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Shankar is a Actor and Director born on 13 september 1960

Shankar

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Birth name Shankar
Birth 13 september 1960 (63 years)

Shankar (Shankar Panicker), is an Indian film actor and director, popularly known as Shankar (Malayalam: ശങ്കര്‍) in Malayalam films and Oru Thalai Raagam Shankar in Tamil films. A superstar of the early eighties, he was the most prominent romantic lead actor of Malayalam cinema after Prem Nazir. Galatta Cinema magazine described him as the True romantic hero of Mollywood in their special edition on 100 years of Indian cinema

Biography

Born in 1960 to Thrissur Kacheriyil Thekkeveettil NP Panicker and Sulochana Panicker. Shankar is living in Cochin with his mother. He was married to Rooparekha but ended in divorce. The couple has a son. He is married to Chitra Lekshmi, a dancer teacher on 2013.

Usually with

Sukumari
Sukumari
(21 films)
Mohanlal
Mohanlal
(19 films)
Nedumudi Venu
Nedumudi Venu
(14 films)
Priyadarshan
Priyadarshan
(10 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Shankar (60 films)

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Actor

Viswasam Athalle Ellam, 2h15
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Shine Tom Chacko, Shankar Panicker, Ansiba Hassan, Shankar, Manoj K. Jayan, Kalabhavan Shajon
Roles Luca
Rating52% 2.616212.616212.616212.616212.61621
Vishwasam... Athallae Ellaam is a family entertainer that tells the story a happy go lucky college going boy (Shine Tom Chacko) and his strict police commissioner father (Shankar).
Naku Penta Naku Taka, 2h15
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Indrajith Sukumaran, Bhama, Murali Gopy, Shankar Panicker, Shankar, Anusree
Roles Iyer
Rating48% 2.4269152.4269152.4269152.4269152.426915
Naku Penta Naku Taka is an humorous film about a girl who dream about marrying a person working in America, but ends up marrying a man working in Kenya, there by shattering her dreams. She didn't have any other choice, but to accompany her husband to Kenya. The following incidents that happen in the life of the couple after they reach Kenya becomes the plot of the story.
Cleopatra
Cleopatra (2013)

Actors Manoj K. Jayan, Vineeth, Sudha Chandran, Akhila Sasidharan, Shankar Panicker, Shankar

Cleopatra is an emotional family film which concentrates on family bondings.
Hotel California
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Actors Jayasurya, Honey Rose, Anoop Menon, Aparna Nair, Maria Roy, Shankar Panicker
Roles Aby Mathew
Rating48% 2.435492.435492.435492.435492.43549
The film begins with the City Police Commissioner Bharath Chandran (Joju George) jumping over the compound wall of a house who is having an affair with house owner's wife. The house owner confronts commissioner and beats and breaks his arm. It then shifts to a man at a friend's house asking where his friend and a don named Jimmy is, as there is work for him to do for the man. He reveals his work is to transport the pirated DVD of the upcoming releasing movie Hotel California and in which Jimmy has to transport it through the airport safely. It shifts to Kamala Nambiar (Maria Roy) a dancer practicing dance receives a call informing that what she ordered is ready (It is not revealed what she ordered to audiences). It once again shifts to Aby Mathew (Shankar Panikkar) a lusting married middle aged man, who contacts a pimp to have sex with a television actress named Swapna Joseph (Honey Rose) who agrees to have sex with him for a large sum of money. Then Sasi Pillai is shown talking about a hot topic for news reporting about the don named Airport Jimmy. In which it shifts to the scene of Airport Jimmy (Jayasurya) in high class bar.
Bhoomiyude Avakashikal, 1h54
Directed by T. V. Chandran
Themes Environmental films
Actors Kaillash, Sreenivasan, Mythili Balachandran, Meera Nandan, Shankar, Shankar Panicker

Mohanachandran Nair (Kailash) is a Malayali youth working in Ahmadabad, Gujarat. On 28 February 2002, a day after the Godhra train burning, he is driven away from the city, after he makes a futile attempt to save a Muslim woman hunted by a group of Hindu fanatics. He reappears in Kerala but without any marks of identity. He has lost his job, ID cards and name. In the new place, he is helped by a man called Beeran Ikka (Sreenivasan), who is a warm and gentle human being, whose only passion in life is music.
Hide n' Seek
Directed by Anil
Actors Mukesh, Shankar Panicker, Divyadarshan, Anil Murali, Shankar
Roles Niranjan

The film is loosely based on the critically acclaimed South Korean romantic drama film 3-Iron (2004) directed by Kim Ki-duk.
Oomakkuyil Padumbol
Themes Children's films
Actors Shankar Panicker, Malavika Nair, Shankar, Sangita, Nilambur Ayisha
Roles Doctor

The story is about Reema (Malavika Nair), a young Muslim schoolgirl in Malabar, who loved Malayalam and poetry. The film is about her mental trauma once she was moved to an English medium school by her parents, for their social status.
China Town
China Town (2011)
, 2h22
Directed by Rafi and Mecartin
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Mohanlal, Dileep, Jayaram, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Kavya Madhavan, Poonam Bajwa
Roles Jayakrishnan
Rating39% 1.977431.977431.977431.977431.97743
Four friends bought a casino and were celebrating the profit with their family when an underworld don, Gowda (Pradeep Rawat), who used to have a monopoly on the casinos in Goa, intrudes. Xavier (Mohanlal), one of the friends, held out against the don. Although he was killed, he managed to hold off the gang long enough for all of their wives to escape with the children. Wilson Gomus (Captain Raju) is the only of the friends to survive and he settled in Goa with his daughter, Emily.
Koottukar
Koottukar (2010)

Genres Action
Actors Vinu Mohan, Bhama, Shankar Panicker, Shankar, Saiju Kurup, Devan
Roles Masthan/Masthan Bhai
Rating76% 3.8140553.8140553.8140553.8140553.814055
Koottukar (Friends) is about the friendship of four classmates and how they part ways and meet again after 10 years. The film is based on campus politics and takes a look at how it moulds a youngster's life.
Ividam Swargamanu, 2h46
Directed by Rosshan Andrrews
Genres Drama
Actors Mohanlal, Raai Laxmi, Priyanka Nair, Sreenivasan, Lalu Alex, Thilakan
Roles Sudheer
Rating71% 3.5881653.5881653.5881653.5881653.588165
'Ividam Swargamanu' concerns the story of a hard-working farmer known as Mathews (Mohanlal) and his fight against a land mafia which tries to take over his farmland. Mathews and his father, Jeramias (Thilakan) are hard-working farmers, who have successfully built a farm, along with a cow shed which holds of huge number of cattle. His agricultural land is a matter of envy for many. Mathews has led a calm, silent and happy life along with his family, consisting of his father, mother Elyamma(Kaviyoor Ponnamma) and her sister Rahelamma (Sukumari).
Cycle
Cycle (2008)
, 2h30
Directed by Johny Antony
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Vineeth Sreenivasan, Vinu Mohan, Bhama, Kaadhal Sandhya, Jagathy Sreekumar, Murali
Roles Guest
Rating62% 3.1384053.1384053.1384053.1384053.138405
The film, set at City Centre, a shopping mall in Kochi as backdrop, is all about a few youngsters, Roy and Sanju and their love interests, Annie and Meenakshy. Long-ignored and mistreated by society for reasons none of theirs, they decide to take matters into their own hands. Roy (Vineeth Sreenivasan) is an accountant in a private financing company of Kaustubhan, (deftly played with ease and characteristic gags by Jagathy) who pays his staff, the modest of all salaries. Sanju (Vinu Mohan) is a desperate cricketer, left out of Ranji team, who is working in the same commercial mall in an electronics shop. Roy has a soft corner for Annie (Bhama) who works as a receptionist in a travel agency in the same complex. And Meenakshy (Sandhya), the daughter of Kaushtubhan, is madly in love, always chasing Sanju.
Virus
Virus (2007)
, 1h50
Directed by Shankar Panicker, Shankar
Themes Medical-themed films, HIV/AIDS in film
Actors Shankar Panicker, Abhinay, Shankar

Virus is the story of lovers, Abhinay and Sajitha Beti, both working in a software firm. One day Sajitha Beti disappears from Abhinay's life. Shankar, brother of the Sajitha helps the lovers to reunite in spite of Sajitha Beti's dreaded disease, which was kept hidden from Abhinay. The film shows the life after for AIDS patients and gives the message that, society should be kind to AIDS patients and consider them as normal humans.
Sravu
Sravu (2001)

Genres Drama, Action
Actors Babu Antony, Baiju, Devan, Captain Raju, Shankar, Subair
Roles Hassan Marakkar
Rating26% 1.318731.318731.318731.318731.31873