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Shyam is a Sound Indian born on 1938 at Mylapore (Inde)
Samuel Joseph alias Shyam is a popular Malayalam music composer from Tamil Nadu, India. He has scored music for over 300 films including Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Hindi languages. He also composed many Christian devotional songs. He is best known for the background scores for Malayalam thriller films of eighties and early nineties.
Apart from his music scores in movies, his theme musics are still considered as the finest example of scores ever composed in Malayalam cinema. His theme music of Oru CBI Diary Kurippu, August 1, Moonamura, Irupatham Noottandu are popular even today. He is famous for creating fast number along with slow melodies. He won the Kerala State award for the best music composer for the years 1983 (Film: Aroodam) and 1984 (Film: Kanamarayathu).
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Shyam
Apart from his music scores in movies, his theme musics are still considered as the finest example of scores ever composed in Malayalam cinema. His theme music of Oru CBI Diary Kurippu, August 1, Moonamura, Irupatham Noottandu are popular even today. He is famous for creating fast number along with slow melodies. He won the Kerala State award for the best music composer for the years 1983 (Film: Aroodam) and 1984 (Film: Kanamarayathu).
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Nerariyan CBI (2005)
Directed by K. Madhu
Genres Thriller
Actors Mammootty, Mukesh, Jagathy Sreekumar, Gopika, Thilakan, Jishnu
Rating59%
Sethurama Iyer CBI (2004)
Directed by K. Madhu
Genres Thriller
Actors Mammootty, Mukesh, Jagathy Sreekumar, Kalabhavan Mani, Vineeth Kumar, Saikumar
Rating71%
The movie begins with Sethurama Iyer Mammooty visiting Isow Alex (Kalabhavan Mani), a convicted serial killer who is awaiting his execution. Alex was arrested and convicted for the cold-blooded murder of seven people in two different families. Alex, who had been living a wild life then, had committed the crime high on narcotic drugs. The murder case was left to the CBI for investigation and an able officer, played by Siddique, nabbed Alex in no time. Alex is now a new man, mainly due to the influence of a priest (Gopi), who requests Iyer to visit Alex.
Anubhoothi (1997)
Directed by I. V. Sasi
Genres Drama
Actors Suresh Gopi, Kushboo Sundar, Vani Viswanath, P. V. Jagadish Kumar, Kaveri, Rajan P. Dev
Rating54%
Pandu Pandoru Rajakumari (1992)
Directed by Viji Thampi
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors P. V. Jagadish Kumar, Nedumudi Venu, Siddique, Anju, Sivaranjani, Zainuddin
Rating55%
Traumatized by deaths of her mother and husband, Devu was taken by her father-in-law Balan Nambyar went to hotel by Johnson in Ooty one day Appukuttan Pillai got job as waiter witness accident and Devu was mentally disturbed. Appu was actually music student of her late mother who knew her for years. Balan asked him to take care of Devu; soon Appu begin feelings for childhood love despite she is a widow.
Inspector Balram (1991)
Directed by I. V. Sasi
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Mammootty, Murali, Kiran Kumar, Urvashi, M. G. Soman, Geetha
Rating69%
4 years after the events of Aavanazhi, Balaram is now married to Seetha. They have a daughter and live a normal life. Seetha is then killed by Dulabribai's men, and Balram sends his daughter to be taken care of by nuns along with his partner Madhavan. Balram faces his enemies, including Indira Shankar and Sayed Mohammad Shah, and Preethi avenges her father's death.
Adayalam (1991)
Directed by K. Madhu
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Mammootty, Shobana, Janardhanan, Murali, Kalpana, Kunchan
Rating68%
Latha (Rekha), daughter of Menon (K. P. Ummer), a rich businessman gets a threatening call from Raji (Ragini)demanding Rs 5 lakhs not to reveal a deadly secret about her father. Frightened Latha approaches her family advocate Haridas (Janardanan) for a solution. Haridas refers Latha to Captain Hariharan (Mammootty), who now runs a security service. Though initially was reluctant to take up the investigation on Raji, Haiharan decides to go ahead with it. In meanwhile Raji is found dead. Inspector Raju Peter suspects Hariharan who informs Latha about the death. Malini (Sobhana), sister of Latha inquires Hariharan about Raji, Latha and the reason for the probe, but Hariharan says its something personal. Meanwhile Suresh (Vijayaraghavan), their cousin is found dead too. Hariharan’s probe to find the truth is the rest of the story.
Akkare Akkare Akkare (1990)
, 2h30Directed by Priyadarshan
Genres Comedy
Actors Mohanlal, Sreenivasan, Ambika, M. G. Soman, Mukesh, Maniyanpillai Raju
Rating76%
After Nadodikkattu and Pattanapravesham, CIDs Ramdas and Vijayan are back for another wacky adventure. When a priceless gold crown is stolen from India, Ramdas (Mohanlal) and Vijayan (Sreenivasan) are sent to the United States to retrieve it. The only clue they have is a pseudonym ("Paul Barber") and a piece of a torn shirt. In the States, the two remain as helpless and clueless as they were in the two prequel films and realize that this is their toughest case yet. They search for Paul Barber, the real criminal, but in vain. They finally by luck retrieve the crown and all the criminals are killed in a comic shoot out between them and the CIDs. And in the end they return to India as heroes.
Kottayam Kunjachan (1990)
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Action
Actors Mammootty, Ranjini, Innocent, K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Sukumaran, Prathapachandran Nair
Rating72%
Mikhael (Innocent) is a family man and good Christian who lives in the mostly tranquil village of Odaangara, with his wife Aleyamma (KPAC Lalitha). They have two daughters, Mollykutty (Ranjini) and Susie and a son, Kuttappan. They have been involved in a long-standing dispute with their neighbour, Kanjirappalli Paappan (Prathapachandran), who wants to buy their land so that his bungalow would have a better front view and a road for his car. Paappan's ruthless son, Jimmy (Babu Antony) is all for ejecting them by force, while Paappan is wary of what Aleyamma's siblings, the Uppukandam Brothers, who are infamous thugs, might do in retaliation. When negotiations fail, Paappan resorts to underhanded tactics and scuttles Mollykutty's marriage proposal to Kuzhiyil Joy (Ravi Vallathol) and beats up Mikhael who questions it. Aleyaamma get her brothers involved, and Paappan and his son are beaten and humiliated by the Uppukandam brothers, led by Korah (Sukumaran) the eldest. Later, Joy visits Mollykutty and expresses his interest in her.
Midhya (1990)
Directed by I. V. Sasi
Genres Drama
Actors Mammootty, Suresh Gopi, Rupini, M. G. Soman, Sukumari, K. N. Jagannatha Varma
Rating73%
Venugopal (Mammootty), a rich young business man still considers Shivan as his mentor, who had helped him in his early days in Mumbai.At the time of his death, Shivan has asked Venu to take care of his younger brother Rajashekharan (Suresh Gopi), which Venu obeyed whole heartedly. Rajan was appointed as his manager and is treated more like his brother. On a visit to Rajan's house along with him, Venu meets Devi (Rupini). Venu expresses Rajan's sister about his wish to marry Devi, but changes his mind after realizing that she is already engaged to Rajan. Venu whole heartedly gets Rajan married to Devi. Rajan, in thirst to earn quick money, gets into bad company and severs ties with Venu. He becomes suspicious of his wife having an illicit relation with Venu. Slowly turning into too much of drinking and gambling, Rajan falls into huge debts and to make things worse, he also becomes a part of smuggling. Venu's efforts to save Rajan from his problems and bringing him back to normal life is the rest of the story.
Adhipan (1989)
Directed by K. Madhu
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Mohanlal, Parvathy, Monisha Unni, Devan, Janardhanan, Balan K. Nair
Rating63%
Adikkurippu (1989)
Directed by K. Madhu
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Mammootty, Jagathy Sreekumar, Urvashi, Janardhanan, Sreenath, Vijayaraghavan
Rating70%
The story revolves around the castaway Basheer (Jagathy Sreekumar), lost his memory partially. He is unable to recollect the past about him. The captain of the ship (Lalu Alex) who found him would like to handover Basheer to the relatives post anchoring in Kochi. But someone tries to kill Basheer and planning to deport him. Adv. Bhaskara Pillai (Mammootty)comes to his rescue and finds the people behind the ploy.
Aksharathettu (1989)
Directed by I. V. Sasi
Actors Suresh Gopi, Urvashi, Jagathy Sreekumar, Mukesh, Sudha, Janardhanan
The film features the story of three bank employees and their wives. Bank manager Prakash (Suresh Gopi) is an ideal husband, while his wife Sumati (Urvasi) is emotional and complaining. They have a perfect family with a smart boy, a terraced house and a maruti car. Accountant James (Mukesh) is a womanizer and his wife Elsi (Lizy) is fed up with his activities. Cashier Gowthaman (Jagathy Sreekumar) is struggling to adjust with his North Indian, Hindi-speaking wife Ambika as he has to take care of all the household chores and look after their baby. There is a tangential storyline involving a suspicious husband named Thankappan (Kuthiravattam Pappu) and Radha, a servant in Prakash's home.
Carnivel (1989)
Directed by P. G. Viswambharan
Genres Drama
Actors Mammootty, Parvathy, Sukumaran, Babu Antony, Mala Aravindan, Siddique
Rating60%
Bharathan (Mammootty) and his friends (Mala Aravindan, Siddique and Bobby Kottarakkara) earn money by gambling in the streets. But Bharathan is forced to close down his business when a carnival is organised in the village. Bharathan manages to get a job in the carnival company and soon becomes the most trusted person of its owner Chandrappan, who is fondly called as Bhai. James, another worker at the company is envious about the growth of Bharathan. He attempts to kill Bharathan by removing the brakes of Bharathan's circus bike. Unfortunately, Bhai is killed in that accident. Bharathan, who once happened to witness James intimately engaging with Bhai's wife, is doubtful about James's involvement in the murder. Meanwhile, James, with the help of a police officer, casts Bharathan for the murder. In the climax, Bharathan proves his innocence and brings James in front of justice. On the parallel, a romance story between Bharathan and Gowri is shown. Gowri is a girl who had to sell herself to earn bread for her family.
Jagratha (1989)
Directed by K. Madhu
Genres Crime, Politic
Actors Mammootty, Jagathy Sreekumar, Mukesh, Prathapachandran Nair, Parvathy, Sukumaran
Rating74%
Naaduvazhikal (1989)
Directed by Joshiy
Genres Action
Actors Mohanlal, Thilakan, Madhu, Sithara, Murali, Rupini
Rating71%
The story is about Arjun (Mohanlal) whose father Ananthan (Madhu) was the uncrowned king of his native place. They are constantly being targeted by Mathukutty (Devan) & Cheriyan (Murali) [Chekkudi Brothers] who are supported by Abraham Varkey (Babu Namboothiri). Ananthan is one day arrested and sent to prison. Arjun is forced to come from Bangalore to release his father. But his first attempt fails. Chekkudi with the help of new Home minister Gopalan Pillai (Kollam Thulasi) and C.I Bharathan (Aziz) tries to catch Arjun and include him in many cases. But he overcomes everything. At last Arjun releases his father, but chekkudi kills Ananthan and Arjun finishes both of them.