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P. Jayachandran is a Actor and Playback Singer Indian born on 3 march 1944
Paliyath Jayachandrakuttan, popularly known as P. Jayachandran is a South Indian playback singer from Kerala. Jayachandran is best known for his captivating sound which gave him the title Bhava Gayakan by music fraternity of Kerala.
Jayachandran graduated from Christ College, Irinjalakuda. He was a student of the Irinjalakuda National School from where he received many prestigious prizes for playing the Mridangam and light music in the State School Youth Festival Jayachandran met Yesudas in 1958 when he participated in the state youth festival. Yesudas won the Best Classical Singer award and Jayachandran got the best Mridamgist award in the same year.
He has won one National Award, four Kerala State Awards and four Tamil Nadu State Awards. He has recorded songs in Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi languages. Jayachandran is also affectionately called the Bhava Gayakan.
Jayachandran got his first state award in 1972 for the song Neelagiriyude ('Suprabhaatham')... for the film Panitheeratha Veedu. Its music was done by M. S. Viswanathan. The year 1978 brought him another state award. The song was Ragam Sreeragam for the film Bandhanam and the music director was M. B. Sreenivasan. He received a prestigious national award in 1985 for Sivasankara Sarva Saranya Vibho..., a Gurusthuthi song for the film Sree Narayana Guru music by G. Devarajan . The song Prayam Nammil.. from the film Niram brought him a third state award in 1998. In 1975, he sang for the Malayalam movie Penpada (with music by R. K. Shekhar)a song Velli then Kinnam Pol, regarded as the first composition of 9 year old Dileep Shekhar, now known as A. R. Rahman Legendary Music Composer.
Jayachandran has to be mentioned as one of the important person enriched by the music Maestro Ilayaraja. He sang a lots of Tamil hits for him. His famous and ultimate songs are "raasaathi unna" "kaathirundhu kaathirundhu" from Vaidhegi kaathirundhaal, "mayanginen solla thayanginen" from Naaney raaja naaney mandhiri, "vaalkaiye vesham" from Aarilirundhu arubathu varai, "poova eduthu oru" from Amman kovil kizhakaaley, "Thaalaattudhey vaanam" from Kadal Meengal... and much more...
He got the first Asianet award and the Arabian award for the same song in the same year. Its music was done by Sree Vidyasagar. In 1994, he received the Tamil Nadu state Government award for the best singer for the song, Kathazham Kattuvazhi... for the film
KizhakkuCheemayile. A. R. Rahman composed the music. As a recognition for his contribution to Tamil film music, he was honoured with the Kalaimamani award of the Tamil Nadu Government.
Despite his popularity, he was later sidelined by the music composers for reasons not known to the public. He was as important a singer in the 70s and 80s in the Tamil and the Malayalam films as S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and K. J. Yesudas.
Jayachandran was honoured with the Swaralaya Kairali Yesudas award at the beginning of 2001, which he was the first person to receive. The motive behind this award is to choose the best from the singers and lyricists within a span of 30 years. He has sung nearly 1000 songs for Malayalam movies over the years according to the MSI information database.
Jayachandran, for the first time, sang in Hindi in 2008, for the movie ADA...A Way of Life along with Alka Yagnik, music scored by A. R. Rahman.
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P. Jayachandran
Biography
Jayachandran was born in 'Bhadralayam', Ravipuram, Ernakulam, and later his family moved to Irinjalakkuda. His father Ravivarma Kochaniyan Thampuran of the Cochin Royal Family was a learned musician, though not a professional singer. His mother Subhadra Kunjamma Paliyam Swarupam was also a great music lover who encouraged Jayachandran to learn the notes of Mridangam at a very young age and with her support he could attain dexterity with the Mridangam. He began to sing devotional songs in churches at the age of 8.Jayachandran graduated from Christ College, Irinjalakuda. He was a student of the Irinjalakuda National School from where he received many prestigious prizes for playing the Mridangam and light music in the State School Youth Festival Jayachandran met Yesudas in 1958 when he participated in the state youth festival. Yesudas won the Best Classical Singer award and Jayachandran got the best Mridamgist award in the same year.
He has won one National Award, four Kerala State Awards and four Tamil Nadu State Awards. He has recorded songs in Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi languages. Jayachandran is also affectionately called the Bhava Gayakan.
Jayachandran got his first state award in 1972 for the song Neelagiriyude ('Suprabhaatham')... for the film Panitheeratha Veedu. Its music was done by M. S. Viswanathan. The year 1978 brought him another state award. The song was Ragam Sreeragam for the film Bandhanam and the music director was M. B. Sreenivasan. He received a prestigious national award in 1985 for Sivasankara Sarva Saranya Vibho..., a Gurusthuthi song for the film Sree Narayana Guru music by G. Devarajan . The song Prayam Nammil.. from the film Niram brought him a third state award in 1998. In 1975, he sang for the Malayalam movie Penpada (with music by R. K. Shekhar)a song Velli then Kinnam Pol, regarded as the first composition of 9 year old Dileep Shekhar, now known as A. R. Rahman Legendary Music Composer.
Jayachandran has to be mentioned as one of the important person enriched by the music Maestro Ilayaraja. He sang a lots of Tamil hits for him. His famous and ultimate songs are "raasaathi unna" "kaathirundhu kaathirundhu" from Vaidhegi kaathirundhaal, "mayanginen solla thayanginen" from Naaney raaja naaney mandhiri, "vaalkaiye vesham" from Aarilirundhu arubathu varai, "poova eduthu oru" from Amman kovil kizhakaaley, "Thaalaattudhey vaanam" from Kadal Meengal... and much more...
He got the first Asianet award and the Arabian award for the same song in the same year. Its music was done by Sree Vidyasagar. In 1994, he received the Tamil Nadu state Government award for the best singer for the song, Kathazham Kattuvazhi... for the film
KizhakkuCheemayile. A. R. Rahman composed the music. As a recognition for his contribution to Tamil film music, he was honoured with the Kalaimamani award of the Tamil Nadu Government.
Despite his popularity, he was later sidelined by the music composers for reasons not known to the public. He was as important a singer in the 70s and 80s in the Tamil and the Malayalam films as S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and K. J. Yesudas.
Jayachandran was honoured with the Swaralaya Kairali Yesudas award at the beginning of 2001, which he was the first person to receive. The motive behind this award is to choose the best from the singers and lyricists within a span of 30 years. He has sung nearly 1000 songs for Malayalam movies over the years according to the MSI information database.
Jayachandran, for the first time, sang in Hindi in 2008, for the movie ADA...A Way of Life along with Alka Yagnik, music scored by A. R. Rahman.
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Trivandrum Lodge (2012)
Directed by V. K. Prakash
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about virginity
Actors Jayasurya, Honey Rose, Karthika Menon, Anoop Menon, Thesni Khan, Padmanabhan Balachandran Nair
Roles Narayanan Nair, Ravisankar's father
Rating66%
Trivandrum Lodge, situated in Kochi and its inmates form the backdrop of the film. Abdu (Jayasurya) is a man who does odd jobs for living including being masseur at a spa and being the driver of a wealthy businessman. He is also obsessed about sex, being sex-starved. Shibu Vellayani (Saiju Kurup) is a cinema reporter who works with a not-so-well-known film magazine, and persuades women to sleep with him for roles in films. Kora (P. Balachandran) is a retired clerk from the secretariat who boasts about having had sex with 999 women in his life and who wishes to have a policewoman as his 1000th. Satheeshan (Arun), wants to be an actor. Shibu promises to help him and has even given Satheeshan a new name, Sagar. Arthur Relton (Janardhanan) and Peggy Aunty (Sukumari) are the oldest inmates. Relton teaches piano and lives in the world of music while Peggy Aunty runs a canteen inside the lodge.
Nakhakshathangal (1986)
Genres Drama
Actors Monisha Unni, Vineeth, P. Jayachandran, Saleema, Thilakan, Kaviyoor Ponnnamma
Roles Neighbor Namboothiri
Rating73%
The story is about Ramu (Vineeth), a 16-year-old boy who is staying with his annoying uncle, who gets angry and often treats Ramu like a slave. On a trip to the pilgrim town of Guruvayoor with his uncle (played by Thilakan), Ramu meet 15-year-old Gowri (Monisha), who has come with her grandmother. Both find love, and after sharing a few tender talks and moments depart without a clue that they will meet again. When back Ramu runs away from his uncle and lands up in the city with his neighbor namboothiri (played by P Jayachandran). As fate would have it, Ramu and Gowri meet again. Good conduct and intelligence of Ramu gets noticed and he is asked by a lawyer to stay in the house, where Gowri is a maid. The lawyer's deaf and dumb daughter Lakshmi (Saleema) gets attracted to Ramu and the lawyer fixes the marriage without asking Ramu. The triangle love story leads to a sad ending.
Jaganmohini (1978)
Directed by B.VITHALA ACHARYA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about religion, Ghost films
Actors Jayamalini, Narasimha Raju, Dhulipala, Kommareddy Savitri, Mukkamala Krishnamurthy, T. N. Balakrishna
Rating65%
Kama Pisachi Jaganmohini (Jayamalini) controls Narasimha Raju by her beauty. His wife Prabha is a pativrata. She regains him by praying her Goddess, whom she believes strongly. She is helped by a Monkey and Snake.
Krishnapparunthu (1978)
Actors P. Jayachandran, Madhu, Sreevidya, Sreelatha Namboodiri. B, Prathapachandran Nair, Ambika
Paavaadakkaari (1977)
Actors Deepa Unnimary, Manjula Vijayakumar, Vincent, Sreelatha Namboodiri. B, Prathapachandran Nair, P. Jayachandran
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Kerala Cafe (2009)
Directed by Revathi, Anjali Menon, Shankar Ramakrishnan, Anwar Rasheed, B. Unnikrishnan, Shyamaprasad, Uday Ananthan, Lal Jose, Shaji Kailas, Ranjith
Genres Drama
Actors Mammootty, Dileep, Sreenivasan, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Jayaram, Navya Nair (Dhanya Veena)
Roles Playback Singer
Rating73%
Chanthupottu (2005)
Directed by Lal Jose
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Dileep, Gopika, Lal, Paul Michael, Karthika Menon, Indrajith Sukumaran
Roles Playback Singer
Rating65%
Radhakrishnan (Dileep) is dysfunctionally brought up like a girl by his grandmother (Sukumari) who wanted a granddaughter. There by, he becomes effeminate and milquetoast. She calls him Radha, which becomes his nickname. Radha's father Divakaran (Lal) goes to jail for a murder that he accidentally commits. Radha is ridiculed among the people in the village but he is not worried and spends time with the girls singing and teaches dancing. His best friend is Malu (Gopika) who is wooed by Kumaran (Indrajith), a local money lender and the son of the man whom Radha’s father had killed.
Jalolsavam (2004)
, 2h3Directed by Sibi Malayil
Genres Drama
Actors Kunchacko Boban, Navya Nair (Dhanya Veena), Nedumudi Venu, Sujatha, Riyaz Khan, Jagathy Sreekumar
Roles Playback Singer
Rating49%
Kadhavaseshan (2004)
, 2hDirected by T. V. Chandran
Genres Drama
Actors Jyothirmayi, Jagathy Sreekumar, Dileep, Cochin Haneefa, Salim Kumar, Bindu Panicker
Roles Playback Singer
Rating71%
Gopinatha Menon (Dileep) a.k.a. Gopi is a young engineer staying alone in a flat in Thiruvananthapuram city. One day he was found dead by hanging. His fiancée Renuka (Jyothirmayi) wants to know the cause of his suicide and decides to do a bit of investigation. She meets different people who had some role in Gopi's life and gets to hear their versions about Gopi. All their testimonials lead to her concluding on what Gopi's reasons were. The ideal attitude that Gopi possess against the odds provides the fuel for Renuka's journey. As Renuka gets more closer to knowing Gopi, the man who led a very normal life posed an even more difficult question as to the cause of his death. Finally she understands that Gopi committed suicide out of the shame of being alive in such a merciless society.
Chronic Bachelor (2003)
, 2h45Directed by Siddique
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Mammootty, Mukesh, Rambha, Karthika Menon, Indraja, Innocent
Roles Playback Singer
Rating65%
The film opens with a flashback showing the family feud between families of Sathyaprathapan (Mammootty) and Bhavani (Indraja). Sathyaprathapan's sister and Bhavani's cousin are in love. The murder of Bhavani's cousin Vishnu, is wrongly accused on Balagangadharan (Lalu Alex), father of Sathyaprathapan. Sathyaprathapan's sisters commits suicide and Sathyaprathapan turns against his father. He starts to help Bhavani's family and mortgages his own house to finance her factory. A love develops between Sathyaprathapan and Bhavani. But Bhavani's greedy father wants to destroy Sathyaprathapan's family and tries to take their home. That is when Parameshwara Maman shows up, Sathyaprathapan's mom requests Maman to prove Balagangadharan's innocence. Parameshwara Mama and Sathyaprathapan finds Kuruvilla who witnessed the murder being committed by Bhavani's father goons. Meanwhile we see that Sathyaprathapan's mom faints and dies in the hospital. While in the hospital, his mom tells how Balagangadharan had a different wife and he should ask them forgiveness. He storms into Bhavani's house and accuses her dad, also trying to make her understand the truth but she doesn't believe him and stands by her father. Then Sathyaprathapan says he doesn't love her any more and vows that he will never trust a woman by remaining a chronic bachelor forever.
Kannathil Muthamittal (2002)
, 2h17Directed by Mani Ratnam
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films
Actors R. Madhavan, Simran, Prakash Raj, Nandita Das, J. D. Chakravarthy, Pasupathy
Roles Playback Singer
Rating83%
The film begins in a small village in Sri Lanka called Mankulam, where Shyama (Nandita Das) is married to Dileepan (J. D. Chakravarthy), who along with few other Sri Lankan Tamils in the village, is part of the Tamil Tigers rebel association. While having a quiet moment, the couple hears sounds of Sri Lankan army troops approaching. He asks Shyama to leave while he remains in the forest. Shyama realizes that she is pregnant and waits in vain for Dileepan’s return. Her villagers begin fleeing to India to seek refugee due to the war. Shyama is initially stubborn to leave since one of the rebels says that he has seen Dileepan with bullet wounds in the forest, but her relatives convince her to seek refuge for her unborn child's sake. The villagers board a to the shores of Rameswaram. While a local collector takes down the names of the refugees, Shyama gives birth to a baby girl. However, the urge to find her husband and be with her people back home overwhelms Shyama and she leaves behind the newborn girl, hoping that the girl will lead a better life.
Mazhathullikkilukkam (2002)
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Dileep, Navya Nair (Dhanya Veena), Sharada, Bharathi Vishnuvardhan, Cochin Haneefa, Salim Kumar
Roles Playback Singer
Rating61%
The story starts when Soloman(Dileep) and his sister travel to kannadahalli to meet two retired teachers. He reaches the house on top of a hill-'Swargam' where he finds two old women who live alone with a cook and a home nurse to look after them. Alice (Sharada) and Anna (Bharati) are sisters who are spinsters and they own the huge estate. The home nurse, Sophiya (Navya Nair), cook (Sukumari), cook's son (Cochin Haneefa) and the priest (Nedumudi Venu) are the only people close to them. Soloman takes charge as the manager of the estate and soon wins over the two oldies.
Joker (2000)
Directed by A. K. Lohithadas
Genres Drama
Themes Circus films, Musical films
Actors Dileep, Manya, Nishanth Sagar, Mamukkoya, Bahadoor, Mala Aravindan
Roles Playback Singer
Rating63%
Royal Circus, owned by Govindan (T S Raju), is on rocks. With the help of his manager Khader (Mamukkoya), Govindan just manages to run the company, though not in a satisfactory manner. All the members of the troupe live as a family, sharing intimate bonds of love and camaraderie. Abookka (Bahadoor), once a clown, has turned insane. As he still insists on putting up the make-up and entering the ring, he is caged, when the show goes on. Babu (Dileep), the favourite of the troupe is the clown of Royal Circus. Abooka has trained him to become the perfect clown. And he has learned the perfect art of masking his sorrows behind the clown's ever laughing mask. He has been there in the troupe ever since his childhood, looking after the other children, especially Govindan's daughter Kamala (Manya). Govindan has always been saying that Babu is to be his heir and is to marry Kamala. And of course Babu, deep in his heart, has feelings of love for Kamala.The movie takes a turn when Sudheer Misra (Nishanth Sagar), the young son of Padmini (Reena), a former member of the troupe makes his entry into the camp. Sudheer's arrival marks the beginnings of change. He steers the company out of its crisis and gives it a new form and name as New Royal Circus.
Indriyam (2000)
, 2h9Genres Horror
Actors Nishanth Sagar, Lena, Vikram, Vani Viswanath, Devan, Nandalal Krishnamurthy
Roles Playback Singer
Rating51%
A college group of anthropology students go to the remote forest are of Muthuvan Mala, under the oversight of Prof. Shankaranarayanan (Raghavan), in order to study the tribal life which had existed there. A student, Sunny (Nishanth Sagar), unknowingly unleashes the spirit of Neeli (Vani Viswanath), who is a ghost seeking revenge against the Thripangod royal family, one of whom (Devan) had killed her and her lover (Vikram. Consequently Neeli starts killing off the students one by one and the police call for sorcerer Vadakkedath Namboothiri (Prathapachandran) to be summoned.
Aravindhan (1997)
Genres Drama
Actors R. Sarathkumar, Nagma, Radhakrishnan Parthiban, Urvashi, Visu, Prakash Raj
Roles Playback Singer
Rating48%
The film is based on the 1968 Kizhavenmani massacre, in which 44 people were burnt alive.