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Ranjith is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Indian born on 5 september 1964 at Balussery (Inde)
Ranjith Balakrishnan (born 4 September 1964) is an Indian film director, screen writer, producer and actor known for his work in Malayalam cinema. He is popular for the films Raavanaprabhu (2001), Thirakkatha (2008), Paleri Manikyam (2009), Pranchiyettan & the Saint (2010), Indian Rupee (2011) and Spirit (2012).
In his career spanning over two decades, he has scripted several commercially successful films including Peruvannapurathe Visheshangal (1989), Nagarangalil Chennu Raparkam (1990), Georgootty C/O Georgootty (1991), Devaasuram (1993),Rajaputhran (1996), Aaraam Thampuran (1997), Summer in Bethlehem (1998), Ustaad (1999), Valliettan (2000), Narasimham (2000) and Raavanaprabhu (2001).
In the year 2001, Ranjith made his directorial debut with Ravanaprabhu, a sequel to Devaasuram. His directorial ventures Thirakkatha and Indian Rupee won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam in 2008 and 2011 respectively.
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In his career spanning over two decades, he has scripted several commercially successful films including Peruvannapurathe Visheshangal (1989), Nagarangalil Chennu Raparkam (1990), Georgootty C/O Georgootty (1991), Devaasuram (1993),Rajaputhran (1996), Aaraam Thampuran (1997), Summer in Bethlehem (1998), Ustaad (1999), Valliettan (2000), Narasimham (2000) and Raavanaprabhu (2001).
In the year 2001, Ranjith made his directorial debut with Ravanaprabhu, a sequel to Devaasuram. His directorial ventures Thirakkatha and Indian Rupee won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam in 2008 and 2011 respectively.
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Annayum Rasoolum (2013)
, 2h47Directed by Rajeev Ravi
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Fahadh shanu, Andrea Jeremiah, Sunny Wayne, Ranjith, Aashiq Abu, Srinda Ashab
Roles Usman
Rating73%
The movie is told through the narration of Ashley (Sunny Wayne) who is working in merchant navy & he is signing off in kochi for the second time. The movie plots ahead with Ashley recollecting the events happened in his last sign off at Kochi . Rasool (Fahadh Faasil) is a tourist taxi driver from a modest area in kochi city. He falls in love with Anna (Andrea Jeremiah) a Latin Christian girl who works as sales girl in a popular apparel shop. It takes time for Rasool to convince Anna and make her understand his love for her, he always follows her on the ways and on the boat on which she travels regularly to her work place.One day Ashley has to pick his relative from the textile shop.Using Rasool he plans to pick them up in his taxi and there he finds out that Anna is also going to return home in the same taxi.They make a quick pit stop at a church where Anna leaves her bag in the taxi. Rasool peeks inside and gets her number from the phone. Rasool is nervous and shy at first but his friends persuade him to text her through phone. no replies comes at first. then one day, Rasool approaches Anna and tells her that he loves her. Anna is surprised and stunned and moves away without an answer.The following day Rasool is sick and stays home. Anna boards the ship like every other day but is anxious since Rasool was not around anywhere she went that day. Anna seems restless as she cannot stop thinking about Rasool and why he had not come to see her.She could not wait longer and she desperately texts Rasool on the phone. Rasool on receiving the message rushes to see Anna. Anna further tells that she is scared and tells him it will not work out. Rasool then explains that he loves her no matter what and religion does not affect his affection towards her. Then Anna calls him one day to go to a convent where a nun tries to persuade Rasool to change his religion for marriage which Rasool declines. In the later part of the movie, we will understand that this nun is Anna's elder sister who had gone to convent after a love failure. Ashley who had a soft corner for her does not reveal it to her even after knowing about her love failure.
Banking Hours 10 to 4 (2012)
, 1h53Directed by K. Madhu
Genres Thriller
Actors Jishnu, Anoop Menon, Kaillash, Ashokan, Mithun Ramesh, Shankar Panicker
Rating51%
Banking Hours 10 to 4 is a suspense thriller happening in a bank as a person is killed inside the bank premises and the suspense is revealed within the banking hours of 10 to 4. Anoop Menon plays the role of an investigation officer.
Jawan of Vellimala (2012)
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Mammootty, Sreenivasan, Mamta Mohandas, Asif Ali, Baburaj, Ranjith
Roles Dr. Shivaprasad
Rating47%
Umma (2011)
, 1h45Directed by Vijayakrishnan
Actors Madhu, Iniya, Shobha Mohan, Srihari, Kochu Preman, Ranjith
Khader, the husband of Subaida is a factory worker. A hardcore drunkard, he every day cruelly beats up his wife. Mansoor stands a mute witness to this. As he could not go for higher studies due to financial hardship, Mansoor is very much grieved. One day unable to bear the roughing up of his mother by father, he raises protest against Khader. Saying that hence forth the son himself should find ways of family livelihood, Khader walks off home.
Best Actor (2010)
, 2h35Genres Comedy
Actors Mammootty, Nedumudi Venu, Sonu, Lal, Paul Michael, Salim Kumar
Roles Himself
Rating69%
Mohan (Mammootty) is an upper primary schoolteacher, who lives with his wife and their six-year-old son. He is actively involved in the cultural activities in his school and in his village too. His ambition is to act in films. Mohan is so besotted with this dream of becoming a star that he dresses and behaves like one. Although his colourful clothes and obsession with his looks invite the ridicule of his colleagues, his wife supports his aspirations. Then a film crew comes to the village for a shoot. Mohan makes several attempts to make his dream happen but certain incidents occur and the story takes a different turn.
Gulmohar (2008)
Directed by Jayaraj Rajasekharan Nair
Actors Ranjith, Siddique, P. V. Jagadish Kumar, Augustine, Kaviyoor Ponnnamma, Meera Vasudevan
Roles Induchoodan
Rating67%
Induchoodan (Ranjith) is the head master of a school. His family consists of his wife Chithra(Meera Vasudev), a son , a daughter and his mother-in-law(Kaviyoor Ponnamma). A friend from past, Harikrishnan(Siddique) visits Induchoodan. It is revealed that Induchoodan was a naxalite in the past and was imprisoned for six years. This triggers flashback to 20 years back.
Thirakkatha (2008)
, 2hDirected by Ranjith
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about cancer
Actors Priyaman, Anoop Menon, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Samvrutha Sunil, Ranjith, Cochin Haneefa
Roles Abey Kuruvilla
Rating74%
Akbar Ahmed (Prithviraj) is a film director. Friends call him 'Akky'. After his highly successful first film, he becomes the most wanted director in the Malayalam film industry. Akky and his girl friend Devayani (Samvrutha Sunil) along with a group of friends all share a passion for cinema. It was with them that Akbar directed and produced his first film, which went on to become a huge success. Akbar also runs a cafe called Casablanca named after the classic Hollywood film. For Akbar cinema is not a job, it is his passion. Akbar decides to choose a very different kind of story for his second film and he sets on a journey in search of it.
Lokanathan IAS (2005)
, 1h42Directed by Anil
Actors Kalabhavan Mani, Gayatri Jayaraman, Ranjith, Ranjith, Salim Kumar, Harisree Ashok
Lokanathan, who witnessed his father(TG Ravi)'s murder at a young age, grows up to become an auto-rickshaw diver, the hero of his slum. His father's murderer, a Politician called Brahmananda, becomes a minister causing harm to the people who elected him.
Meesa Madhavan (2002)
, 2h45Directed by Lal Jose
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action
Actors Dileep, Kavya Madhavan, Jagathy Sreekumar, Indrajith Sukumaran, Sukumari, Harisree Ashok
Roles Narrater
Rating79%
Madhavan (Dileep) is a clever thief who does robbery for a living. He is following the principles of his mentor Mullani Pappan (Mala Aravindan). Meesa Madhavan got his name by the popular saying that if Madhavan rolls his Mustache (Meesa in Malayalam) looking at someone, he will rob his house that night. His enemy was a local money lender Bhageerathan Pillai (Jagathy Sreekumar) who refused to give back his father's property.
Kaalal Pada (1989)
Directed by Viji Thampi
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jayaram, Suresh Gopi, Rashin Rahman, Ratheesh, Thilakan, Ranjini
Roles violinist
Rating60%
Ezhuthapurangal (1986)
Directed by Sibi Malayil
Actors Suhasini Maniratnam, Ambika, Parvathy, Murali, Nedumudi Venu, Babu Namboothiri
Roles Ramanandan
Rating64%
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Loham (2015)
, 2h9Directed by Ranjith
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Mohanlal, Andrea Jeremiah, Siddique, Ajmal Ameer, Renji Panicker, Abu Salim
Rating51%
A casket containing the body of deceased construction worker, Rafeeq (Musthafa), is flown from Dubai to the Calicut International Airport in Kozhikode, then transported by ambulance to its destination. While en route, the ambulance is ambushed by criminals hired by Muhammed Unni (Siddique) to retrieve the 100 kilograms (220 lb) of gold that he and his co-smugglers have hidden in the casket. What they discover instead is that the gold is missing.
Njaan (2014)
Directed by Ranjith
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Dulquer Salmaan, Saiju Kurup, Suresh Krishna, Anumol, Jyothi Krishna, Irshad
Rating59%
, 2h12Directed by Ranjith
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Mammootty, Sekhar Menon, Meera Jasmine, Meera Nandan, Nedumudi Venu, Nandalal Krishnamurthy
Rating52%
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
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.