Aparna Balamurali
Linta Jeethu
Jeethu Joseph
Gokulam Gopalan
Satheesh Kurup
Arun Vijay
Anil Johnson
BK Hari Narayanan
Najim Arshad
Dhanush Nayanar
Ajith Abraham George
Ayoob Khan
Jithesh Poyya
Vazhoor Jose
Mafia Sasi
Kalidas Jayaram
Shebin Benson
Joy Mathew
Shaheen Siddique
Vijay Babu
Vijayaraghavan
Aroma Mohan
Bennet M Varghese
1. Aparna Balamurali
Aparna Balamurali is an actress in Indian cinema who predominantly acts in Malayalam movies. Her debut film was ‘Oru Second Class Yathra’ (2015)where she played the character of Vineeth Sreenivasan's lover. She appeared as the pair of Vineeth in flashback scenes This film was directed by Jexon Antony and Rejis Antony. After this movie, she was associated with another Malayalam movie ‘Maheshinte Prathikaram’. The film was produced by filmmaker Aashiq Abu, who directed films like 'Daddy Cool' and 'Salt N Pepper' and Dileesh Pothan directed the movie. In the movie, she not only played the role of a college student as Jimsy Augustine but also lent her voice for one song ‘"Mounangal" along with Vijay Yesudas. This film placed her in the list of recognit...
3. Jeethu Joseph
Jeethu Joseph is a Malayalam film screenwriter and director. He was born on 10th November 1972 in a politically based family where his father was an MLA of’ Muvattupuzha’. He always wanted to be in entertainment, but his father forced him to become an engineer. He later joined Nirmala College in Muvattupuzha to study economics. Jeethu began his career under the director ‘Jayaraj’ as an assistant. He worked under him for the Malayalam film ‘Bheebhatsam’.
Later he individually started directing a film but eventually it did not work out, and he was back on the starting line. In the meantime he urbanized single line plot of ‘Detective’ but he couldn’t find any producer, so his mother sponsored him with th...
4. Gokulam Gopalan
Gokulam Gopalan has been named as A.M Gopalan, was born on 23rd July in the year 1944 in Vadakara, Kerala, India. He belongs to a decent family with father Chathu and mother Madhu. Gopalan has a wife and three children named Baiju Gopalan, Lijisha Gopalan, and Shabareesh Gopalan. Gopalan is an Indian film industry, film distributor and businessman. He preferably works in the Malayalam film industry. Gopalan acted in two films named Netaji and Client in the year 2017 and 2019 respectively. Gopalan was appointed as the leader of Sree Narayana Dharma Vedi and also as the president of Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam.
Gopalan started with his career in the year 2007. He was starting producing from the movie Athisayan. Then after a year in 2009, Gopalan got another film as producer, which was Pazhassi raja. Likewise, he got the...
5. Satheesh Kurup
Satheesh Kurup is an Indian cinematographer who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema. He took up a challenging task of photography from his first film ‘Anwar,’ and this film is still considered to be one of his best works so far. He owes an inspiration as a cinema technician from cinematographer and director Balu Mahendra. He was very much determined to be a part of the cinema. But before he could make a plunge in cinema, he was a still photographer in his college club. His continuous passion for cinematography brought him closer to many producers and directors of Malayalam cinema. While he was a still photographer in the college club, he took up the role of an assistant cameraman for Big B, which had cinematography by Samir Tahir. Later on, he had followed up as an operating cameraman for movie ‘S...
6. Arun Vijay
Arun Kumar is the son of famous Tamil actor and politician Vijayakumar. He is also known by the name of Arun Vijay. He was born on November 19, 1977 in Chennai. He was born in a film family so it was not hard for him to make a way towards silver screen.
7. Anil Johnson
Anil Johnson. One word that is enough to describe this man: Maestro! He is a multitalented, multifaceted artist who has been entertaining audience for over a decade now. He has primarily worked for Malayalam cinema. He was born and raised in Cochin in Kerala. He has a list of specialties under his belt! Some of them are: composer, a lyricist, music director, song writer, keyboard programmer and arranger, producer and sound designer, to name a few. The list is endless. Just like his talents! He can proudly boast of having composed the music for jingles for advertisements, programmed music for several major composers and musicians and also worked on films to provide background scores.
According to him, it’s an art to detect the mood of a movie, and then use music to enhance that feeling and bring it out, th...
8. BK Hari Narayanan
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.
But this song was restricted to youngsters and teenagers only. His lyrics are a great hit always. The year 2015 saw great success in his career. His songs filled the TV station telecasts, radio stations, thea...
9. Najim Arshad
Born on 8th June, 1986 to parents Thirumala Shahul and Rehma in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, Najim Arshad is a famous Indian playback singer working in Malayalam, Hindi and Tamil film industries. His father is a retired administrative officer from Vigilance Department while his mother is a music teacher. He has two brothers one is a doctor, and the other is an engineer. He feels proud to say that both of them are musicians too. He has been undergoing training in Carnatic music vocal under Gurunathan Sri H. Raja in S.S.T College of Music since 1995 and in violin by Sri Rathinam and Sri Kadanad Haridas.
Najim rose to fame after winning the 2nd season of Idea Star Singer 2007. He debuted as a playback singer in 2007 in Mission 90 Days which is a Malayalam film. He is known for his collaboration with all music ...
10. Dhanush Nayanar
Dhanush Nayanar started his career doing an advertisement for Medimix. He was the first child of his parents, Dr. Sunil and Rajani. Dhanish was an average performer in academics. He never knew that one day he would make an excellent career as a sound effects editor and get work for a great movie like Kabali. Firstly, Dhanush Nayanar did BSc. in Visual Communication from Hindustan College, Coimbatore and later finished his studies as Sound Engineer from LV Prasad Film and TV Academy, Chennai. He worked under an efficient sound engineer Mr. Raja Krishnan as a trainee.
Dhanush also worked as an Assistant Sound Editor for many Malayalam and Tamil movies like She-taxi, Oru Second Class Yathara, Amar Akbar Antony, Muthugaw and recently worked as Sound Effects Editor in Kabali, which was a big-budget Tamil movie. Dhanush worked with R...
11. Ajith Abraham George
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.
Additionally, serving as Consultant Techni...
12. Ayoob Khan
Ayoob Khan is an upcoming Indian film editor who is known for his contribution to Keralite cinema universe. As per his Facebook profile, he has mentioned Kayakulam as his hometown. Ayoob completed his schooling at VHSS Chathiyara, Sooranad, and passed out from the school in 2001. In future, he would go on to take admission in Bishop Moore College, Mavelikara, Alleppy district in the year 2006. Having been involved in low-profile videos and documentaries, he has Sir Laddu and Valkittentha Paripadi to his credit. Sir Laddu is an online comedy directed by Siddique and edited by Ayoob.
This ten-minute movie amassed a considerable number of views to garner popularity among the Malayalis. Later, he progressed to the big screen as he became an independent editor for the critically-acclaimed Drishyam starring Mohanlal. Ranked as one of...
13. Jithesh Poyya
Jithesh Poyya is an Indian make-up artist and writer who worked for the Malayalam film industry. He is one of the most recognized make-up artists in the South Indian film industry who worked in more than 20 movies. Jithesh worked with some of the famous faces of the Malayalam industry including Mohanlal, Meena, Ansiba, Baburaj, Devan, and many others.
Some of his remarkable work in the South Indian film industry includes Upcharapoorvam Gunda Jayan in 2021, Kala Viplavam Pranayam in 2018, Mr. and Mrs. Rowdy in 2019, and many others.
...14. Vazhoor Jose
Vazhoor Jose is a Public Relation Officer in the Indian film industry. He has extensively worked in the Malayalam movies. Vazhoor is very talented and focussed to his work. In a very less time, he became a big name for himself in the south and paved a great way ahead for his future. He gave his precious thirty years of his life to the film industry and worked upon more than five hundred films in his entire career. He always experimented with the different genre of the movies and tried to deliver the best output. He wrote an outstanding review of cinema and promoted them. He helped in the distribution of the movies with too the point reviews of the piece of art and made them famous worldwide. He came to be known as one of the best public relation officers of the professional realm of the cinematic world. Vazhoor hailed from the district...
15. Mafia Sasi
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 pe...
16. Kalidas Jayaram
Kalidas Jayaram was born on December 16th, 1993. He was born in Kerala, India. Kalidas began his acting career when he was just seven years old, and he took a break from the acting since 2003 till 2014 to focus on his studies. Kalidas is the son of the eminent Malayalam film actor Jayaram and an equally popular Parvathy.
He has a sister-Malavika Jayaram, and he resides with his family. Before he even began to act, He had lent his voice to a movie named ‘Friends’ in1999. He received his bachelor’s degree from Loyola college-A prominent educational institution in Chennai. He graduated in Visual Communication. He debuted his film career by acting in the 2000 film ‘Kochu Kochu Santhoshangal’ He was just seven year...
17. Shebin Benson
Shebin Benson is an Indian actor who works in the Malayalam film industry. He hails from Nilambur in Kerala and was born to Christian parents. He was born on 27th November 1995 and his star sign is Sagittarius. Benson has a special inclination towards playing young and jovial characters that have loads to express. Shebin is a student of Visual Communication at the SRM University in Chennai.
Deeply passionate about photography and art, Benson’s debut project was the 2013 film Idukki Gold, directed by Aashiq Abu. Getting baptized into the film industry was a mere serendipity for Benson, who originally wanted to make his career in painting or photography. It was on the pretext of meeting with photographer Ajay Menon that Shebin reached Kochi, and auditioned for the role.
In his debut, he essayed the younger se...
18. Joy Mathew
Joy Mathew has various feathers to his cap; he is an actor, director, writer and a political persona. But he is very humble in this real life. Hailing from an upper-class Christian family he had his initial days in Kozhikode. He initially joined Pune Film Institute but later opted for post graduation in Mass Media and Journalism. But films always remained his passion.
Born on 20th September 1961, Joy Mathew hails from Challissery, Thrissur. Joy Mathew’s films reflect his childhood days and fervent association with left-wing politics. He believes in giving equal t...
19. Shaheen Siddique
Shaheen Siddique is an Indian actor and was born on 21st February 1989 in Ernakulam, Kerala, India. He is well known for his work in Malayalam films. Shaheen finished his schooling from “The Choice School.” After his education, he took business as his career. He is the son of the film actor Siddique. Shaheen was invited to make his film debut in “Pathemari” directed by “Salim Ahamed.”
He plays a role of a guy in his early 20’s, the son of Pallickkal Narayanan and Nalini played by Mammootty and Jewel Mary respectively.
Shaheen made his debut with the Malayalam movie Pathrmari (2015) directed by National Award winner “Salim Ahamed.” Shaheen plays the role of Mammoott...
20. Vijay Babu
Vijay Babu is a popular South Indian actor, who has appeared mostly in Tamil and Telugu films. His native place is Kalahasthi in Andhra Pradesh. He joined the film institute in Chennai to learn acting in the year 1975 along with Rajini, Chiranjeevi and Bhanu Chander. He is in the film industry for the past 4 decades.
Initially Vijay Babu was not interested in acting, but his friend motivated him to act in the cinema. Without getting the consent of his parents, Vijay Babu came to Chennai along with his friend to attend the interview. He was interviewed by popular director Balachander and Vijay Babu passed in the interview. After joining the course, he learnt everything perfectly for the whole two years. He made his debu...
21. Vijayaraghavan
Vijayaraghavan is an Indian actor from Kerala, who mainly acted in Malayalam films. He is popular for his versatility playing different character and villain roles. He is the son of great Malayalam drama writer and director N. N. Pillai, who is known to many by his role Anjooran in the Malayalam movie Godfather.
Vijayaraghavan was born in Malasia in 1951 and brought up there until he was six months old. Being from a drama family Vijayaraghavan had the acting talent inherited from his father. Vijayaraghavan debut in Malayalam movies was in 1973 through Kaapaalika, a film based on N N Pillai’s famous drama with the same name. He did a small role in this movies. A decade later he did a throughout role in movie Surumayitta Kannukal (1983). The 1987 Mamooty-Joshi movie New Delhi was the real breakthrough...