Malayalam Movie Review Ustaad Hotel - Cast & Crew

Anjali Menon is a Malayalam film director who came to limelight with films like “Kerala Cafe’ and ‘Ustad Hotel’. She was born in Calicut ( Kerala). She is the daughter of T. Madhavan Nair and Sarada Nair. She grew up in Dubai but had completed her post-graduate in Communication from Pune University and later even became a graduate from the London Film School in 2003 where she learned the techniques of editing, producing and directing a film. Being an alumna of the London Film School, the choice of film-making as a career was just a progression.  Her completion of studies in London Film School made her attempt a film named ‘Black Nor White’ that was premiered at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. The film was produced by Asif Kapadia and ha...

Born on April 8, 1988 Nithya Menen is indeed a star to reckon with. She has worked in South Indian films, including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. Hailing from Calicut, she was brought up in Bangalore. Before joining films, she passed Journalism from Manipal Institute of Communication. Though, she wanted to do a course in Cinematography things didn’t fructify. After working as a child artiste in the film Hanuman, she did a film with Mohanlal during the year 2008. This got her many accolades and she was nominated in the category of Best Supporting actress.

During one of her entrance exams Nithya met director Nandini, who was instrumental in making Nithya ...

Dulquer Salmaan is a popular Malayalam actor, who appears in Tamil films too. He is the son of the Malayalam Super Star Mammooty. Dulquer Salmaan is married to Amal Sufiya in the year 2011, before his film entry. Dulquer Salmaan has plans to act in Telugu films too, and discussions are going on. Dulquer wanted to make his debut through his friend’s film and hence rejected many opportunities. His debut was through the film Second Show by Srinath Rajendran in the year 2012. His second movie was Ustad hotel by Anwar Rasheed and the film was a hit. In the year 2013, he starred in ABCD American Born Confused Desi. This film revealed his singing talent too. Dulquer Salmaan sang a song Johnny Mone in this film ABCD. He entered the Tamil film industry through Vaayai Moodi Paesavum, a bilingual movie in Malayalam, Samsaar...

Surendranatha Thilakan, more popularly known as Thilakan was one of Malayalam cinema’s most prominent actors. He was one of the few actors who was awarded a Padma Bhushan (India’s highest Civilian Award), and was affectionately called Perumthachan (Master Craftsman) of the Malayalam Cinema industry.

Born on the 15th of July, 1935 in Ayroor, Travancore, Kerala, he began his acting career as a thespian when he left intermediate college mid-way to pursue this career as a fulltime option in 1956. Having formed a troupe with a few friends, called the Mundakayam Nataka Samithy, he performed at various venues including the Kerala People’s Arts Club till 1966, followed by sessions at the Kalidasa Kala Kendra, P.J Antony’s troupe, Changanacherry Geetha, and several radio ...

Assim Jamal is an Indian film actor, popular amongst the regional audience for his work in movies like Kurukshetra, Ividam Swargamanu, Cowboy, Cassanova, etc. Mostly known for his predominant involvement in Mollywood movies, Malayali TV shows, stage dramas, and short films, he has often been praised for his on-screen spontaneity, sense of humor, and confidence. Based in South India, Assim made his first notable contribution on the silver screen as an actor in 2008 with the Malayali war film Kurukshetra, directed by Major Ravi, starring Mohanlal, Meheck Bhatiya, and Pradeep Chandran in lead roles. Since then, Assim has improved a lot as an actor and featured in more than thirty major film projects.

Mamukkoya also known as Mamu Koya is a popular cine artist and Malayalam comedian. He was born on July 5, 1946, to Chalikandiyil Muhammed and Imbachi Ayisha and is currently 69 years old. He has done over 450 movies in his career. He is a very simple and yet so talented. He did his primary school education from Calicut, MM High School.

He got married to Suhara, and they have four children, Muhammed Nisar, Nadiya, Shahitha and Abdul Rasheed. He did his education till 10th and candidly says that he didn't want to spend his hard earned money on stationary and books. He started his acting career through theater and got his debut movie as Anyarude Bhoomi (1979). The movie Perumazhakkalam marked with ease than Mamukkoya is just not a comedy actor but can play non-comedian roles too. Acting is one thing that he sa...

The precious icon of the Indian music industry, Gopi Sundar has composed his soulful music for more than fifty movies to date. In 2014, he composed the songs & background score for the Malayalam movie "1983" and was awarded the National Award.the movie got a good critic rating of 3.5 out of 5.abrid shine, the debut director of the movie was awarded the Kerala State Awards in the category of the best debut director. Alongside the film bagged two more awards for the category of best & second best actor in the same award ceremony of 2014. He was born in Kochi & opted for joining the music industry for his career. Gopi has a good knowledge of instruments like Tabla & keyboard & has worked as a keyboard programmer in some of Bollywood hit films.

Date of Birth: 30-05-1977

Age: 46

Star Sign: Gemini

Gender: Male

Skills: Music Director

Biography About Gopi Sundar

Biography About Gopi Sundar

Date of Birth: 30-05-1977

Age: 46

Star Sign: Gemini

Gender: Male

Skills: Music Director

Loganathan Srinivasan is an Indian cinematographer. He is mainly working for Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Tamil film industry. He has the Indian Nationality. He has two daughters. He was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, and India. His other name is Loknath. He is also the director of Photography by profession. He has started his career with Telugu Industry. Loganathan has worked in the two films with Allari Naresh. After some time, he did projects for Malayalam film Industries. He did films like Moonnamathoral in the year 2006, Annan Thambi in the year 2008, and Kurukshetra in the year 2008. Kurukshetra is a war film. He also did the Ustad Hotel in the year 2012. He has recently begun to work in Tamil films beginning with the Thotti Gang. He did various projects.

He did cinematography in the Aaha Kalyanam in the year 2014, Parole...

He is an Indian film editor born on 9 September 1976. He belongs to Calicut, Kerala, India. He studied at St Joseph’s College, Devagiri. He choosed film editing occupation and worked in Malayalam movies. He worked on movies like Ustad Hotel (2012),Bangalore Days (2014), and Iyobinte Pusthakam (2014).

He also performed as the editor on P. K. Baaburaaj's Gemini (2017). He also worked on releases the Malayalam language thriller drama Comrade in America. His career of editing movies gave many hits therefore made him famous in the field of film editing. He worked with many famous actors, including Prithviraj Sukumaran, under his guidance.

Siddique, who is a Malayalam film actor, producer, and a television host started his film career initially with comedy roles, and later he continued performing a variety of roles. Born at Edavanakkad, in Ernakulam Kerala, Siddique is the youngest child with two other siblings. Completing his primary schooling in his hometown, Siddique later took Diploma in Electrical Engineering. He worked as an Electrical Engineer at Kerala and worked for a few more years in Saudi Arabia. Later he quit his job and started exploring his inner talents. He started his artistic career as a mimicry artist. Married to Seena, Siddique has two sons. Shaheen Siddique is his eldest son from previous marriage, and he made his debut in the movie Pathemari.

Siddique started his...

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...

Anwar Rasheed is a famous and highly appreciated director who works in the Indian film industry especially in the southern part of it who was born on 19th of March in the year 1976 in Kollam. Anwar attended Maharaja College in which he realized that he has a thing for the film industry and the various processes that are involved in making a film. He befriended a group of like-minded people who were also movie buffs. His father got transferred to Chennai, and he joined Madras University for his Post graduation, and here he assisted the director Raghunath Paleri while he was filming Vismayam. While he was in the years of his education, he took an active part in various youth festivals of his college in activities like photography and drama. While he was on the sets of the new movie named Raja...