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Nilambur Balan was an Indian actor in Malayalam movies. He was one of the prominent supporting actor in late 1960s and 1970s in Malayalam movies. He has acted in more than 50 movies.

Biography

He was born at Nilambur. He was a theater artist before becoming a cine artist. Balan acted in many films, including the Sankupushpam. He was married to Vjayalakshmi on 8 December 1957. They have started a drama troupe,Kalithara and acted together in many dramas. His wife is Kerala State Theater Award winning actress. The couple has three children Santhosh, Vijayakumar, Asha. He died on 4 February 1990.
An award instituted in memory of actor Nilambur Balan by the Nilambur Balan Anusmarana Samithi, to the personalities, for their contribution to the theater-cinema field.

Usually with

Adoor Bhasi
Adoor Bhasi
(16 films)
Kuthiravattam Pappu
Kuthiravattam Pappu
(13 films)
Sankaradi
Sankaradi
(10 films)
Vidhubala
Vidhubala
(9 films)
K. P. Ummer
K. P. Ummer
(9 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Nilambur Balan (34 films)

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Alicinte Anweshanam
Alicinte Anweshanam (1989)
, 2h2
Directed by T. V. Chandran
Genres Drama
Actors Jalaja, Nedumudi Venu, Nilambur Balan, V K Sreeraman
Roles Varghese
Rating64% 3.248993.248993.248993.248993.24899
Set in northern Kerala, the film narrates the journey of Alice in search of her missing husband, a college lecturer. During her quest, she slowly discovers disturbing aspects of her husband, including his descent from his earlier radicalism into bourgeois degeneracy. In the end she gives up her search and decides to take the responsibility of her own life.
Report to Mother
Report to Mother (1986)
, 1h55
Directed by John Abraham
Genres Drama
Actors Joy Mathew, Nilambur Balan
Rating73% 3.656563.656563.656563.656563.65656
Preparing to leave for Delhi, Purushan bids his mother goodbye, promising to write to her regularly. In the thinly populated forest area of Wayanad in the north-east of Kerala, the jeep in which he is travelling is stopped by the Police, who take possession of it to carry a dead body found hanging on the wayside tree. The dead man's face looks familiar to Purushan. He becomes restless and is seized with a pathological obsession to find out the identity of the deceased. Against the wishes of his girl friend, he abandons his trip to Delhi and sets out to seek his friends who may have some clue. Purushan meets journalist friends, doctors, and finally a veteran comrade, fondly addressed as Balettan who identifies the dead as the fellow musician who accompanied Satyajit, the guitarist. Satyajit confirms the deceased is his friend Hari, the tabla player. Together they decide to inform Hari's mother who stays in Cochin. They set out on a long eventful journey from the northern highlands of Wayanad to the Southern port city of Cochin.
Bandhanam
Bandhanam (1978)

Directed by M. T. Vasudevan Nair
Actors Shobha, Sukumaran, Sankaradi, Shubha, Nilambur Balan, Janardhanan
Roles Kaaranavar

Unnikrishnan (Sukumaran) works as clerk in the city. He leads an aimless life spending his evenings drinking and nights in a budget lodge. His colleague Sarojini (Shubha ) has feelings for Unnikrishnan. Though Unnikrishnan reciprocates the feelings, he fails to express it to her.
Mannu
Mannu (1978)
, 2h14
Directed by K. G. George
Genres Drama
Actors M. G. Soman, Sharada, Sukumaran, P. K. Abraham, Adoor Bhasi, Kuthiravattam Pappu
Roles Velappan

Mannu is about the struggle between Damu, a tenant whose legal right to his land is obscure, and Krishnan Nair, a rapacious landlord. The local leader of the party, comrade Mulamkadan, supports the tenant. and the landlord's political strategy to evict the tenant fails. When the landlord gores to a Nambudiri priest, the priest advises recourse to the Lord.
Vayanadan Thampan
Vayanadan Thampan (1978)

Directed by Aloysius Vincent
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Kamal Haasan, Latha, Balan K. Nair, Nilambur Balan, Janardhanan, K. P. A. C. Lalitha
Rating63% 3.197113.197113.197113.197113.19711
Vayanadan Thamban is retaining his youth by sacrificing blood of virgins. He seduce virgin girls and lives for more than a century, but finally he gets caught and loses his youth and dies.