Malayalam Movie Review Vettam - Cast & Crew

Chithra is a worldwide known Indian soulful singer. Her original name is Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra. Born in July 1963, Chithra has grown into a versatile singer who can sing all variants. Though she is a born Malayali, she sang in more than 13 languages so far, and the number is still going on. She is fondly known as Chinna Kuyil and Keralathinte Vanambadi, which translates into English as Little Nightingale and Nightingale of Kerala. This is due to her exceptionally melodious singing which has never known any boundaries. She made the excellent contribution to the Music industry in languages like Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Odia, Assamese, Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit, Badaga, Tulu, Punjabi, and Urdu. She has a record of being able to record more than 25,000 songs and the number...

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. 

Sujatha’s debut was in the year 1975 when she sang for a Malayalam movie ‘Tourist Bungalow.' She then sang for two other movies ‘Kamam Krodham Moham’ (music composer Shyam) and ‘Aparadhi’ (music composer Salil Chowdhury ). During this time, she also sang non-filmi songs. In 1998, she...

Bindu is a well known Malayalam media artist, dancer and a social worker. Bindu was deeply interested in dance and music since her childhood. She is married to Muralidaran Nair. They have two sons, Balu and Vinu. It was her husband Muralidaran Nair who encouraged her to pursue her passion. She has performed several stage shows and during one of the shows, she was offered role in a telefilm. Bindu further advanced her acting career with Narma Kairali, which is an association of humor writers.

Bindu has acted in several serials like “Ente Manasaputri” and “Aniyathi”. Aniyathi is a popular Malayalam television serial being telecasted in Mazhavil Manorama channel. The serial which started its journey on 14th July, 2014 is already garnering good response from the viewers and critics. She late...

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 ...

Sona Nair is a cine actress working mainly in Malayalam films and serials. She did her first movie 'Thooval Kottaram' in the year 1996. There were many character roles that Sona did in movies 'Veendum Chila Veettukaryangal', 'Manassinakkare', 'Passenger' which got well accepted. But her acting in TV serials made her popular among the family audience. 

Sona hailed from Kozhikode, Kerala and was born on 26th June 1975. She started acting in short movies and plays at school level even before getting her breakthrough in debut movie. Sona got 'Kaveri Film Critics' Best Actress award for the tele-film 'Rachiyamma' which was telecasted on DD Malayalam. Sona acted in many devotional series of soaps lined up with 'Velankanni Mathavu&#...

Siby K Thomas is famously recognized as a producer, screenplay, and dialogue and story writer by profession in the Malayalam film industry. He is best known for his works with Udaykrishna in the Malayalam cinema. Most of their works come under the category of the slapstick comedy genre. They collectively wrote the scripts of the films like Mattupetti Machan in 1998, Udayapuram Sultan in 1999, Dhosth in 2001, CID Moosa in 2003, Runway in 2004, Kochi Rajavu in 2005, Thuruppu Gulan in 2006, Twenty:20 in 2008, Pokkiri Raja in 2010, Christian Brothers in 2011 and Mayamohini in 2012.

All these films were commercial hits. They wrote their first screenplay for the movie Hitler Brothers in 1997. The duo got separated in 2015. Siby K Thomas became a filmmaker and Udaykrishna remained as a scriptwriter.

Udaykrishna was born in Kerala, India. He is a professional screenwriter. Udaykrishna preferably works for the Malayam industry. He started his career as an assistant screenwriter A.R.Mukesha. By his efforts and skills, he was later promoted to work as an sub-director under Ali Akbar, K. Madhu, A Venu, B. Nair, and Balu Kiriyath. He wrote two scripts for Hitler Brothers and Mayajalam for Sandhya Mohan and Balu Kiriyath. Udaykrishna even acted in his first film as a thief. Both were a flop in the industry. Soon, after working hard upon the piece of work he made it for Mattuppetti Machan, which was directed by Jose Thomas. The next was Udayapuram Sulthan. Then cames the movie Sundrapurushan, which was a so-called success.

Likewise the next was by Rajasenan's successful films, Darling Darling and Malayalimamanu Vanakkam, C.I.D...

Madhu Vasudevan is an Indian author, lyricist, and music critic who works in the Malayalam industry. Madhu was born in Alappuzha, Kerala, and completed his primary education there. He knows Malayalam, English and Hindi. He graduated from Santana Dharma College. He is learning music since childhood. He is also teaching in Government Brennan College as a professor. He entered into the Malayalam industry in 2012. He is associated with many films like Kanal, Vismayam, Janata garage, Hey Jude, Jalam. He got the best lyricist award in Filmfare awards, twice. His song from the Jalam shortlisted for the original song category. Lyricist Madhu Vasudevan, who wrote the song Ottakku Paadunna Poonkuyile said that along with the awards, the song also got him many of his lost friends back.

S. U. Arun Kumar is a Tamil film director and writer. He was born on 1st January 1983 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He is a young, talented, smart, director. Till date he has not done more than two movies but these two movies that he has done is different from each other. One movie is comedy whereas the other one is on action thrill. So, as we get from here, there is a huge difference in between these two movies. S. U. Arun Kumar has superbly managed the script and kept everything to make it a success and loved by people. And as wanted by Gods grace he got what he wanted, people loved both his movies. Arun started his career by writing a script for his first film.

He named his debut film as ‘’Pannaiyarum Padminiyum’’. It was a comedy drama. Pannaiyarrum Padminiyum was produced by M. R. Ganesh and the music com...

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...

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.

As a child artist, he played in films, including Kelk...

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...

Hakim Rawther is a prominent Indian actor and director in the Malayalam film industry. He was known by his stage name, Hakim. He came from Kottayam, Kerala and started out as a mimicry artist. Hakim is a member of Cochin Kalabhavan and was one of the first who joined the centre. From 1979 to 1989, he became a session mimicry artist along with K. J. Yesudas, a Carnatic musician and playback singer.

He was seen as a man from the mental hospital in the 1991 Malayalam film, Mookilla Rajyathu. Hakim made his debut as an actor through the film, Kakothikaavile Appupanthaadi, which was helmed by Jayaraj in 1992. Since then, he became a popular face in the director’s later films including the Mammootty-starrer, Johnny Walker , where he played as a member of...

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 1...

Kalabhavan Mani is a renowned Indian playback singer, music director and film actor. He was born as Mani Raman on January 1, 1971, in Chalakudy, Kerala in India. Initially, he worked as a mimicry artist in Kochi before he started his acting career in the Malayalam film, Aksharam in 1995 as an Auto Rickshaw driver. 

Before this, he has done small roles in the Malayalam films, 'Samudhayam' and 'The Porter'. Since then, there is no looking back. Kalabhavan acted in over 200 Malayalam films, mostly as a comedian. He was notable for his performance as a blind street singer in the 1999 Malayalam film, Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njaanum, where he earned the National Film Awards and Kerala State Film Awards for Special Jury Award. He also ...

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...

Mithun Ramesh Chandrashekaran Nair known as Mithun is an actor, Dubbing Artist, Presenter and a Dubai based Radio Jockey at Hit 96.7FM. He was born on 4t May 1981 to C. Ramesh Kumar and Sheela Kumari in Trivandrum. He has now moved to Dubai, due to his work commitments. He has acted in very well-known movies and dubbed for many actors like Unni Mukundan in Mallu Singh, Jishnu Raghavan in Nammal, Richard, Rajiv Pillai and Tom George in Akalae to name a few. He began his acting career through television, with hit serials like Sthreejanmam, Sooryakanthi, and Narmadipudava. His role as the brother of the female lead in Sthreejanmam, who had negative shades in beginning was very well appreciated. He is still remembered in the serial industry even though he has left it after his big screen debut. 

He made ...

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...

Radha Ravi is a populous actor cum producer in the Tamil cinema industry. He has come from a cinema background family, where his father, brother, and sisters were the actors. He is the son of the popular actor M R Radha, who is well known for his villainy and character roles in the early 50s and 60s. Radha Ravi was born in the year 1952. He did his graduation in the New College in Chennai. He has a brother called M.R.R.Vasu and three sisters namely Rashya, Rani and Radhikala. Radhika and Nirosha are his half-sisters.