Acting

Sreenivasan

Born April 6, 1956 · Thalassery, Kerala, India

Died December 20, 2025 · aged 69

Sreenivasan was an Indian film actor and screenwriter known for his work in Malayalam cinema. He has written for over 50 films and has acted in over 200 films. He has also directed and produced two films each. Sreenivasan wrote the screenplay for films such as Odaruthammava Aalariyam (1984), Sanmanassullavarkku Samadhanam (1986), Gandhinagar 2nd Street (1986), Nadodikkattu (1987), Pattanapravesha…

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Ayaal Sassi

Ayaal Sassi · 2017

Sassi, a pompous man, uses unfair means to create a name for himself in the society. When he finds out that he is terminally ill, he gets a special coffin made for him to be buried in style.

Oru Kadha Oru Nunakadha

Oru Kadha Oru Nunakadha · 1986

Oru Kadha Oru Nunakadha

MovieRomanceComedy

Appu (Nedumudi) is struggling to make ends meet while doing odd jobs and trying to find a more stable job. In the meanwhile he meets Amminikutty (Madhavi) with whom he falls in love. He however lies to her and makes her believe that he has a well paying government job. In the meanwhile Amminikutty's cousin, Das (Mammotty) arrives in town to further complicate Appu's plans.

Traffic

Traffic · 2011

An emotional thriller based on a road trip from Kochi to Palakkad. Inspired from the real events that happened in Chennai.

Udayananu Tharam

Udayananu Tharam · 2005

Udayananu Tharam

MovieComedyDrama

Udayabhanu is an assistant director and scriptwriter, who dreams of making it big in the film industry. His attempt is thwarted by his roommate, a junior artiste, Rajappan Thengamoodu who steals his script to become superstar Saroj Kumar

Thenmavin Kombath

Thenmavin Kombath · 1994

Thenmavin Kombath

MovieComedyFamily

Sreekrishnan unknowingly falls in love with the woman his best friend, Manikyan, loves. Though Sreekrishnan tries his best to woo her, she resists, leading to a battle that ensues between the friends.

Billu

MovieComedyDrama

When a famous Bollywood actor visits a small village for a film's shoot, a poor hairdresser's claim that they were once childhood friends soon makes him the centre of attention.

Yathrakarude Sradhakku

Yathrakarude Sradhakku · 2002

Yathrakarude Sradhakku

MovieDramaFamily

Two strangers pretend to be husband and wife in order to use a pre-reserved ticket bought from a scalper to get on a train, because of last second plans, find that their lives intersect and later fall in love.

Kalikkalam

Kalikkalam · 1990

Mammootty plays the role of a burglar who is known by different names in different places.He is a kind person and uses the money burgled to help poor and orphans. During one of his burglaries, he happens to witness a murder for which a police officer named Shekharan is falsely accused. He helps Shekharan to prove his innocence.

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Ayaal Sassi

Ayaal Sassi · 2017

Sassi, a pompous man, uses unfair means to create a name for himself in the society. When he finds out that he is terminally ill, he gets a special coffin made for him to be buried in style.

Sassi Namboothiri

Oru Kadha Oru Nunakadha

Oru Kadha Oru Nunakadha · 1986

Oru Kadha Oru Nunakadha

MovieRomanceComedy

Appu (Nedumudi) is struggling to make ends meet while doing odd jobs and trying to find a more stable job. In the meanwhile he meets Amminikutty (Madhavi) with whom he falls in love. He however lies to her and makes her believe that he has a well paying government job. In the meanwhile Amminikutty's cousin, Das (Mammotty) arrives in town to further complicate Appu's plans.

Screenplay

Traffic

Traffic · 2011

An emotional thriller based on a road trip from Kochi to Palakkad. Inspired from the real events that happened in Chennai.

Sudevan Nair

Udayananu Tharam

Udayananu Tharam · 2005

Udayananu Tharam

MovieComedyDrama

Udayabhanu is an assistant director and scriptwriter, who dreams of making it big in the film industry. His attempt is thwarted by his roommate, a junior artiste, Rajappan Thengamoodu who steals his script to become superstar Saroj Kumar

Writer

Thenmavin Kombath

Thenmavin Kombath · 1994

Thenmavin Kombath

MovieComedyFamily

Sreekrishnan unknowingly falls in love with the woman his best friend, Manikyan, loves. Though Sreekrishnan tries his best to woo her, she resists, leading to a battle that ensues between the friends.

Appakkala

Billu

MovieComedyDrama

When a famous Bollywood actor visits a small village for a film's shoot, a poor hairdresser's claim that they were once childhood friends soon makes him the centre of attention.

Story

Yathrakarude Sradhakku

Yathrakarude Sradhakku · 2002

Yathrakarude Sradhakku

MovieDramaFamily

Two strangers pretend to be husband and wife in order to use a pre-reserved ticket bought from a scalper to get on a train, because of last second plans, find that their lives intersect and later fall in love.

Writer

Kalikkalam

Kalikkalam · 1990

Mammootty plays the role of a burglar who is known by different names in different places.He is a kind person and uses the money burgled to help poor and orphans. During one of his burglaries, he happens to witness a murder for which a police officer named Shekharan is falsely accused. He helps Shekharan to prove his innocence.

Jamal

Prem Nazirine Kanmanilla

Prem Nazirine Kanmanilla · 1983

Prem Nazirine Kanmanilla

A group of frustrated youngsters kidnap the famous Malayalam actor Prem Nazir from his film shooting set. Shockwaves are felt across Kerala and it soon becomes the one thing that everyone's talking about. The film is a satire that discusses how the society deals with this news and the events that follow.

Kidnapper

Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala

Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala · 1998

Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala

MovieComedyDrama

Vijayan, the village school teacher, believes that his degree in economics is sufficient for him to succeed in the business ventures he undertakes. Taking long leaves of absence from work, he roams around with his schemes, all of which turn out to be downright failures.

Director

Narendran Makan Jayakanthan Vaka

Narendran Makan Jayakanthan Vaka · 2001

Narendran Makan Jayakanthan Vaka

MovieComedyFamily

The story follows Jayakanthan, son of Narendran, who comes from Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu to his parent's village Paruthippara in Kannur district, Kerala to reclaim his father's property.

Writer

Kochuthemmadi

Kochuthemmadi · 1986

Shekaran leads a peaceful life as a teacher in a village school until he falls in love with his colleague.

Sandhesam

Sandhesam · 1991

MovieComedyDrama

After his retirement, Raghavan Nair (Thilakan) is back at his home. His long cherished dream to spend his retired life along with his family is thwarted after seeing his two sons brawling each other over their political differences.

Writer

Kalyanam

Kalyanam · 2018

MovieComedyRomance

Sarath, a young guy, is head-over-heels in love with his neighbor and childhood friend, Shari. But, he never finds the courage to express his feelings for her and keeps waiting for the perfect opportunity. The movie revolves around a wedding, where who marries who is answered.

Prabhakaran

God's Own Country

God's Own Country · 2014

God's Own Country

MovieThrillerDrama

Manu travels from Dubai to Kochi to attain his goal, without which he will be in trouble. Public prosecutor Mathew Tharakan and taxi driver Muhammed have their own intentions to be pursued as well. Vasudeva Sanal's God's Own Country narrates the story of what happens to the three as they try to reach their destination.

Mathew Tharakan

His Highness Abdullah

His Highness Abdullah · 1990

His Highness Abdullah

MovieDramaMusic

The story follows Abdullah (Mohanlal) who is hired by the members of a wealthy royal family to assassinate the family head Maharaja Udayavarma (Nedumudi Venu). Abdullah comes into the royal palace under the disguise Ananthan Namboothiri, a classical singer, and tries to use this mask to softly kill the Maharaja.

Ravi Varma

Paavam Paavam Rajakumaran

Paavam Paavam Rajakumaran · 1990

Paavam Paavam Rajakumaran

MovieRomanceComedy

The film is about a parallel college teacher who owns a bizarre and timid personality which forces his friends to fool him by posting him letters in the name of a girl. He gradually develops an intimate relationship with her but all his efforts to meet her are in vain. What happens when he actually meets her, and comes to know that she even had no idea about his existence, forms the crux of the story.

Writer

Ee Nadu

Ee Nadu · 1982

Spurious liquor supplied by governmental arrack outlets kills several poor people in Kerala. People hit the streets to demand justice. They want the culprits to be brought to book.

P. P. Sreenivasan

Oru Kochu Bhoomikulukkam

Oru Kochu Bhoomikulukkam · 1992

Oru Kochu Bhoomikulukkam

MovieDramaComedy

Hari has a dark secret from his past. When his friend Ravi wants to marry a girl Indu , who knows him from college , Hari tries everything to prevent it from happening. So that his wife and friends won't find out about his dark secret.

Hari

Wanted

Wanted movie revolves around Unni, Nandu, Mani and Chupran who are friends who are unemployed but have a lot of liabilities in life. Unni aspires to become a police officer while Nandu wants to go to the Middle East. Mani is a loner who is willing to take any risk in life to make fast money and Chupran is taunted by his parents at home.

Khader

Bhoopadathil Illatha Oridam

Bhoopadathil Illatha Oridam · 2012

Bhoopadathil Illatha Oridam

Life changes for Madhavankutty, a school teacher after he witnesses a theft at a money lender's shop in his village, which has no identity of its own.

Madhavankutty

Nalkkavala

Nalkkavala · 1987

Saidu

Kilichundan Mampazham

Kilichundan Mampazham · 2003

Kilichundan Mampazham

A young man tries to rescue the woman he loves after she is forced into marrying another.

Story

Pathemari

Pathemari · 2015

Pathemari features the life of Pallikkal Narayanan who migrated to the Middle-East in the early 1980s, when the Kerala Gulf boom was at its peak.

Moideen