1. Gayathri Govind
She is trained in Indian Classical Nritya, choreographer par excellence, actor, and won the trophy at Asianet’s Vodafone Thakadimi. Her areas of strong interest are Bharatanatyam, Mohiniyattam, Kuchipudi, Kathak, Kathakali and Keralanadanam. Gayathri Govind can be called the maestro of Indian classical Dance. She owns a dance troupe, “Silver Streak” with its base at Trivandrum. Having hosted many shows at important channels such as Asianet, Surya TV, Doordarshan, and Asianet News, she is a veteran in the field. She is the brand face of “Society Tea” and has a dynamic personality of her own.16th October 2015 is an important date as she won the Golden Women Award in Helsinki, Finland, for being exemplary at Entertainment, Media, and Communication. She runs a successful dance school named “Takadhim...
2. Sayanora Philip
Sayanora Philip was born on 1st March 1984 in Kannur, Kerala. She started her education at St.Teresas Anglo-Indian girl’s high school. She started her professional degree in Sree Narayana College at Kannur. During her school days, she voluntarily participated in many singing competition and won many prizes. She was well known for her singing capability. Currently, she is living in Chennai. She played the role of playback singer in many Tamil and Malayalam movies. She married Winston Ashley De Cruz and has a daughter. She sang the song “honey honey” in the cinema Ayan which released in the year 2009. AVM was the production company of the talkie. The show released on 3rd April 2009 in Tamil and 1st may 2009 in Telugu. She had participated in several discographies when she started her career in 2004 by the videotape Vett...
3. Vanitha Krishnachandran
Vanitha Krishnachandran is another of Mollywood’s long running actors, having featured in over 150 films in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. She played the lead role in several movies in the 1980’s before taking a break after her wedding.
Born to a Malayali father, Ganeshan, and a Tamilian mother Kamala, Vanitha entered the movie industry as a 13 year old, debuting in Padai Maarinal, in which she played the role of a school girl. Her Malayalam debut was in the movie Chandrabimbam, which starred Jayabharathi, MG Soman, Prathap Pothen and Sathar in the lead roles, directed by Sankaran Nair. Her subsequent roles in the movies Eenadu, Enickum Oru Divasumand Kaikeyi made her a popular actress, featuring roles opposite Mohanlal and Mammootty, in Keezhvanum Sivackum, and Vikadaka...
4. Shalin Zoya
Shalin Zoya is an actress, anchor, model and a trained classical dancer who mainly appears in Malayalam movies and TV serials. Shalin entered the Malayalam film industry through a talent hunt contest which was held in the Kerala youth festivals and won the Klathilakam title. Shalin then went on to appear in many TV ad commercials as their model and in various Malayalam TV shows, serials, and movies. Shalin is currently being seen on Kairali TV as the anchor and host of its popular TV show which is a reality game show named Action Khiladi. She is also popularly known as Shalu and Deepa Rani among family and friends circle. Shalin was born on February 22, 1997, in a Keralite Muslim family in Malappuram, Kerala. She is 17 years old and is studying. Shalin has a younger brother. Her father is a business man and mother...
5. Narayana Bhattathiri
An artist for whom ‘calligraphy is the art of eternity or rather the art that captures eternity in a visual form’ is none other than the great Narayana Bhattathiri. His admiration for calligraphy is exalted. According to him, calligraphy could evoke something beyond its visual quality; it could take the viewer to a different rhythm, a different feel, and a different journey though it is purely virtual and mostly undefinable. He has paved and found his way for pure calligraphy by himself only. Narayana hails from the Edappon, a small village nearby Pandalam in Kerala, India. He did his graduation from the College of Fine Arts, Trivandrum, India, majored in painting. Further, he joined the Kalakaumudi group of publications as a learning artist. He was the person to onset the calligraphy trend as he was the first and only...
6. Santhosh Viswanath
Santhosh Vishvanath is a well-known Indian director. He works in the Mollywood film industry. He has directed films in Malayalam languages. Santhosh entered the film industry as an assistant director. He worked for some of the projects as an assistant director. He took directorial training under various famous Malayalam directors. His directorial debut in the Malayalam industry was made in 2015. He directed the film Chirakodinja Kinavukal in 2015. Kunchacko Boban and Sreenivasan starred in it. Sreenivasan also wrote the film. He has also worked with the mega star Mammootty. He directed the film, One. One is a political drama thriller film released in 2021.
Mega star Mammootty starred in it with Ishaani Krishna and Gayathri Arun. In 2022, he started another project w...
7. Bala Bhaskar
Bala Bhaskar Chandran was a great Music Director of Mollywood. He gave his music in many Malayalam movies. Bala was born on 10 July 1978. He was an Indian Musician, Singer, Violinist, Composer and record producer. He is best known for bringing fusion music in South India. Bala originally belongs to Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. His father’s name is C.K. Unni who was a postmaster and Santhakumari; Sanskrit lecturer of Sree Swathi Thrirunal College of Music. Bala married his girlfriend Lakshmi on 20 December in year 200. Bala had one daughter born on 21 April 2016 and her name is Thejaswini Bala.
He lost his daughter on 25 September 2018 when his family met an accident in Pallipuram, near Thiruvananthapuram. Bala comes from a family of musicians; therefore, he was introduced to instrumental music just ...
8. Raj Marthandam
Raj Marthandam is a Sound Effects Editor who edits music and sounds in Malayalam movies. He has been the Sound Effects Editor of the films like Kalippu, Devasparsam (2018), Sthaanam (2018), Janaki – The daughter of the Earth of the year 2018, Minnaminungu – The fire fly (2017), and Thakarachenda (2007).
To add on, he is the producer of the Tamil film ‘Andha Kuyil Needhana’ which released in the year 2016. He is also a casting director of the Malayalam films such as Alif (2015) and Njananu Party (2014) He is also the special effects coordinator of the movie named Sinjar, which released in the year 2018.
...9. K. K. Rajeev
K. K. Rajeev freelances as a director in the Malayalam film industry. He completed his graduation in M S College of Kayamkulam in the field of commerce. Since he was a child, his hobbies were directing plays of the famous writers as well as acting, and even in college, he used to direct plays in competitions, which were written by him and most of the time bag the prizes for his acting as well as direction. During his graduation in M S College, he decided to take part in drama competition of youth festival in the Kerala University and even won the award for being best actor. In the year 1985, K. K. Rajeev was the secretary of Arts club in his college. He got married to Honey Rajeev, and his son is Vishnu Rajeev.
His most famous serials are Avicharitham, Kudumbayogam, Orma, Mazhayariyathe, Peythozhiyathe, Venal mazha, Swapnam, Ka...
10. Boban Alummoodan
Boban Alummoodan is the son of the yesteryear actor Alummoodan and has five other siblings. Unfortunately, his father died at a young age of 59 due to a massive heart attack, but Boban Alummoodan is trying to carry on his father’s legacy in the Malayalam film industry.
Amongst his known filmography in Malayalam are Canvas (2010), which is about a painter cum dramatist who wants to make an ancient play relevant to modern times; Aandavan, directed by Akbar Jose; The Fire (2003) directed by Shankar Krishna; Punyam (2002) directed by Rajesh Narayanan; Kalyanaraman (2002), which was a romantic comedy film in which, he played the brother of the protagonist.
...11. Rajeev Ganesh
Rajeev Ganesh is a famous Malayalam actor. He is a very well-known personality in the South India. He has been involved in many plays and various daily soaps. He was always interested in acting and other curricular, as it showed from his childhood work. His father Mr. Ganesh and his mother Mrs. Sreerekha always encouraged him in taking acting as a career. He actually showed signs of becoming a great actor in his childhood as he had curiosity in acting, drama, mono-acting and mimicry. He loved the stage and enjoyed performing for others. He wrote scripts of plays when he was in 5th Standard. He did various plays in his school and college time. He was very passionate about acting, which helped him in being a better actor. He learned several tricks about acting and presenting himself in front ...
12. Kalasala Babu
Kalasala Babu is one of the prominent cine actors in Kerala. He acted in many popular Serials, Movies and Dramas and got accolades for his excellent performances. Babu was born to a Kathakali Aacharya Sri. Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair and classical Mohiniyattam dancer Smt. Kalamandalam Kalyanikutty Amma, and started his career by acting in radio plays while he was in his teens. His first on-stage performance was in 'Paanchajanyam' play directed by Drisyakalanjali. Babu's performance was noted and got offers from other play makers around Kerala.
The first break for Babu on Movie is with 'Inayethedi' in the year 1977, caste along side with Silk Smitha. Veteran actor Thilakan and others were in Babu's theater group 'Kalasala' and the...
13. Saji Murinjapuzha