P. J. Antony

P J Antony was an Indian soap and film actor, vastly appreciated for his performance in the 1973 movie Nirmalyam, where he acted as a medium between a goddess and her worshipers, for which he also won the Bharath Award(now National Film Award for Best Actor). The movie won him a lot of appreciation and established him among the greats of Malayalam Film Industry. However, the role was not initially offered to him, as it was a veteran actor who declined this offer and proposed the name of P.J.Antony.

He established the Pratibha Theatres and P.J.Theatres in the city of Kochi. Both these theatres are still active. Before his ventures in the field of acting, he served in the Royal Navy in his early twenties, as the Second World War was enraged. After the end of War he got an opportunity to work with professional artists, and it was not long that he established himself as a capable actor, writer, and director in the Malayalam cinema.

After gaining enough experience in the field of acting in theatres, he moved on to acting in films, and made his debut with Randidangazhi(1957), after which there was no stopping him. He went on to make ‘Rosy’ a film in which he was a hero. Then came one of his biggest blockbuster film, titled ‘Bhargavi Nilayam’. It was a ghost movie where the heroine’s character dies and appears as a ghost. The reason of her death is however not clearly depicted. This was also one of his most appreciated works. After these he starred in movies like ‘Murapennu’, ‘Kunjalimarakkar’,’ Balyakala Sakhi Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ and ‘Nadhi’. His last acting venture was in the film Manninte Maril.

Alongside being a great actor, he was a phenomenal writer, director and lyricist. He directed a movie named Periyar. Alongside this directorial venture he also has 115 plays, two novels and nine screenplays. On March 12 2016, all his works, comprising over 3000 pages was brought out by the Sahitya Pravarthaka Sahakarana Sangham. Also K.G.George made a film based on P.J.Antony’s film ‘Oru Gramanthinde Katha’ titled ‘Kolangal’.

In the Year 2007, on March 14, his life was presented in the form of a play at Ernakulam Fine Arts Hall, which has now been adapted into a book. During his glorious career, he had a fair share of controversies. In his film Nirmalyam, he had a sequence, where he was seen spitting on a Hindu Idol in the temple, for which he became a controversial figure for quite some time. It was on the 14th of March 1979, when India lost one of its legendary artist.

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P. J. Antony was born on 1925. He was an Indian artist and movie actor. He was awarded the National Film Award for Best Actor for his acting in the film Nirmalyam in 1974. He was also the first actor in the Mollywood industry to win the award. P J Antony was also a reputed person in the executive theatre ground, laboring with socialist ethnic and skill bodies like the K.P.A.C. He also accepted his theatre, named Pratibha Theatres, in Kochi. In his early 20s, he worked in the Royal Navy through World War II.

He returned home after the war and reached a workroom as an officer. It was through this time that he got a moment to labor with executive theatre actors. Often, he accepted himself as the main person in the Mollywood industry with his arts in acting, writing, and direction. He was mainly related to the K.P.A.C., an important political play theatre. He then established two theatres of his own, that is, P J Theatres and Pratibha Theatres (which is still bubbly). Designing on his skill in stage dramas, he started his movie acting profession. His debut movie was Randidangazhi (1957), an alteration of Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai's book of the same name.

He won the National Film Award for Top Artist (known then, in 1974, as the Bharat Award) for his acting as a velichappadu (a prophet or media by the Goddess and the worshipper in a Hindu temple) in Nirmalyam, directed by important scholarly person M T Vasudevan Nair. Antony was the lyricist and composer for a minor number of movies. He also produced a movie named Periyar. In an actual play, Amal Neerad's Iyobinte Pusthakam Click to look into! >> Read More... had the famous director Aashiq Abu Aashiq Abu known for his work in Malayalam Cinema, >> Read More... acting in the role of P J Antony, even though in a guest aspect. P J Antony has written thirty short stories, one hundred music, forty-one plays, and two autobiographies.