Malayalam Movie Review Puthiya Niyamam - Cast & Crew

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.

Sheela Abraham was born in the year 1987 in Bharanaganam, Kerala, India. She is a model and actress by profession. She mainly works for the Malayalam film industry. She started her career in modeling/acting in the year 2013. She had her debut in acting with the movie “Weeping Boy” in which she played the role of Dr. Rose under the direction of Felix Joseph. However she is more recognized for her negative role of Meera Mammon in the movie “She Taxi,” released in the year 2015. It was quite appreciated by the audience. After the success of that movie, she acted in the movie “Kanal” as the role of Revathy. It was a revenge thriller alongside Mohanlal and was produced by Abraham Mathew.

Nayantara also called as Nayanthara Kurian, is a renowned Indian actress from Kerala. She was born on 18th November in the year 1984 in Bangalore that is situated in Indian province Karnataka. Her actual name is ‘Diana Mariam Kurian’ the daughter of ‘Omana Kurian’ and ‘Kurian Kodiyatto’. Due to her father’s service, she stayed in several places of India. She joined in “Mar Thoma College” for attending her B.A in English Literature. Besides study she also initiated her modeling career.

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.

Pradeep Kottayam is an actor popular for his comedy roles in Malayalam movies. He had also acted in some Tamil, Telugu and Hindi movies. Pradeep’s parents are Rakhavan and Padma. Pradeep is married and has two children, Vishnu Siva Pradeep and Vrinda Pradeep. Pradeep started his career in LIC. Due to his interest in acting, he entered the film industry. He made his debut as an actor in Ee Nadu Ennale Vare, helmed by IV Sasi, the veteran director. Pradeep had appeared as a junior artist in a lot of films before getting popular. He had acted with almost all the biggies in the Mollywood industry.

SN Swamy is a screenwriter who works in the Indian film industry predominately in the Malayalam industry. He has written scripts for a lot of movies and is known for the CBI film series, irupatham noottandu and moonnam mura.

Roby Varghese is a cinematographer born in Thrissur, Kerala. He graduated from Dr. G R Damodaran College of Science and Mind Screen Film Institute in Chennai and has one brother named Tony David, an actor in Malayalam films. Roby started his career as an assistant cinematographer with Rubaiyz Mohammed and Himman Dhammija (2010) in Mumbai. He also assisted Joman T John and Loganathan Srinivasan in 2012 and worked in films Like Puthiya Niyanam (2016), The Great Father (2017), Captain (2018), Love Action Drama (2019), Vellam (2021), Eesho(2022), Vaashi (2022), John Luther (2022). As a second-unit cinematographer, he worked in films like Nee-Na and Charlie (2015) and Action Hero Biju (2016) and also assissted great film directors such as A K Sajan, Lal Jose, Prajesh Sen, Nadirshah, Martin Prakkat, Abrid Shine, and many more.

Vivek Harshan, born on 28 May, 1981 in Kochi , India, is an Indian film editor with a national award to his name for editing film 'Jigarthanda' in 2014. Harshan developed his interest for movies and editing in his college days where he met equally movie enthusiast friends, and it is then that he started taking things seriously. He learned to edit professionally through a course in Chennai and later assisted renowned editor exact==Anthony to whom he also dedicated his national award. He gives credit to his work to Anthony and says whatever knowledge he has of editing is what Anthony gave him.

The precious icon of the Indian music industry, Gopi Sundar has composed his soulful music for more than fifty movies to date. In 2014, he composed the songs & background score for the Malayalam movie "1983" and was awarded the National Award.the movie got a good critic rating of 3.5 out of 5.abrid shine, the debut director of the movie was awarded the Kerala State Awards in the category of the best debut director. Alongside the film bagged two more awards for the category of best & second best actor in the same award ceremony of 2014. He was born in Kochi & opted for joining the music industry for his career. Gopi has a good knowledge of instruments like Tabla & keyboard & has worked as a keyboard programmer in some of Bollywood hit films.

Muhammed Kutty Ismail Paniparambil is the original name of Mammootty, the Malayalam superstar. Having working in more than 300 movies he is still a star to reckon with, in Malayalam film industry. Apart from acting, he was also a lawyer. Currently he is busy with philanthropic works too.

Born on 7th September 1951, Mammootty also donned the role of a producer. He has worked in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Kannada, other than Malayalam films. He garnered the National Award for his acting skills, thrice in his career. He shares this feat with veteran actor Kamal Haasan. 5 Kerala State Film Awards and a dozen Filmfare Awards also decorate his cupboard. Mammootty was bestowed with Padmashri during 1998. He is fondly called as Mammukka or Megastar by Malayalam fans.

Hailing from Kottayam, Kerala, Mammootty, after studying in Maharajah College, he pursued law at the Ernakulam Government Law College. Mammootty entered the film industry through the insignificant role in the film Anubhavangal Paalichakal in 1971. The flick Devalokam was the first flick in which he played the lead role. Sphodanam and Trishna made Mammootty a star to reckon with in Malayalam cinema.

Mammootty was very much lauded for his performance in the flick New Delhi. Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha is the another film which provided the perfect fodder to his acting skills. Some of the other notable films of Mammukka include August 15, Pranchiyettan & The Saint, Drona 2010, Kutty Shrank, Nazrani, Pazhassi Raja, Ee Pattanathil Bhootham, Yugapurushan, Maunam Sammatham, Thalapathy, Swathi Kiranam, Balram vs Tharadas and Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. Mammootty’s penchant towards acting made him to take both commercial and offbeat roles with equal panache. Mammootty’s son Dulquer Salman is a rising star in Malayalam film industry now.

In his career, Mammootty acted with several actors and actresses. Mammootty also involved himself in the production of some serials in television. Mammootty is credited with the responsibility of Akshaya project’s goodwill ambassador. He also supports various other social causes, including a project pertaining to health.