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Machan Varghese
M. L. Varghese (1960 – 3 February 2011), popularly known by stage name Machan Varghese, was a Malayalam film actor and mimicry artist. He started his career as a mimicry artist in Kalabhavan (house of arts) and debuted as an actor through ''Kabooliwala''. Thereafter he played many notable roles in Malayalam films, mainly as a comedian. His association with Siddique-Lal, Rafi-Mecartin and Lal Jose are particularly noted. Within a career of nearly two decades, he acted in over 100 films. Varghese died on 3 February 2011 in Kozhikode of cancer. He was aged 50. Education & Family M. L. Varghese (Machan) completed his high school education in 1970's from St. Albert's High School, Ernakulam. He was married to Elsy. The couple have a son Robin Varghese and a daughter Rincy. Filmography * 2012: ''Orange''(posthumously) * 2011: ''Maharaja Talkies'' * 2010: ''Nizhal'' * 2010 : ''Best Of Luck'' * 2010: ''Kadaksham'' * 2010: ''Paappi Appacha'' * 2010: ''Njan Sanchari'' * 2010: '' Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kochi, Kerala
Kochi (), also known as Cochin ( ) ( the official name until 1996) is a major port city on the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea, which is a part of the Arabian Sea. It is part of the district of Ernakulam in the state of Kerala and is commonly referred to as Ernakulam. Kochi is the most densely populated city in Kerala. As of 2011, it has a corporation limit population of 677,381 within an area of 94.88 km2 and a total urban population of more than of 2.1 million within an area of 440 km2, making it the largest and the most populous metropolitan area in Kerala. Kochi city is also part of the Greater Cochin region and is classified as a Tier-II city by the Government of India. The civic body that governs the city is the Kochi Municipal Corporation, which was constituted in the year 1967, and the statutory bodies that oversee its development are the Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA) and the Goshree Islands Development Authority (GIDA). The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Cat (2007 Film)
''Black Cat'' is a 2007 Indian Malayalam action thriller film written and directed by Vinayan and starring Suresh Gopi and Meena in lead roles. The film also features Mukesh, Karthika, Rajan P Dev, Indrans, Harisree Ashokan, Jagadeesh, Nedumudi Venu, Ashish Vidhyarthi and Thilakan in supporting roles. Plot The story is about Black, a fisherman who is loved by all in his village even though a mentally ill person. He is also the security of Tharakan Muthalali, a famous marine food exporter and is cared for by his daughter Blessy, who values Black's friendship. Caesar and George Washington are his two supportive friends who were also Tharakan's securities. Varkechan, Tharakan's brother, is not at all happy with Black's eating styles and rebuked him once for eating in his house. Black continues his childish behaviour and is called by Caesar to accompany Pathrose Moopen to have more food. Later Tharakan receives a call from Prabhul Kumar from Mumbai regarding the arrival of his daught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kabooliwala
''Kabooliwala'' is a 1994 Indian Malayalam-language coming of age comedy drama film, written and directed by Siddique-Lal, starring Innocent and Jagathy Sreekumar. The film was remade in Tamil as ''Meesai Madhavan'' (2004). Plot The story begins in Delhi. Unni is the four-year-old son of a Doctor and Sridevi. Unni has two elder sisters. On Unni's fourth birthday the Doctor is late for the celebration; but he gives Unni a bugle which he likes very much. The same night while they were celebrating Unni's birthday, a Kabooli named Ameer comes to the docto with a child who is suffering from fever. The doctor does not treat the child but asks him to take the child to hospital. He receives a call at midnight that Ameer's son is in critical condition. The doctor rushes to the hospital with his son. Unni is very much attached to the music played by Ameer. Ameer's son Munna dies in the hospital and he kidnaps Unni and flees from Delhi. 20 years later, the story shifts to Kerala. Kannaas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mannar Mathai Speaking
''Mannar Mathai Speaking'' is a 1995 Indian Malayalam-language comedy thriller film produced and directed by Mani C. Kappan and written by Siddique-Lal. The stars Mukesh, Innocent, Sai Kumar, Vani Viswanath, Biju Menon, Geetha Vijayan, K. P. Ummer, Kaviyoor Ponnamma, Janardhanan, Indrans, Vijayaraghavan, Sukumari, Harisree Ashokan and Cochin Haneefa. It is a sequel to the 1989 film '' Ramji Rao Speaking'', and is followed by ''Mannar Mathai Speaking 2'' (2014). Vani Viswanath made her debut in this film as a leading actress. The film was a commercial success. It is loosely based on the 1958 film ''Vertigo''. Priyadarshan adapted certain subplots of the film for his Hindi film, ''Bhagam Bhag'' (2006), which went on to be remade in Telugu as ''Brahmanandam Drama Company''. Writer Siddique later reused the story and tweaked it for his Tamil film ''Sadhu Miranda'' (2008) and Telugu film '' Maaro'' (2011). Plot Mannar Mathai is now running a drama group under ''Urvashi Theatres''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hitler (1996 Film)
''Hitler'' is a 1996 Indian Malayalam-language comedy drama film written and directed by Siddique, produced by Ousepachan Valakuzhy and Lal under the banner of Ousepachan Movie House. It stars Mammootty in the title role with Mukesh, Shobhana, Sai Kumar, Jagadish, and Vani Viswanath in supporting roles. The story centers around the life of Madhavankutty (Mammootty), locally known as 'Hitler' due to his tough character, domineering personality and his uncontrolled rage at the youngsters of the area, for stalking his five young sisters. The film features original songs composed by S. P. Venkatesh. ''Hitler'' became the highest-grossing Malayalam film of the year 1996, and completed more than 300 days theatrical run. The film broke the collection record of Mammootty-starrer '' The King'' that was released the previous year. Plot The movie speaks about the life of Madhavankutty, a rich man locally known as "Hitler" due to his tough character, domineering personality and his unco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punjabi House
''Punjabi House'' is a 1998 Indian Malayalam-language comedy drama film written and directed by Rafi Mecartin. It stars Dileep and Harisree Ashokan as comedy duo Unni and Ramanan with Mohini, Jomol, Lal, Cochin Haneefa, Thilakan, Janardhanan and N. F. Varghese in pivotal roles. The music was composed by Suresh Peters and S. P. Venkatesh, the former composing the songs, making his debut as a film composer and the latter composing the score. The film was released as an Onam release on 4 September 1998. The film was a blockbuster at release even though it clashed with Mammootty-Mohanlal starrer Harikrishnans. Many dialogues from the film turned into popular catchphrases. The character ''Ramanan'' played by Harishree Ashokan is considered one of the best comedy characters in Malayalam movies and has a cult status. The movie is considered one of the best slapstick comedy film in Malayalam cinema and it established Dileep as a leading star and catapulted him into stardom. The film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thenkasipattanam
''Thenkasipattanam'' () is a 2000 Indian Malayalam-language action comedy film written and directed by Rafi Mecartin, produced by Lal, and starring Suresh Gopi, Lal and Dileep as male leads and Samyuktha Varma, Geethu Mohandas and Kavya Madhavan as female leads with Salim Kumar and Spadikam George in supporting roles. Synopsis Kannan (Suresh Gopi ) and Dassan (Lal) are owners of the market in their village in Thenkasi Pattinam. They become the famous rowdies under the guidance of their godfather (Vinu Chakravarthy). Dassan has a sister called Devootty (Kavya Madhavan) who is the educated girl and wants to get rid of their rudeness from their behaviour. Shatrugnan (shortened as Shathru) (Dileep) who later joined as the manager of the KD & Co who is regularly beaten by them due to his stupidity. Soon later it is revealed that Shathru is in love with their sister, but she is not interested in him. He joins Kannan's and Dasan's firm KD & Company as the manager in an attempt to win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meesha Madhavan
''Meesha Madhavan'' () is a 2002 Indian Malayalam-language action comedy film directed by Lal Jose and written by Ranjan Pramod. The film stars Dileep in the title role, while Kavya Madhavan, Indrajith Sukumaran, Jagathy Sreekumar and Cochin Haneefa play supporting roles. It was the highest-grossing Malayalam film of that time and ended up being an industrial hit. Meesha Madhavan raised Dileep's stardom to a whole new level and developed a cult following in Malayalam cinema. It was remade in Telugu as Dongodu (2003) starring Ravi Teja and in Kannada as Hori (2010) starring Vinod Prabhakar and in Tamil as Kollaikaran starring Vidharth. Plot Madhavan is a clever thief who robs for a living and is well known in the village. He is following the principles of his mentor Mullani Pappan who trained him to be a thief when Madhavan was a young boy. Meesa Madhavan got his name by the popular saying that if Madhavan rolls his Moustache (Meesa in Malayalam) looking at someone, he wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thilakkam
''Thilakkam'' () is a 2003 Indian Malayalam-language comedy-drama film directed by Jayaraj and written by Rafi Mecartin. Dileep, Kavya Madhavan and Thiagarajan play the lead roles. The rest of the cast include Nedumudi Venu, K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Nishanth Sagar, Jagathy Sreekumar, Cochin Haneefa, Harisree Ashokan, Salim Kumar and Bindu Panicker. It was remade in Kannada as ''Nandeesha'' in 2012, starring Komal. Plot Padmanabhan master and his wife is waiting for Unni, their only son who is missing for many years. Ten-year-old Unni gets lost in the crowd during a temple festival where he was along with his neighbour Panikkar, popularly known as Poorappanikkar. Panikkar too did not return since he decided to return only after finding Unni. Ammu is Panikkar's daughter who also believes, like master and his wife, that her father will return one day with Unni. The master finds Unni after years and returns him to the village. The villagers realize that Unni is abnormal and is mentall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pattalam (2003 Film)
''Pattalam'' () is a 2003 Malayalam-language film by Lal Jose and starring Mammootty and Biju Menon along with Tessa, Jyothirmai, Jagathy Sreekumar, Oduvil Unnikrishnan and Innocent in supporting roles. The film revolves around incidents in a small village after the army sets up a temporary camp. Synopsis An Army unit comes to a local village in Kerala because of a terror threat. The unit is led by Major Pattabhiraman (Mammootty) and commander Benny (Biju Menon). The Major sees a widow named Vimala (Tessa) singing. Vimala is living in her husband's home after his death. A village girl Satyabhama (Jyothirmayi), and Benny fall in love and elope. Pattabhiraman discovers that a terrorist has planned to pour cyanide into a water tank. He finds the terrorist and destroys the water tank by blasting a bomb terrorist had with him. Benny reveals to Vimala that Pattabhiraman killed her husband Nandu ( Indrajith) in the war. The Major admits the fact, but claims he did it as a mercy killing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aparichithan
''Aparichithan'' ( en, The Stranger) is a 2004 Indian Malayalam-language horror film directed by Sanjeev Sivan in his directorial debut. It stars Kavya Madhavan, Karthika and Manya in lead roles, and Mammootty in an extended cameo role. The plot centers around Ouija board and spiritualism. Music was composed by Suresh Peters.https://www.webindia123.com/movie/regional/aparichithan/index.htm Plot It is the story of three carefree college friends - Minu (Kavya Madhavan), Simi ( Karthika) and Devi ( Manya) – who keep landing in trouble. After one such incident where Devi, the leader of the trio, is caught red-handed trying to steal question papers on the eve of exams, they have to go underground to avoid facing their peers and families. They take the help of Chacko (Vineeth Kumar), Simi's fiancée, who arranges their stay with a woman psychiatrist (Urmila Unni) who is also an expert in "tantrik" mysticism and Ouija board, in an isolated house. Fresh trouble begins there. The la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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