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Sheela is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter Indian born on 22 march 1945 at Thrissur (Inde)
Sheela (born 24 March 1945) is an Indian film actress who works predominantly in Malayalam cinema. Alongside Prem Nazir, she holds the Guinness World Record for acting in the largest number of films (107) together as heroine and hero. In 2005 she won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the Malayalam film Akale.
Sheela returned to acting, playing main role in Sathyan Anthikkad's Manassinakkare. Sheela received the Kerala State Film Award for best supporting actress in the film Akale.
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Sheela
Birth name Sheela
Nationality Inde
Birth 22 march 1945 (79 years) at Thrissur (Inde)
Awards Filmfare Awards South
Nationality Inde
Birth 22 march 1945 (79 years) at Thrissur (Inde)
Awards Filmfare Awards South
Biography
Sheela was born in a Syrian Christian family Thrissur, Kerala. She made her debut in Paasam. Her first film in Malayalam was Bhagyajathakom. The next two decades saw her essay roles in more than 475 films totally in various languages such as Tamil, Telugu and Kannada and Malayalam. Films included Chemmeen, Kallichellamma, Velutha Kathreena and Vazhve Mayam. She has won awards such as Kerala State Film Awards, the Lux award and the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement award. In Kannapanunni she plays the role of a powerful yet humane princess forced to marry a poor woodcutter. In another movie, Kadathanattu Makkam, she plays the role of a princess who is cheated by her sisters in law and false allegations of being in love with a boatman are leveled against her. She and the boatman are both charged with the death sentence. She and Prem Nazir hold the Guinness Book of World Records for acting together consecutively in 107 films. In the 70s and 80s, she directed two films, Yakshaganom and Shikarangal. She wrote the story, script, and screenplay for Shikharangaland Yakshagaanam, which was also remade in Tamil. Besides films, she has directed a tele-film Ninaivukale neengividu in which Jayabharathi acted. She in films including Vishnu Vijayam and Eeta as heroine. She acted as Akhilandeswary in the 2005 Chandramukhi. She has also authored a book, titled Kuilinte Kooduand many short stories. She is a painter.Sheela returned to acting, playing main role in Sathyan Anthikkad's Manassinakkare. Sheela received the Kerala State Film Award for best supporting actress in the film Akale.
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Sir C.P. (2015)
Directed by Shajoon Kariyal
Genres Comedy
Actors Kunchacko Boban, Sheela, Jayaram, Honey Rose, Jayabharathi, Seema
Rating28%
Premam (2015)
, 2h44Directed by Alphonse Putharen
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Nivin Pauly, Sonia Agarwal, Vivek, Sai Pallavi, K. Bhagyaraj, Anupama Parameshwaran
Roles Pattu Maami
Rating65%
Palakattu Madhavan (Vivek) is a lazy and irresponsible man. Embarrassed that his wife Lakshmi (Sonia Agarwal) earns more than he, he quits his own job out of spite. He then adopts the old woman Pattu Maami (Sheela) as a surrogate mother because she offers to pay cash for the opportunity.
Ulsaha Committee (2014)
Genres Comedy
Actors Jayaram, Isha Talwar, Sheela, Baburaj, Kalabhavan Shajon, Vinaya Prasad
Roles Rosemary
Rating32%
The film is about a school drop out whose pursuit for amazing scientific inventions lands him in trouble.
Mr. Marumakan (2012)
, 2h57Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Dileep, Sanusha, K. Bhagyaraj, Kushboo Sundar, Sheela, Biju Menon
Roles Raja Kokila
Rating34%
Ashok Raj (Dileep) is the son of Rajagopalan Thampy (Nedumudi Venu), whose family is based in Ottappalam. Although Ashok Raj is a lawyer, his interest lies in reviving a defunct drama troupe called Bharatha Kalakshetram, which used to be run by his family. He is directing a drama titled Dasavatharam for the troupe and is also the lead actor in the play. Ashok Raj even changes his name to "Ashok Chakravarthy" as he thinks it has much more punch as a name for an artiste. His elder brother Babu Raj (Biju Menon), who runs a company, is now in a financial mess.
Kottarathil Kutty Bhootham (2011)
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Mukesh, P. V. Jagadish Kumar, Ashokan, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Sheela, Guinness Pakru
Kottarathil Kutty Bhootham tells the story of a group of robbers, three children and a funny police officer.
Seedan (2011)
, 2h15Actors Unni Mukundan, Ananya, Dhanush, Suhasini Maniratnam, Sheela, Ponvannan
Roles Amritavalli
Rating33%
Mahalakshmi (Ananya) is a servant at the residence of the elderly Amritavalli (Sheela). Everyone is really fond of her and treat her as one of the family, not a servant. However she finds herself doing all the work in the house. She is also a great devotee of the magnificent lord Murugan. Residing in Palani, she is unable to attend the temple. In a dream she finds herself at her wedding with an unknown man. The next day that man comes to the house. He is none other than Amritavalli's own grandson Mano (unni). He falls head over heels in love with maha. Maha though hesitant at first finds herself in love with him as well. Mano constantly assures her that his mother will arrange marriage. However as fate has it mano is afraid to admit to his mother thangam (Suhasini) that he is in love. This encourages thangam to fix his marriage with her childhood friends daughter. However when thangam comes to know of the love affair she is helpless and all she is able to do is encourage the lovebirds to forget each other. Soon everyone ( excpet amritavalli, thangam and mano) treat Maha in a rude way... as a servant not a family member. Mahalakshmi, angry claims to Lord Murugan that she will not face ever again. Enters Saravanan (Dhanush). Dhanush enters as the cook appointed by Madhave Gounder (Ilavarasu). Everyone finds his cooking awesome. However Mahalakshmi disapproves as cooking was her only peaceful hobby in the house after she fell in Love. Saravannan is told to stay in the guest house where Gumbidiswamy (vivek) is staying. Gumbidiswamy is a fraud and is now trying to pass as a presit in strong believe of god. For this reason he has stayed at their house. It did not take Saravannan long to realize that Gumbidiswamy is a fraud and he used this to blackmail him. Having this control over Gumbidiswamy, Saravanna tells him to tell everyone that according to background and religious research, Mano and his fiancee are not suitable for each other. After doing many things such as this, Saravannan is able to get Maha and Mano together. thangam and Amritavalli agree to let Mano marry Maha. Maha and Mano (on the day of their wedding) search for Saravannan to thank him for his help.Instead of Saravanna, another person comes and says he is the only Saravannan around the area. Disappointed, Maha goes to Murugan's Altar to pray... and there she sees Saravannan. He soon fades away. At that point, Maha understood that Saravannan was Murugan in Human form - in the Hindu religion it is believed that god may come down to earth in a human form to help those in need.
Snehaveedu (2011)
, 2h30Directed by Sathyan Anthikad
Genres Drama
Actors Mohanlal, Sheela, Padmapriya, Biju Menon, Innocent, K. P. A. C. Lalitha
Roles Ammukkutty Amma
Rating58%
The story revolves around Ajayan (Mohanlal), who, after having tried his luck in different cities around the world, comes back to his village to look after his ageing mother Ammukutty Amma (Sheela) and to get her love and the nostalgia of his growing up years. There, he starts a company for producing agricultural equipment and earns his living as a farmer. One day a boy comes and meets Ajayan claiming to be his son. Ajayan used to boast himself as a womanizer in his youth is believed to be the boy's father by all villagers. Ammukutty Amma starts getting to like the boy and they form a very friendly relation and eventually she starts accepting the boy as Ajayan's real son, though Ajayan ferociously reject the boy's claim and dislikes him. The boy is persuaded by Ammukkty Amma to get close with Ajayan and subsequent events softens Ajayans attitude towards the boy. Ajayan then set forth to enquire about the real identity of the boy and travels to Chennai. He is absolutely sure that he is not his father as the real truth is his stories about adventures with woman were actually lies to get admiration of his friends. The climax show us that Ajayan accepts the boy as his own son.
Cheena Thaana 001 (2007)
Directed by T. P. Gajendran
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Prasanna, Sheela, Vadivelu, S. Manivannan, Livingston, Riyaz Khan
Rating44%
Pathaka (2006)
Directed by K. Madhu
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Suresh Gopi, Navya Nair (Dhanya Veena), Saikumar, Lalu Alex, Devan, Manoj K. Jayan
Roles Elizabeth Tharyan
Rating40%
Ponmudipuzhayorathu (2005)
, 2h5Actors Sheela, Nedumudi Venu, Kalabhavan Mani, Mala Aravindan, Indrans, Aravind Akash
Ponmudipuzhayorathu is a family film, where family values gets conflicted each other, resulting agony for many.
Thaskara Veeran (2005)
Genres Comedy
Themes Heist films
Actors Mammootty, Nayantara, Sheela, Innocent, Siddique, Rajan P. Dev
Roles Meenakshi
Rating31%
Chandramukhi (2005)
, 2h46Directed by P. Vasu
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy, Action, Horror
Themes Films about music and musicians, Ghost films, Musical films, Comedy horror films
Actors Rajinikanth, Prabhu, Jyothika, Nayantara, Vadivelu, Malavika
Roles Akilandeswari
Rating71%
Saravanan (Rajinikanth), a psychiatrist, visits India on vacation. He meets up with his foster brother Senthilnathan, alias Senthil (Prabhu), and his wife Ganga (Jyothika). Senthil's mother Kasthuri (K. R. Vijaya) wanted Senthil to marry Priya (Malavika), the daughter of his father's cousin Kandaswamy (Nassar), to reunite the two branches of the family after 30 years of separation because Senthil's father (Sivaji Ganesan) chose to marry Kasthuri instead of Kandaswamy's sister, Akhilandeshwari (Sheela). Saravanan learns that Senthil had bought the Vettaiyapuram mansion, despite attempts by the local village elders to dissuade them, and moves in with them. Akhilandeshwari is jealous of Saravanan and plots to kill him with the help of her assistant Oomaiyan (Sonu Sood).
Akale (2004)
Directed by Shyamaprasad
Genres Drama
Actors Prithviraj Sukumaran, Sheela, Geetu Mohandas, Tom George Kolath, Mithun Ramesh, Santha Devi
Roles Margaret D'Costa
Rating72%
The film is the story about an Anglo-Indian family who lives in Kerala. Neil (Prithviraj Sukumaran) is a disturbed youth working as a clerk in a factory for low wages. His intention is to become a writer. He lives with his mother (Sheela) and sister (Geetu Mohandas). His father was a Portuguese sailor who he left the family when the children were very young. Rose, his sister is slightly handicapped and because of this, she is always in the shell. She is very much interested in glass figurines. Margret, Neil's mother hates his care-free attitude towards life and his late-night movies. She is a very possessive mother and she is always worried about the future of her daughter. One day Neil invites his co-worker Freddy (Tom George Kolath) for a dinner at his home. Neil's mother and daughter thinks that Freddy will get interested in Rose and they can marry her off but their dreams get crushed when they comes to know that Freddie is already engaged and Rose passes away years later.
Veeranna (2004)
, 2h20Actors Sheela, Vadivelu, S. Manivannan, R. Sundarrajan, Venniradai Moorthy, Pandu
Roles Rajeshwari
Mariappan (Napoleon) is the faithful servant of Rajeshwari (Sheela), whereas Rajeshwari spreads terror among the villagers. Mariappan's son Veeranna (Napoleon), a military officer, is back to his village and he tires to be more quiet than before. His cousin Vennila loves him.
Manassinakkare (2003)
, 2h35Directed by Sathyan Anthikad
Actors Sheela, Jayaram, Nayantara, Innocent, Siddique, K. P. A. C. Lalitha
Roles Kochu Thresia
Rating74%
Kochu Thresia (Sheela), is a rich widow living a retired life in a quaint but beautiful village filled with eclectic characters. Living with her are her eldest son and family. Son and daughter-in-law are tired of Kochu Thresia's lovable eccentricities which they consider bad behavior for a woman her age. Her children consider her a nuisance who creates unnecessary trouble for them in their busy lives. Though old, Kochu Thresia is still young at heart and knows how to enjoy life getting into humorous predicaments which only incenses her grown-up kids. At this juncture, she meets the young, down-to-earth Reji (Jayaram) in whom she finds a sympathetic and understanding friend, and starts seeing him like a son. Reji eagerly fulfills all her wishes. From savouring the mouth-watering but forbidden beef to riding on the elephant, they enjoy all the moments spent together.