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Double Barrel (2015 Film)
''Double Barrel'' is a 2015 Indian Malayalam-language parody gangster film written, directed and co-produced by Lijo Jose Pellissery. It was jointly produced by August Cinema and Amen Movie Monastery. The film stars an ensemble cast including Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indrajith Sukumaran, Arya, Chemban Vinod Jose, Sunny Wayne, Swathi Reddy, Isha Sharvani, Vijay Babu, Poornima Indrajith, Anil Radhakrishnan Menon, Thomas Berly, Sherrin Varghese, Parvathi Menon, Sabumon Abdusamad, Rachana Narayanankutty, Anil Murali, Asif Ali and Pearle Maaney. Prashant Pillai composed the music, while the cinematography and editing were handled by Abinandhan Ramanujam and Manoj-Sathyaraj Natarajan. ''Double Barrel'' was released on 28 August 2015 and mostly received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics and disappointed at the box office, but the film has achieved a cult following. Plot Laila and Majnu are two precious stones which has value only if they are together. The stones are now pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lijo Jose Pellissery
Lijo Jose Pellissery (born 18 September 1978) is an Indian filmmaker and actor who works in Malayalam cinema. Known for his unconventional approach in directing, his films are characterized by nonlinear storylines and very long takes. His best works include '' Angamaly Diaries'' (2017), ''Jallikattu'' (2019) and '' Churuli'' (2021). He is the son of actor Jose Pellissery. He is a recipient of the Best Director Award at the 48th Kerala State Film Awards for '' Ee.Ma.Yau'', Best Director Award at the 50th Kerala State Film Awards for ''Jallikattu'', Best Film Award at the 44th Kerala Film Critics Association Awards for ''Jallikattu'' and twice recipient of Silver Peacock-Best Director at the 49th International Film Festival of India and 50th International Film Festival of India for his films '' Ee.Ma.Yau'' and ''Jallikattu'' respectively''.'' He also received the Silver Crow Pheasant Award at the International Film Festival of Kerala 2018. Pellissery made his debut in 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gangster Film
A gangster film or gangster movie is a film belonging to a genre that focuses on gangs and organized crime. It is a subgenre of crime film, that may involve large criminal organizations, or small gangs formed to perform a certain illegal act. The genre is differentiated from Westerns and the gangs of that genre. Overview The American Film Institute defines the genre as "centered on organized crime or maverick criminals in a twentieth century setting". The institute named it one of the 10 "classic genres" in its 10 Top 10 list, released in 2008. The list recognizes 3 films from 1931 & 1932 ('' Scarface'', '' The Public Enemy'' & ''Little Caesar''). Only 1 film made the list from 1933 to 1966, ('' White Heat'' (1949)). This was at least partly due to the limitations on the genre imposed by the Hays Code, which was finally abandoned in favor of the Motion Picture Association of America film rating system in 1968. The genre was revitalized in the New Hollywood movement that followe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sify
Sify Technologies Limited (formerly Satyam Infoway) is an Indian information and communications technology company providing end-to-end ICT solutions including telecom services, data center services, cloud & managed services, transformation integration services and application integration services. Sify Technologies Limited played an important role during the early spread of Internet and e-commerce in India. It has been listed on NASDAQ as SIFY since October, 1999. Merill Lynch was the underwriter for Sify's IPO on the NASDAQ. Sify was founded and led to IPO by R. Ramaraj. History In November 1999, Sify paid crore for a 24.5% stake in IndiaWorld Communications. It acquired the remaining shares for crore on 30 June 2000. In 2000, Sify sponsored the India Olympics team. In March 2002, Sify made an agreement with Makemytrip to run Sify's travel portal. In January 2002, Sify announced prizes for most emails sent under a 6-week contest called "Sify Greenmail", promoting emails ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pearle Maaney
Pearle Maaney ( /maːɳi/; born 28 May 1989) is an Indian actress, lyricist, YouTuber, and television presenter who works in Malayalam films. She is known for co-hosting three seasons of the Malayalam dance reality show '' D 4 Dance''. In 2018, Pearle emerged as the first runner-up of the ''Big Boss'' Malayalam season 1. Early life Pearle Maaney was brought up in a Syro-Malabar Syrian Christian joint family based in Kochi with roots at Chowara. She did her schooling in Holy Angel's Convent Trivandrum and Rajagiri Public School, Kalamassery, and completed her graduation in media studies from Christ University, Bangalore. Career Pearle Maaney has anchored over 250 episodes of the music show ''Yes Jukebox'' on the Malayalam television channel Yes Indiavision, a subsidiary of Indiavision. She hosted '' Taste of Kerala'', a travel-based cookery show on Amrita TV under the stage name Serah. In October 2014, she started hosting the dance reality show ''GumOn D2'' on Mazhavil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asif Ali (actor)
Asif Ali (born 4 February 1986) is an Indian actor and producer, who predominantly works in the Malayalam film industry. He started his film career with Shyamaprasad's 2009 Malayalam Language film, '' Ritu''. During the subsequent years Asif went on to act in critically and commercially successful films including the romantic thriller, '' Apoorvaragam'', the road thriller film ''Traffic'', the romantic comedy film '' Salt N' Pepper'' and the period drama movie ''Ozhimuri'', which got an official selection in the Indian Panorama section of the 43rd International Film Festival of India. His 2013 film ''Honey Bee'' was one of the major hits in that year and his 2015 film '' Nirnayakam'' won the National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues. His success streak continued by starring in the 2016 romantic movie '' Anuraga Karikkin Vellam'', the 2017 movie '' Sunday Holiday'', the campus thriller '' Btech'' (2018) and '' Vijay Superum Pournamiyum'' (2019), which produced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anil Murali
Anil Murali (12 April 1964 – 30 July 2020) was an Indian actor in Malayalam cinema. He acted in more than 200 films. He started out in the film industry as a villain before later taking on character roles. He died on 30 July 2020, as a result of liver-related ailments. Personal life and death He was born to Muraleedharan Nair and Sreekumari Amma at Thiruvananthapuram. He has 3 elder brothers and a younger sister. Anil was married to Suma. They have a son, Aditya and a daughter, Arundati. He died on 30 July 2020 at Aster Medcity, Kochi due to liver disease He was aged 52 at the time of his death. He was cremated at Santhikavadam crematorium in Thiruvananthapuram. He is survived by his wife, whom he married in 1994, and their two children. Filmography Malayalam * ''Kanyakumariyil Oru Kavitha'' (1993) * '' Daivathinte Vikrithikal'' (1994) *''Peter Scott'' (1995) as Khalid * ''Rajakeeyam'' (1995) as Govind * ''Boxer'' (1995) as Dinesh * ''Vamsam'' (1997) * '' Nakshatra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachana Narayanankutty
Rachana Narayanankutty is an Indian actress, Kuchipudi dancer, and television presenter who works prominently in Malayalam film and television. She became popular through the television series '' Marimayam'' aired in Mazhavil Manorama. Personal life Rachana was born on 1 April 1983 in Thrissur City to Narayanankutty and Narayani. She is the youngest and has a brother. Rachana completed her schooling from G. G. H. S. Wadakanchery in 2005, and she completed her graduation from Sri Vyasa NSS College, Wadakanchery. She was a Communicative English teacher in Devamatha, CBSE School situated in Thrissur district. She took dance classes before she was cast into the television series. Rachana married Arun Sadasivan in 2011. It was purely an arranged marriage and they had issues. As per Rachana, Arun has started abusing her mentally and physically, which caused her to leave her husband's house after 19 days of marriage. Film career She began her career in 2001 by acting in a sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabumon Abdusamad
Sabumon Abdusamad, also known mononymously as Sabu, is an Indian actor and television presenter who works in Malayalam cinema. He was the winner of the first season of ''Bigg Boss''. Personal life Sabu hails from Kayamkulam, Alappuzha. He holds three graduate degrees, in Malayalam, Journalism and in Law respectively from University College, Trivandrum. He initially worked in the sales and operations division of Lufthansa Airlines in Saudi Arabia. Later, he quit the job and decided to pursue his passion for acting. He is the chief executive officer of SAB productions company. He is married to Sneha Bhaskaran and has two daughters. Career Sabu initially achieved success through the TV show ''Tharikida'', which focused on pranks on unsuspecting people. Due to the success of the show, people started addressing him as Tharikida Sabu. Sabu continued to do television shows, and his role as an interviewer in the TV show ''Midukki'' was widely appreciated. Sabu was the thirteenth co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parvathy Thiruvothu
Parvathy Thiruvothu Kottuvattaa (born 7 April 1988) is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Malayalam and Tamil language films. She is the recipient of a National Film Award, four Filmfare Awards South, and two Kerala State Film Awards. Thiruvothu began her career with the Malayalam film ''Out of Syllabus'' (2006), and won her first Filmfare Award for her performance in the Tamil romantic drama '' Poo'' (2008). She gained wider attention in the next decade for her roles in the Malayalam films ''Bangalore Days'' (2014), ''Ennu Ninte Moideen'' (2015), and '' Charlie'' (2015). This success continued with her leading roles in '' Take Off'' (2017), for which she won a National Film Award – Special Mention, ''Uyare'' and ''Virus'' (both 2019), and ''Puzhu'' (2022). Early life and education Parvathy was born into a Nair Family on 7 April 1988 in Calicut, Kerala, to P. Vinod Kumar and T. K. Usha Kumari, who are both lawyers. She has a brother, Aum Thiruvothu Karunakaran. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherrin Varghese
Sherrin Varghese is an Indian musician and television actor based in Mumbai. He was born on 27 June 1975 in Kerala. Sherrin has also acted in few television shows. He is known for being part of Band of Boys, formed in 2001, along with Karan Oberoi, Sudhanshu Pandey, Siddharth Haldipur and Chaitnya Bhosale. He does live vocal electronica gutted with organic instrumentation on digital low ends. He has had three leads on prime-time soap operas, several ad films as a model, couple of films in the south and in Bollywood, theatre productions and several cameos on TV. Recently he finished Season 1 of 20 livestream concert episodes from his studio called "The Circuit" which he hosts and produces. The Circuit (2019–ongoing) The Circuit is a live stream concert hosted by singer, composer and actor Sherrin Varghese in Andheri meant for audio and video productions, recordings, real time virtual production, live streaming, broadcasts, online concerts, podcasts, and gigs for artists, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Berly
Thomas Burleigh Kurishingal is an Indian actor, director, producer, script writer, music composer in Malayalam cinema, and author of in English. Biography He was born to Kurishingal K. J. Berly (also spelt Burleigh) a freedom fighter and Annie Burleigh (a woman activist and leader of the pre-independence era who led a satyagraha against toddy shops in fort Cochin), on 1 September 1932 at Fort Kochi, Kerala. His debut movie was ''Thiramala'' in 1953 as a 21 year old perhaps becoming one of the youngest heroes in Malayalam film industry at that time. He later went to do a course on acting in University of California, Los Angeles. There he acted in a few English movies and television series in small roles. He acted in a Hollywood movie ''Never So Few'' in 1959. He produced an English movie, ''Maya'' for children. He is also interested in magic, violin, Madeleine instrumental music and painting. His painting ''Galiyan'' is selected and shown on International festivals. Later in 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anil Radhakrishnan Menon
Anil Radhakrishnan Menon is an Indian film director working in Malayalam film. Career Anil Radhakrishnan Menon directed television commercials before venturing into feature films. His first film North 24 Kaatham starring Fahadh Faasil and Nedumudi Venu(2013) won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam and Kerala State Film Award for Second Best Film. His second film ''Sapthamashree Thaskaraha ''Sapthamashree Thaskaraha'' ( ''Seven Good Thieves'') is a 2014 Malayalam-language heist comedy film directed and written by Anil Radhakrishnan Menon. The film features an ensemble cast of Prithviraj Sukumaran, Asif Ali, Nedumudi Venu, Sudhee ...'' (2014) also received positive reviews from critics, and became a box office hit. Filmography Personal life Anil's father is Radhakrishnan Palat and mother is Jayasree. He is married to Sarada and has a son named Rajat Anil. References Malayalam film directors Kerala State Film Award winners Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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