Malayalam Movie Review Punyalan Private Limited - Cast & Crew

Saritha Jayasurya is an Indian Actress, Designer, and Entrepreneur. Saritha was born in Kochi, Kerala. Saritha was born into a wealthy business family. She has done her schooling at St. Teresa’s High School and completed her graduation from Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam, and Dayananda Sagar College of Science. She then went on to pursue her interest in fashion at an institute in Mumbai. Not only that, but she is the wife of famous Mollywood actor and playback singer Jayasurya. Saritha is the mother of two children Veda and Adwaith.

Born on March 25, 1984, in Kerala, Nyla Usha is already a popular TV host in Saudi Arabia. She has later worked her way up through the ranks of promising actresses of the younger generation by acting with Mammootty. After graduating from a college in Trivandrum, she eventually landed up in a radio station Hit 96.7 in the United Arab Emirates where she worked as a radio jockey. In addition, she was a host of the Big Breakfast Club (BBC) programme, and now is the new promising star of the Malayalam film industry in India. Nyla was also a TV host for a morning show in BBC which was the much-watched show by Kerala people all over the world. Her popularity of a jockey and TV anchor continued to increase, and she became a renowned anchor, TV host, radio Jockey, and many of her shows or programmes marked the most-heard programme in the radio station.

Arya Rohit is an extremely popular actress, model and dancer from Kerala. She was born and brought up in Trivandrum and currently resides at Kochi. She is married to Rohit and they have a pretty daughter named Roya. Arya’s parents are Mr.Satish and Mrs. Preema. Her sister in laws Kalpana and Archana are also part of the Malayalam television industry.

Arya is a part of the popular Malayalam comedy program Badai Banglavu, telecasted by Asianet every week. This show includes eminent movie personalities like Mukesh Babu, Darmajan and Ramesh Pisharody. Badai Banglavu is a weekly comedy program, where Arya and Pisharody portrays the roles of husband and wife and entertain various celebrity guests at their house. Arya’s role as the bold and beautiful Pooja in the mega serial Sthreedhanam is gaining many accolades from the industry and audience. Arya initiated her acting profession with a Malayalam teleserial "Officer", telecasted by Amrita television channel. Later, she went on to act in several Malayalam and Tamil serials like Kuchiammayum Anchu Makalum, Achante Makkal, Maharani, Mohakkadal, Ardram,  Chandralekha , Sarayu and so on. 

This talented actress has many other achievements to her credit other than acting. She was a star performer in the dance reality show Munch Stars. Arya has anchored several shows including the widely popular program names Taste Time. She has also been a sought after model and has recently modeled for a leading jewelry from Kerala. Arya was also a part of several stage shows in India and in abroad countries.

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.

Rachana Narayanankutty born on April 4, 1983 is popular among Malayalam Television viewers through the Serial 'Marimayam'. She completed her schooling from GGHS Wadakanchery and graduation from Sri Vyasa NSS College, Wadakanchery. She was married to Arun Sadasivan on January 2011, but later filed for divorce in family court on 14 March 2012. 

She was a classical dancer and an English teacher in Devamatha CBSE school, Thrissur before get cast into television serials. Rachana began her career with acting in small role as the heroine's friend in the critically acclaimed movie 'Theerthadanam' (directed by G.R Kannan). “Though it was a small role, I consider it a gratifying experience to have begun my career through a film by M T sir,” says Rachana. She also acted in a Short Film named as 'I.C.U' directed by Anoop (son of veteran Malayalam director Sathyan Anthikaad) which further gave her a chance to act as lead heroine in Malayalam movie 'Luckystar' with Jayaram.

Rachana's popularity began while on acting with 'Marimayam' a Comedy serial that was aired by Mazhavil Manorama channel. Even though she had only intent to act in a single episode of the serial, was taken aback by the overwhelming response of the character got and decided to continue her character with humor touch. 'Valsala', Rachana's character was one of the big success on the program. She had one release in 2014 named as 'One Day Jokes' directed by Santhosh G.

Sathi Premji is an Indian actress who is renowned for her works mostly in Malayalam cinema. She has done supporting role in Malayalam films. Georgettan’s Pooram, Pretham, etc, are some of the projects that she has been associated with.

Ranjith Sankar was born in Kerala in Thrissur on February 14. He is an Indian film director, Producer, and Screenwriter. His finished his education in Kothamangalam from M A College of Engineering. He holds a B. Tech IT degree. Before entering the cinema field, he worked as an IT professional. His career started due to his interest in storytelling. He first thinks himself as a writer and next as a director. He started his career in the television industry. He wrote for serials American Dreams and Nizhalkal. 

Jayasurya is a versatile actor who hailed from Kerala. Born in Thrippunithura in 1978, this actor has done varieties of characters in Malayalam films. He has also acted in a few Tamil movies. His parents are Mani and Thankam. His wife is Sarita and this couple has a daughter and a son. Oomapenninu Uriyadapayyan is the debut movie of Jayasuriya. Swapna Koodu with Prithviraj, Meera Jasmine and Bhavana gave him a reputation. His movie Pulival Kalyanam also earned more fans for him. Kilukkam Kilukilukkam was the next version of Mohan Lal movie Kilukkam, and Jayasuriya’s performance was applauded well. Shakespeare M.A Malayalam and De Inkottu Nokkiyae, Bus Conductor, Arabikatha are some of his blockbuster movies. Sankaranum Mohananum was the film by Jayasurya, in which he appeared in 20 different getups. Cocktail was the film by him, which made his career a worthy one. Trivandrum Lodge, Husbands in Goa, Mumbai Police and Beautiful were some of his career best films. Husbands in Goa, is a comedy genre which had Lal, Praveena, Indrajith, Remya Nambeesan, Bhama and Rima Kallingal. His latest ventures are Amar Akbar Anthony, Aadu Oru Bheegara Jeeviyaanu and Lukka Chuppi. He made his debut in Tamil films through En Mana Vaanil with Kavya Madhavan. He also has acted with Kamal Hassan in Vasool Raja MBBS.

Anand Madhusoodanan is an Indian music director and film score composer who is vividly known for his works in Malayalam cinema. His career as a music Composer started back in 2012, where he released his first song named Aanaykkeduppathu featured in the movie Molly Aunty Rocks. One of his most famous songs Naalu Kompulla Kunjaana released back in 2017,

Bijibal Maniyil is an Indian composer and a singer born on 21 May 1973. Bijibal is not only a playback singer but also an expert Keyboardist. Bijibal field of interest includes film scores, classical and dance music. Bijibal is a very renowned composer and has won many prestigious awards including a National Film Award. Bijibal made his debut in the Malayalam film industry as a music director with the film Arabikatha in 2007. The film won him Mullassery Raju Music Award for the best music director in 2007. Some of the remarkable works of Bijibal includes Njaan, Balyakalasakhi, Kaliyachan, Salt N’ Pepper and Arabikatha. Bijibal won the Asiavision Movie Award for the Movie Salt N’ Pepper in 2011. Recently Bijibal is working on some movies My God, Salt Mango Tree, KL. 10 and much more.

Santhosh Varma is a well known Tamil Lyricist and has done many movies. He has written the lyrics of many amazing movies and the audience like the songs written by him. Songs are the most important part of the movies as the music attracts the audience the most. Songs of the movies are released even before the movie and most of the people like music a lot. Lyrics that are written by him are appreciated by everyone. He has written the heart-touching lyrics of many Tamil movies. He has written the lyrics of the songs of the film Vetri Nadai. He wrote the lyrics very well and it was very heart touching and was liked by everyone as well.

Vineeth Srinivasan is known to the music industry for his popular and hit song, Karale, karalinte. Being the son of film star Sreenivasan, he never had even thought of singing as a career. But of course, he likes popular Hindi songs and admires voice of K.J. Jesudas, Brad Paisley, and Udit Narayan.

Justin Jose is a sound engineer and sound mixer of Indian origin. He has worked in films of different regional languages like Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and Malayalam. Justin Jose was born on 11th October,1980 in Thrissur, Kerala. He started working in the industry in the year 2003 and is still very active with his work. Justin did his graduation in Economics from St.Thomas College, Thrissur. After that, he received Diploma in Audio Recording from Chetna Sound Studio. He also received 4th-grade electronic keyboard from Trinity College of Music. He moved to Mumbai in 2003 and started working under Deepan Chatterjee.

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'.

Aju Varghese is an Indian film actor, born to Varghese PK and Celiene Susan in the year 1985. He has a younger sister named Anju. He was born in Thiruvalla city located in Kerala. Aju completed his schooling in Rajagiri High School and further continued his studies in Bhavan’s Vidyalaya located in Ernakulum.

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.

Malayalam comedy star Pakru, has the prefix Guinness to his name. Ever wondered the reason? He owns the record of a leading role enacted by a shorted actor in a full-fledged film. Born on 31st August 11976, being 2 feet 6 inch tall, Pakru worked as the male lead in the 2005 flick Albhuthadeep. He was adjudged the Special Jury Awards given by Kerala State Film association. His record was recorded in the year 2008 in Guinness Book of World Records. Albhuthadeep is a flick which has various specialties. It has 300 dwarfs, which is distinctive. The plot of the story is about dwarf men and normal ladies in an island. Prithviraj also acted with Pakru in this movie. This movie was a great success in the box office. 

The 2010 flick My Big Father had Pakru donning the role of father of Jayaram. He also enacted ther ole of a mentally disturbed person in this film. The audience were moved his performance in this film and Pakru proved that he can handle comic and serious roles with equal panache.Pakru has shared screenspace with most of the top notch actors of Mollywood. 

Earlier Guiness Pakru was known as Unda Pakru or just Pakru. However, his original name is Ajay Kumar. He has a diploma in computer science to his credit. But he chose a different path. He was good in mimicry. Along with this passion, his size made him to work in stage shows. Pakru also tested waters in mimicry and worked in mimicry groups before entering into films. When he was 18 he had worked on 1000 mimicry performances. The 1984 flick Ambili Ammavan was the first film of Pakru. Now he also works in television serials. The 2013 flick Kutteem Kolum is the directorial venture of Pakru. He also donned the protagonist role in this flick. Pakru fetched the Tamil Nadu Award for his flick Dishyum during the year 2006. Pakru has worked in around 40 films. 

On his personal front, Pakru is married to Gayathri Mohan and is blessed with a daughter. He hails from Kundara, Kollam

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Malayalam actor Ajay Kumar is perhaps world’s smallest actor. This comedy star is just 2 feet 6 inches tall and due to his height and experience as an actor, he made it into the Guinness Book of World Records. Before making his debut in films, he had an experience as a mimicry artist in many stage plays and even in competition. His mother encouraged him to participate in competitions so that his participation certificates could get Ajay Kumar a government job.But luck had something else to do with his success. He was well versed in techniques of mimicry, recitation contests, fancy dress competitions, etc. and this talent fetched him applause in any competition he took part. Even in college, he took a keen interest in associating himself with politics, culture or any other form of arts as part of extra-curricular activities. Ajay was a gifted mimicry artist and even taken part in stage shows in Kerala. It is said that film director Vinayan discovered this actor while he was making a film ‘Atbhuta Dweep.' The actor was assigned the role of a warrior prince of a Lilliputian kingdom.

After the release of this film, he became a household name in Kerala. It is said that the actor did all his fight–based scenes and did not need any double to perform the art. After the release of this film ‘Atbhutta Dweep’, the actor made his entry into the 'Guinness Book of Records' as he played a full-length character in a film. Ajay Kumar ( known as 'Pakru') was seen as the dwarf prince Gajendra in the movie. The film was a huge success. He made his debut in big screen with a film ‘Ambili Ammavan’ that released in 1984.

Sreejith Ravi is a famous Malayalam movie actor and also an industrialist. He is the child of T. G. Ravi, who was a famous veteran actor. He is a graduate in Mechanical Department from the NIT Surathkal. He got his MBA degree from the ICFAI Business University from the city of Bangalore. He is the child of T. G. Ravi, famous movie actor and late. V.K.Subhadra who was an Associate Teacher of Medicine in the Amala Institute of Medical Sciences in the city of Thrissur. He married Sajitha. The couple has two children, Rijarashwa and Ritunjay.

Sunil Sukhada is a talented Malayalam actor. He is known for his versatility. He has brought variety to Malayalam cinema. With his colorful roles, he portrayed his artistic skills. He has conquered the industry with magnitudes of movies. He is a dedicated personality who has a passion for acting. He sincerely follows theater. Today, he has over hundreds of film to his credit. Born in Thrissur district to Sudhakara Panikkar and Saraswathiyamma, Sunil was the second child. Although he loved acting, he made into movies at a later stage.

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.

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