nadirshah” gave him good recognition. His role, Stephen Achayan from Ente Mezhuthiri Athazhangal, is one of his critically appreciated roles.

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 namely St. Alberts college. And he has done his graduation in the field of botany. After some time he got married to “Fasila” and they got twins baby. He was also a great comedian and was the member of the really famous comedy troupe known as “Cochin kalabhavan” , in this troupe there are many of the great known people namely ‘Harisree’,‘Ashokan’ ,’ Bindhu Panicker’ and ‘Salimkumar’. The first film in which he acted was “Azhimukham”. And has done many of the movies and done comedy role in most of the movies.He got died at the age of 58 on 2nd of February 2010.

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 1976 after his after Jagathy married to Mallika Sukumaran and Jagathy at that time was at the starting stage of his career. Mallika was a lead actress in the industry also. Later they got separated, and Jagathy continued with his acting. Jagathy mentions his father as a strict person and in interviews, he always mentions about his father.Jagathy film journey continued and in 1979 he again married Kala, and the couple had a daughter Sreelakshmi. Later in 1984, the relationship ended with a divorce. Kalpavriksham, Madalasa, Ethoruswapnam, Pappu, Munettam, Adipan, Yavanika, Ayityham, Jaalakam, Shikkar, Naayika, Udayananu Taram, etc. were his famous hits. In 1984, Jagathy again married Shobha and has one son and daughter.

Jagathy directed two films in Malayalam Kalyanaunnikal and Annakutty Kodambakkam Vilikunu. 1990's Jagathy Kalpana combination was a hit and almost all films the pair joined. He wrote the screen play for the movie champion Thomas in 1990.Apart from all these Jagathy also tried his luck as a playback singer and sung almost five songs in Malayalam.

Jagathy got many awards for his performance, and he is in Guinness book of world records for completing 1500 films .he got 5 Kerala state film award,2 Kerala film critics award, Bahadoor Award in 2003, Prem Nazir ward in 2005, etc. He got The Kochi Times Film Award for his negative role in the movie Urumi.

During the peak point of his career in 2012 Jagathy met with an accident while returning to his house after film shoot. Jagathy was hospitalized over 1 year and is still recovering from his injuries. There is only one Jagathy in Indian cinema and nobody can ever replace his place.   The name Jagathy Sreekumar echoes in the mind of every malayalee audience and all are waiting for his comeback.

Kozhikode Narayanan Nair is an Indian Malayalam film actor Born in Kozhikode, Kerala. Nair made his debut in Malayalam film industry as a villain and later as character roles. Nair is a very well-known actor who started his career in 1988 with the film Ulsavapittennu and since then Nair has done 100 of films in the industry.

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.

T Damodaran was a screenplay writer for Malayalam cinema. He was one of the best screenplay writers in Malayalam cinema. Damodaran was born in 1935 in Kozhikode. He had three children, Deedi Damodaran, Simna Damodaran and Reshmi Damodaran. T. Damodaran had completed his education at Farook College. T. Damodaran, also known as Damodaran Master, began his journey as a scriptwriter in the early 70s. He was a physical education teacher in a school in Kozhikode, and he joined the theatre in his late sixties, where Damodaran had massive success. He had connections with theatre and cinema artists like Thikkodiyan and Pappu.

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