MALAYALAM MOVIES

Malayalam Cinema :

Malayalam Movies 

Malayalam is the main language spoken in Kerala and the movies released in the Kerala are known as Malayalam Movies.  There are also people staying Kerala and native belongs to Tamil Nadu.  Earlier Kerala was under Madras State and therefore the movies were filmed at Madras and in various studios situated in and around Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.  But the first movie Vigathakumaran was produced and directed by Shri JC Daniel Sir was the first movie in Kerala.

About Kerala :

Kerala span across more than 360 miles in length have 14 Districts from Kasaragod which is the Northern corridor to Southernmost corridor Trivandrum (currently known as Thiruvananthapuram) which is the Capital city of Kerala.  Kerala's land is ideal for cultivation of various crops.  Kerala's main food crop is rice and other crops like Coconut, Areca nut, Spices like Cardamom, Pepper, Ginger are also primary cultivating. Rubber is also producing in Kerala on large scale.  

Turning Point of Malayalam Movies:

Malayalam movies screening started in the year 1928 November 7 with the release of a film by JC Daniel, who is the Director and Producer of this film Vigathakumaran played important role in the history of Malayalam Movies.  The seeds sown by JC Daniel has been a historical event and this has driven ways and means to establish a glamourous film industry like Kerala's Malayalam Movie Industry.  Today the Malayalam Movies highly honored award for film industry contributions is being given in the name of JC Daniel, who has brought a historical revolution in the film industry as a whole.  The movie Harishchandra made a debutant and thrilled the viewers with the sound and black and white back ground. " Vigathakumaran" movie was not talking but Harishchandra started talking.

What is the peculiarity of Malayalam Movies:

Malayalam movies are based on some real incidents and current scenario of the State of Kerala.  The movies are fully successful in picturizing the real world events.  The time of one movie screening span from two to two and half hours.  In all the movies if there is no hero one villain will be there to create anxiety.  There are movies based on rain as far as concerned rain is not at all a subject for a movie even though the creative artists and story tellers make it happened in the name of movie "Mazha" (Rain).  There are very typical names for all the movies released now a days as there is an unknown fact of scarcity of good names, the names are done by joining any persons name, the recent movie "Ayyappanum Kozhiyum" is an example of naming of movies based on the name of person.  Even though there are plenty of good names still to choose but the name of movie must explore the character's name and precisely saying the roles played by each of the actors and actresses in a movie not only make them lucrative and handsome packets to enrich and support their priorities in life.

Important Actors and Actress in Malayalam Movies:

Sathyan Master (1951-1971) :

Manuvel Sathayneshan was born on 9th November, 1912.  Sathyan Master while serving as Police Inspector dived into the film Industry by acting in the movie Thyaga Seema(1951) as the movie could not release the next movie of Sathyan Master acted was Aathma Sakhi(1952), which was a big hit and successful but the name and fame brought him through another film Neelakkuyil(1954). His last film was "Karakanaa Kadal" which broght him laurels.

Prem Nazir

Abdul Khader the real name of Prem Nazir who launched a revolution in the history of Malayalam movies by almost acting in 600 movies during his life span is big history need exclamation marks.  Prem Nazir was know as Ever Green Actor because of his acting skills.  His roles in the movies in which he acted were vastly the role of a lover or a business tycoon or in other films as old caricatures. He contributed a lot to Malayalam Cinema his contributions will alway remember.  I like to bend upon his achievements as an actor as any body acting in 600 movies in his life time is a remarkable achievement.  Prem Nazir was known for his good etiquette.  He was really soft spoken and was never felt like an arrogant person.  With his maturity in behavior brought him name and fame. 

Mammootty and Mohanlal :

The rocking role played by Mammootty in "Vadakkan Veera gaadha" brought much name and fame to the Mega Star.  This is an excellent movie based on well known family "Thacholi" in Kerala was a big start for Mammootty and broken all collection records. He was playing the role of "Chandu" in the film even though "Chandu" was criticized as a ridiculous, radical and irrational in the history of the so called family but the film displayed the character on another phase by granting the character the main role in the film.  Every aspect of films breaks some rules when compared to real world stories but to the surprise the movie was a big hit and was successful in netting bulk collection.  The main role in the film known as "Chandu" was an epic character and was an excellent role for him to bring him in front of other competing actors at that point of time.  It is a well known movie released in the year 1989 April, 14.  Some other important and supporting actors were played important roles like Madhavi, Balan K Nair as father of Madhavi's (Unniyarcha) Character named as "Valiya Kannappan Chekavar", Suresh Gopi as Aaromal Chekavar.  Captain Raju played another important role in the film named as Aringodar the so called Guru (Teacher) of Martial Arts (Kalaripayattu). This was an excellent film released in the year 1989, the picturization, photography, videography and editing were highly movable and attractive, which blessed the movie to conquer the Malayalam Movie world.

Mohanlal is also known as Super Star of Kerala Cinema kingdom has achieved a lot of laurels in his life.  He has been an inspiration to all the Keralites because of his acting.  He act with ease and normal, some person want to create his face according to the situations but the natural phenomena is different.  The ethics of acting is to be understood from this actor because when he came up with the villain role and later on converged into a  hero image is very much difficult to achieve.  There are many actors who came as hero and became villain later on due to bad luck or defame.  But Mohanlal with his smiling face conquered the minds of Kerala's common man.  He is now Amma an Organization of Actors and actress's Chairman.  His behavior is very popular for lovliness and humbleness and he still live as a simple human being without affecting the glory or glamour of the film industry.  His Son Pranav Mohanlal is also an actor and acted in some good films.

What is the trend of Malayalam Movies Today

Today the path of Malayalam Movie has been a thrilling success story with lot of excellent and contemporary stories engulfed in to the film domain and some excellent actors like Prithwiraj, Dulqar Salman and comedian Suraj Venjaramoodu and all other actors contributes their best for the Industry.  There are other impressive personalities like Vineet Srinivasan who has marked a remarkable place in the Malayalam Movie domain and has been successful in all the areas of picturizing great movies.  There are many skills required in film industry starting from make up to acting for a movie to release, the significance of all the persons working in the film industry has their own identity and importance, each person is vital and correlated in the movie domain, so all are equally respected in the Malayalam Film Industry, which is a good hope and practice, this type of perfection and simplicity brings Malayalam Cinema to top of other Cinema Industries.  The Bioscope will still make motions in Malayalam Film Industry as a whole.