Malayalam Movie Review Achayans - Cast & Crew

Amala Paul is the super talented star of South Indian film industry. She is the promising actress that had been critically acclaimed of her work. The south Indian beauty had many ups and downs in her career, but a star shines bright after midnight. She started off with a low budget film ‘Neelathamara’ in 2009 in which she played just a minimal role.

Anu Sithara is an Indian Film and Television Actress. She works in the Malayalam and Tamil Film Industries. Anu hails from Wayanad district in Kerala. Anu was born on the 21st of August in the year 1995. Her father’s name is Abdul Salam, and her mother’s name is Renuka Salam.

Kannan Thamarakkulam is a popular Malayalam director, who hailed from Thamarakkulam in Kerala. Kannan is from a non-cinema family background, who strived hard to reach this place. Initially, Kannan aspired to be an actor. Later, he joined the cinema industry as an assistant director. He has worked as an assistant and associate in a lot of TV serials and movies. In his initial stages, he had worked with popular Malayalam directors including “I V Sasi,” Sajan, Mohan Kupleri and M. Naseer.

Ratheesh Vega’s birth name was Ratheesh Menon. He was born in Palakkad, Kerala, India. He was bought up in Chennai, Tamilnadu. He has got a degree in music from Madras University. He pursued a short course in sound engineering. He continued learning music from Thrissur R. Vaidyanathan. Presently he lives in Thrissur with his wife Dr. Anu Vega and son Nathan Vega. His breakthrough into music direction was through the television program “Music Talks” telecasted on the channel Asianet TV.Gopi Sunder was the one who asked him to try his luck in the music field as music Director. One of his friends was so impressed by his singing that he introduced him to a producer Milan Jaleel. Who later offered him a chance, as he was impressed by his musical compositions in the musical album. Ratheesh Vega is a composer, singer, and musician in the Malayalam Films.

Anil Panachooran is an eminent film lyricist in Malayalam cinema. He is a lawyer by profession but even lives on the income from his lyrical and poetic work in cinema. Many of his songs have romantic themes and are liked by audiences. 
Anil was born in Kayakulam on 20 November 1965. The singer completed his studies from Kerala Law Academy Law College in Thiruvananthapuram and Kakatiya University in Warangal. He shot to popularity with film ‘Arabikkatha’ which was directed by Lal Jose in the year 2007. This was his first assignment in his career. He wrote some prominent lines in the lyrics of the song ‘Chora Veena Mannil Ninnum’ which established him in cine world. His next assignment was the film ‘Kadha Parayumbol’ by M. Mohanan. He wrote lines such as ‘Vyathyasthanamoru Barbaram Balane’ in this film that was sung by Pradeep Palluruthy. 

Arun Manohar is a costume designer in Malayalam movies. His debut on the big screen was with the film ‘Alice: A True Story', directed by Anil Das, that released in 2014. In the same year, Biju’s Bhaskar Nari too gave him a break in his movie ‘@Andheri’. In both the movies, his job got special attention. As both the movies had characters of our society, his costume designs got special applause. Arun Manohar also became popular in Malayalam movies like ‘Kunjiramayanam’ and ‘Balyakalasakhi’. In the year 2016, he designed costumes for Murali Gopy and Anoop Menon who were in the lead roles in 'Pa Va' and for Mohanlal in the movie 'Pulimurugan' and in the year 2016, he had designed costumes for Mammootty in a film named 'PullikkaranStaraaa'.

Sanju Sivaram is an actor, famous in the Malayalam film circuit. As a lead actor, he made his debut on the silver screen, in 2014, with the film ‘1983’. The next movie he starred in was ‘Beware of Dogs’ in the year 2014. His debut in the film industry was in the comedy thriller film ‘Nee Ko Njaa Cha’ released in the year 2013, directed by Gireesh.

Born on the 22nd of September, 1987, Unni Mukundan is the son of M Mukundan Nair and Roji Mukundan. He was born in Villadom in Trichur, but grew up in Ahmedabad. Unni made his foray into the film industry after the completion of his Plus Two in commerce, and is currently pursuing his B.A. in English from the Prajyothi Nietan College, Thrissur. Unni is a firm believer in having a good education, and is usually found to be busy with his classes when he is not shooting for his movies, even quoting “I believe that I am in a space where I can fix my dates”, showing his confidence in his ability, and also in his belief that a good education is absolutely essential.

Known as the “Muscle Aliyan” of M-Town, Unni made his debut in the Tamil movie Seedan in 2011, which was an adaptation of the Malayalam Nandanam, as the main lead. His debut Malayalam movie was Bombay March 12 alongside the veritable Mammootty. He also played a supporting role in Thalsamayam Oru Penkutty.

His versatility saw him reprise roles in movies such as Ezham Suryan, Bangkok Summer. He also played the title role in Mallu Singh alongside Kunchacko Boban, which turned out to be a box office hit. His other movies include Theevram, I Love Me, Ithu Pathiramanal, D Company, Orissa, The Last Supper, Rajadhi Raja and Vikramadhityan.

He has gained popularity for his role in Vikramadhityan, where he plays the role of the son of a cop and is placed against Dulquer Salman who plays the role of the son of a thief. Both the boys become classmates in school and the movie then proceeds to show their journey into adulthood.

For his role in Bombay March 12, Unni won several awards including the Asianet Film Award: Best New Face of the Year 2011, the Asiavision Movie Awards: 2011 Best New Face of the Year, The Jaihind TV Best Newcomer of the Year 2011, the Amritha TV Best Debut Award  and the South Debut Actor for South Indian International Movie Awards.

Adil Ibrahim is an Indian model, actor, and director who is based in Dubai. He was born on 6 February, 1988, in Dubai, to Nalakath Ibrahim and Sabira.

Dharmajan Bolgatty is a Malayalam actor, writer, television presenter and stand-up comedian. He was born in Mulavukad, Kochi in India to Madhavi and Kumaran. After finishing his primary education at Mulavukad High School, he attended St. Albert’s College in Ernakulam. He started his career as a mimicry artist, but became popular on Asianet’s Bluff Master, along with Ramesh Pisharody, who became his partner. The two had met while working as writers for Cinemala and when they realized that their tandem clicks, they have decided to put up their show. Later on, he has done over 30 films, and he is now part of Asianet’s Badai Bungalow. He turned film actor through the 2010 Malayalam film, Paappi Appacha, which stars Dileep, Innocent and Kavya Madhavan in the lead roles. He played as Dileep’s driver/side-kick in the film and the reason he owes everything to Dileep is that he was first introduced as an actor in this film. In 2011, he was seen in Thaha’s Pachuvum Kovalanum. Dharmajan has five releases in the year 2012, which include Ordinary, Naughty Professor, My Boss, Puthiya Theerangal and Chapters.

Jacob Gregory has mainly worked in Malayalam films. The 2013 Malayalam flick ABCD is his debut film. This film was directed by Martin Prakkat. The TV series (online sitcom) Akkarakazchagal showcased his acting prowess and he gained recognition for his performance. The name of his character in this series is Gregory or ‘Giri Giri.” This character was well crafted. This TV series was instrumental in Jacob Gregory travelling Canada, U.S. and Europe. He performed various shows based upon this series. In fact, Jacob was so engrossed with the character Girigiri that he used to imitate it in real life too. 

Maniyanpilla Raju act is a South- Indian film actor who mainly acted in Malayalam movies. He was born as Sudheer Kumar and penned his name to Maniyanpilla Raju after his movie, Maniyanpilla Adhava Maniyanpilla in which he had played the character with the same name. He debuted with the movie Mohiniyattam, which was directed by Sreekumaran Thampi.

Prakash Raj, born on 26th of March, 1965, as Prakash Rai, in Bangalore, is an actor, director, and producer. He is also a television presenter and has worked in films of many languages. He is best known for his work in the film industry of South India, and for playing roles of a villain in quite a few Bollywood films. He hails from a Tulu and Kannada-speaking household and is fluent in various other languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. He also has an actor brother named Prasad Raj. He studied at St. Joseph’s Boy’s School, and subsequently, at St. Joseph’s College of Commerce. Both institutions are in Bangalore. Prakash has three children, Meghana, Pooja, and Sidhu, from his earlier marriage to the actress Lalitha Kumari. His son, unfortunately, passed away in the year 2004. He is currently married to the choreographer Pony Verma. In the first few years of his career, he worked in Kannada Doordarshan, doing serials like Guddada Bhootha, and he also acted in supporting roles in Kannada movies like Nishkarsha.

Ramesh Pisharody, a mimicry artist and anchor, was born on October 1, 1983, in Karikode, Kottayam. He is also known as Kannan. He belongs to the Malayalam TV industry. In his career, he has also appeared in a few films as the supporting actor role and also in the lead role. Along with Dharmajan Bolgatty, who supported him as the female lead most of the times, he hosted a comedy show, Bluff Masters, which helped him gain popularity. The awesome duo, Ramesh-Dharmajan, as the lead comic actors, created a great impact on the audience, and the show, Bluff Masters, achieved great success. He is a great anchor, and nowadays, he is anchoring celebrity show like Badai Bungalow, screened on Asianet, which portrays the Malayalam version of Comedy Nights with Kapil.

Saju Kodiyan is a famous comedy actor in Malayalam television and film industry. He started his acting career through dramas and stage shows and now is a very popular actor in Malayalam film industry. Saju started with acting in dramas and through one of his drama “Swathanthrintynte Sangaganam” by Sangeetha Nadaka academy, he entered into the mimcry field. The drama was a political one and the chief minister E K Nayanar at that time gave the troop permission to perform that drama throughout different stages in Kerala. During their travelling from one stage to another Saju tried to make everyone happy by imitating sounds. At first he didn’t imitated the sounds of actors and one of his friends suggested him to mimcry field, later he tried and successfully rendered all of them.

Saju Kodiyan is famous for his Aminathatha role in Harisree’s micmicry shows.Aminathatha is female Muslim role and he acted it beautifully.Saju got Aminathatha role by chance and his sound blended perfectly with the character. Saju did a lot of stages inside and outside India and is famous for his Aminathatha. Saju imitated the earlier prime minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee and it was a super hit. All audience wants Saju to perform Aminathatha and Vajpayee again and again .He also imitated Usha Uthup and Saju still remembers the experience with Usha didi. During one of their stage shows in Germany Saju dressed up like Usha didi and  she suddenly met him who dressed up like her. She then told him that the makeup was not correct and she herself gave her bindi, ornaments to Saju and set him as a real Usha uthup.

Actor Nadir shah gave him a break through mimicry field and later Saju started doing shows like Cinemala in Asianet and it is a show that is on the Guinness book of records. The cinemala made Saju popular and he started getting movies.He did fantastic roles in Paranthu,Kanaka Simhasanam (2006), Thillana Thillana(2003) And Vamanapuram Bus Route (2004). Raag Rangeela -2015(Now In Talkies).

Born on December 10 1965, Jayaram’s main region of interest is the Malayalam film industry, though he had acted in some Tamil films too. Jayaram entered the Malayalam film industry with “Aparan” which was directed by Padma Rajan. They both worked together in two more films. Jayaram was known for his films Peruvannapurathe Visheshangal, Georgootty C/O Georgootty, Nagarangalil Chennu Raparkam and Thoovalsparsham. 

During the 90s his films with Rajasenan turned to be commercially successful. The family audiences embraced him with both arms. Jayaram has carved a niche for himself in films such as Ayalathe Adheham (1994), Aadyathe Kanmani (1995), Meleparambil Aanveedu, The Car and CID Unnikrishnan B.A B.Ed. 

Director Sathyan Anthikad’s Thooval Kottaram earned Jayaram accolades and he won an award from the Kerala State Film Award. Also, he has four Film Fare Awards to his credit. His performance in Tamil film “Thenali” didn’t go unnoticed; he was awarded with the Tamil Nadu State Film Award. Jayaram proved his mettle in Tamil films, including “Thenali”, Gokulam”, Murai Maaman”, “Priyanka” etc. “Thuppaki”, “Saroja”, “Aegan” “Pancha Thantiram” and “Uttama Villain” are some of the Tamil films in which he played supporting role. 

Jayaram’s Malayalam films used to seldom flop at the box office and he is renowned for acting in family dramas. But ironically all the films he did in 2012 were a disaster at the box office. Jayaram has also delivered hits for the films directed by Kamal. He shared screen space with happening actors Mammooty, Mohanlal and Suresh Gopi. 

Jayaram is wedded to actress Parvathy who quit films after marriage. They have two children Kalidasan and Malavika. Kalidasan was introduced in the Malayalam film “Kochu Kochu Santhoshangal” and the latter was awarded with the National Award. 

Apart from acting Jayaram is a good mimic too. He had also sung in films including “Kadhanayagan”, “Mayilattam”, “Salaam Kashmir” etc.

Kaithpram Damodaran Namboothiri is a famous Malayalam Lyrist, Actor, Singer, Writer and Music Director. Born on January 1^st, 1950 in village Kaithpram, he is also a famous performer of Carnatic music. His father is Keshavan Namboothiri who is widely known as Kannadi Bhagavatar, known as the disciple of Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar. His mother is Anjali Antharjanam. His preferred language of performance remains to be Malayalam. He has completed music and acting at the school of Natyagruha. His wife is Devi Antharjanam who is the daughter of actor Unnikrishnan Namboothiri. His kids are Deepankuran and Devadarshan. Deepankuran has also sung for Desadanam and many more songs for various films.

Pradeep Nair is a famous Indian Director, Writer, and cinematographer. Pradeep was born in Kottayam, Kerala, India. Pradeep Nair won some big awards in 2004, like the Kerala State Film Award and in 2005 National Film Award for his Film Oridam. In his career, he did a lot of work in directing, acting, and photography in movies. In the film Pavada and Immanuel, he did the cinematography. Pradeep Nair directed some hit movies, Oridam (2004), Crossroad(2017), and Cocktail (2010). His comedy movie Achayans got released in 2017. Pradeep acted in the film Thegidi in 2014.

Sachi-Sethu was a screenwriter duo who worked in the Malayalam movie industry. They composed a whole of five films, including Chocolate(2007), Robinhood(2009), Makeup Man(2011), Seniors(2011), and Doubles (2012), after which they parted ways and started as individual writers. After the split, Sachi and Sethu made their solo debuts in 2012. Sachi made his debut with Run Baby Run while Sethu wrote Mallu Singh.

Sahas Bala is an art director and production designer in the film industry. He is most known for his work in Malayalam movies. Along with the Malayalam film industry Sahas has worked in Tamil and Bollywood films as an Art Director. He has worked in Malayalam movies such as Weeping Boy (2013), Paisa Paisa (2013), Aadu Puliyaattam (2016), Kuttikalundu Sookshikkuka (2016), Achaayans (2017), Aakasha Mittayi (2017), Daivame Kaithozham K. Kumarakanam (2018), Maangalyam Thanthunanena (2018), Oru Nakshthramulla Aakaasham (2019), Sakalakala Shala (2019), Udumb (2021), Udal (2022), Varaal (2022), and he also worked in the Telugu movie Team 5, released in 2017. His recent upcoming works include Pink, Abel, and Indira, all of which will release in 2023.