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Viji Thampi
Viji Thampi is an Indian film director, actor and social activist who works in Malayalam films. Thampi is a member of Thiruvananthapuram regional board of the Central Board of Film Certification and the State Advisor of Kerala Kshetra Samrakshana Samithi. In 2021, Thampi was appointed as the Kerala state president of Vishva Hindu Parishad. Career After making his directorial debut with the 1988 film ''David David Mr. David'', Thampi directed a series of comedy films in the 1990s which turned out to be commercial hits. Viji Thampi is known for appearing in cameo roles in his own films. He has also directed the Malayalam crime thriller television series ''Black and White'' and later, the mythological television serial ''Devimahathmyam''. Personal life He is the son in law of the Malayalam movie actor Jagannatha Varma. He lives in Palkulangara Trivandrum. Filmography Director Actor # ''Ennalum Sarath'' (2018) Dir.: Balachandra Menon # ''Njaan Samvidhanam Cheyyum'' (2016 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vishva Hindu Parishad
The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) () is an Indian right-wing Hindu organization based on Hindu nationalism. The VHP was founded in 1964 by M. S. Golwalkar and S. S. Apte in collaboration with Swami Chinmayananda. Its stated objective is "to organise, consolidate the Hindu society and to serve and protect the Hindu Dharma". It was established to construct and renovate Hindu temples, and deal with matters of cow slaughter and religious conversion. The VHP is a member of the Sangh Parivar group, the family of Hindu nationalist organisations led by the RSS. The VHP has been criticized for contributing to violence against Muslims in India, most notably for its role in the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992 over the Ayodhya dispute. History The VHP was founded in 1964 by RSS leaders M. S. Golwalkar and S. S. Apte in collaboration with the Hindu spiritual leader Chinmayananda Saraswati. According to Chinmayananda, the objective of the VHP was to awaken Hindus to their pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nammal Thammil
''Nammal Thammil'' is a 2009 Malayalam film directed by Viji Thampi, starring Prithviraj, Indrajith and Geetu Mohandas. the film was completed on 16 January 2004, but got released on 27 March 2009. Plot The story starts in an Engineering College where Vigneshwar alias Vicky wins an election and becomes the Union Chairman of the college. Vicky's love is Anu who too loves and believes him a lot more than anyone else. After the celebrations of winning the election, Vicky and team set for a fight against police battalion but is stopped by College Principal Adiyodi Meppadu. Everyone likes Vicky and is impressive of him at every angles. One day Vicky makes a bet with Meera, a fellow student that if their team wins a basketball match they will cut off Meera's hair. And she agrees to that. Once, their college win the match only because of Vicky and all start celebrating that too with songs and dances. Everything goes well and Vicky's and Anu's relation becomes more serious until Roy, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simhavalan Menon
''Simhavalan Menon'' () is a 1995 Indian Malayalam-language comedy film directed by Viji Thampi and written by Sasidharan Arattuvazhi. The film stars Madhu, Jagadish, Urvashi and Jagathy Sreekumar in the lead roles.It is a remake of the 1979 Hindi film ''Gol Maal'', of which some scenes were used in a previous Malayalam film ''Ayalvasi Oru Daridravasi'' (1986), directed by Priyadarsan, starring Mukesh and Prem Nazir in the corresponding roles. The film has musical score by S. P. Venkatesh. Plot Hariprasad, a young rock musician, is forced by his uncle to attend an interview at the firm owned by Simhavalan Menon as he feared that Hariprasad would waste his life on music and lacked purpose in life. His uncle gives him some pointers on how to impress Menon. He tells Hariprasad that Menon is a strict person, who upheld Gandhian values, likes Classical music and above all forced everyone in the office to speak in Malayalam without the use of any English words. Hariprasad goes to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avittam Thirunaal Aarogya Sriman
''Avittam Thirunaal Aarogya Sriman'' ( ml, അവിട്ടം തിരുനാള് ആരോഗ്യ ശ്രീമാന് ) is a 1995 Malayalam film directed by Viji Thampi. Plot Avittam Thirunal Achutha Kuruppu (Jagathy Sreekumar) was a commander of the Maharaja's army of the Princely State of Travancore. Now as an elderly man he stays with his different children and extended family. His presence in this families is not well-taken. His nosy nature and gluttony irritates his family. His family members try to avoid him, not wanting to take care of the irksome elderly man. Prabhakaran, his brother's son sees this and isn't able to agree with the families lack of love. He makes up a story that Achutha Kuruppu owns somewhat fifty-acre rubber estate from the Royal family. As the news arrives, the family's attitudes reverse's and all the fun begins. Cast * Jagathy Sreekumar as Avittam Thirunal Achutha Kuruppu a.k.a. Valiya Padathalavan * Balachandra Menon as Prabhak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kudumbakodathi
''Kudumbakodathi'' () is a 1996 Indian Malayalam-language comedy film, directed by Viji Thampy and produced by V. S. Suresh. The film stars Innocent, Dileep, Ashokan and Kalpana in the lead roles. The film has musical score by S. P. Venkatesh. Plot N.D. Raman Nair a.k.a. NDR ( Innocent) is a businessman who tries to control and protect his sons, Ramanan ( Ashokan) and Rameshan (Dileep), who marry Pournami and Panchami, respectively. Then many problems occur in the house. Raman Nair decides to solve the issue by remarrying Guntur Parvathi ( Kalpana). How things turn after that forms the story. Cast * Innocent as N. D. Raman Nair a.k.a. NDR *Dileep as Rameshan Nair, younger son of NDR * Ashokan as Ramanan Nair, elder son of NDR * Kalpana as Guntoor Parvathy *Rudra as Pournami Nair, Ramanan's wife *Mohini as Panchami Panicker, Rameshan's wife *Harishree Ashokan as Sarathy Kumaran, NDR's driver *Indrans as Adv.Punjapadam Pushpangathan *Jagathy Sreekumar as Paramanandan Nair, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime-thriller Film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as drama or gangster film, but also include comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as mystery, suspense or noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" explaining that these categories are additive rather than exclusionary. ''China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manthrika Kuthira
''Manthrika Kuthira'' () is a 1996 Malayalam crime thriller film directed by Viji Thampi, starring Manoj K. Jayan, Vani Viswanath and Mohini in the lead roles.The film ran more than 30 days in theatres. Plot The film start with a police squad led by Circle Inspector Venugopal adventurously arresting Kondotty Jaffar, who is wanted for murder and the rape of four women. Public prosecutor Sunny Kuruvilla manages to get Jaffar convicted. On being sentenced to 40 years in prison, Jaffar threatens to murder Sunny and his family. Sunny leads a happy life with his wife Ancy and a young daughter who is studying in a boarding school away from home. Sunny is a popular novelist as well with a great female following, which Ancy is not happy about. The couple leads a romantic life. Ancy's sister Sonia, a college student also visit them often. Jose Kuruvilla, Sunny's younger brother is an aspiring but unsuccessful film director. He brands himself as Prem Gandhi and is in love with Sonia, but f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sathyameva Jayathe
''Sathyameva Jayathe'' () is a 2000 Indian Malayalam-language action thriller film directed by Viji Thampi. This film's dialogue was written by G A Lal. The film stars Suresh Gopi, Aishwarya, Hemanth Ravan, Siddique, Rajan P Dev and Balachandramenon. The film had musical score by C. Rajamani and songs by M. Jayachandran. Cast *Suresh Gopi as CI Chandrachoodan *Hemanth Ravan as Musharuf Ibrahim /Bharath Shah * Siddique as Balasubhramanyan aka Balu Bhai *Aishwarya as Nancy Mullakkadan * Balachandramenon as Basheer *Mini Nair as Sharada, Basheer's Wife *Rajan P Dev as SSP Thomas Pattimattom IPS, Kochi City Police Commissioner *Maniyanpilla Raju as SI George *N. F. Varghese as Joseph Mullakkadan * Cochin Haneefa as Adv. G Varghese *Salim Kumar as Mattancherry Mammathu, a petty thief * Devan as DCP Mathew Tharakan IPS, Mumbai Police *Spadikam George as Additional Director General *Sadiq as DYSP Ramavarma Thampan *Baburaj as Sivaratna *Kunchan as Police Constable *Nand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Drama
Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and Drama (film and television), drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical hour-long legal or medical drama, but exhibit far fewer jokes-per-minute as in a typical half-hour sitcom. In the United States Examples from United States television include: ''M*A*S*H (TV series), M*A*S*H'', ''Moonlighting (TV series), Moonlighting'', ''The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd'', ''Northern Exposure'', ''Ally McBeal'', ''Sex and the City'', ''Desperate Housewives'' and ''Scrubs (TV series), Scrubs''. The term "dramedy" was coined to describe the late 1980s wave of shows, including ''The Wonder Years'', ''Hooperman'', ''Doogie Howser, M.D.'' and ''Frank's Place''. See also *List of comedy drama television series *Black comedy *Dramatic structure *Melodrama *Seriousness *Tragicomedy *Psychological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naranathu Thampuran
''Naranathu Thampuran'' is a 2001 Indian Malayalam-language film directed by Viji Thampi. It was one of the hits of Jayaram and ran more than 75 days in most of the centres. This was Jayaram's third release in 2001 after Vakkalath Narayanan Kutty and Sharjah to Sharjah. Cast *Jayaram as Ananthan Varma *Kausalya as Hemalatha *Rajan P. Dev as Ananthan's Uncle * Siddique as Dr. Rajeev *Poornima Indrajith as Sridevi * Janardhanan as Police officer Chandradas *Maniyanpilla Raju as Mohandas *Jagannatha Varma as Hemalatha's Father *Harisree Ashokan as Sadan *Ponnamma Babu as Nirmala *Salim Kumar as Shivan *Bindu Panicker as Premavathi * Manka Mahesh as Saradha *Baburaj as Vikraman *Nandhu as Snake Trainer * Poojapura Ravi as Thamarakshan *Augustine as Somanathan * T.P Madhavan as Nambiyar *Kanakalatha as Sulochana *Kozhikode Narayanan Nair as Kunjiraman Nair *Kochu Preman as Peethambaran *Manu Varma as Kumar *Shivaji Shivaji Bhonsale I (; 19 February 1630 – 3 April 1680), als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thriller (genre)
Thriller is a genre of fiction, having numerous, often overlapping subgenres. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the mood (psychology), moods they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense, Psychomotor agitation, excitement, Surprise (emotion), surprise, anticipation (emotion), anticipation and anxiety. Successful examples of thrillers are Alfred Hitchcock filmography, the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Thrillers generally keep the audience on the "edge of their seats" as the plot builds towards a climax (narrative), climax. The cover-up of important information is a common element. Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists, unreliable narrators, and cliffhangers are used extensively. A thriller is often a villain-driven plot, whereby they present obstacles that the protagonist must overcome. The most common genres that overlap with the thriller genre include crime fiction, crime, horror fiction, horror and detective fiction. Characteristics Writer Vla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
