Malayalam Movie Review Shylock - Cast & Crew

Christa Kala is a budding playback singer in the Malayalam industry who hails from Kochi, Kerala. She pursued B.A Music from Maharajas College. She was passionate about music since childhood. She came into the industry through reality shows. Her first reality show was Junior idol. People started to recognize her after participating in the reality show ‘Sa re ga ma pa.’ Her biggest dream is to become a playback singer. But, she was shocked when she got a call from music director Gopi Sundar. She met Gopi Sundar before participating in ‘Sa re ga ma pa.’ One of her friends recommended her to Gopi Sundar to do a chorus in one of his songs.

Deepika V is a multi-talented personality. She is a singer, a model, a dubbing artist, and also an actor. She is also passionate about playing the piano. She has completed her B.Tech. In Information Technology from Easwari Engineering College.

Divya S. Menon who was born on 14 March in the year 1987 is a television anchor and singer from Kerala. She was born in Thrissur, Kerala. His father name is Mr. Soman Kurup who is a mechanical engineer and her mother name is Meena Soman. Divya also worked as a singer when she was a child.

Nanda J. Devan is a singer, songwriter, playback singer and a musician in the Malayalam entertainment industry. She started her musical journey at the age of three when she began learning Carnatic music. She often talks about the support she got from her father who also has a keen interest in music. At the young age of six, she sang in the movie ‘Rajadhiraja’ starring Mammootty whose music was composed by Berny-Ignatius, a well renowned music director duo of the Malayalam film industry. She later ended up joining one of their famous bands. At the age of 16, she went on to compete in ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa’, one of the biggest musical reality shows in India broadcasting on Zee Keralam channel.

Narayani Gopan is a singer born in Kerala, India, and working in the Mollywood industry. She was one of the 16 contestants of the show ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Keralam.’  Narayani was born into a family with musical background. Her father, Kallara Gopan, is also a well-known singer in Mollywood. Thus her father is her very first inspiration. Narayani grew up listening to her father’s songs. His music draws her attention to singing, she says. She says she wants to be the next Kallara Gopan of this era. Narayani is also a social worker working for the rehabilitation of children with traumatic pasts.

Shwetha Ashok is an Indian actress who works predominantly in the Tamil film industry. She was born on the 12th of May 1989. She started her career in acting by playing a supporting character. After her performance in supporting roles, she got many big projects as the main lead. She debuted her acting career in the film Muthina Kathirika. She did modelling for few a years in Bengaluru and then started doing films. She had always wanted a career in acting. Sundar C, the director, reviewed her portfolio and extended an offer for her to join a significant project.

Brinda is one of the best choreographers of South Indian cinema and Bollywood. Her name comes in the list of the greatest artist of the 21st century. Brinda through her talent and dance moves made it to the South Indian film industry and Bollywood also. Brinda has worked in the glamour industry for past 20 years as a professional choreographer. Brinda dedicated all her life to choreographing and assisting various notable actors.

Stephy Zaviour is one of the top Malayalam film industry costume designers. She was born and brought up in Wayanad, Kerala, India. Wayanad is a small district in Kerala so she was not much familiar with cinema but she was fascinated by the film industry and costumes. She went to Bangalore for her Higher education and there she met some industrial experts.

Ambika mohan is an Indian film actress, who has acted in more than 175 films. She was born in Ottapalam and bought up in Munnar. Ambika got married to a K.S.E.B engineer “Mohan”, the couple have two daughters. 

She is known for her roles in Malayalam TV serials. She has also acted in a few devotional albums which raised her popularity. We could also see her in some of the advertisements of Jayalakshmi silks, Amala hospital, Kerala handlooms and a lot more. 

One of her best performances was for the movie ‘Kasthooriman”, her character “Vanaja” was outstanding with her natural performance. The movie was directed by the late director Lohithadas, with Meera Jasmine and Kunchacko Boban in the lead roles. Her movie became super hit with the performance of Meera Jasmine, who is a versatile south Indian actress and is two time recipient of Kerala state awards. 

Her debut TV serial was Sargam which was broadcasted in Doordharsan in 2006. She has acted in telefilims Umma Ariyatha Katha in Kairali TV and “Mothiram” in Doordharsan were commendable. 

She made her debut through the movie Meghamalhar directed by “Kamal” in 2001. The film is considered as one of the best Malayalam romantic poetic love story. Ambika Mohan acted as the hero’s sister in law. The movie bagged many awards including Kerala state film awards. Ambika Mohan was lucky enough to show her presence in most of the Malayalam movie which were commercial hits. She has been active in the Malayalam film industry from 2001 to till date and is still doing handful of moves every year. Some of Her upcoming projects are: Nirameghangal, Abduvinte Swantham Ammaku, Wonderful Journey and Mallanum Mathevanum. Presently she is acting in two serials named “Balamani” telecasted in “Mazhavil Manorama” and “Bala Ganapathi” telecasted in Asianet.

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Ajay Vasudev is an Indian film director who has worked in several Malayalam movies. Ajai made his debut in the year 2014. In 2014 he appeared in the movie Rajadhi Raja. The cast of the film includes Mammootty, Raai Laxmi. Then in 2017, he directed the movie Masterpiece. Mammootty, Poonam Bajwa were in the lead cast in the film.

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.

Kalabhavan Shajohn is one of the most well-known comedian, actor, and mimicry artist in the Malayalam cinema industry. He is renowned for his role as a villain in the award winning Malayalam suspense thriller movie, ‘Drishyam’ which came out in the year 2013.

Renadive, also known as Renu, was born on August 30, 1979, in Kunnamkulam, Kerala, to Kallayil Vijayaraghavan, a photographer. Renu’s passion for photography sparked after his father gifted him a toy camera in his childhood. He completed a diploma course in Still Photography from the Indian Institute of Photography. He has worked on multiple episodes of Veritta Kazhchakal for the Kairali TV channel as a cameraman. He joined fellow cinematographer Alagappan in 2006 for the film Agnisakshi as an assistant cinematographer, and in 2007, he joined the team of the film Big B as an assistant cinematographer to Sameer Tahir. He has worked with Sameer Thahir on every single one of his films ever since. 

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.

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.

Raj Kiran is one of the well-known director, actor, and producer in Telugu film industry. He is known for the works that he has done in the industry. He struggled a lot in his earlier age to become a successful director. Before entering into the direction department Raj Kumar acted in a few of the Tamil films like Muni, Komban, Kereedan. He got appreciations for his performance in the movie. Being a director is his lifetime goal. For that, he used to strive really hard. He started writing a story and decided to direct the movie at any cost. That movie was an horror-comedy thriller. Most of the writing he has done in one of the burial grounds of Hyderabad so that he can relate to that subject and can concentrate more and can get effective ideas.

Viveka is a lyricist, who works in the Tamil film industry of South India. Viveka started as a lyricist in the year 2015. Viveka was born in 1985, and currently resides in Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu. Before venturing into the film industry, Viveka studied engineering and then law. Inspired by the work of Vairamuthu, a famous lyricist of the Tamil industry, he also began penning down poems. In the year 2015, he received his first breakthrough movie, “Enakkul Oruvan”, for which he wrote the lyrics of the songs “Poo Avizhum Pozhudhil”, and “Yaar”. After that, there was no looking back for this star lyricist. In the same year, he wrote lyrics for movies like “36 Vayadhinile”, "Indru Netru Naalai", “Maalai Naerathu Mayakkam”, and “144”. These included songs such as “Happy”, “Pogiren”, “Vaadi Raasathi”, “Kadhale Kadhale”, “Ennodu”, ” Mokka Piece”, “Mora Saiyyo”, and “Sarakka”. In the year of 2016, he has worked on four films, namely: “Kathakali”, “Irudhi Suttru”, “Aranmanai 2”, and “Jil Jung Juk”. He is working on the upcoming film, “Oru Naal Koothu”. These five in total include around ten songs that are being written by Viveka.

Ajith has 25 years of expertise in the field of audio engineering and has worked as a mix engineer or sound designer on several films in a variety of languages. In addition to serving as a consultant at SJCC College of Communication, the first multimedia institute in Kerala, he played a virtual role in the establishment of the KR Narayanan National Film Institute in Kottayam, Kerala, the third National Film Institute in India. His fields of study include sound engineering, sound mixing, and sound design. He has held the position of Technical and Operational Head at Trivandrum's Vismayas Max Studio Complex. This was Kerala's first fully functional post-production facility. He played a crucial role in creating the Cochin studio division and making the studio the finest in Kerala.

George Sebastian, also known as S. George, is an Indian Bollywood fashion man and movie producer who labors in the Mollywood movie industry. His father's name is M. O. Devasia. He is famed for his returning cooperation with Mammootty, relating with him in over twenty-five movies and then flattering his private fashion man. He has won the Kerala Movie Critics Cooperation Award for Top Fashion for Paleri Manikyam: Oru Pathirakolapathakathinte Katha (2010) and the Kerala State Movie Award for Top Movie Producer for Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam (2022).

Ranjith Ambady is an eminent Make-up artist from India. He is well known for his prominent skills in the field. He has worked abundantly in the South-Indian film industry. His best-known work includes Thanmatra, Paleri Manikyam, Palunku, How old are you? and Takeoff. He has acted as a paragon of efficient completion of the task. Ranjith went to Veteran actor Ndumudi Venu’s residence, with the director Blessy, to read the script. The residence was situated at Thiruvananthapuram. Venu was supposed to play a role of 70 years old father, Mohanlal in the movie. While Venu was reading the script, Ranjith tried a look at Venu. He did not pay any heed to the look since he was busy listening to the script. Soon the visitors were welcomed to have tea and snacks in the dining room. There Ranjith witnessed several monochromic portrays of family members of Venu, hanging on the wall.

Anal Arasu is a heat amidst the stunt coordinators in the cine industry. He is known to us as the fight master or the action master who performs various stunts in the movies of Indian languages like Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and much more. This simple man was born in Chennai and has dedicated his entire life, literally and figuratively in performing stunts as a coordinator in the movies. His initial times were quite hard. He stepped in as an extra fighter and then became assistant to stunt masters like Kanal Kannan, Stun Shiva, and Peter Hein. His source of inspiration to become a stunt master is his father C.M. Arasu, who has also performed in numerous movies in the 1980s. He made his debut in the film “Chathrapathy.’ He then worked with Prabhu Deva for the action films like Vedi (2011) and Rowdy Rathore (2012).

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

V.K. Baiju is a well known Malayalam actor in the Malayalam industry. He has acted in several Malayalam serials and films and has got a good place in the industry. V.K. Baiju’s father is Vidyadhar Kurup, who was a social activist in a political party. His native is Malapuram in Kerala. During his young age, V.K. Baiju has done a lot of jobs before his entry to the cinema. He was a painter and also had run Auto rickshaws too. He has also worked as a salesman in a medical shop.

Bibin George is an Indian actor and screenwriter. He mainly writes for the south Indian cinema. He is a new face in Kollywood that emerged in the last few years. Bibin was born in the city of Kochi, in the south Indian State, Kerala.

Hareesh Kanaran is an Indian film actor and comedian, popular amongst the regional audience for his work in movies and TV shows like Aanakkallan (2018), Oru Pazhaya Bomb Kadha (2018), Puthan Panam (2017), Kali (2016), Viswa Vikhyaatharaaya Payyanmaar (2017), etc. Mostly known for his supreme involvement in Malayali short films, theatres, TV shows, and Mollywood movies, Hareesh has really been an important part of the Indian film industry for the past seven years. Born in Perumanna village, Kozhikode district, Kerala, Hareesh completed his schooling from the Ganapathy Boys school, Kozhikode.

Jaise Jose is a film actor who works in Malayalam and Tamil industries. He was born on October 27, 1997, at Vadakancherry, Trichur in Kerala. He has been passionate about acting since his school days and has done mono-act performances during cultural fests. Though he was interested in acting, he didn’t get a chance to enter the film industry, so he went to Dubai and started his own business. During his stay in Dubai, he met a few of his friends in the film industry, and they were the ones who helped him to achieve his passion. He is known for the movies like Kaduva, Three dots, Shylock, Masterpiece, Ladies and Gentlemen, and many more. Jonny Jonny Yes Papa is the movie that brought him fame, and people started to recognize him. His first screen appearance was with Mohanlal.

Born in 1989 to Mariamma and K Matthew John, Kaippallil is a Malayalam supporting actor and model. The artist cuts the cake on January 24. He hails from Malayalapuzha, Pathanamthitta. . He believes in Christian-Marthomite religiously. His family consists of three brothers namely Hisab Rashid, Mevin Iype Mathew and Vineeth KA, and his grandfather Sajesh Nambiar.

John Vijay was born in 1976. John is a Tamil film actor, who has contributed on playing many brace roles. He has mostly attempted the role as a comedian and villain in Tamil films. John did his Master of Science in Visual Communication from Loyola College.

Rafii is one of Malayalam cinema's most successful writers and directors. He co-directs his films with Mecartin, and the two have been working together since 1996. On the other hand, Raffi began his career as an assistant director for another filmmaker combination, Siddique-Lal, with the film Godfather in 1991. He made his debut with the film Ellarum Chollanu (1992). Raffi worked as a writer on films like Mr. & Mrs. (1992), Aniyan Bava Chetan Bava (1995), and Aadyathe Kanmani over the next few years (1995). Rafi made his directing debut in 1996 with the film Puthukottyile Puthu Manavalan, which he co-directed alongside Mecartin. The film was a hit, and their combination continued to deliver blockbuster hits one after the other.

Siddique, who is a Malayalam film actor, producer, and a television host started his film career initially with comedy roles, and later he continued performing a variety of roles. Born at Edavanakkad, in Ernakulam Kerala, Siddique is the youngest child with two other siblings. Completing his primary schooling in his hometown, Siddique later took Diploma in Electrical Engineering. He worked as an Electrical Engineer at Kerala and worked for a few more years in Saudi Arabia. Later he quit his job and started exploring his inner talents. He started his artistic career as a mimicry artist. Married to Seena, Siddique has two sons. Shaheen Siddique is his eldest son from previous marriage, and he made his debut in the movie Pathemari.

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