Tamil Movie Review Pulimurugan - Cast & Crew

Anjali Aneesh Upasana is an actress, who predominantly works in South Indian movie Industry. It was while pursuing a degree that she started doing advertisements and modeling. Anjali was noticed by the producers working in the entertainment industry and was offered roles in programs of reputed channels, like Asianet, Kairali and Jeevan TV. She is married to Aneesh Upasana, who is a director and screenwriter in Malayalam Film Industry. Anjali was born in the Ernakulam district of Kerala in the year 1984. She did her schooling from a reputed educational institution in Tripunithura. She is an alumnus of NSS College, Tripunithura. Anjali changed her on-screen name to Bhagyanjali to attract the luck goddess. She has also acted in several albums like LA Cochin. She has acted in more than 75 albums and advertisement campaigns. That is how Anjali got a chance to enter into the world of cinema. She made her debut through Seniors, a film starring Kunchako Boban, Biju Menon, Manoj K Jayan, Ananya and Jayaram. Afterward, she acted in films like Scene 1 Nammude Veedu, Venicile Vyaapaari, 5 Sundarikal and ABCD.

Durga Premijth is a child artist who has worked in the Tollywood and Malayalam film industry. In 2016 he was in the cast of the film Meendum Oru Kadhal Kadhai. The film was released on 26th August 2016. The film was written by Vineeth Sreenivasan. It was directed by Mithran Jawahar. The cast includes Arjunan, Divya, and Venkatesh Harinathan. It was a romantic-drama film. She appeared as Young Meera in the drama film Hallelooya. The film was written by S.A. Abhinan and Suniraj Kashyap.

Remya Nambeesan is a chirpy young Indian actress, whose primary focus is Mollywood. Born on January 1, 1986, Remya Nambeesan was introduced into the film industry with the 2000 Malayalam flick Sayahnam. R Sarath helmed direction for this flick. After that, she went on to work in various Malayalam films as a child artiste. Then she was seen in insignificant supporting roles including Narendran Makan Jayakanthan Vaka, Gramophone, etc. She had worked under the direction of Sarath for three times. Eventually, she got lead roles since the year 2006. 

Born on the 18th of July, 1978 in the Kanhangad district of Kerala, Vyshakh is neither among the old generation of directors and nor among the new generation battalion making movies solely with say, Fahadh Fazil or Dulquer Salman. Vyshakh on the other hand, belongs somewhere midway, bridging this link. This bridging of the generation gap is clearly visible in his directorial debut ‘Pokkiri Raja’ that released in 2010. He is known for making some masala entertainers in Malayalam. Pokkiri Raja starred Mammootty and Prithviraj Sukumaran in lead roles, and nothing portrays better the combination of two generations or rather entirely two mindsets in his movies. It turned out to be the largest grosser in the Malayalam movie industry in 2010. It dealt with the story of two brothers, one of whom is an underworld don and how he helps his younger brother fight for his lobe interest who is played by Shriya Saran. ‘Seniors’, which released in 2011 starring Manoj K Jayan, Jayaram, Biju Menon and Kunchacko Boban, came next. This one too was a great commercial success and garnered great reviews. Set in a comical and hilarious setting it dealt with a murder mystery and how a group of four friends return after a long gap to their college to figure out who among them is the actual murderer after one of them was wrongly charged with the crime long back.

He is a Malayalam film producer, distributor, and business man. He has his production house by the name of "Mulakuppadam Films" and head office situated in Kochi, Kerala. He came in front of the public eye with movie Pulimurugan(2016) from his own production house and became first to occur in "100 crore club" and "150 crore club". He also won Asianet Film Award for Most Popular Film for Pulimurugan (2016). His fascination towards movies paved his way to Malayalam film industry. He produced his first film entitled Flash(2007), a psychological thriller starring Parvathy and Mohanlal and directed by Sibi Malayil.

Siby K Thomas is famously recognized as a producer, screenplay, and dialogue and story writer by profession in the Malayalam film industry. He is best known for his works with Udaykrishna in the Malayalam cinema. Most of their works come under the category of the slapstick comedy genre. They collectively wrote the scripts of the films like Mattupetti Machan in 1998, Udayapuram Sultan in 1999, Dhosth in 2001, CID Moosa in 2003, Runway in 2004, Kochi Rajavu in 2005, Thuruppu Gulan in 2006, Twenty:20 in 2008, Pokkiri Raja in 2010, Christian Brothers in 2011 and Mayamohini in 2012.

Udaykrishna was born in Kerala, India. He is a professional screenwriter. Udaykrishna preferably works for the Malayam industry. He started his career as an assistant screenwriter A.R.Mukesha. By his efforts and skills, he was later promoted to work as an sub-director under Ali Akbar, K. Madhu, A Venu, B. Nair, and Balu Kiriyath. He wrote two scripts for Hitler Brothers and Mayajalam for Sandhya Mohan and Balu Kiriyath. Udaykrishna even acted in his first film as a thief. Both were a flop in the industry. Soon, after working hard upon the piece of work he made it for Mattuppetti Machan, which was directed by Jose Thomas. The next was Udayapuram Sulthan. Then cames the movie Sundrapurushan, which was a so-called success.

The camera being his life, Shaji Kumar has spent his life working behind the lens. A cinematographer with wild ideas and styles of his own, makes this man a true gem. He has targeted and gave blockbuster movies to Kollywood and Mollywood. Born in Kochi, Kerala, he started his professional career by using the lens of his camera for capturing the scenes written in scripts in Malayalam. He has spent many hours working with leading filmmakers like Shaji Kailas, Joshi, Vinayan and Vysakh and has learned from their styles and techniques to manage projects in Kollywood. He now has extended his work with the renowned hero in Tollywood actor Prashanth for the project ‘Saagasam’ in 2016. He has received laurels and applause for the movie ‘Ponnar Shankar’ in 2011 and also for shooting 'Mambattiyan' in 2011 and lately 'Saagasam' in 2016.

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.

Jyoti Chetia is a sound designer and sound editor in Bollywood. He had worked with Rajshri Media Pvt Ltd as Sound Engineer. He worked in films like David(2013), Holy Cow(2019), Bhasadbaaz(2019), etc. He always had the edge over this field that made him more determined to work hard and become a well-known sound department manager.

Joseph Nellikal is an Indian Art Director active in the Malayalam Film Industry. He debuted with the Dileep starrer Meesha Madhavan in 2002, where his ingenious use of ordinary materials gave a colorful look to the movie and made it a trendsetter for the Movies that came out around the same time. His work in the Dileep starrer Movie Runway (2004) marked a turning point in his career. He started gaining naturality in his works. The popular Valayar Checkpost was constructed in the middle of the city.

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'.

John Kutty is an Indian Editor. He works in the Malayalam Television and Film Industry. John started his career as an editor with Asianet channel. He used to edit the serial “Munshi” (2000). He later joined the Kerala State Film Development Corporation. He worked as an editor in the serials “Sumangali” and “Jagapoga.” He worked as an editor in the Cartoon Network TV show “Tenali Rama” an animated series.

Mahesh Narayanan is an Indian writer and film editor, popular amongst the regional audience for his work in movies like Take Off (2017), Traffic (2011), Vishwaroopam (2013), and Ennu Ninte Moideen (2015). Mostly known for his predominant involvement in Mollywood movies and Malayali TV shows, he has been working in the film industry for more than ten years now.

A Chennai boy born in Karaikal to the immigrants of Vietnam is famous for his stunt sequences and action director and choreography. He was born and brought up in Chennai itself. He belongs to Tamil Chettiar community. He started off as an extra stunt fighter in many regional films. His first venture as a full-time action director is Murari. Earlier he has worked with pioneers like Kanal Kannan, Ram Gopal Verma, Vijayan, etc. he has done quite a plenty of films in Telegu, Tamil, and Malayalam. He earned critical appreciation and fame through his work in films such as Varsham, Anniyan, Athadu, etc. Ram Gopal Verma, impressed by Hein offered him to work for James and thus it was his ticket to Bollywood. His next Bollywood venture was Mani Ratnam’s Raavan.

Yannick Ben is a stunt performer in the Hollywood film industry. He has predominantly worked in Bollywood and Tollywood movies throughout his lifetime. The talented stunts-man got trained in Aikido, Kick Boxing, Jeet Kune Do, Gymnastics, and Sand. He won the second position in France National Gymnastics Championship in the year 1997. He always had an interest in the sports field and later, he realized his dream of working in the movies. He founded Jumperz Parkour after rigorously practicing Parkour from 2003. He trained under the professionals from the Yamakasi group who are one of the best in the art form. Yannick is a parkour tutor and an actor too. He devoted most of his life to the cinematic world and did more than forty-four films as a stunt performer. He worked in the famous television series ‘Le Clan Pasquie’ in the year 2007 and performed in two of its episodes.

Antony Perumbavoor was a driver earlier in his life (he had been a driver to veteran actor Mohanlal) and later became a famous producer in the film industry. Eventually, his life took a drastic change, and he became Mohanlal’s business partner. Antony Perumbavoor owns a production house named Ashirvad Cinema and the first film that this production Studio produced was Narsimha.

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.”

Sudheer Karamana is a Malayalam films’ actor. Karamana Janardanan Nair’s first-born. He has two siblings, named Sunil and Sujay. He was born at Karamana in Thiruvananthapuram, and he studied at Kendriya Vidyalaya Pattom School.

Ajaz is a dancer and actor who works in the Malayalam entertainment industry. He acted in various films, such as “Kammara Sambhavam,” which revolves around the character of Kammara who is living a life with no purpose and doing lots of immoral acts in his life. He also betrays other people who helped him on his difficult times. However, his life changes when he encounters the great Indian fighter, Subhas Chandra Bose and decides to join the Indian freedom struggle. Ajaz plays the role of Kammara as a child version.

Bala Kumar is a Kollywood and Mollywood film actor and director. He was born in Chennai district of the state of Tamil Nadu in India. Luckily, his family is closely associated with the filmmaking business. Arunachala Studios was owned by Bala’s grandfather. Bala’s father Jeykumar is the director of around 350 documentaries and films, and his brother Siva is a cinematographer turned into a director. He tied the knot with Amrutha Suresh on 27th August 2010 at Ernakulam in Kerala. They both first met on the sets of Idea Star Singer show which is broadcasted on Asianet and got involved with each other since then. The couple got gifted with a daughter named Avantika on 20th November 2012. A controversy got aroused about the couple’s divorce in which Bala filed the application for it. Bala made his debut in the year 2003 with a Tamil film Anbu.

Kishore was born in the year 1974 in Karnataka. Basically, he was a theater artist. When he was doing his graduation in National College, he started to act in various theater plays. He is a Masters Degree holder in Kannada Literature. After his graduation, he started to work as a teacher. Then, he worked as a fashion designer. Kannada movie ‘Kanti’ was his debut movie, which gave him a good career. It got released in 2004. He got the State Award for the Best Supporting role for the movie ‘Raakshasha’. His role in the movie Akash was widely appreciated by the critics. He acted as the brother for four sisters, who brought them up strictly. This movie has the resemblance of the Malayalam movie Hitler. 

Tamil director Vetri Maran was searching for a talented Kannada actor, who could speak Tamil well. Kishore caught in his eyes, but the movie was dropped. But, he got a chance in the movie Polladhavan with Dhanush. The movie was a super hit, which gave a good recognition to Kishore. Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu, Jayamkondaan and Haridas are the super hit movies in which Kishore was praised. Haridas with Sneha is the most appreciated role and Kishore did a lead character. Kishore became the popular and best performer, as a good actor and he got many opportunities and he selected good movies, which had good acting scope. His performance in Arrambam and Thilagar were appreciated well. He has not only performed in lots of Kannada and Tamil movies, but also in Telugu movies. Kishore has proved that art has no language.

His current projects are Yatchan, Thoongavanam and Kadhali Kanavillai in Tamil, Ricky, Octopus in Kannada and Cheekati Rajyam in Telugu. Vascodigama in Kannada, a comedy movie is the latest hit movie of Kishore. He has done as the film lead with Parvathy Nair. 

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Kishore Jayaram is actually known as the “good villain” of Tamil cinema, has done some memorable roles in films such as ‘Aadukalam’, ‘Pollathavan’, ‘Porkalam’, ‘Shaithan’ and ‘Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu’. In these films he was given the film centering roles. In the last decade or so, this actor has excelled in bringing us a variety of antihero roles that the industry liked him to cast in major good characters only. This gentle and soft-minded person is actually a lecture-turned-actor who is known for doing “good” villain role in the Tamil film industry. He is also a costume designer for films. Currently, Kishore has now been considered to play an important role in the upcoming Tamil movie ‘Kabali’. A few months earlier, this actor was seen busy shooting for the Kamal Haasan starrer ‘Thoongavanam’. 

After Kamal’s film shooting has been almost over, the actor has now been roped in for a key role in Rajinikanth’s next (Kabali). While making a biopic on Veerappan, his looks had so much justified him in playing the character that it turned out to be a stellar performance from the actor. Veerappan was made a bilingual film (Attahasa in Kannada and Vana Yudhdham in Tamil). Kishore was noticed in the Tamil film industry when he got to play the villain Selvam’s role in the Dhanush-starrer Polladhavan. Later on, Aadukalam too brought him much attention. In the same year, his performance in Haridas, where he played a cop and father of an autistic child was critically acclaimed a lot. Actor Kishore also made a space for himself in Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam film industry. This actor always had wanted to face the camera and become actor. He left his teaching profession and joined the film industry out of passion for acting. Although he had made his debut in Kannada film, his experiments in Kannada film industry had given him the critical acclaim. But it is only in Tamil film industry where he got his major success..

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Kishore (also known as Kishore Kumar G ) is an actor born in Karnataka. He has basically evolved from the theater. Today, he is known as ‘Veerappan’, for portraying the role of a bandit in 'Vana Yuddham' (Tamil), and 'Attahasa' (Kannada), which was directed by A. M. R. Ramesh. It was a technically brilliant biopic of dacoit, Veerappan, and the critics praised the performance of Kishore as Veerappan in the film. The actor always wanted to become an actor, but missed many chances. Before making his debut in acting, he was a professor in Sharada College in Bengaluru, but opted to quit the job. His first break came in the year 2004 in ‘Kanti’, when he was a part-time fashion designer. He bagged the role of 'Byaadara Beera' in the movie 'Kanti', when he was supposed to design the costumes for the film. But as the lady luck had smiled upon him, the actor got his first acknowledgment as an actor by winning the State Award for his performance in the film. In the year 2004, he again won the State Award for his performance in the movie, 'Rakshasa'.

Hareesh Peradi, a sublime actor who blends so well with the roles portrayed by him, is from Chalappuram, Kerala. Hareesh is the son of Govindan Nair and Savithri Nair. As a teenage boy, he was engaged and interested in dramas and had received several prizes as well. He is wedded to Bindu, who is a dance teacher. They have a son, Vishnu, and a daughter, Vaidhi. Hareesh has studied in Zamorin’s College.

Makarand Deshpande is an Indian actor and director who makes films predominantly in Hindi and Marathi. He is popular for playing pivotal supportive roles in many movies like Jungle, Sarfarosh, etc. He has directed more than five films and written 35 full-length plays and owns a theatre company in the name of ‘Ansh’.

Nandalala Krishnamurthy is a respected Indian film actor who works mostly Malayalam films. His original name is Nandalal Krishnamurthy, but he is famous by his stage name Nandhu. Nandu hails from Thycaud, Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala. Just after two months from his birth, his mother expired. He was brought up by his uncle and aunt who took care of him and treated him just like their son. His father was a very emotional person. He never remarried, and died while taking table tennis lessons. Nandhu wanted to pursue acting as his profession, unlike his father who was a table tennis coach. As soon as he finished his graduation, he moved to Chennai to try out his luck in the South Indian film industry. He started his acting career with 'Yuvajanolsavam' (1986), directed by Sreekumaran Thampi. Later, he appeared in 'Sarvakalasala' (1987), directed by Venu Nagavally. Over the period, he was prominently offered roles which were of college background as he looked like a young college going, student.

Noby Marcose is a famous Malayalam comedian. He is very well known for his performance in Asianet’s Vodafone Comedy Star. He has done more than 26 movies and is one of the finest comedians in Malayalam Television. Born on 9th of August in Kerala, his sun sign is Leo. He completed his graduation from Gvhss Pirappancode, Thiruvananthapuram. He got married to Arya in February 2014. They have a son together. His name is Dhyan Nobi. He lives in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala with his wife and son.

Ramesh Pisharody, a mimicry artist and anchor, was born on October 1, 1983, in Karikode, Kottayam. He is also known as Kannan. He belongs to the Malayalam TV industry. In his career, he has also appeared in a few films as the supporting actor role and also in the lead role. Along with Dharmajan Bolgatty, who supported him as the female lead most of the times, he hosted a comedy show, Bluff Masters, which helped him gain popularity. The awesome duo, Ramesh-Dharmajan, as the lead comic actors, created a great impact on the audience, and the show, Bluff Masters, achieved great success. He is a great anchor, and nowadays, he is anchoring celebrity show like Badai Bungalow, screened on Asianet, which portrays the Malayalam version of Comedy Nights with Kapil.

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.

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.

Sooraj Venjaramoodu was born on 30th June, 1976 in Kerala. He is an Indian actor, television presenter, and comedian. He has acted in over 250 films. His father is a retired soldier and, his mother is a housewife. Sooraj began his career as a stand-up comedian. He was successful in this and was most famous for his mockery of the Thiruvananthapuram accent. At first, when he started his acting career, he was not well- accepted by the audience.

Vinu Mohan is a prominent Malayalam actor. He was born as Vinu Mohan Kumar on May 12, 1986, in Kottarakkara, Kerala in India to Malayalam film actress, Shobha Mohan, and the late Mohan Kumar. Shobha is the son of the yesteryear Malayalam actor, Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair and the sister of popular Malayalam actor, Saikumar. Vinu’s younger brother, Anu Mohan, is also a film actor in the Malayalam film industry, who debuted in the film Orkut Oru Ormakut in 2011. Vinu studied at Boys Higher Secondary School in Karunagappally. He got married on May 19, 2013, to Vidya, his co-star in the Malayalam film, Ee Thirakkinidayil.

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