Mohanlal Wikipedia. Mohanlal Viswanathan Nair born 2. May 1. 96. 0,1 known mononymously as Mohanlal, is an Indian actor, producer, and occasional singer who works predominantly in Malayalam cinema. He has had a prolific career spanning four decades, during which he has acted in more than 3. In addition to Malayalam, he has also appeared in other regional Indian films. Mohanlal made his acting debut as a teenager in the Malayalam film Thiranottam in 1. His screen debut was in the 1. Manjil Virinja Pookkal, in which he played the villain. In the following years he played antagonistic characters in several films and gradually rose to supporting roles. Towards the mid 1. He gained stardom after starring in a series of commercially successful films in 1. Rajavinte Makan released in the year heightened his stardom. Mohanlal prefers to work in Malayalam films, but he has also appeared in some Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada films. Some of his notable non Malayalam films include the Tamil political drama Iruvar 1. Hindi crime drama Company 2. Telugu action film Janatha Garage 2. Mohanlal has received five National Film Awardstwo Best Actor, one Special Jury Mention and Special Jury Award for acting, and an award for Best Feature Film as producer, also nine each from Kerala State Film Awards and Filmfare Awards South and numerous other accolades. In 2. 00. 1, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, Indias fourth highest civilian honour, for his contributions to Indian cinema. In 2. Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army of India. He received an honorary doctorate from Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit in 2. DFgHCjt_pVE/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Malayalam Manorama News Trivandrum Edition Hotel' title='Malayalam Manorama News Trivandrum Edition Hotel' />Early life. Mohanlal Viswanathan Nair was born in the village of Elanthoor in the Pathanamthitta district on 2. May 1. 96. 0. He is the youngest child of Viswanathan Nair, a former bureaucrat and law secretary with the Kerala Government, and Santhakumari. He grew up at Mudavanmugal, Poojappura, at his paternal house, in Thiruvananthapuram. Mohanlal studied at Model School, Thiruvananthapuram, and graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Mahatma Gandhi College in Thiruvananthapuram. Mohanlals first role was as a sixth grader for a stage play called Computer Boy in which he played a ninety year old man. Latest News Muthoot Finance Registers 46 Increase in Net Profit Read More Shri Alexander George Muthoots Interview to Career Connect Magazine on Education. Hotwapi. Com is a mobile toplist for mobile web sites. We have over 2000 registered sites. Mr Thomas John Muthoot speaking during the Union Budget Impact Analysis 2014 conducted by CII Thiruvananthapuram Zone at Hotel Hilton Garden Inn, Punnen Road. During 1. 97. 77. Kerala state wrestling champion. Film career. Early years 1. Mohanlal made his acting debut in 1. Thiranottam which was produced and made by Mohanlal and his friendsManiyan Pilla Raju, Suresh Kumar, Unni, Priyadarshan, Ravi Kumar and few others. Mohanlal played Kuttappan, a mentally disabled servant. Due to some issues with censorship, the film was not released in time. It took 2. 5 years to release the film. In 1. Mohanlal was cast in the lead antagonist role in Manjil Virinja Pookkal the directorial debut of Fazil. QGOTCDmIoY/WgMG2rkbzeI/AAAAAAAAZD0/jh3zXtKwj6sbDnZwizhsll033w1OhUkdQCLcBGAs/s550-a/JOB_KURIAN_LIVE.jpg' alt='Malayalam Manorama News Trivandrum Edition Hotel' title='Malayalam Manorama News Trivandrum Edition Hotel' />The film became a major success. Mohanlals friends had sent his application in response to an advertisement released by Navodaya Studio. B8Fz6aeIY/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Malayalam Manorama News Trivandrum Edition Hotel' title='Malayalam Manorama News Trivandrum Edition Hotel' />He auditioned for the role in front of a panel that included professional directors. Displeased with his appearance, two of them gave him poor marks but Fazil and Jijo Appachan gave him 9. In an interview with Readers Digest in 2. Mohanlal said that his looks as a young man might have fit the villains image. By 1. 98. 3, Mohanlal was credited in more than 2. Films such as Ente Mohangal Poovaninju, Iniyengilum, Visa, Attakkalasham, Kaliyil Alpam Karyam, Ente Mamattukkuttiyammakku, Engane Nee Marakkum, Unaru, and Sreekrishna Parunthu changed his villain imagevague. Through Sasikumars Ivide Thudangunnu, he became a successful hero with a good heart. Mohanlal played his first comic lead role in an ensemble cast in the 1. Poochakkoru Mookkuthi directed by Priyadarshan, as a young man in love with a girl whom he mistakenly believes to be rich. It also marked the beginning of the Mohanlal Priyadarshan duo who as of 2. In 1. 98. 5, he recorded a song for the film Onnanam Kunnil Oradi Kunnil. Uyarangalil, Nokketha Doorathu Kannum Nattu, Boeing Boeing, and Aram Aram Kinnaram were some of his films in this period. During this period, Mohanlal played very different roles in films made by the great masters like G. Aravindan, Hariharan, M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Padmarajan, Bharathan, and Lohithadas. Mohanlal, along with actor and scriptwriter Sreenivasan, who played his sidekick in several films, showcased the angst of unemployed, educated Malayali youth forced to adapt to hostile environments in many realistic social satires,2. Sreenivasan himself. In 1. 98. 6, he starred in T. P. Balagopalan M. A., directed by Sathyan Anthikad, for which he received his first Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor. He portrayed an unemployed young man who shoulders the responsibility of his family. His performance in Sanmanassullavarkku Samadhanam as a harassed house owner won him the Filmfare Award for Best Actor Malayalam in the same year. Mohanlal was given the status of a new Malayalam superstar by the public after the box office success of Rajavinte Makan 1. Vincent Gomez. He also starred in the tragedy. Thalavattom, playing Vinod, a young man who becomes mentally ill upon witnessing his girlfriends death. He played the role of Solomon in Padmarajans Namukku Parkkan Munthirithoppukal. Mohanlals association with Padmarajan was very well noted, because their films told stories which were well and truly ahead of their times and broke many conventional stereotypes prevailing during that time in Malayalam film industry. In 1. 98. 6 alone, Mohanlal appeared in 3. Malayalam films. 2. The following year, Mohanlal starred with Sreenivasan and Shobana in the Sathyan Anthikad comedy, Nadodikkattu, which became a box office success. Computer Software Company That Designs Specialized Programs. Mohanlal and Sreenivasan reprised their roles as the detectives Dasan and Vijayan respectively in its sequels, Pattanapravesham 1. Get information, facts, and pictures about India at Encyclopedia. Make research projects and school reports about India easy with credible articles from our FREE. Akkare Akkare Akkare 1. Thoovanathumbikal, directed by Padmarajan, in which he portrayed a person torn between his twin love interests, broke many stereotypes in Indian films,2. The romantic comedy, Chithram, released in 1. Malayalam film. 2. Mohanlal won a Kerala State Special Jury Award in 1. Padamudra, Aryan, Vellanakalude Nadu, Ulsavapittennu, and Chithram. In 1. 98. 9, the combination of writer Lohitha Das and director Sibi Malayil created the character Sethumadhavan, a person who dreams of becoming a police officer but ends up as a criminal, in the tragedy Kireedam. The role earned Mohanlal a National Film Special Jury Mention. Mohanlal later recalled that his portrayal of Sethumadhavans mental agony, commended as a natural performance, was spontaneous and that he did what Sethumadhavan, my character, would have done in such a situation, adding that acting was akin to entering another persons body. In the same year, he acted in a film which became a commercial success, Varavelpu, which tells the story of a man who earned money working in Gulf and came back home to enjoy his life with his family. He bought a bus, which eventually gets him into trouble. The former Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, mentioned the film as an example of ignorance by Keraliites towards global economic changes during the inauguration of Global Investor Meet held at Kochi on 1. January 2. 00. 3. In 1. 98. 9, he starred in another one of Padmarajans movies, Season. In the early 1. 99. Mohanlal acted in a number of commercial films, such as His Highness Abdullah, Midhunam, and No.