An ongoing endeavor to profile the known and not-so-known, yet equally forgotten faces of Malayalam cinema’s yester years.
You would be surprised at the chronic lack of information on even those whom we thought were our personal favorites. This will be always a work in progress.
Please click on each image or title to go to their Profile Archive.
Manuel Sathyaneshan aka Sathyan brought his own school of acting into Malayalam cinema.
The first and last “Evergreen Hero” of the Malayalam marquee, he was the purveyor of romance onscreen.
Jose Prakash began his career as one of our earliest playback singers and ended up redefining villainy on the Malayalam screen.
Mary Joseph aka Meena Kumari aka Meena doesn’t need any introduction for anyone who understands Malayalam cinema.
Madhu was a unique personality who never upset the ‘business equations’ nor the industry’s existing power centers.
Kuthiravattam Pappu had so much going on for you onscreen that you followed him almost breathlessly onscreen.
Oduvil Unnikrishnan’s life was a celebration of unabashed Simplicity and exceptional creativity, onscreen and off it too.
Picking out your favorite movies of GK Pillai is a strange exercise, as his memorable ones came in his early years.
The sheer number of movies that he has been a part of makes it next to impossible, to get a grip on the onscreen roles.
Jayan ‘ruled’ for the full four years with 150-odd films through the the kitschy & loud 80′s, and went out on a blaze of glory.
There will never be another actress in Malayalam cinema who has spoken a whole lot more than the screenplay, with a pair of eyes, as Srividya.
OLD MALAYALAM CINEMA 