Malayalam Movie Review Finals - Cast & Crew

Latha Krishna is a singer who was one of the top contestants of the reality show Amrita TV’s Superstar Global. She comes from the family of musicians; her great grandfather was a musician at Mysore Palace while her mother is an artist in All India Radio. She started taking music lessons from her mother at a very young age. Latha became an instant celebrity by participating in Amrita TV's show Superstar Global, reaching among the top 6 contenders. She then went on doing various stage shows in India as well as abroad. Latha has also sung songs in movies like Shikkar, Nallavan and still getting offers from Tamil, Malayalam as well as Telugu industries.

Priya Prakash Varrier is a Malayalam Actress, who is known for her work in the Malayalam film ‘Oru Adar Love.’ ‘Priyu’ or ‘wink girl’ are the names by which she is known. She was born in the year 1999 on 28th of October, to Prakash Varrier and Preetha Varrier.

Muthumani Somasundaran now known as Muthumani is a South Indian star, who mainly acts in Malayalam movies. She made her movie debut through Rasathanthram by Sathyan Anthikkad in 2006. She now performs original roles in Malayalam movies. Muthumani was born in the Ernakulam town of Kerala to Sherly Somasundaran and Somasundaran. They were working in the theatre field, which inspired her to join into the theatre shows. She studied at the St. Mary's Convent Girls High School in Ernakulam. She has acted like a child actress for All India Radio.

Sona Nair is a cine actress working mainly in Malayalam films and serials. She did her first movie 'Thooval Kottaram' in the year 1996. There were many character roles that Sona did in movies 'Veendum Chila Veettukaryangal', 'Manassinakkare', 'Passenger' which got well accepted. But her acting in TV serials made her popular among the family audience. 

Sona hailed from Kozhikode, Kerala and was born on 26th June 1975. She started acting in short movies and plays at school level even before getting her breakthrough in debut movie. Sona got 'Kaveri Film Critics' Best Actress award for the tele-film 'Rachiyamma' which was telecasted on DD Malayalam. Sona acted in many devotional series of soaps lined up with 'Velankanni Mathavu', 'Ramayanam' and 'Devimahatmyam'.  Her most prominent role was in the serial 'Ente Manasaputri' which was aired by Asianet. Sona's act perfectly balanced the role of a mother with two children and their conflict in this serial.  Soon after she received 'Sathyan Memorial Award' for best TV actress for the serial 'Samasya' aired by Amrita TV.  

Apart from Malayalam language, Sona also acted in few Hindi movies as well. Priyadarshan's 'Malamaal Weekly' was the first movie for Sona Nair in Hindi. Her character role in the film got well appreciated by regional audiences. 'The Waiting Room, 'Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal', 'Rangrezz' were the other notable movies by Sona in Hindi. Sona got married to Udayan Ambadi a well know cameraman in film industry on the year 1996.

Maniyanpilla Raju act is a South- Indian film actor who mainly acted in Malayalam movies. He was born as Sudheer Kumar and penned his name to Maniyanpilla Raju after his movie, Maniyanpilla Adhava Maniyanpilla in which he had played the character with the same name. He debuted with the movie Mohiniyattam, which was directed by Sreekumaran Thampi.

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.

Niranjan Raju is a Malayalam actor, who is known for his films Black Butterfly and Finals. Niranjan Raju is the younger son of the famous Malayalam Actor and Producer Maniyanpilla Raju. His mother's name is Indira Raju, and his elder brother's name is Sachin Raju. Niranjan Raju made his debut in the Malayalam film Black Butterfly which is the Tamil remake of National Award Winning Movie Vazhakku Enn 18/9. This film was produced by his father. In 2017, Niranjan Raju paired Miya George in the movie Bobby. It is a romantic comedy movie where Niranjan Raju acted as a 21-year-old boy.

Prajeev Satyavarthan is an Indian film producer predominantly working in Malayalam Film Industry. He is known for his superhit sports drama movie in 2019, Finals, directed and written by P. R. Arun. The story of The Finals revolves around a cyclist, Alice, and the struggles faced by her. The movie starred Rajisha Vijayan, Suraj Venjarmoodu, and Niranjan. The previous hit movie by Prajeev Satyavarthan was a comedy film Randu in 2022. Directed by Sujith Lal, the film starred Mamitha Baiju, Sudhi Koppa, and Mareena, released on 7 January 2022 in Malayalam. He is working on several new projects to be release in Malayalam Film Industry.

N.M. Badusha works in the Malayalam film industry as a producer, associate director, production manager, and actor. N.M. Badusha was born in the Indian state of Kerala, in the town of Aroor. He went to GHS Chandiroor for his education and graduated from Santa Cruz College. He is the father of two children, Sahir Badusha and Shifa Badusha. He is married to Manju Badusha.

Sudeep is a cinematographer and director in the Malayalam film industry. He worked in various films, such as “Virtual Bharat,” which aired on August 15, 2019 and was produced by Bharat Bala. “B 32 Muthal 44 Vare" focuses on the stories of five men and a transgender man who belong to different social backgrounds and face challenges in their everyday lives due to their body image issues. It was released on April 6, 2023, and was directed by Shruthi Sharanyam. “Jana Gana Mana" revolves around the story of a college professor who gets murdered in a cruel way, which leads to students protesting in the college.

Kailas Menon is a Malayalam film industry music composer. He is from Thrissur, Kerala, India. He now lives in Kochi, Kerala. Kailas Menon released his first album titled ‘Snehathode’ at the age of 16. In this album Singer Jyotsana who was one of his classmates sang one of the songs and the other singers were state award winner Asha G Menon, Afsal and Madhu Balakrishnan.

Gireesh Puthenchery is one of the most prolific lyricists of Malayalam cinema. Over the last two decades, he has penned about 2000 songs that had been just like a poetic flow out of his mind. He has won the Kerala State Award seven times, of which four were given to him for consecutive years (2001-04). Besides being a lyricist, he tried his hand even as a screenwriter.

Manu Manjith who was born in the year 1986 on 23rd of January in Atholi, Kozhikode, Kerala, India. He is currently 31 years of age. He is married to Hima Hemaraj. He is currently living in Kazhikode in Calicut, India. After completing his high school from St. Joseph's Boys' Higher Secondary School which is situated in Calicut, he did a course of Bachelor in Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery from Government Homeopathic Medical College which is situated in Calicut. He is a poet and lyricist in the Malayalam Cinema. He was passionate about writing since his childhood and has taken part in many writing competitions in his school and college days.

Benny Dayal is an Indian Pop-Singer. Born in Kollam, Kerala, India on May 13, 1984. He was a member of the S5 Pop Band in India. He started as a playback singer and known to have work with various reputable composers.

He finished his studies from Abu Dhabi Indian School (ADIS) and took Journalism in Madras Christian College. His Indian-Pop-Electro-Rap-Reggae infused songs made him so famous and with unique quality compared to any singers. This made him one of the most loved singers by doing such mix-ups of traditional Indian music to a new-era’s songs. You’ll be so moved in listening to any of his songs.

He worked before as an Event Coordinator for RR Donnelley Printing. He also worked as an HR Executive for a BPO when he received a call and inviting him to audition for ARR Studio. He first thought that it was just a prank and ignored it for some time. He tried to call again the phone left for him to contact if he need anything and he found out that it is for real. He also reminisced that he couldn’t even create and prepare his own demo since he doesn’t even have money to produce it. He took his chances and decided to quit his job from the BPO Company and started to work as a singer. His songs were widely used different Indian Films since 2007. He received the award “RD Burman Award for New Music Talent” and “Max Stardust Awards for New Musical Sensation” in 2009. He performed stunning and applauded performances in Gima Awards and many more.

Naresh Iyer is once again a popular face, but mainly due to his singing talent. This 34 year old singer hails from Mumbai. There is no end the number of hit songs he has produced over the years. Likewise, he owns a series of awards that have been rightfully given to him. His contribution to Bollywood has been tremendous.

In spite of having a degree in Commerce, Iyer decided to study Carnatic music and Hindustani classical music. His career has just looked forward from then on.

He got recognition from A.R. Rahman in the reality talent show which was called Channel V’s Super Singer.  His beautiful rendition of Roobaroo, which was an A.R.Rahman composition for the movie, Rang De Basanti, won his a lot of accolade. He went on to win the national award for the Best Male Playback.

He then worked on a number of projects including Raanjhaana and Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na and a number of praiseworthy Tamil projects.  The former is a story about a boy who fell in love with a girl since his school days whereas the latter is a love story again between two friends who realise that they actually love each other towards the climax of the movie. He has been appreciated for his work with the R.D. Burman award for Best Male Debut which is a very prestigious honour in the country.

He is also the vocalist in Mumbai based fusion band that goes by the name of Dhvani.

Yazin Nizar is a prominent name in the South Indian Music industry. He is an excellent Playback singer singing in various language movies which include Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada movies.

N Harikumar, aka, Narayan Nair Harikumar was born on 19 July 1955 in Kollam, Kerala, India. He has done his early education from govt. Model boy’s high school, Kollam and has gone to Thumba St. Xavier's for completing higher education. After that, he moves to the M.G.R Govt film and TV institute to finish a diploma in sound engineering. Delhi Doordarshan Kendra was the point from where he started his journey. Afterward, he worked with renowned P. Devadas as a sound recordist at the Gitanjali studio.

Sreejith Sreenivasan is a renowned Sound Designer/ Sound Editor in the Mollywood Film industry. He is from Kerala. He is famous for his work in the movie ‘Nna Than Case Kodu’, for excellent sound effects and virtualization to make the scene feel real. His team was also a nominee for the Motion Picture Sound Editors event for the category ‘Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Foreign Language Feature’. He started his journey into the music and sound industry in 2015 where he was the Sound Effects Editor for the film ‘Lord Livingstone 7000 Kandi’. Later on, through his passion and hard work he became a part of more than 35 movies across the Mollywood industry. Some major hits are ‘Vaarthakal Ithuvare’ and ‘Jallikattu’ which were released in 2019.

Thyagu Thavanoor is a production designer in the Indian film industry. He has predominantly worked in the Malayalam cinema. He got a very keen eye for the aesthetics and art. He worked as an art director for the film ‘Ann Mariya Kalippilanu.’ It got released in the year 2016. Sunny Wayne, Sara Arjun, and Aji Varghese acted in the movie, and Midhun Manuel Thomas directed the master piece. It narrated the story of eternal friendship between a goon and a cheerful girl whose life changes after one point. Thyagu did the film Godha which got directed by Basil Joseph. It got released in the year 2017. It had the star cast of Torino Thomas, Renji Panicker, and Wamiqa Gabbi. The story of the movie revolved around two wrestlers who fell in love with each other even after unfavorable circumstances.

Pradeep Rangan, also known as the Master of Makeovers, is a makeup artist. And he is the one who created the iconic look for Unni Mukandan in Chanakya Thanthram and Jayaram in Panchavan Thatha. He’s been in the Malayalam film industry for almost twenty years. He was happy when his work was finally given recognition. His career began as an assistant makeup man to Aji Sreekaryam. He entered the industry with his relative Aji, and his quick learning skills helped him to work independently after doing a few more assistant gigs.

Dhruvan is a Malayalam film actor known for his portrayal of Balu in the year 2018, Dijo Jose Antony directed Malayalam movie, Queen, where he played the lead role in the film. The actor was born in the South Indian town of Ottapalam, in the Palakkad city of Kerala. Dhruvan’s debut movie Raag Rangeela, a Malayalam film by Yousef Mohammed, launched in the year 2016.

Tini Tom is a famous Indian movie actor, TV awards presenter and also a mimicry artist. He was born on 1 February in 1972, and his birthname was Devassy. He began his profession as mimic.  

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