Malayalam cinema is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Malayalam language, which is widely spoken in the state of Kerala and Lakshadweep islands of india. Malayalam cinema includes the commercial film industry, sometimes known as Mollywood, as well as independent cinema made in Malayalam.
Unni Menon is an Indian film playback singer. He has recorded over 4000 songs in many Indian languages including Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. In the early part of his career, he spent many years as a low-profile playback singer. The turning point in his career came with the song "Pudhu Vellai Mazhai" from Mani Ratnam's award-winning 1992 Tamil film Roja, composed by A. R. Rahman.
Ajantha is an Indian film produced and directed by Rajppa Ravishankar. The film was simultaneously shot in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu languages with different starcast.
Nanda Nanditha is a 2008 Indian Kannada language romantic action drama film directed by B. N. Vijayakumar starring Yogesh and Swetha. The film was remade into a Tamil and Telugu as a bilingual movie titled as Nanda Nanditha (2012). After the film's success, Swetha appended Nanditha to her stage name.
Meghana Sundar Raj Sarja is an Indian actress who primarily works in Malayalam and Kannada films along with a few Telugu and Tamil films. She made her acting debut in the 2009 Telugu film Bendu Apparao R.M.P. She has won Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in Iruvudellava Bittu, a 2018 Kannada film.
Asif Ali is an Indian actor and producer, who works in the Malayalam film industry. He started his film career with Shyamaprasad's 2009 film, Ritu.
Asuravithu is a 2012 Indian Malayalam-language action thriller written and directed by A. K. Sajan, starring Asif Ali and Samvrutha Sunil in the lead roles. The film is a sequel to 2002 Indian Malayalam-language action gangster-thriller drama film Stop Violence starring Prithviraj Sukumaran in the leading role. The film opened to mixed reviews and was a box-office flop. This was the debut film of actor Mammootty's nephew Maqbool Salmaan. This Movie Was Dubbed In Hindi As Duniya Meri Mutthi Mein.
Ragini IPS is a 2014 Indian Kannada-language action film directed by Anand P. Raju and produced by K. Manju. It stars Ragini Dwivedi in the lead role and was the first Kannada film to be named after an actress. Avinash, Kavita Radheshyam and Narayanaswamy appear in supporting roles. It was dubbed in Hindi as Hindustani Jaanbaaz 2. It is loosely based on the 1988 Hindi movie Zakhmi Aurat.
Baiju Santhosh Kumar is an Indian actor who works in Malayalam films. He began his acting career in 1981, as a child artist in the film Maniyan Pilla Adhava Maniyan Pilla. Since then he has acted in more than 300 films.
Aby Tom Cyriac is an Indian composer, arranger and programmer. He is a well known music arranger and programmer to major music composers in the Indian film industry.
Sudheer Karamana is an Indian actor who appears mainly in Malayalam cinema. He is the son of actor Karamana Janardanan Nair.
Sandeep Kurissery is an Indian film sound designer, sound editor and location sound recordist. He, along with Jiji P Joseph won the first ever award for location sound recording for the film Oraalppokkam in the 2014 Kerala State Film Awards. The duo won the award again in 2015 with Ozhivudivasathe Kali. Sandeep has worked with some of the leading filmmakers in South India like Girish Kasaravalli, Shaji N Karun, Vipin Vijay and Shyamaprasad.
The following is the partial filmography of Sukumari, an Indian actress who began her career at the age of 10 with a minor role in the Tamil film Or Iravu in 1951. In a career spanning more than six decades, had acted in more than 2500 feature films in various Indian languages, including Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Sinhala, Oriya, English and Bengali.
Hesham Abdul Wahab is an Indian music director, Music Producer, singer and audio engineer. Best known for his compositions for the soundtrack of the 2022 Malayalam film Hridayam and the music album Qadham Badha(transl. Step Forward) produced by British singer-songwriter Sami Yusuf. Wahab is the recipient of a Kerala State Film Award, SIIMA Award and IIFA Award for music direction.
Nikhila Vimal is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Malayalam and Tamil films, in addition to Telugu films. After appearing in a minor role in Bhagyadevatha (2009), her lead role came in Love 24x7 (2015).
Abrahaminte Santhathikal is an Indian Malayalam-language action thriller film released in 2018, directed by debutant Shaji Padoor and written by Haneef Adeni. The film stars Mammootty and Anson Paul in the lead roles and pivotal roles of Kaniha, Tarushi, Renji Panicker, Yog Japee and Kalabhavan Shajon. Shot in Ernakulam, principal photography began on 5 January 2018 and ended in March. Gopi Sundar scores music for the film, and Mahesh Narayan handles editing.
Jubair Muhammed is an Indian music composer and playback singer who works in Malayalam cinema. Jubair has worked on Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi language films, Music Videos and Short Films.
Mera Naam Shaji is a 2019 Indian Malayalam-language comedy film directed by Nadirshah and produced by B. Rakesh under the banner of Universal cinemas. The film features Biju Menon, Asif Ali and Baiju Santhosh in title roles. The film was written by Dileep Ponnan, while music was composed by Emil Mohammed. Nikhila Vimal plays the female lead role as a Tamil girl who is Asif Ali's girlfriend and Sreenivasan and K. B. Ganesh Kumar plays an important role.
Nanda Nandhita is a 2012 Indian romantic drama film directed by Ramshiva. The film was made simultaneously in Tamil and Telugu with Hemachandran, Surya Pratap, and Meghana Raj. The film is a remake of the 2008 Kannada film Nanda Loves Nanditha. In the Tamil version, Hemachandran portrays the protagonist and Surya Pratap portrays the antagonist. In the Telugu version, the roles are reversed.
Salim Hassan is a Kerala-based film actor who is a renowned professional in the Malayalam television industry. He is best known by his screen name of Pyarijathan or Pyari in the Malayalam television sitcom, Marimayam aired on the entertainment channel Mazhavil Manorama. He had also appeared in Malayalam films including Mera Naam Shaji (2019) and Makal (2022).
