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T. V. Chandran is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Indian born on 23 november 1950 at Thalassery (Inde)
T. V. Chandran (Malayalam: ടി.വി. ചന്ദ്രൻ; born 23 November 1950) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and actor, predominantly working in Malayalam cinema. Born in a Malayali Hindu family in Thalassery, Chandran worked as a Reserve Bank of India employee before entering into the film industry. He started his film career as an assistant director to P. A. Backer and John Abraham. He also acted the lead role in Backer's highly acclaimed political drama Kabani Nadi Chuvannappol (1975). He made his directorial debut with the unreleased feature Krishnan Kutty (1981), and followed this with the Tamil film Hemavin Kadhalargal (1985). Chandran came into prominence after Alicinte Anveshanam (1989), which was nominated for the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival. This was followed with Ponthan Mada (1993), his most famous film to-date. Chandran is most known for his art-house films which have references to history and undertones of politics and feminism. He is also known for his trilogy on 2002 Gujarat riots, consisting of Kathavasheshan (2004), Vilapangalkappuram (2008) and Bhoomiyude Avakashikal (2012). Other highly acclaimed films include Mangamma (1997), Dany (2001) and Paadam Onnu: Oru Vilapam (2003).
Chandran is widely regarded as one of the finest directors in Indian cinema and is widely credited with having revolutionised parallel cinema with his complex-structured art-house films. Chandran has won several film awards including six National Film Awards and ten Kerala State Film Awards. In addition to these, he is a recipient of a number of awards at various International film festivals.
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T. V. Chandran
Chandran is widely regarded as one of the finest directors in Indian cinema and is widely credited with having revolutionised parallel cinema with his complex-structured art-house films. Chandran has won several film awards including six National Film Awards and ten Kerala State Film Awards. In addition to these, he is a recipient of a number of awards at various International film festivals.
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Atayalangal (2008)
Directed by M. G. Sasi
Genres Biography
Themes Films about writers
Actors Govind Padmasoorya, Jyothirmayi, T. G. Ravi, V K Sreeraman, T. V. Chandran
Kattu Vannu Vilichappol (2000)
Themes Medical-themed films, HIV/AIDS in film
Actors Chippy, Vijayaraghavan, A. K. Lohithadas, T. V. Chandran, Jose Pellissery, Harisree Ashok
Roles Achuthan Nair
Seetha, born in an orthodox Hindu family, falls in love with the lower-caste Unni and later elopes with him to Bombay. Four years later, one day, Unni goes missing at Bombay. Seetha is pregnant and had to return to her native place. Through a newspaper report, Seetha comes to know that Unni has committed suicide after knowing he was infected with HIV. The heart-broken Seetha is isolated by the society and even by her parents who believe that she is also infected. Abu, a kind-hearted Muslim ferryman is her only help. Hated and isolated by the society, Abu and Seetha has to face lot of troubles. One day, filmmaker Lohithadas, a friend of Unni, visits Seetha and informs her that Unni was killed by the Bombay underworld and the AIDS-news was all crafted by the wicked media. Meanwhile, some people try to kick Seetha out of the village and burn her house. The film ends with Seetha, her new-born baby and Abu fleeing to another village.
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors T. V. Chandran
The film is a love story between a young woman (Shalini) and a radical political activist (T. V. Chandran), who is declared to be Naxalite. The film ends with the police killing him and the woman learning about his death through the newspaper.
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Bhoomiyude Avakashikal (2012)
, 1h54Directed 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.
Sankaranum Mohananum (2011)
Directed by T. V. Chandran
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Jayasurya, Meera Nandan, Rima Kallingal, Lalu Alex, Jagathy Sreekumar, Suraj Venjaramoodu
Rating43%
The film is a journey through the minds of Mohanakrishnan, a fashion photographer living in Kochi. He was earlier based in Mumbai, and is separated from his wife, Jyotsna Mathew, a model and an aspiring actor who lives in Mumbai with their child. His older brother Sankaran, is a school teacher in Malabar. Sankaran, in his early forties, gets married to a much younger woman named Rajalakshmi, but he dies of a snake bite the day after the wedding. The ghost of Shankaran haunts Mohanakrishnan from then on. Sankaran's undying love for his wife and also the lack of love in the life of his brother is the reason Sankaran haunts Mohanakrishnan. The ghost appears before Sankaran in various get-ups and what keeps Sankaran going is his eternal devotion toward his wife and brother. Certain strange happenings vex Rajalakshmi also, who seeks help from Sankaran. She doesn't know that the ghost of her husband is behind all these strange incidents.
Bhoomi Malayalam (2009)
Directed by T. V. Chandran
Genres Drama
Actors Suresh Gopi, Nedumudi Venu, Samvrutha Sunil, Padmapriya, Indrans, Lakshmi Sharma
Rating65%
The movie tells an incident that took place in Thillenkeri in Kannur district in 1948 April 15. Communist party was struggling against the rule of Jawaharlal Nehru at that period. In Thillenkeri, comrade Ananthan Master (Suresh Gopi) was the leader of communist party.
Vilapangalkkappuram (2009)
Directed by T. V. Chandran
Actors Biju Menon, Priyanka Nair, Sudheesh, Suhasini Maniratnam, M.R. Gopakumar, Thilakan
Rating49%
Zahira (Priyanka) lives happily with her parents and younger sister in Ahmedabad, until a group of communalists wreaks havoc. After being gang raped, she barely manages to escape from the criminals before they set her ablaze. In a fit of panic, she hides inside a lorry but it takes Zahira to her father's home-town in Kozhikode, Kerala.
Aadum Koothu (2005)
, 1h46Directed by T. V. Chandran
Genres Drama
Actors Navya Nair (Dhanya Veena), Cheran, Prakash Raj, Aachi Manorama, Seeman, Manorama
Rating20%
The film unfolds from the life of college student Manimekhala (Navya Nair), a village girl who can see what others don't. A serious reader of modern literature, from a southern district of Tamil Nadu, Manimekhala sees visions, that no one believe. Later incidents prove, that what she said become true. She creates scenes, whenever she has these illusions. Interestingly, the illusions are like a movie projected on an imaginary screen from her bangle presented by her fiancé Muthu (Akil Kumar). The bangle isactually made from molten celluloid. This projected movie roughly reveals thestory of a couple of street performers (Cheran and Navya Nair) in love and tortured by a lustful Zamindar (Prakash Raj) who tonsures the girl's head.
Kadhavaseshan (2004)
, 2hDirected by T. V. Chandran
Genres Drama
Actors Jyothirmayi, Jagathy Sreekumar, Dileep, Cochin Haneefa, Salim Kumar, Bindu Panicker
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.
Paadam Onnu: Oru Vilapam (2003)
, 1h47Directed by T. V. Chandran
Genres Drama
Actors Meera Jasmine, M.R. Gopakumar, Mamukkoya, Irshad, Suja Karthika
Rating71%
Shahina is a teenage Muslim girl studying in the 10th grade, when her relatives and the community chiefs decide to marry her to a boy named Rasaq. However, Rasaq is already married and the father of a child. Shahina knows nothing about married life and her interest still lie in attending school. Rasaq exploits shahina sexually in the beginning by drugging her, and later divorces her saying that she is not fit for the family. Shahina is happy that she can return to school, but soon realizes that she is pregnant.
Dany (2002)
, 2hDirected by T. V. Chandran
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Mammootty, Mallika Sarabhai, Vani Viswanath, Siddique, Vijayaraghavan, Ratheesh
Rating67%
The film is about Daniel Thompson, a saxophone player who is a mute witness to many of the historical happenings taking place around in the world. The film traces the life of this character up to his seventy third year and comments upon many things that may have social and political relevance. Dany as he is known, was born on the day of the Dandi Salt March. His wife leaves him on the day the first Communist Government of Kerala loses power. Dany's love, disappointments, triumphs everything coincides with historical events. Dany dons many roles in life. He sings in the church. Then he becomes a saxophone player. He marry Margaret, daughter of a rich man named Chavero when the old man ask him to save the honor of their family. Margaret is pregnant and her lover has died. But with the passage of time, Dany is abandoned by all and he finds himself destined to lead a desolate existence. He ends up in a hospital. And it is here that he meets Bhargavi Amma, a retired professor, who is also desolate after the death of her daughter and after being totally isolated in life. Dany and Bhargavi Amma develop an intimacy and they travel back together from the hospital. But Dany passes away on the way. Anyhow Bhargavi Amma decides to perform the funeral rites in the Christian manner in the compound of her house, a house of orthodox Hindus. This creates certain problems, but Bhargavi Amma decides to dare all such problems.
Susanna (2000)
Directed by T. V. Chandran
Genres Drama
Actors Vani Viswanath, Bharath Gopi, Nedumudi Venu, Karamana Janardanan Nair, Narendra Prasad, Charuhasan
Rating65%
Central character is Susanna, who appears to be a prostitute living with five different people at the same time. These five men and Susanna engage in a strange relationship, easily misunderstood by the society around them. But no one can judge her on grounds of morality. She is a mother, wife, sister, daughter to all her men. They find peace in her presence.
Mangamma (1997)
, 1h42Directed by T. V. Chandran
Genres Drama
Actors Revathi, Nedumudi Venu, Vijayaraghavan, Thilakan, M. G. Sasi, Oduvil Unnikrishnan
The film is set in two periods — the first in the political milieu of the 1960s when Kerala was brought under the Presidential rule after the dismissal of the first Communist ministry; the second in 1976 during the Emergency, the time of police excesses and political witch-hunting. Due to constant harassment by the local MLA-cum-landlord, Mangamma (Revathi) and her father (Thilakan) are forced to flee their village on the Tamil Nadu-Kerala border. The landlord's son attempts to rape Mangamma's younger sister but unfortunately they both die in a fire that destroys the hut. Mangamma and her father are offered shelter and a job by Nair (Nedumudi Venu), who runs a tea shop with his adopted son Velayudhan. Nair marries Mangamma after her father's death.
Ormakalundayirikkanam (1995)
, 1h31Directed by T. V. Chandran
Actors Mammootty, Bharath Gopi, Nedumudi Venu, Sreenivasan, Bindu Panicker, M. G. Soman
Rating68%
The film is set against the backdrop of the first communist Ministry of Kerala on the eve of its dismissal in 1959 after less than two years in power. A school going teenage, Jayan, grows warm relation with Bhasi, the tailor, who is a staunch Communist Party activist. Jayan's father is a strong sympathiser of Congress party.