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Madhu is a Actor, Director, Producer and Editor Indian born on 23 september 1933
Madhavan Nair (Malayalam: മധു, മാധവന് നായര്), commonly known by his stage name Madhu, is an actor in Malayalam cinema. He was a prominent lead actor during the 1960s and 1970s. He has also directed and produced films, and at one time he owned Uma film studio. He was awarded with Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2013. He won four Filmfare Awards for his entire acting career.
He is married to Jayalakshmi and they have a daughter Uma.
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Madhu
Birth name Madhavan Nair
Nationality Inde
Birth 23 september 1933 (90 years)
Awards Padma Shri, Filmfare Awards South
Nationality Inde
Birth 23 september 1933 (90 years)
Awards Padma Shri, Filmfare Awards South
Madhavan Nair (Malayalam: മധു, മാധവന് നായര്), commonly known by his stage name Madhu, is an actor in Malayalam cinema. He was a prominent lead actor during the 1960s and 1970s. He has also directed and produced films, and at one time he owned Uma film studio. He was awarded with Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2013. He won four Filmfare Awards for his entire acting career.
Biography
He was born on 23 September 1933 at Gourishapattom, Trivandrum. His father, R. Parameswaran Pillai, was the Mayor of Trivandrum and his mother Kamalamma was a housewife. He has four sisters. He had his primary educatin from L.P School, Kunnukuzhi, Thiruvananthapuram. He did pre university degree from MG College and pursued Bachelors in Arts in Hindi from University college, Thiruvananthapuram. He post graduated in Hindi from Banaras Hindu University (BHU).He is married to Jayalakshmi and they have a daughter Uma.
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, 3hDirected by Perarasu
Genres Action
Themes Gangster films
Actors Unni Mukundan, Vijayaraghavan, Suman, Akanksha Puri, Devan, Riyaz Khan
Roles Suryadas
Rating19%
Parayan Baaki Vechathu (2014)
Themes Political films
Actors Maqbool Salmaan, Madhu, Anumol, Swasika, Saikumar, Balachandran Chullikkadu
Mr. Fraud (2014)
, 2h18Directed by B. Unnikrishnan
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Dev Gill, Mukesh, Miya George, Vijay Babu
Rating46%
The film begins with a flashback where two brothers Ravindra Varma(V. K. Sreeraman) and Mahendra Varma(Kalasala Babu) fighting for the royal family treasure along with their sons. During the fight a prism from the idol of the goddess breaks. The brothers get frightened and immediately stop the fight. After conducting certain rituals they find that the goddess is angry because of the bloodshed that happened and it is decided that the treasure will be locked for 41 years.
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Deepak Parambol, Padmanabhan Balachandran Nair, Madhu, Rajesh Hebbar
Roles Korah
Rating48%
The movie plot revolves around a village lad who attends an interview in the city and gets drawn into a web of deceit and revenge.
Peruchazhi (2014)
, 2h34Directed by Arun Vaidyanathan, Priyadarshan
Genres Comedy
Actors Mohanlal, Nishan, Madhu, Mukesh, Pooja Kumar, Innocent
Rating39%
In California, the Republican party governor candidate John Kory (Sean James Sutton) is striving to raise his dismal ratings. Sunny Kurishingal (Vijay Babu), the chief campaign officer of John Kory, is failing with his campaign strategies and runs out of ideas to ensure Kory's victory. Sunny is forced to consult a third person's advise and calls Francis Kunjappan (Mukesh), a PWD minister and his native friend in Kerala, for hiring any good political consultant for devising campaign strategies. Kunjappan, initially reluctant, later recommends his friend and political competitor Jagannathan (Mohanlal), thus also hoping to get rid of him as he is a political threat to his ministerial position. Jagannathan, a young politician and a sports enthusiastic, is illiterate in English but has an inborn talent to solve the gravest of issues in the most prudent manner. Even Francis had consulted him for solving his toughest problems. But Francis thinks that Jaganathan’s unorthodox ideas will fail miserably in the US. Kunjappan meets Jagannathan and offers him the job and a remuneration of ₹30 crores which is sufficient to raise Jagannathan's dream project, a sports academy in Kerala. Jagannathan takes up the assignment and flies to the US, together with his assistants Pottakuzhi Jabbar (Baburaj) and Vayalar Varkey (Aju Varghese).
Nelumbo (2014)
Genres Adventure
Actors Madhu
Roles The head of the environmental magazine Nelumbo
A troubled young photographer travels to an unexplored jungle to discover a rare medicinal plant. However, on his way he finds himself lost. The photographer encounters a neanderthal man who would later save his life from a tiger. Both of them resume their journey together. On the way the photographer finds the plant he was searching for but before even taking the photograph, the neanderthal man grabs the plant from its root and crushes it. They both confront in which the neanderthal man dominates. The neanderthal man leads the photographer to a site where cave paintings are found. The photographer finds himself extremely happy and the neanderthal man subsequently explains the laws of nature to him. They resume their journey together and consequently come to a place where human presence is detected. The photographer accidentally steps on a bomb planted to catch animals. He wakes up to find himself cured by the neanderthal man using the plant he grabbed the previous day.
Mylanchi Monchulla Veedu (2014)
, 2h38Genres Comedy
Actors Jayaram, Asif Ali, Kanika, Meera Nandan, Madhu, Siddique
Roles Sahib
Rating47%
Sahib (Madhu) is head of an aristocratic Muslim Family. Kasim is his son. Vahida, Kasim's daughter elopes with her lover Madhavan Kutty on the eve of her wedding. That leads to a lot of ruckus including killing of son of a Hindu leader due to mistaken identity by Kasim. Kasim goes to jail and released after 7 years. On the way back he meets with an accident, due to which he become paralyzed.
Gouravam (2013)
Directed by Radha Mohan
Genres Drama
Actors Yami Gautam, Allu Sirish, Prakash Raj, Anupama Kumar, Nassar, Elango Kumaravel
Rating48%
Arjun (Allu Sirish) is a rich kid who has all the luxuries in life. One day, his dad sends him to a village called T Vennure for some business work. As Arjun's best friend Shanmugam also hails from that village, Arjun happily accepts to go there. On landing in the village, Arjun comes to know that his friend Shanmugam has eloped with Rajeswari, the daughter of Pashupathy (Prakash Raj), a rich land lord in the village who is hell bent to save his family's prestige always, and is missing from the past six months. After meeting Shanmugam's father (L.B. Sriram) and finding out some bitter truths about Shanmugam, Arjun decides to stay in the village and find his missing friend. A young lawyer Yazhini (Yami Gautam) assists him in his work. After finding a strong opposition from Pasupathy's son Saravanan (Harish) and Palani (Brahmaji), Arjun along with his friend Venky (Sricharan) and Yazhini assemble all their college friends as a group along with the neighbour village youth as a group to find the mystery behind Shanmugam and Rajeswari's absence from the village, only to know that they were killed and buried at the grounds of a Damaged Monument. Arjun stays back there to find out the reason behind the couple's death. After finding a help from Pasupathy's wife (Pavitra Lokesh) and Daughter in Law (Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli), Arjun files a case with the help of Yazhini. The case, though interrupted many times due to Saravanan's men, including the town's police, remains steady due to the efforts of Arjun and his friends. A fine day, on the request of Pasupathy's wife, Palani promises to help Arjun in the mystery. As promised he helps them by narrating the incidents happened actually.
Raktharakshassu 3D (2013)
Actors Madhu, Ananya, Sunny Wayne, Kulappulli Leela, Sunil Sukhada
The plot revolves around a renowned writer, his wife who is a fashion designer and their 7-year-old daughter. Upon being insisted by his young and fun-loving wife, he plans a family vacation at an island called Bungalow. Later, they are joined by the wife's uncle. As the story unfolds, the film presents the most bizarre family ever known.
Geethanjali (2013)
, 2h30Directed by Priyadarshan
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Mohanlal, Nishan, Suresh Gopi, Nassar, Keerthy Suresh, Siddique
Roles Babychayan
Rating39%
Anjali (Keerthi Suresh), has a recent shocking history of her twin sister Geetha (Keerthi Suresh) committing suicide. She is already betrothed to Anoop (Nishan) from a prominent family. But when her mother suddenly falls down from the staircase ending up in paralysis, Anjali and Anoop proceed to her Arackal house. Once they reach there, they are into more mysteries as the spirit of Geetha starts to haunt Anjali, which even physically disturbs her. Within days from a series of horrifying incidents arrives Dr. Sunny Joseph (Mohanlal) with his style of wit and wisdom, to treat Anjali and to help her out of the crisis that she is in. He finds the shocking truth that Anjali is actually Geetha. Geetha had a criminal nature by birth. She accidentally killed Anjali during an argument,to not loose Anoop from her. Geetha tries to kill Anoop when he rejected her upon knowing the truth. However , in the end, Anjali's spirit prevent Geetha from shooting Anoop. Geetha is killed by the fire in the house. The film shows Anjali's spirit over Geetha while she is dying.
Mazhavillinattam Vare (2012)
Directed by Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri
Genres Musical
Themes Sports films, Cricket films, Musical films
Actors Archana Kavi, Saikumar, Salim Kumar, Madhu, Nedumudi Venu
Prabhuvinte Makkal (2012)
, 2h54Actors Vinay Forrt, Madhu, Swasika, Kalabhavan Mani, Salim Kumar, Tovino Thomas
Roles Siddharathan's father
Rating69%
The film centres around a septuagenarian industrialist called Dayadananda Prabhu (Madhu). He has two sons, Mani (Jijoy)and Siddhartha (Vinay Fort). Mani is a confirmed atheist. But Siddhartha, in spite of being a physics student, and completing post-graduation in it with high rank, is more into spiritualism and oriental occult. Prabhu wants Siddhartha to marry Devika (Swaasika) his classmate, and join the same college as lecturer. But by this time, Sidhartha is hopelessly enamored by spiritualism and the works of Fritjof Kapra, the Austrian born American physicist. He suddenly leaves home to Hrishikesh, the sacred place of Hindus; he is in search of a guru who can teach him Ashtasiddhi (The eight divine yogic powers).
Spirit (2012)
, 2h25Directed by Ranjith
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Mohanlal, Kanika, Shankar Ramakrishnan, Madhu, Lena, Kalpana
Roles Captain Nambiar
Rating74%
Raghunandan is an ex-Bank of England employee who resigned his lucrative job because he was bored with the rather sedentary and mundane nature of his work. Having lived in different parts of the world as a bank employee, he chose journalism as his next career and worked in different cities in India. He now works for a TV news channel as an interviewer in a popular show named "Show the Spirit". In the mean time, he is in the process of writing an English novel too. He is essentially a loner but is a compulsive alcoholic and has an expensive collection of vintage drinks at home.
August 15 (2011)
, 2h59Directed by Shaji Kailas
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Mammootty, Nedumudi Venu, Siddique, Saikumar, Jagathy Sreekumar, Lalu Alex
Roles Doctor
Rating37%
Lucky Jokers (2011)
Directed by Sunil
Genres Comedy
Actors Madhu, Anoop Menon, Ajmal Ameer, Jagathy Sreekumar, Suraj Venjaramoodu, P. V. Jagadish Kumar
Rating49%
The story revolves around the attempts of many to somehow get into the costly treasure of diamonds, that is said to be in the famous Vishnu Puram place, handed over to them by a Nepali king, thousand of years ago. Krishanvarma Thampuran (Jagathy Sreekumar) is the current Rajah of the palace. The Prince (Ajmal Ameer), who finds to his dismay that the treasure is lost, sets out on an adventurous hunt for an ancestral diamond. Suraj Venjaramoodu appeared in double roles as a fraud Sanyasin Himagirisringan and also as a Tamilian named Narasimha Gowundar.