Malayalam Movie Review 41 - Cast & Crew

Shreya Ghoshal, one of the most famous singers in Bollywood today, was born on March 12th, 1984, in Berhampore, West Bengal. Her father Biswajit Ghoshal is an electrical engineer and mother Sharmistha Ghoshal is a postgraduate in literature. She started singing since the age of 4 when her mother taught her. She started her formal training in Hindustani classical Gharana of music when she was only six years old. She was trained for 18 months after which she continued her training in Mumbai with Late Mukta Bhideji. She completed her graduation in Arts with majors in English. Her first on-stage performance was at their club’s annual function. Her first studio album was in Bengali in 19998 and was named Bendhechhi Beena, and her first onscreen performance was in Awaz Nayi Andaaz Wohi. In 1995, she became the winner of All India Light Vocal Music Competition. Her fame and career began with her winning a television singing reality show named Sa Re Ga Ma Pa.

Nimisha Sajayan is an Indian Actress. She works in the Malayalam Film Industry. Nimisha was born on the 4th of January in the year 1997. She is from Mumbai, Maharashtra. Her father Mr. Sajayan is an engineer, and her mother is Mrs. Bindu. They're from Kerala but later migrated to Mumbai. She has an elder sister named Nithu. She had her schooling from Carmel Convent School in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra.

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Best known in Malayalam cinema, Lal Jose is a film director and producer. He was born on 11th January 1966, in Thrissur district of Kerala. Lal started his career in the film industry as an assistant director to Kamal. In 1998, he made his directorial debut with the film titled Oru Maravathoor Kanavu. His other notable works include Classmates, Immanuel, Meesa Madhavan, Neelathaamara, etc. amongst many others. His parents are Jose and Lily and he finished is schooling from NSS KPT School and NSS College. He has two daughters with his wife, Leena. His daughters are Irine and Catherine. After he had finished graduation, he went to Chennai to pursue his goal of being in the film industry.

Prajith is an acclaimed film director mainly working in the Malayalam Industry. He has worked in chartbuster movies such as Meda Meedha Abbayi, Benz Vasu, Sathyam Paranja Viswasikkuvo, Oru Vadakkan Selfie etc. He is an expert in making comedy and satire, adapting it to the current world scenario. He wants his movies to be educational and entertaining but not preachy.

S. Kumar is an Indian cinematographer known for his work behind the camera for movies such as "Boeing Boeing", "Ayalvasi Oru Daridravasi", "Chithram", "One 2 Ka 4", "Kerala Café", "Pattalam", and among many others.

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.

Vijesh Gopal is a playback singer. He has the Indian Nationality. He was born on November 20 and in the year 1979. He was born in Kochi, Kerala, India. Kochi has its other name as Cochin. It is a city in southwest India's coastal state Kerala. It has been a port since 1341 when a flood carved out its harbor and opened it to Arab, Chinese and European merchants. Sites reflecting those influences include Fort Kochi, a settlement with tiled colonial bungalows and diverse houses of worship. His record label is M.C. Audios & Videos. M.C. Audios & Videos did the various record labels like Ambadi Kannan in the year 2008, Poonkettu in the year 2006, Sankaradhy in the year 2005, Ragasagaram in the year 2007, Nandananda in the year 2006, Halashyam in the year 2008 and many more. He did a number of songs. He is mainly working for Malayalam film Industry.

Ajay Mangad is an Indian Art Director who works predominately in the Malayalam film industry. His work in movies such as ABCD, Munthirivallikal Thalirkkumbol, and Two Gentleman is well known. Ajay Mangad's hometown is Mangadu. He currently resides in Calicut, Kerala. Ajay is a long time associate of writer and actor Vineeth Sreenivasan. He made his debut as an Art director with the movie Malarvaadi Arts Club (2010) directed by Vineeth. Since then, he has worked in the art department for more than 18 films. Ajay has worked in movies of actors such as Dulquer Salmaan, Nivin Pauly and, Fahadh Faasil.

Sameera Saneesh is a South Indian costume designer and fashion designer who works in the Malayalam film industry. She was born on 27th June 1983. She is well known for designing costumes of Mammootty, Jayasurya, Prithviraj Sukumaran and other stars. Sameera hails from Eroor village of Ernakulam district in Kerala. Her parents are Ibrahim and Jameela. She married a software engineer named Saneesh K. J. on 26th November 2006. She learned drawing and painting from Kalabhavan Kochi during her school years. Sameera did an under graduation course at Bharat Mata College before joining a Fashion Designing diploma at the Nation Institute for Fashion Designing in Panampilly Nagar. After diploma, she worked as an in-house designer for “Raymonds” for some time before becoming a freelance costume designer for ad-films. Her first projects were the advertisements for “Saundarya Silk”. She rose to prominence due to her work in Seemas.

An award-winning celebrity who belongs to the South-Indian cinematic universe, Ranjan Abraham is known for his work in many highly acclaimed Malayalam films. Having edited over a hundred Malayalam movies, several of his works have won numerous awards at the national level. The respected filmmaker has thousands of fans all across Kerala as well as most of the South-India. Born in 1977, Thuruppugalaan, Kerala, India he has played the role of producer & director on more than a few occasions. He has been an active member of the Malayalam film industry since 1999.

The tall, dark and handsome Biju Menon started his acting career from the small screen. He acted in serials like Mikayelinte Santatikal and Ningalute Swantam Chandu. Mikayelinte Santatikal focused on the life of a family and their complex relationships. 

 In movies, he started with villain roles, second hero roles, and character roles and then graduated to main hero roles. Biju Menon married actress Samyukta Varma, and they have a son Daksh. Biju and Samyukta have acted together in a couple of movies during which they developed a likeness for each other. After the marriage, Samyukta decided to quit her acting career to become a full-time homemaker. Biju Menon resides with his family at Trichur. Their love and relationship is going strong day by day. 

Born in September 1974, Biju is the fifth son of PNB Pillai and Malathi. He had an inclination towards arts since early childhood. He did suffer a brief setback in his career towards the late nineties and early years of 2000, but he slowly found his own place in the industry through unique roles. The combination of Biju Menon and actor Kunchacko Boban has been a hit in the industry. Some of Biju’s recent successful movies include Velli Moonga, Bhaiya Bhaiya, Mannar Mathai Speaking (double role), Kalimannu, Romans, and Chettayess. He has also performed in Telugu and Tamil movies. Biju Menon’s strong and masculine voice is a unique trait which sets him apart from his colleagues.

Indrans, who was born as K. Surendran, is a Malayalam actor and costume designer. He has acted predominantly in many comedy films and over 250 films. He is the second child out of the seven children of Gomathi and Palavila Kochuvelu in Thiruvananthapuram, India in the year 1951. Indirans made his schooling at the Government Higher Secondary School in Kumarapuram until his fourth grade. 

Subsequently after, he assisted his uncle in his tailoring business. He participated in amateur arts and performed dramas. After this, he established a tailoring shop called Indrans, from where he got his stage name ever since he started acting in films. Indrans was debuted in Choothattam as a costume designer before he started his acting career. 

He is the cousin of the National award winning costume designer, Indrans Jayan. He got married to Santhakumari on February 23, 1985, and the couple was blessed with two children. When he debuted in the film industry, he had the chance to meet several filmmakers such as Prem Nazir, Jose Prakash, Sattar, Pappu and Jayabharathi, but he focused only in doing costume designing for many years and did small roles on the big screen. 

Later on, he started to receive many opportunities from prominent directors such as Padmarajan, Sibi Malayil, Shaji N. Karun, K. Madhu and Venu Nagavally. The 1994 Malayalam film, CID Unnikrishnan B.A. B.Ed is the turning point of his career, where he acted as the best friend of Jayaram’s character. His comedic action clicked among the audiences, and he became one of Kerala’s mainstream comedians. Since then, he became the busiest till date. 

As an actor, he used his slim and lean figure and his distinctive accent to win the attention of the audience. He made his very own style in cinema, and he never mimic the comedic acts of the veterans, Adoor Bhasi, Jagathi Sreekumar, Bahadoor and Innocent. He won the Special Jury Award at the Kerala State Film Award in 2014. Well-known directors T.V. Chandran and Adoor Gopalakrishnan offered him to appear in their films. Some of Indirans projects as a costume designer were Sammelanam, Namukku Parkkan Muthiri Thoppukal, Season, Njan Gandharvan, Sphadikam and more. He also sang in the 2004 Kadhavaseshan. 

He acted in films like Sammelanam, Aparan, Dhanam, Utsava Melam, Janam, Manathe Kottaram, Street, Mannar Mathai Speaking, The Fire, Kalavarkey, Balettan, Patham Adhyayam, Inganeyum Oral, April Fool, Cheriya Kallanum Valiya Policum, Sandwich, Killadi Raman, I Love Me, Swapaanam, Praise The Lord, Apothecary and Seconds to name a few. This year, he acted in the comical road film, Aadu, which stars Jayasurya and Oru Second Class Yathra.

Kottayam Pradeep or Krishnettan, as he is popularly known, is a serial actor who hails from Kottayam, Kerala. He got educated from Manarcaud St.Mary’s College. He associated himself with several drama troupes along with his studies. His first serial was, “Swararagam”, and his character, Venkichu, was highly appreciated. He has also acted in the serial, “Autograph”. He is currently acting in the most popular serial currently being aired on Asianet named, “Parasparam”. He won the Asianet Television Award, 2014 as the Best Actor in a Character Role, for playing the character Krishnan in “Parasparam”.

Shivaji Guruvayoor is a Malayalam Film Actor. He was born in the Thrissur District of Kerala. He has done more than eighty movies in his entire acting career. He first appeared on the big screen in the year 1990 in a Malayalam film Vachanam. He is known as Shivaji or Guruvayoor Shivaji in the Malayalam film industry.

Suresh Krishna is a noted actor in the South Indian Film and movie industry who mostly works in Malayalam and Tamil TV serials and movies and is known for his portrayal of strong negative characters. Suresh Krishna was born on April 5 to Balakrishna Panicker and Parvathy who hails from Guruvayur also known as Dwarka of South in Kerala, India. Suresh Krishna was born, brought up and educated in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.

Vijilesh Aka Vijilesh Karayad is an actor who works predominantly in the Mollywood industry. As of now, he has portrayed supporting roles in about twelve movies.