N. P. Chellappan Nair

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N. P. Chellappan Nair (1903 - 1972) was a playwright and short story writer from Kerala, India. He concentrated on social comedy of manners. Of his 200 stories, thirty-one have been published in a separate volume. [1] He received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Drama in 1961 for the play Iblisukalude Naattil. [2]

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N. P. Chaellappan Nair was born in 1903 in Mannar, a small town in what is now Alappuzha district of Indian state of Kerala. He died in 1972 at the age of 69. [3]


Works

Plays

  • Pranaya Jambavan (1938)
  • Lady Doctor (1940)
  • Minnal Pranayam (1941)
  • Vanakumari (1942)
  • Lieutenant Nani (1946)
  • Iblisukalude Naattil (I960) [4]
  • Ksheerabala (1966)
  • Itiyum Minnalum
  • Vikata Yogi
  • Bhavana
  • Nurse [5]
  • Minnal Pinarukal
  • Aa Prakasham Poliyukayilla [6]
  • Vazhivilakkukal [7]
  • Devadasi [8]
  • N. G. O. [9]
  • Gangayum Yamunayum Onnuchernnozhukanam [10]
  • Mohangal, Mohabhangangal [11]
  • Kakkakalum Kakkathamoburattikalum [12]

Short stories

  • NPyude Charithrakathakal (Collection of 21 short stories) [13]
  • Ere Nerum Kure Nunayum [14]
  • Dasapushpangal [15]

Films

N. P. Chellappan Nair wrote the screenplay and starred in K. Subrahmaniam's film Prahlada (1941).[ citation needed ] He also scripted the films, Chandrika (1950), Sasidharan (1950), Chechi (1951) and Athmasanthi (1964).[ citation needed ]

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