Anaswara Rajan
Manju Pillai
Nivin Pauly
Dhyan Sreenivasan
Shine Tom Chacko
Salim Kumar
Nandalal Krishnamoorthy
Vijayakumar
Ashwin Jose
Listin Stephen
Sudeep Elamon
Sharis Mohammed
Ronex Xavier
Sameera Saneesh
Sreejith Sarang
Suhail Koya
Jakes Bejoy
Santhosh Krishnan
Billa Jagan
Ashraf Gurukkal
Sachin Sudhakaran
Vineeth Sreenivasan
Dijo Jose Antony
Titto P Thankachen
Prashanth Madhav
Akhilraj Chirayil
Hari Haran
1. Anaswara Rajan
Anaswara Rajan is a young actress working primarily for the Malayalam cine industry. She hails from a small town, Kannur. Anaswara was interested in acting and used to participate in many cultural events and competitions in school. Being part of a local acting club, she has won many prizes there too.
Her acting debut was for a small short film directed by Liju Thomas who saw her in a television commercial. Her debut film for which she became famous is the movie named Udaharanam Sujatha wherein she played Manju Warrier’s daughter Athira. This film made her famous and a household name.
...2. Manju Pillai
Manju Pillai famous for her comic role in Malayalam TV serials and films is the grand daughter of yesteryear actor S.P Pillai. She is famous for her role in 'Life is Beautiful' and the TV series 'Chila Kudumba Chitrangal'.
Manju used to act in Drama competitions during her school days. She acted in 'Sthree Parvam' directed by famous play writer Soorya Krishnamurthy while she was in 10th standard. By seeing little Manju's performance on Drama's her teachers used to congratulate her and always used to bless her on her skills. As she was the granddaughter of S.P Pillai, she used to get many 'big fans' on her performance while on-stage
Manju, who never thought to get into the cine field, planned to do her graduation in Law. But with t...
3. Nivin Pauly
Nivin Pauly is predominantly a Malayalam actor. Born on 11 October 1984, his debut film was Malarvaadi Art Club. The direction of this film was by Vineeth Sreenivasan and production by Dileep. Some of the other films of Nivin Pauly include Bangalore Days, Thattathin Marayathu, Premam, Oru Vadakkari Selfie etc..The films 1983 and Bangalore Days fetched him the Best Actor Award from Kerala State Film Award. Nivin holds a degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering. He is happily wedded to Rinna Joy since 2010, and they are blessed with a boy. Before taking up acting as his profession Nivin was working in Infosys for two years.
Nivin’s...
4. Dhyan Sreenivasan
Dhyan Sreenivasan is the younger son of Malayalam actor, director, and screenwriter Sreenivasan. Vineeth Sreenivasan being the elder son of Sreenivasan is Dhyan's elder brother. Dhyan was born on 20th December 1988 in Thalassery, Kerala, India. Dhyan dropped his engineering and joined Visual Communication to fulfill his wish of working in the film industry. He entered this glamorous world in 2013. His debut movie was "Thira", directed by brother Vineeth Sreenivasan. He was selected for the film when Vineeth saw his short film which he had directed himself.
Vineeth was impressed by his acting and asked if he would like to act in his next movie and Dhyan agreed. The movie is announced as a trilogy's first sequel. Dhyan did the movie with ...
5. Shine Tom Chacko
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.
This was followed by several supporting roles in films like Ee Adutha Kaalathu (2012), Chapters (2012), Annayum Rasoolum (2013), and Masala Republic (2014). In 2014, he starred in Binu S’ fantasy comedy film, Ithihasa, opposite Anusree in the lead roles. The film earned positive reviews from critics and audiences. It turned out to be a sl...
6. 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 ...
7. Nandalal Krishnamoorthy
Nandalala Krishnamurthy is a respected Indian film actor who works mostly Malayalam films. His original name is Nandalal Krishnamurthy, but he is famous by his stage name Nandhu. Nandu hails from Thycaud, Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala. Just after two months from his birth, his mother expired. He was brought up by his uncle and aunt who took care of him and treated him just like their son. His father was a very emotional person. He never remarried, and died while taking table tennis lessons. Nandhu wanted to pursue acting as his profession, unlike his father who was a table tennis coach. As soon as he finished his graduation, he moved to Chennai to try out his luck in the South Indian film industry. He started his acting career with 'Yuvajanolsavam' (1986), directed by Sreekumaran Tha...
8. Vijayakumar
Vijayakumar is a very famous actor in Tamil films and television serials. He has acted in more than 400 movies in very popular characters, from child roles to hero roles to supporting roles to father roles to grandfather roles. You name any famous artist in Tamil, Vijayakumar would have acted with him or her. That is the reach he had in the Tamil filmdom.
Vijayakumar’s real name was Panchaksharam Ranaswamy. He wanted to act in movies from a very young age and apparently acted in a movie as a child artist. But, not many called him for future films, so he was discouraged and went back to his home town. Later, when he was a young person, he returned to try movies where he got some very good offers. Movies such as Aval Oru Thodarkathai, Ponnukku Th...
9. Ashwin Jose
Ashwin Jose is an Indian-Actor. He works in the Malayalam Film Industry. Some of the movies in which he had worked include Queen in the year 2018, An International Local Story in the year 2018, Kumbarees in the year 2019, and Adhyarathri in the year 2019. He has worked with some of the amazing actors, and actresses, including Saniya Iyappan, Dhruvan, Shamil Raj, Sooraj Kumar, Eldho Mathew, Arun Hari, Sam Sibin, Moozi, Jenson Alappat, Vijayaraghavan, Salim Kumar, Nandhu, Kalasala Babu, Sreejith Ravi, Junice, Sreejith Ravi, Midhu, Monika Thomas, Sunil K Babu, Deepika Mohan, Hochimin K.C, Jaimi Afzal, Leona Lishoy, and Baby Meenakshi.
...10. Listin Stephen
Listin Stephen is an Indian film distributor and producer. His work is predominant in the Tamil and Malayalam film industries. He has his own production company called Magic Frames which he founded. His debut as a producer was in the 2011 film Traffic, which made Malayalam cinema see a new age of filmmaking style. Stephen was born on 1 st June 1986 in Uzhavoor, Kottayam, Kerala. His second film as a producer after his debut was Chaapa Kurish which encountered controversies, but still gave a hit.
He has three National Film Awards for his 2012 film Ustad Hotel, including one for Best Popular Film. Soon he remade all the three successful movies in Tamil, one with R. Sarathkumar. He has also won a Malayalam Filmfare Award for Best Film for his debut film Traffic. His other works include Brother’s Day and Kettiyolaan...
11. Sudeep Elamon
Sudeep is a cinematographer and director in the Malayalam film industry. He worked in various films, such as “Virtual Bharat,” which aired on August 15, 2019 and was produced by Bharat Bala. “B 32 Muthal 44 Vare" focuses on the stories of five men and a transgender man who belong to different social backgrounds and face challenges in their everyday lives due to their body image issues. It was released on April 6, 2023, and was directed by Shruthi Sharanyam. “Jana Gana Mana" revolves around the story of a college professor who gets murdered in a cruel way, which leads to students protesting in the college.
However, a police officer starts an investigation, and a lawyer fights to get justice in the courtroom. It was released on April 28, 2...
13. Ronex Xavier
Ronex Xavier is one of the rising makeup artist working in the Malayalam film industry. It has not been much of time that Ronex started working in the industry, but he managed to steal all of his hearts by his makeup skills and techniques. In the span for less than a decade, Ronex had worked in the Malayalam films including, Carbon, Aadu 2, Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum, Maheshinte Prathikaram, and The Great Father to the latest Maradona.
He started with Tv Soaps, and then later, he later worked with the famous makeup artist in the Malayalam industry, Renjith Ambady. While Ronex was working on the sets of The King and the Commissioner, he was offered work for his first debut movie, Jawan of Vellimala. At the time, when Rolex started his career as a makeup artist, there was no such training or school for specialization in the fie...
14. Sameera Saneesh
Sameera Saneesh is a South Indian costume designer and fashion designer who works in the Malayalam film industry. She was born on 27th June 1983. She is well known for designing costumes of Mammootty, Jayasurya, Prithviraj Sukumaran and other stars. Sameera hails from Eroor village of Ernakulam district in Kerala. Her parents are Ibrahim and Jameela. She married a software engineer named Saneesh K. J. on 26th November 2006. She learned drawing and painting from Kalabhavan Kochi during her school years. Sameera did an under graduation course at Bharat Mata College before joining a Fashion Designing diploma at the Nation Institute for Fashion Designing in Panampilly Nagar. After diploma, she worked as an in-house designer for “Raymonds” for some time before becoming a freelance costume designer for ad-films. Her first project...
15. Sreejith Sarang
Sreejith Sarang was born on 11th February 1983 in Thrissur district in Kerala, India. He is the son of K R Sarang, who was once a drawing teacher and brother to Sujith Sarang. One of the most successful Indian film editors and a colorist, he is known for his amazing edits in Telugu, Malayalam, and Tamil Cinema Industries.
He is even a brilliant father who has a son named Satyajit Sarang. A very close friend to Vijay Deverakonda, Sreejith has worked with him on many films. He was born in Thrissur but brought up in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India. His college and schooling life were at that place. However, he did a Diploma in Media and Technology from the School of Audio Engineering Institute in Chennai, which is originally a branch of the SAE Institution located in Sydney. He has come a long way from his editing of short fi...
16. Suhail Koya
Suhail Koya is an Indian lyricist known for his work in the Malayalam film industry. He was born in the year 1981 in the town of Payyanur in Kerala. Koya started his career in the film industry as a screenwriter and later transitioned to writing lyrics. He made his debut as a lyricist with the song "Kaiyethum Doorathu" from the film "Chanthupottu" in 2005. Since then, he has worked on several successful films, including "Diamond Necklace", "Drishyam", and "Premam". Koya's lyrics are known for their simplicity, poeticism, and ability to connect with the audience. He has won several awards for his work, including the Kerala State Film Award for Best Lyrics in 2013 for the song "Mazhakondu Mathram" from the film "Spirit". Apart from his work in the film industry, Ko...
17. Jakes Bejoy
Jakes Bejoy is a film score composer who was born in Thrissur, Kerala. He was first heard in 2007’s Malayalee for which he composed the songs Malayalee, He Naade, and Pranaamam. He also composed the song Pulari Pon Praave in this year. Following that, he was heard in the song Swapnam in 2012 and Piravi’s soundtrack in 2013. For this original motion picture soundtrack, he composed the songs Thedi Thedi, and Yaar Ivanoo.
He made his debut in Malayalam movies with the 2014 film Angels. The songs from this soundtrack include Etho Navikar, An Unusual Guest, Irul Mazha, Hameem Hyder Rises, and Father Varghese Punyalan A.K.A. After this, he will be heard in 2016’s Monsoon Mangoes.
...18. Santhosh Krishnan
Santhosh Krishnan is an Indian film actor, popular amongst the regional audience for his work in movies like Dhuruvangal Pathinaaru (2016). Mostly known for his major involvement in Tamil short films, TV series, dramas, theatres, and Kollywood movies, Santhosh has been a prominent part of the South Indian film industry for more than five years now.
The year 2016 was a vital one for Santhosh as he made his first decisive contribution on the silver screen as an actor with the film Dhuruvangal Pathinaaru, directed by Karthick Naren, starring Rahman, Prakash Raghavan, and Sharath Kumar alongside him. Over the years, Santhosh has often been admired and applauded by numerous critics and spectators for his remarkable skills as an on-screen artist, especially his diversity and flexibility as an actor.
...19. Billa Jagan
Billa Jagan is an Indian stunt director, who rose to fame after donning an outstanding work in Bobby Simha-Starrer action thriller film, Paambu Sattai in 2017. He also worked in the mystery thriller film, Sathya (2017) and in the upcoming Tamil heist action comedy film, Thittam Poattu Thirudura Kootam (2018).
...20. Ashraf Gurukkal
Ashraf Gurukkal has been a name associated with the action, stunt choreography in Malayalam cine industry for the past three decades. He has shouldered many responsibilities including stunt man, production controller, and actor in multiple roles. Director Kamal introduced him to films through 'Peruvannapurathe Visheshangal' wherein he became a trained Kalari.
He has carried out fight stunts in around 23 movies including Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi films. Roughly six years ago he was diagnosed with cancer while directing a fight scene for a television serial. A biopsy detected a second stage cancer for which he got treated and returned to fight direction once again.
...21. Sachin Sudhakaran
Sachin Sudhakaran was born in Kozhikode, Kerala, India. He went to the Indian School in Muscat, Oman. Then pursued a Bachelor of Tectechnology from Model Engineering College, Kochi, India, and then he completed a Diploma in Sound Engineering from the School of Audio Engineering (SAE) in Chennai, India.
He is a co-founder of Sync Cinema.
Sachin Sudhakaran is a well-known professional sound engineer with good work experience and has worked with many movies in his music career. He deals with all the sounds and music as a project manager involved in the research and development of enhancing audio, alongside monitoring, recording, mixing, and mastering sound and all sorts of music creativity so that the audience can feel the story.
22. Vineeth Sreenivasan
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.
This young lad used to sing a folklore Muslim song often known as ”Mappilapattu” even in youth festivals at school. It was then director Priyadarshan insisted him to render a’’ Mappilapattu’’ for his upcoming flick ‘Kilichundan Mampazham.' After hearing Vineeth’s voice that matches so well with the folk songs sung by Mapillas of Malabar, another Malayalam director, Roshan Chetan gave him the offer to sing for...
23. Dijo Jose Antony