Malayalam Movie Review Kuttimama - Cast & Crew

Durga Krishna is an Indian actress, popularly amongst the audience for her work in movies like Pretham 2 (2018), Vimaanam (2017), and Kuttymama (2019). Mostly known for her involvement in the Malayali cinema, she was born and brought up in Kozhikode, Kerala. A passionate classical dancer besides an actress, Durga made her debut on the silver screen through Pradeep M Nair’s Malayali drama film Vimaanam, starring Prithviraj Sukumaran and Alencier Ley Lopez alongside her. After featuring in two more film projects, she is set to hit the theatres with two upcoming films. First one is Anoop Menon’s ‘King Fish,’ and the second one happens to be Gauthami Nair’s thriller movie Vrittham.

Meera Vasudevan was associated with modeling before venturing into the film industry. Hailing from Mumbai in a Tamil Brahmin family, Meera is proficient in Tamil, Hindi, English and Malayalam. Born on 29 January 1982, Meera holds a degree in Psychology and English Literature. Her younger sister, Ashwini, has also had a brief stint as a child artist.

Om Cricketaya Namaha is an ad done by her during the 2002 Cricket World Cup series. Fair and Lovely, Knorr soup, Reliance R-World, Kenstar, Surf Excel, Coke and Pilsbury are some of the ads that she worked on. She became famous as a model. 

Meera debuted into the film industry with the 2003 Bollywood flick Rules- Pyaar Ka Superhit Formula, alongside Milind Soman. This film fetched her the nomination for best rising actress by Screen Awards. Meera entered the Tamil film industry with the film Unnai Saranadaindhen, in which she worked with S P B Saran and Venkat Prabhu. The film fetched her the Tamil Nadu State Film Special Award for Best Actress. After a couple of misfires in Tamil and Telugu, Meera entered the Malayalam film industry with the film Thanmathra in which she shared screen space with Mohanlal. She garnered the Best New Face of the year, given by Asianet. Meera has over two dozen films to her credit. 

Meera has also worked in serials and the endeavor Kanal Poovu fetched her Best Actress award from Kerala State TV Awards during the year 2007. 

Meera was wedded to Vishal Agarwal in 2005, but they eventually parted ways in 2010. Later she got wedded to Malayalam star Anish John Kokken. This couple is blessed with a son. Meera feels that glamour has its limit and one should not cross it. Meera has no qualms for her first broken marriage, as she confesses. She is very happy that her second marriage is good.

Manju Sunichen is an actress, well praised for her work in Malayalam film and Television. She is well known for her work in movies like “North 24 Katham,” “Odum Raja Adum Rani,” “Ellam Chettate Ishtam Pole,” and “Utopiayile Rajavu”.

Sreedevi Unni is a Mohiniyattam Danseuse and Cine artist who stood with her head held high in the worst circumstances. If you need to learn how to cope with the immense hardships of life, then this magnificent actress and danseuse will be an inspiration for you. She has a zest for life that is abundant and is always full of positive energy. Dance is her passion as she says so herself, and she has won the prestigious Karnataka Kalashree Award in 2002.

Gokulam Gopalan has been named as A.M Gopalan, was born on 23rd July in the year 1944 in Vadakara, Kerala, India. He belongs to a decent family with father Chathu and mother Madhu. Gopalan has a wife and three children named Baiju Gopalan, Lijisha Gopalan, and Shabareesh Gopalan. Gopalan is an Indian film industry, film distributor and businessman. He preferably works in the Malayalam film industry. Gopalan acted in two films named Netaji and Client in the year 2017 and 2019 respectively. Gopalan was appointed as the leader of Sree Narayana Dharma Vedi and also as the president of Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam.

Achu Rajamani belongs from a musical family background as his father and grandfather who was a perfectionist in music was well-known in the Malayalam music industry. They all had music as an extra language. Achu Rajamani was raised around music but he was interested in aviation and wanted to be a pilot but following the family legacy, chose music direction as his profession and quit over aviation. He got his breakthrough as a music director in the year 2008.

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. 

Hari Narayanan is a Tamil and a Malayali song lyricist. It is hard to find a native Malayali who has never heard any music composition or song made by this famous lyricist. They are very fond of his music and almost hear him regularly. The most popular and famous Malayalam music and song of 2014 was composed and written by Hari. The name of the song was Olenjali Curuvi. The lyrics of the song were so touching and soothing that it captured the attention of not only the young generation, but also the old people couldn’t resist themselves from loving this composition. Even the song Kaatumooliyo Pranayam was a great hit.

Dhanush Nayanar started his career doing an advertisement for Medimix. He was the first child of his parents, Dr. Sunil and Rajani. Dhanish was an average performer in academics. He never knew that one day he would make an excellent career as a sound effects editor and get work for a great movie like Kabali. Firstly, Dhanush Nayanar did BSc. in Visual Communication from Hindustan College, Coimbatore and later finished his studies as Sound Engineer from LV Prasad Film and TV Academy, Chennai. He worked under an efficient sound engineer Mr. Raja Krishnan as a trainee.

Shameer Muhammed is Malayalam Film industry editor who did his independent debut as an editor from movie Charlie in 2015. This romantic drama was directed by Martin Prakkat and was written by Prakkat and Unni R. This movie won 7 state awards in Kerala. He was born in Thrissur, Kerala, India. He started his career as an editor in 2012 by ad films and albums.

Jithesh Poyya is an Indian make-up artist and writer who worked for the Malayalam film industry. He is one of the most recognized make-up artists in the South Indian film industry who worked in more than 20 movies. Jithesh worked with some of the famous faces of the Malayalam industry including Mohanlal, Meena, Ansiba, Baburaj, Devan, and many others.

Vazhoor Jose is a Public Relation Officer in the Indian film industry. He has extensively worked in the Malayalam movies. Vazhoor is very talented and focussed to his work. In a very less time, he became a big name for himself in the south and paved a great way ahead for his future. He gave his precious thirty years of his life to the film industry and worked upon more than five hundred films in his entire career. He always experimented with the different genre of the movies and tried to deliver the best output. He wrote an outstanding review of cinema and promoted them. He helped in the distribution of the movies with too the point reviews of the piece of art and made them famous worldwide. He came to be known as one of the best public relation officers of the professional realm of the cinematic world. Vazhoor hailed from the district of Kottayam from the southern part of the Country.

Mafia Sasi was born in 1981. He was born in Kannur, which is in Kerala. He is an Indian. His mother name is Saraswathi, and his father name is Balan. His birth name was Sasidharan Puthiyaveettil. He had completed his study from Chirakkal Raja’s School in Kannur. He had done his graduation in Madras Christian College. Sreedevi is his wife. He has two children named Sandeep and Sandhya. He is a film actor and stunt master. He is also an athlete in India. He played like a stunt man in more than 1000 movies. He also performed in all South Indian films as a stunt master. In Mafia, he performed stunts. Mafia was the super hit film. After that, he adopted the name as Mafia Sasi. He also worked in few movies. Sandeep Sasi had done his debut film Gunda. Gunda is the Malayalam movie. He performed as a stunt master in many pictures named Gunda in 2014, Pattam Polein, Daivathinte Swantham Cleetus in 2013. He was the stunt director in Gunda and as a stunt coordinator; he worked in Pattam Polein and Daivathinte Swantham Cleetus. He performed stunts in Jawan of Vellimala in 2012.

Stunt Silva was born in Tuticorin, TamilNadu. He started his career as a male nurse after getting trained in Stanley Medical College. Silva worked as a Ward boy in Tuticorin hospital. Later he joined in Vijaya Health Center in Chennai by the year 1990. To maintain his family’s financial status, he worked in several sectors such as Peon in offices and dabbled in transport sector business offices. He then joined in the background dancer of the film under the guidance and advice of the Dance

Dhyan Sreenivasan is the younger son of Malayalam actor, director, and screenwriter Sreenivasan. Vineeth Sreenivasan being the elder son of Sreenivasan is Dhyan's elder brother. Dhyan was born on 20th December 1988 in Thalassery, Kerala, India. Dhyan dropped his engineering and joined Visual Communication to fulfill his wish of working in the film industry. He entered this glamorous world in 2013. His debut movie was "Thira", directed by brother Vineeth Sreenivasan. He was selected for the film when Vineeth saw his short film which he had directed himself.

Actor Sreenivasan is a Malayalam actor who had ruled the regional cinema graph for over 25 years and has earned the credit of having acted in over 200 films so far. But he never attributes his success even once for the quantity of films that he had done so far. He is an actor who lacked star appeal always. Instead of relying on his looks, he concentrated more on his talent that helped him carve a niche in Mollywood. He could perform any character on screen whether it is a villain role or a comedy role which drew a parallel recognition when compared with the ranks of superstars.

Indian Pallassery, alias Indy Pallassery is an Indian actor and director who works in the Malayalam entertainment industry. He was born in 1998, in Kerala, India. He is the son of the Malayalam scriptwriter Babu Pallassery and comes from a cinematic background. Indian debuted in the film industry with the Viji Thampi directorial ’Badadosth’ for which his father was the scriptwriter. He got to do a small role in the film. Later he appeared in a short film titled ‘Valsalyam’ alongside the late actor Rizabawa. Indian has an account of over twenty movies in the brief stint of his career, the notable works include ‘Kali,’ ‘Idukki Gold,’ ‘Honey Bee 2,’ 'Rakshadhikari Baiju,' ‘Happy Journey,’ etc.

Janardhanan Nair is an actor, producer, and Indian Airforce personnel. He has worked predominantly in the Malayalam film industry. He was born on 5 May 1946 in Ullala, Vaikom, Kottayam, Travancore, and British India. His father is Kollarakkattu Veettil Paravoor K Gopala Pillai. His mother is Gouri Amma. He has three sisters and four brothers. He did his primary schooling at NSS High School, Vechoor. He attended his pre-university at NSS Hindu College, Changanacherry. He acted in over 700 films in his career. In 1971, he made his debut with the film Adyathe Katha. In 1972, he worked in Chembarathi, and in 1973 in Gayathri, Mazhakaru, and Chukku. In 1974, he worked on Udayam Kizhakku Thanne, Bhoogolam Thiriyunnu, and Moham.

Kalabhavan Rahman is a committed Malayalam actor who began his acting career as early as 1986 with a small appearance as an ice-cream parlour waiter in the Reghunath Paleri directed the movie- ‘Onnu muthal poojyam vare’. He was born and brought up in Aluva in the Ernakulam district of Kerala, India. Rahman completed his higher education at U.C.College, Aluva.

Nirmal Palazhi is a Malayalam comedian. He also works as an actor in the Malayalam movie industry. Nirmal was born in Kozhikode district of Kerala. He is married to Anju, and they have two kids. At the beginning of his career, Nirmal worked as a mimicry stage artist. He performed at several stage shows.

Santhosh Keezhattoor, born on 4th February 1976, in Taliparamba, Kerala is a Malayalam film actor. His debut film was Nadan. He started off his career as a model, an anchor, a programme producer and as a theatre artist, before trying his luck in the film industry. He first did theater in the year 2000, and his last performance was in the year 2015. He also said that “Theatre is an integral part of his life, and he can never ignore it.”

Sasi Kalinga is an Indian actor involved in Malayalam film industry. He was born in Kunnamangalam, Kozhikode. His childhood name was Chandrakumar. He was not from a filmy background or support. He received his education from St. Joseph’s Boys’ higher secondary school. He has a diploma in automobile engineering from Govt Polytechnic College in Kozhikode. He got married to his wife, Prabhavathi. In his career in Malayalam cinema, he has performed various serious roles in many films. He is not an actor who works for grabbing just only name and fame; instead, he delivered marvelous performances in his various films. His original style of acting and dialogue delivery makes him unique in himself and shows his dedication and love towards Malayalam movies. He mainly performed serious roles in several films like Paleri Manikyam: Oru Pathirakolapathakthinte Katha in 2009, Pranchiyettan & the Saint in 2010. Indian Rupee in 2011 and many more.

Vinod Kovoor is an Indian actor working in Malayalam film and mini screen industry. He gained popularity among mini screen audience for his characters with “Kozhikode local slang”, like Moidu in comedy satire Marimayam broadcasted in Mazhazvil Manorama channel and Moosa in M-80 Moosa of Media One channel. Vinod started exhibiting his talent in acting early during his school days and won many prizes for mono-act and mimicry.He also won the best actor award four years in a row in Kerala Kalolsavam. He has a bachelor degree in sociology and Malayalam language and has a degree in Hotel Management.He started his professional career as a receptionist in a hotel and later left the job to become a part of a Kerala Govt initiative on HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention programme, for which he directed a documentary. His interests in folk songs motivated him to start a small folk song troupe named Grameenam, performing folk music at various stage shows in Kerala. 

Later on, Vinod along with similar talents from Calicut got together to form a troupe named Tom & Jerry, performing comedy skits scripted by Vinod, which was well received through out Kerala. These skits were also staged on various stage shows with in India and abroad. Vinod played a major role in the success of team Tom & Jerry in Amrita TV’s humorous blockbuster, Super Dupe-2.

Vinod played his debut role in Malayalam movies in 2011 as Moitheen in the National Award winning movie Adaminte Makan Abu. He played the role of Vikkan Chandran to perfection in ace director Sathyan Anthikkad’s movie, Puthiyatheerangal, in 2012. Since then Vinod has played a supportive role in many Malayalam movies and the lead role in a short film, Athe Karanathal, for which he received the Best Actor Award at the National Film Festival-2013. He received much more honors and awards, like Best Comedy Artist Award by Kerala Hasyavedi, Best Television Anchor Award by K.C.L, etc., to name a few. 

Apart from his role as an actor, Vinod has authored two books, Ekabhinaya Samaharam and Kalolsavam Monoact,  which has his scripts for mono-acting on subjects with social relevance as the content. He is also enjoys giving invited motivation talks and training for school children.

Vishak Nair was born on 25th April 1992 in Cochin, Kerala. He is a very famous and talented actor in the Malayalam film industry; he also is a well-renowned theater actor. Vishak grew up in Dubai, where he completed his schooling and then moved to India to complete his bachelor’s degree, he completed his graduation in Mechanical engineering from NIT.

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