Malayalam Movie Review Jalam - Cast & Crew

Date of Birth: 25th October 1988 Shakthisree Gopalan is an Indian singer. She is also a lyricist and performer. Her genres are Soft Rock, Jazz, Western Classical Music and Pop. She was born and raised in Kochi, Kerala. She completed her schooling from Rajagiri Public School, Kalamassery. She completed her graduation in Architecture at the Anna University's School of Architecture and Planning after she moved to Chennai. In 2008, she won SS Music's Voice Hunt – second season. She was auditioned in November 2008.

Born in the year 1985, this twenty-nine year old is a model turned actress. From Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, she mainly works in Malayalam  films. She wanted to be a lecturer in a college, but destiny had it all worked out otherwise. Priyanka started acting in college just for the sake and little did she know that she would turn into a full-fledged actress. 

Having started with small screen serials in college, she began with Thaarattu. After a few more serials, she plunged into the big screen. Her debut in movies was in Tamil with the film Veyyil in the year 2006, where she plays the role of Thankam. She has acted in Tholaipesi as Anitha in Tamil, followed by Thiruththam. Her role as Zahira in this Tamil movie, the year was 2007. 2007 also saw this actress start her Malayalam movie, and her debut in this language saw her in Kichamani MBA. She portrays the role of Kalyani in this movie. The year 2008, Priyanka was seen in the film Vilapangalkkappuram as Zahira. This film won her the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress for she has done this role very efficiently. Bhoomi Malayalam followed in 2009 where she was seen in the role of Annie Joseph in this movie. Samastha Keralam P.O, directed by Bipin Prabhakar, she essays the role of Radha. Keshu saw her as Shalini in this film. Evidam Swargamanu was her next film, and she plays the role of Betsy Varghese. This movie went on to be a box-office hit and was critically acclaimed. 

2011, Priyanka acted in Orma Mathram opposite Dileep. She plays the role of Safiya in this film. She has acted in Pottas Bomb in 2013 directed by Suresh Achoos. 2014, Priyanka has Jalam in her kitty. 

Not only has she acted in Malayalam and Tamil, but a Kannada movie too. This Physics Graduate is married to a movie director Lawrence Ram. She married in 2012. They have a son Mukund Ram, who is about two years old.

Ponnamma Babu is a noted character artist known for portraying satire roles. She is a trained Bharathanatyam and Mohiniyattam dancer as well. She entered into theater when she was 15 years. After her marriage to noted theater director Babu, she quit acting in her early age. She made her movie debut in 1996 in Padanayakan playing wife to the noted actor Rajan P Dev. Even though it was a small character she got recognized with her unique acting skills. She has done many character roles as mother, sister, sister-in-law, which were all performance oriented. She never looked for the length of the role she had, but how important the role was in the movie. She started dubbing for herself after Ennu Swantham Janakikutty which gave her recognition for her unique voice and her humorous dialogue delivery. She has acted in almost more than 150 movies so far and still doing good character role in movies.

Her television debut was in comedy serials like Cinemala, which addressed the day today issues either political or social in a comic way. Cinemala is a comedy programme broadcasted in Asianet once a week since 1993 completing more than 1000 episodes and considered to be the oldest programme being broadcasted in a channel. She also acted in the comedy serial Sanmanasullavarkku Samadhanam, a serial about hopes, dreams, politics and culture with gentle humor and funny dialogues. It was also a breakthrough for the National Award winner Suraj Venjaramoodu who was also part of it. 

She focuses more on acting in movies than serials and expects to get more strong and deep roles in movie in the future. She is settled in Kottayam, with her husband and her three children; two daughters Deepthi Nirmala and Pinky, and a son Mathew Damien. Her daughter Pinky has made her movie debut in the movie Nakshathrangal in 2014 and her movie Mr. Paavanayi 99.99 is expected for release shortly.

Resmi Boban is a famous Malayalam TV Serial actress born in Kannur, Kerala. Her father was a bank employee due to his transfer they moved to Trivandrum, where she started her career. She is married to director Boban Samuel which was an Inter caste Marriage and now is the mother of 2 kids Nitish and Akash. Her son also acted with her, in the Movie Vinodayatra. She has been in the Industry for more than 12 years. She started her career as a compeer in Surya TV and then she started doing serials and finally entered into film Industry.

She acted in many serials like Manasuparayunna Karyangal aired in Mazhavil Manorama, Sree Krishna in Surya TV etc. She played a great role in K.K Rajeev’s Serial Peythozhiyathe. She started her film career after her marriage with Boban Samuel. Her first movie was Manasinakkara directed by Sathyan Anthikkad and written by Ranjan Pramod. She played the role of Mollykutty and was a great breakthrough in her career. After that, she got many movies one by one like Kaazhcha, Achuvinte Amma, Innathe Chintha Vishayam, I G Inspector General, The King and the Commissioner. 2010 was a golden year of Reshmi with lot of hits in her list like Kadha Thudarunnu. 

She got a break in the serial Pavakoothu after that she got many serials . She is versatile actress and the characters in her movie shows the versatility .She did many serious roles as well as comic role. Her character in the comedy movie Kunjaliyan was excellent in which, she acted as the sister of hero Jayasurya. She participated in many TV shows and is now working in many Serials.

Actress Sethulakshmi is a wonder happening in Mollywood. This actress achieved fame at the age of seventy, which is a very rare happening in Indian cinema. She was a popular theater artist, and she made a foray into films because of her son’s illness. Her husband, Arjunan, is a make-up artist, and she is currently surviving with her four children. Her one son and three daughters were also part of the theater. While two daughters left theater work after they got married, her son, Kishore and another daughter, Lakshmi are still active in the theater industry. His son was ailing with a kidney problem, and therefore, she decided to act in movies only for ailing her son Kishore, who was a mimicry artist in Malayalam movies. However, that is not all that was done by actress Sethulakshmi.

M Padmakumar is a popular director cum actor in the Malayalam film industry. He has performed a lot of villainy roles and character roles in Malayalam serials too. He was born in Thiruvalla in Kerala in a middle-class family. His father was in the Indian Army and M Padmakumar had the same thought to join in the army, in his childhood. He completed his civil engineering and started his career as a builder. But, he got interested in the cinema field, and so, he left his profession and started to seek chances in the film industry. While he wanted to be a filmmaker, he was offered with small roles by the directors, with whom he contacted. He accepted those roles and done it with perfection.

Sohan Roy S K was born in Aickarakonam in the Kollam District of Kerala, India in the year 1967. He is married to Abhini Sohan, who is a costume designer. He is the father of two daughters, Nivedya and Nirmalya Sohan. Roy is a well-known film director, who was earlier a Naval Architectural Engineer and is credited for designing various projects for the naval authorities of various countries.

Vinod Illampally is a cinematographer of the Malayalam cinema. It is true that cinema is the director’s vision but an audience sees this through the eyes of the cinematographer. Hence, we may term that a cinematographer can also be called as a ‘co-director’. Vinod Illampally had begun his career in cinematography in early 2000. He made his debut as an independent cinematographer in the movie ‘Red Salute’ (2006). The film dealt with liquor issues in the state and the film did not get any warm welcome by the masses.

Ouseppachan is well-known music composer in the Indian film industry, who is mainly seen to be doing background scores as well as the music for Malayalam films as well as for few of the Hindi films. Mechery Louis Oseppachan was born on 13th September 1955, in Thrissur. Ouseppachan had been interested in music and had a flair for it from his early days itself. The inborn talent in him came out as melodious songs played on his violin. This great musician started his journey with this simple string instrument. He had joined certain troops and bands after his formal education was over. He was seen to play the violin in the troop “Voice of Thrissur”, which is popular music troop of the time. Ouseppachan’s violinist skills were greater than ever. From doing music for troops, he moved on to join the orchestra group that does the background scores for various Malayalam films. By this point in time,

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.

Binni Krishnakumar is a Chennai-based Malayali playback singer and the wife of the vocalist, Trivandrum Krishnakumar. They are one of the very few male-female Carnatic classical music duos. She had performed in over 150 stages including the numerous performances she did on stage with her husband across South India. Binni was born on June 10, 1974, in Kerala to the late Sri K.N. Ramachandran and Smt. Santha Ramachandran. She started learning the Carnatic Music when she was only seven years old under the guidance of Vidwan Sri. Thiruvizha Surendran.

An award-winning celebrity who belongs to the South-Indian cinematic universe, Ranjan Abraham is known for his work in many highly acclaimed Malayalam films. Having edited over a hundred Malayalam movies, several of his works have won numerous awards at the national level. The respected filmmaker has thousands of fans all across Kerala as well as most of the South-India. Born in 1977, Thuruppugalaan, Kerala, India he has played the role of producer & director on more than a few occasions. He has been an active member of the Malayalam film industry since 1999.

Prakash Bare grew up in Chirakkal, in Kannur district of Kerala. He graduated from NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad, Kerala. He was a smart and enthusiastic student during his college days he has won many accolades including in the best actor category in the Calicut University Inter-zone festival. He later did masters at IIT, Kanpur in Microelectronics. He worked a technologist and entrepreneur for fifteen years in Silicon Valley, California before venturing into the film world. He was one of the co- founders of GDA Technology Inc.