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Achankunju is a Actor and Producer Indian born on 1 january 1930
Achankunju (Malayalam: അച്ചൻകുഞ്ഞ്) was an Indian film Actor in Malayalam movies . He started his career in the 1980s mainly portraying villainous roles. He has acted in more than 50 films in Malayalam.
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Achankunju
Achankunju (Malayalam: അച്ചൻകുഞ്ഞ്) was an Indian film Actor in Malayalam movies . He started his career in the 1980s mainly portraying villainous roles. He has acted in more than 50 films in Malayalam.
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Ithile Iniyum Varu (1986)
Directed by P. G. Viswambharan
Genres Drama
Actors Mammootty, Mukesh, Roopa Ganguly, Thilakan, Deepika Chikhalia, Balan K. Nair
Roles Govindankutty Ashan
Rating69%
Aravindan (Mammootty) is a bold journalist keen on exposing the illegal activities on M. S. Nair (Balan K. Nair). He is ousted from the newspaper he works for, and decides to start his own paper. With the help of Kaimal (Thilakan), he starts an evening newspaper. He also succeeds in persuading Ramu (Mukesh), a wayward youth, to give up his bad habits. He sends Ramu for further studies in Chennai. Priya (Deepika) who works with Aravindan, develops a liking for Ramu.
Arappatta Kettiya Graamathil (1986)
Directed by Padmarajan
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Mammootty, Nedumudi Venu, Ashokan, Sukumari, Kanakalatha, Jagathy Sreekumar
Roles Narayanan
Rating73%
One night at a dance bar, Joseph, a rich, but spoiled brat of a textile businessman offers a trip to his three friends to a brothel. Zechariah(Mammootty), Gopi (Nedumudi Venu), and Hilal (Ashokan), accepts the offer and sets out in Joseph's car. But on the way, Zechariah and Joseph gets into a fight and the trip gets canceled, with Joseph, leaving them back. But Zechariah decides to take both his friends to the brothel, though, he just has a vague knowledge of the route. The trio sets out on the next morning and reaches the remote village. The suspicious look of the villagers frightens both Gopi and Hilal, but Zechariah is cool in his moves. The trio reaches the brothel run by Maluvamma, which is actually her ancestral house. They enter inside the huge house, and is shocked to find few children playing and an old man scribbling something on a paper, without even bothering to take a look at them. The trio enters inside the house and comes across a girl who is both deaf and dumb. From her body language, the trio finds out that she is a prostitute kept by Maluvamma and Gopi gets wooed by her. Just in a couple of minutes, arrives Devaki (Unnimary), who is more ravishing and sensual. She informs them that Maluvamma (Sukumari) has gone outside with Gowrikutty, a new girl and will be back in few minutes. But the trio is shocked by the sudden entry of Bhaskaramenon (Jagathy Sreekumar), who asks them to vacate the house as a group of Muslims are planning to attack the house. He also shows them the injury marks caused a few days back in a riot and shows them the door to outside. On their way back, a group of Muslims surrounds and verbally abuse them. With Zechariah beginning to retaliate, they turn violent. But the leader of the mob, pacifies the crowd and takes them to a nearby tea stall and decides to consult with Moopan, about the next move. By keeping the trio under the custody of the mob, he reaches the house of Moopan (Kunjandy). Generally, the girls brought by Maluvamma are first enjoyed by Moopan and it was the opposition of Gowrikutty to be a prey to Moopan that caused all the riot in the village. Maluvamma, by the time convinces Moopan that Gowrikutty will be brought to him in a couple of days and Moopan is convinced. He orders release of the trio and Maluvamma takes them to her house. She lets Gopi to go for the deaf and dump girl, while Zechariah opts to play cards with Devaki and the old man. Hilal enters inside the room of Gowrikutty. But while trying to fondle her, she turns violent, making Hilal to forcefully go on for her. Hilal is shocked to find out that Gowrikutty is forcefully brought in to the business by Maluvamma and is still a virgin. He sympathizes on her and asks her to tell her story. She tells him that she was sold to Maluvamma by her uncle after the death of her father. It was only a few days after the arrival at the house that she realized that it is a brothel. On refusing to entertain the clients, she was brutally assaulted by Maluvamma. She pleads Hilal to save her from the brothel. He promises to take her out and marry her. But his plan to take her out is foiled by Bhasi, Maluvamma's son. Hilal tells Gopi and Zechariah about Gowrikutty and Zechariah promises him to help him in saving her. Narayanan (Achankunju), a pimp of Panicker, a local feudal landlord arrives and demands Maluvamma to release Gowrikutty along with him at night. Maluvamma agrees to it and asks him to come at night.That night, Gowrikutty refuses to go along with Narayanan, which enrages him. He returns to collect more people to avenge on Maluvamma. But she is now supported by Moopan, who sends a bunch of his henchmen for security of the house. A few hours later, Narayanan is back with a dozen of his goons. He is attacked by the goons of Moopan and a riot sets out. Zechariah decides to use this opportunity and stab Bhasi, making Maluvamma to come out of her room. Using this opportunity, Hilal and Gopi takes Gowrikutty and runs out of the house. While escaping, Zechariah is attacked by Narayanan. In an attempt to save himself, Narayanan stabs Zechariah to death. Reaching at a safe place, Gopi asks Hilal to run away with the girl and decides to go back to find out what had happened to Zechariah. He reaches out the house and calls out Zechariah's name loudly, but gets no response.
Nimishangal (1986)
Actors Mohanlal, Jagathy Sreekumar, Captain Raju, Shankar Panicker, Maniyanpillai Raju, Achankunju
Rating20%
Ambili Ammavan (1986)
Actors Jagathy Sreekumar, Nedumudi Venu, Kalaranjini, P. Santha Kumari, Guinness Pakru, Alummoodan
Meenamasathile Suryan (1986)
Directed by Lenin Rajendran
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Shobana, Venu Nagavally, Murali, Vijay Menon, Nizhalgal Ravi, Sukumari
Roles Police officer
Thinkalazhcha Nalla Divasam (1985)
, 2h6Directed by Padmarajan
Genres Drama
Actors Mammootty, Kaviyoor Ponnnamma, Karamana Janardanan Nair, Sreevidya, Deepa Unnimary, Ashokan
Roles Kunju
Rating74%
Janakiyamma ( Kaviyoor Ponnamma) stays in a spacious ancestral house with the help of a distant relative girl and servants who help her take care of her cows and poultry. Her elder son is Narayanankutty(Karamana Janardanan Nair), married to Ambika(Srividya) both central government servants in Bombay(Mumbai). They have two girls Sheenu(Kuku Parameswaran) and Meenu. Her younger son Gopan(Mammootty) is married to Bindu(Unnimary ) and is working in the Middle East. She also has a deceased daughter (not shown in the movie) and her son is Venu(Ashokan).
Yathra (1985)
Directed by Balu Mahendra
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Mammootty, Shobana, Adoor Bhasi, Thilakan, Kunchan, Achankunju
Rating79%
The story unfolds as Unnikrishnan (Mammootty), a convict, now free from the jail tells his tragic love story to his fellow passengers in a school bus. An orphan and a forest officer by profession, he falls in love with a local girl, Thulasi, during his stay at a forest area. They decided to get married and he sets off to inform his marriage to his best friend. On his way back the police arrests him as a suspected criminal, who has some visible similarities of Unnikrishnan. There he accidentally kills a police man and gets life imprisonment. During his early days at jail, he writes a letter to Thulasi asking to forget him. When his prison term was about to complete, he wrote a letter to light a lamp if she still waits for him. After long years of torments in the jail he goes to meet Thulasi, and does she still waits for him? That's the question of his fellow passengers too.
Kanathaya Penkutty (1985)
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Jayabharathi, Bharath Gopi, Mammootty, Jagathy Sreekumar, Thilakan, Manavalan Joseph
Roles Achankunju
Rating68%
Kanathaya Penkutti is a thriller film that opens with a missing of a girl who later identified to be killed by someone who is close to her. The film is in a format of investigation thriller giving importance to the plot rather to the characters. It shares the kind of engaging plot-line that is shared by most of the new gen films of Malayalam Cinema.
Angadikkappurathu (1985)
Directed by I. V. Sasi
Actors Mammootty, Mohanlal, Kaviyoor Ponnnamma, Adoor Bhasi, T. G. Ravi, Rashin Rahman
Roles Saithakka
Rating67%
Niramulla Ravulkal (1985)
Directed by N. Sankaran Nair
Actors Suresh Gopi, Prameela, Deepa Unnimary, Vincent, Jose Prakash, Ratheesh
Athirathram (1984)
, 2h7Directed by I. V. Sasi
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Mammootty, Mohanlal, Seema, Raveendran (Ravindher), Shankar Panicker, Shankar
Roles Mooppan
Rating68%
Tharadas is a ruthless smuggler whose uncle was murdered by Rajesh. Rajesh is married to Thulasi who has dark past with Tharadas. Tharadas's cousin kills Rajesh and accuses Tharadas of the murder. Rajesh's partner Prasad and Thulasi get revenge on Tharadas, and Tharadas kills Chandu in turn.
Ivide Thudangunnu (1984)
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Rape and revenge films
Actors Mohanlal, Sukumari, Rashin Rahman, Balan K. Nair, Rohini, Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair
Roles Panikker
Rating60%
Krishnakumar is orphan and a policeman who lived with his younger sister Sheela. Sheela falls in love with her classmate Babu and Krisnha accepts him as his brother in law. But tragedy strikes the couple on their honeymoon when Babu was beaten into a coma and Sheela was raped and killed. The police arrested four middle-age friends who follow them. But Krishnakumar found out that his sister's murderers were actually Babu's three classmates but now they are freed thanks to M. S. Menon, one of the killer's father. Krishnakumar takes revenge against Menon.
Prem Nazirine Kanmanilla (1983)
Directed by Lenin Rajendran
Actors Prem Nazir, Maniyanpillai Raju, Sreenivasan, Vijay Menon, Mammootty, Santha Kumari N N
Roles Maran
Rating60%
A group of frusturated youngsters decides to kidnap the famous Malayalam actor Prem Nazir from one of the film shooting sets. The captured Prem Nazir is then taken to a dilapidated home in a dense forest. The kidnappers treat Prem Nazir with due respect and treats him in the best possible manner, given the place where they are put up. One kidnapper (Sreenivasan) comes from an upper-caste Hindu family, and his father worked as the local temple oracle. Though highly educated he does not find a good job. Another gang member (Vijay Menon) has a very troubled childhood during which his parents were murdered and he had to live as a domestic helper of the murderer. The kidnap of Prem Nazir is to express their frusturation against the cruel society.
Sandhya Mayangum Neram (1983)
Directed by Bharathan
Actors Bharath Gopi, Sreenath, T. G. Ravi, Jayabharathi, Philomina, Deepa Unnimary
Roles Poulose Kutty
Rating58%
Bharath Gopi plays the role of a Judge, who retires with his last judgement - a capital punishment. He had sentenced many people to their death, and later in the evening of his life remorse sets in and he becomes obsessed with whether he was right in hanging all those people.