Meera Jasmine
Manju Pathrose
Shweta Menon
Shruthi Rajanikanth
Neena Kurup
Arya Satheesh Babu
Ayesha Shafeer
Narain
M Padmakumar
Ranjith Manambarakkat
Jithu Damodar
Ranjin Raj
M Bava
Johny Antony
Jude Anthany Joseph
Ramesh Pisharody
V. K. Prakash
Renji Panicker
Anwar Ali
Akhilesh Mohan
Arjun TS
Shihab Vennala
Jithu Payyannur
1. Meera Jasmine
Born on 15th February 1982, Meera Jasmine belongs to Kerala. She did B.sc. In zoology from Assumption College, Changanassery. She is a bright name in the Malayalam film industry, very well known for her role in ‘Soothradharan’ released in the year 2001. Later she worked in films like ‘Gramaphone’, directed by Kamal and commercial hits and critically acclaimed projects like ‘Swapnakkoodu,' ‘Kasthoorima’ etc. She received film fare for the movie as well.
...2. Manju Pathrose
ManjuPathrose is an Indian actress who hails from Kizzakkhambalam, Kochi, Kerala. She was born on 26th February 1986 and grew up pursuing her love for dance. She participated in various dance shows. She is married to Sunil Bernard- a percussionist and they have a son named Ed Bernard. She has appeared in over 30 Malayalam films and various television shows. She made her acting debut with the 2003 film Chakram, directed by A.K Lohithadas. Interestingly, film-makers approached her after they saw pictures of her from one of her dance shows.
...3. Shweta Menon
Shweta Menon is a Malayalam and Hindi movie actress in addition to being a model and television presenter. She has also appeared in some Tamil films. She started her career with Malayalam films after which she changed her line for a bit and tried her hand at modelling due to which Shweta gained a lot of recognition as she won quite a few beauty pageants. She won the distinguished title of Femina Miss India Asia Pacific in the year 1994. Shweta Menon was born in Chandigarh but comes from Valanchery district in Kerala. Her father was an Indian Air Force Officer. She is the cousin of actor Anoop Menon. She first appeared in the movie Ishq in the item song ‘Humko Tumse Pyaar Hai’. She went on to make appearances in about 30 films in Bollywood. She had a turning point in her career when she returned to the Malayalam film industry in the 2000s and did important roles in movies. She was the recipient of the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actress for the movies Paleri Manikyam: Oru Pathirakolapathakathinte Katha (2009) in which she played the role of Cheeru and Salt N' Pepper (2011). In her modelling career, apart from winning the renowned title she became the first Gladrags female supermodel and ended up as a semi-finalist in the Miss Asia Pacific contest. She earned accolades for her performance in Madhya Venal in which she played the role of a woman, Sarojini, who fights against all odds of the society. She has even presented and anchored several shows on TV, like Star Wars on Kairali TV for which she also won the Asian Television Award for Best Anchor. Among other TV shows that she has anchored, Dancing Queen, Razzmatazz, Honeymoon Travels, Veruthe Alla Bharaya. She got married to Sreevalson Menon on 18 June 2011 and gave birth to her daughter on 27 September 2012 in Mumbai. Her whole delivery process was recorded for a film Kalimannu, which also landed her up in a controversy.
...4. Shruthi Rajanikanth
Shruthi Rajnikanth is best known for portrayimg the character Painkili Kunjunni or Pinky Shivan in the Malayalam television series ‘Chakkappazham,’ launched on Flowers TV in 2020. She plays the role of the protagonist Uthaman’s sister in the series helmed by ‘R. Unnikrishnan.’ Rajanikanth was born to Rajanikanth J. and Lekha Rajanikanth. Her father is a businessman, while her mother, from Alappuzha, is a make-up artist. She has a younger brother named Sangeeth R. The actress studied at Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Alappuzha. Later, she pursued her higher studies at Pazhassiraja College, Wayanad, where she did a bachelor’s in mass communication and journalism. After that, she enrolled for a master’s in mass communication and journalism at Bharathiar University, Coimbatore.
...5. Neena Kurup
Neena Kurup is a Malayalam film and Television actress who was born on May 3, 1973, in Calicut. She completed her schooling in St. Joseph Anglo Indian School and her graduation from Providence women’s college. Neena is married to Sunil Kumar is an exporter and they settled in Kochi.
She entered into the Malayalam film industry through the 1986 movie “Gandhinagar 2nd Street” starring the megastar Mohanlal and Karthika. The film was remade in Tamil which was named “Annanagar Mudhal Theru” and in Telugu as “Gandhinagar Rendo Veedhi”. Neena played a very small in the movie. Her first movie as a heroine was “Sreedharante Onnam Thirumurivu” which was directed by Sathyan Anthikad and released in 1987. Sathyan Anthikad is an Indian movie director, lyricist, and screenwriter who is known for taking family oriented movies.
Neena played the character named “Aswathy” who is the cousin of the hero “Sreedharan”, the character played by Mammootty. Aswathy is an educated girl who is rude and doesn’t like her relatives. The character was well carried off by Neena’s acting skills though she was a newcomer. She has acted in a few Tamil and Telugu movies also. She did more than 15 films in Malayalam in which her character in the movie “Punjabi House” was clicked. It was a musical comedy movie in Malayalam which was released in the year 1998.
Neena has also anchored a few shows, Merchants of India in Surya TV, VaalKannadi in Asianet and Dubai Shopping Festival. Some of her serials are Chakravakam (which was her debut series), Aayirathil Oruval, Sreekrishnan and a few more. Some of her upcoming movies are Vellakkuppayam, Heroine, Namasthe Bali and Driver on Duty.
...6. Arya Satheesh Babu
Arya Satheesh Babu was born on 13th September 1990 in Kerala. She is one of the most popular and successful actresses working in the Mollywood film and TV industry at this moment. Since her childhood, Arya was always fascinated with movies and show show-business. During her school days she would always take part in stage shows, skits and plays.
...8. Narain
Narain is a famous South Indian Actor who hails from Thrissur. His original name is Sunil Kumar. He was born to Mr. T.M.Ramakrishnan and Shantha Kumari in Calcutta. He did a cinematography course at Adayar Film Institute and after that, he joined with Rajeev Menon as an Assistant Director. After that, he moved to acting and done his first movie Nizhalkuthu directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. People identified him through his movie Four the people directed by Jayaraj . He played the role of a police officer and later he acted in the movie Achuvinte Amma directed by Sathyan Anthickad. Meera Jasmine did the female lead. He played the same police officer role in the remake version of four the people in Tamil, Bengali and Telugu version.
Classmates one of the biggest hit of Narain made him very popular actor. He played the role of Murali, son of a college professor. The entire story revolves around the friendship of some students. His first movie in Tamil was Chithiram Pesuthadi, which was a super hit directed by Mishkin. He changed his name from Sunil to Narain after the success of his first Tamil movie and he got a handful of movies after that. He got some good character roles like collector Vetrivel in the movie Pallikoodam.
In 2012, Narain played a negative role in the movie Mugamoodi starred by Jeeva in the lead role and he acted with Mohanlal in Grandmaster again as a police officer. Narain is now busy with more movies and he will be playing the lead role in Kakki Satta, a remake of Kamal Haasan's movie. Narain is married to Manju and the couple has a daughter Tanmaya.
...9. M Padmakumar
. Padmakumar is a film director mainly based in the Malayalam industry. He has also worked as an assistant director to several leading directors in many movies. He later on, established himself as an independent director after he directed Ammakilikkoodu in 2003. He was born on 1st January 1980 in Kerela, India. He was nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Director-Malayalam. Some of his best-known works include Vaasthavam (2006), Shikhar (2010), Jalam (2015), Joseph (2018), and Mamangam (2019). He has been active since the year 1988. There are several other notable directorial experiences.
...10. Ranjith Manambarakkat
Ranjith Mananbarakkat is an Indian film producer and actor born on 17 August 1978 in Ernakulam, Kerala. Ranjith works in the Malayalam film industry and has produced popular films. He started his career in 2021 with Vellam film. He also acted in movies like Big Brother, Vellam, Padachone Ingalu Katholee, Happily Married, and even in the short film The Sound of Age. He became famous after his performance as a politician in the movie. He got featured in advertisements like Swayamvara Silks, Parisons Liberty, and Manorama Horizon and produced other films such as Appan (2022) and Padachone Ingalu Kaatholee (2022) with director Bijith Bala. His upcoming movie, Queen Elizabeth, directed by M Padmakumar going to release in September 2023.
...11. Jithu Damodar
Jithu Damodar is a popular cinematographer from the Malayalam cinema. He started his career in the 2012 Malayalam political thriller film, Veendum Kannur, starring Anoop Menon in the lead role. This was followed by Rajeev Nath’s Malayalam drama film, David & Goliath, in the year 2013.
...12. Ranjin Raj
Ranjin Raj is a Malayalam film industry music composer. He was born on 11th December 1988. His parent’s names are M Rajendran and Supriya Rajendran; at a very early age, he started singing and started learning Karnatak music. In 2013 on 25thAugust, he has been married to Silpa Tulsi. He also has other skills like playback singer, keyboard artist, and lyricist. Ranjin also worked for TV channels like handling music production in serials.
...13. M Bava
M. Bava is a Mollywood Art Director and has also worked in Production Designs for the Indian film industry. He started his career in 1997 as the art director and got appreciated as a debutant. In 2003, he was honoured and awarded as the ‘Best Art Director’ at the Kerala State Film Award Show for his work, “Mullavalliyum Thenmavum and CID Moose.” Bava’s most difficult project was back in 1998 when he had to research and deliver the best in making a red vintage car for the film “Sindabad.” The amount of hard-work and time taken to have an exact replica, was a difficult job in the pre-technology scenario.
...14. Johny Antony
Born to C. J. Antony and Liduwa Antony in Changanassery in Kerala, Johny Antony is an Indian film director. He is well known for his comedy movies in the Malayalam film industry. Having assisted various talented directors like Thulasidas, Taha, Kamal, Jose Thomas, etc. Johny Antony has been active in Indian cinema since 1991. Johny is married to Shyni Antony since 2002 and has two beautiful daughters- Aswathi and Lakshmi with her. He completed his initial school education from St. John’s Baptist High School in Nedumkunnam and his higher education from NSS College in Changanassery. Johny started his career by assisting acclaimed Malayalam director Thulasidas in 1991 in the movie Chanchattam starring Jayaram, Urvashi, Jagathy and Manoj K Jayan.
...15. Jude Anthany Joseph
Jude is a famous Malayalam film director who was born on 25th April 1983 at Kochi, Kerala. His first film as a director was in the Malayalam film Ohm Shanthi Oshaana. In his childhood, he was active in a mono act and drama. He was the action hero of Biju. Jude started his career with Crazy Gopalan in 2008. He was the assistant director of Malarvaadi Arts Club (2010) and Thattathin Marayothu (2012).
...16. Ramesh Pisharody
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.
...17. V. K. Prakash
V K Prakash is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter popular amongst the regional audience for his work in movies like Praana (2019), Careful (2017), Nirnnayakam (2015), Natoli Oru Cheriya Meenalla (2013), Trivandrum Lodge (2012), etc. Mostly known for his major involvement in Malayali short films, documentaries, TV shows, and Kollywood movies, Prakash has been a prominent part of the South Indian film and music industry for more than five years now. Over the years, he has been admired by the local critics and spectators on numerous occasions for his exceptional performances and albums as a film director.
...18. Renji Panicker
A firebrand script-writer, actor, director, and producer, that’s Renji Panicker for you. He made his debut with movie ‘Bhattacharya IPS’ in 2005. He started his career as a journalist after getting his post graduate degree in it. He, with Shaji Kailas, has given gem of movies to the Malayalam industry. He is also the managing director of the Malayalam newspaper Metrovarthaa. He was born on 21 January 1958 to Keshava Panicker and Laalamani at Nedumudi, Alleppey.
...19. Anwar Ali
Anwar Ali is a famous editor from the Telugu industry. He was born in Vijayanagar in Andhra Pradesh. Currently, he resides in Hyderabad, Telangana. He is a man with great vision. He believes in diversification and brings continuously honed his skills. He has great knowledge of his work and believes in providing quality content to the audience. He is known for his editing skills in Sarkar 3 (2017), Amma Rajyamlo Kadapa Biddalu (2019) and Das Ka Dhamki (2023). Sarkar 3 is the story of an exploited political figure. It was produced by Ram Gopal Verma and starred Yami Gautam, Amitabh Bachchan, Manoj Bajpayee, Abhishek Bachchan, Ronit Roy, Supriya Pathak, Jackie Shroff, Amit Sadh and many more. Film editing was done by Anwar Ali.
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