1 – ഭാസ്കര പട്ടേലർ (വിധേയൻ)

1990 ഇൽ റിലീസ് ആയ ഈ ചിത്രത്തിൽ നെഗറ്റീവ് വേഷത്തിൽ എത്തിയത് നടൻ മമ്മൂട്ടിയാണ്. അടൂർ ഗോപാലകൃഷ്ണൻ ഒരുക്കിയ ഈ ചിത്രത്തിലെ പ്രകടനം മമ്മൂട്ടിക്ക് ദേശീയ പുരസ്‍കാരവും നേടിക്കൊടുത്തു.

2 – പി കെ ജയരാജൻ (ഉയരങ്ങളിൽ)

എം ടി രചിച്ചു ഐ വി ശശി സംവിധാനം ചെയ്ത ഈ ചിത്രത്തിലെ ജയരാജൻ എന്ന വില്ലനായി എത്തി ഞെട്ടിക്കുന്ന പ്രകടനം കാഴ്ച വെച്ചത് മോഹൻലാൽ ആയിരുന്നു. 1984 ലാണ് ഈ ചിത്രം റിലീസ് ചെയ്തത്.

3 – തബലിസ്റ്റ് അയ്യപ്പൻ (യവനിക)

കെ ജി ജോർജ് ഒരുക്കിയ ഈ ചിത്രത്തിൽ അയ്യപ്പൻ എന്ന വില്ലനായി എത്തിയത് ഭരത് ഗോപി ആണ്- 1982 ലാണ് ഈ ചിത്രം പുറത്തു വന്നത്.

4 – പോൾ പൗലോക്കാരൻ (നമ്മുക്ക് പാർക്കാൻ മുന്തിരി തോപ്പുകൾ)

1986 ഇൽ റിലീസ് ചെയ്ത ഈ മോഹൻലാൽ- പി പദ്മരാജൻ ചിത്രത്തിൽ, പോൾ പൗലോക്കാരൻ എന്ന വില്ലനായി എത്തിയത് നടൻ തിലകൻ ആണ്.

5 – മുരിക്കുംക്കുന്നതു അഹമ്മദ് ഹാജി (പാലേരി മാണിക്യം ഒരു പാതിരാകൊലപാതകത്തിന്റെ കഥ)

2009 ഇൽ പുറത്തു വന്ന ഈ ചിത്രത്തിൽ മമ്മൂട്ടി മൂന്ന് വേഷത്തിലാണ് അഭിനയിച്ചത്. അതിലൊന്നായിരുന്നു മുരിക്കുംക്കുന്നതു അഹമ്മദ് ഹാജി എന്ന വില്ലൻ. രഞ്ജിത് ആണ് ഈ ചിത്രം ഒരുക്കിയത്.

6 – ഹൈദർ മരക്കാർ (ധ്രുവം)

1993 ഇൽ പുറത്തു വന്ന ധ്രുവം എന്ന ചിത്രത്തിലെ ഈ വില്ലൻ വേഷം അവതരിപ്പിച്ചത് ടൈഗർ പ്രഭാകരൻ ആണ്. മമ്മൂട്ടി- ജോഷി ടീമിന്റെ ആയിരുന്നു ഈ ചിത്രം.

7 – സ്വാമി അമൂർത്താനന്ദ (ഏകലവ്യൻ)

1993 ഇൽ എത്തിയ ഈ സുരേഷ് ഗോപി- ഷാജി കൈലാസ് ചിത്രത്തിലെ സ്വാമി അമൂർത്താനന്ദ എന്ന വില്ലൻ വേഷം അവതരിപ്പിച്ചത് നരേന്ദ്ര പ്രസാദ് ആണ്.

8 – മോഹൻ തോമസ് (കമ്മീഷണർ)

1994 ഇൽ ആണ് ഈ ചിത്രം പുറത്തു വന്നത്. സുരേഷ് ഗോപിയെ നായകനാക്കി ഷാജി കൈലാസ് ഒരുക്കിയ ഈ ചിത്രത്തിൽ മോഹൻ തോമസ് എന്ന വില്ലനായി എത്തിയത് രതീഷ് ആണ്.

9 – മുണ്ടക്കൽ ശേഖരൻ (ദേവാസുരം)

മോഹൻലാലിനെ നായകനാക്കി ഐ വി ശശി ഒരുക്കിയ ഈ ചിത്രത്തിൽ വില്ലനായി എത്തിയത് നടൻ നെപ്പോളിയൻ ആണ്. 1993 ഇൽ ആണ് ഈ ചിത്രം പുറത്തു വന്നത്.

10 – കീരിക്കാടൻ ജോസ് (കിരീടം)

മോഹൻലാൽ നായകനായ ഈ ചിത്രം ഒരുക്കിയത് സിബി മലയിൽ ആണ്. മികച്ച നടനുള്ള ദേശീയ അംഗീകാരം മോഹൻലാലിന് ലഭിച്ച ഈ ചിത്രത്തിലെ വില്ലനായി എത്തിയത് നടൻ മോഹൻ രാജ് ആണ്. 1989 ഇൽ ആണ് ഈ ചിത്രം റിലീസ് ചെയ്തത്.

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Yavanika was released on 30th April 1982. The DOP of the movie was Ramachandra Babu and M B Sreenivasan handled the music department of the film. Mammootty’s first notable character was seen in this film and his portrayal of the investigating officer named Jacob Eeraly was well appreciated by the critics. He won the critics award for best supporting actor that year as well.

The film tells the story that happens related to the missing of a Tabala player named Ayyappan (played by the legendary Bharath Gopi) who is working with a travelling drama group. His mysterious disappearing later brings out many inside stories that has happened on backstage of the drama troupe. There are many suspects behind Ayyappan’s disappearance as he is very unpopular among the people who know him and also an alcoholic and criminal. The other actors apart from Bharath Gopi and Mammootty in this film are Thilakan, Nedumudi Venu, Jagathy Sreekumar, Jalaja, Ashokan, Venu Nagavally, Kuttyedathu Vilasini, Thodupuzha Vasanthi and Sreenivasan.

Ayyappan is considered as one of the best ever roles played by the great actor Bharath Gopi. Mammootty also made a lasting impression with his performance in Yavanika and that paved way for many solid roles in the future. Bharath Gopi, known for his perfection, learned how to play Tabala prior to the movie’s shoot.

Yavanika is considered as a lesson for filmmaking as it used the Rashomon effect or that way of story telling. It is now a reference for cinema students in various national film institutes and many film academies.

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The movie was written and directed by Priyadarshan. Chithram was produced by KRP Pillai and was distributed under the banner of Shirdi Sai Release. The movie was released on 23 December 1988. During it’s theatrical run, the movie earned a record amount of Rs 6 crores at the box office.

One of the major attractions of the movie was it’s music. All the songs in this film turned into evergreen classics. Kannur Rajan composed the songs and the amazingly haunting background scoring was done by Johnson master. The DOP of the film was S Kumar and editing was handled by N Gopalakrishnan.

Nedumudi Venu, Ranjini, Maniyan Pillai Raju, Sreenivasan, Lissy, Poornam Vishwanathan, M G Soman, Shanavas, Innocent, Thikkurishi and many others were part of the cast.

The movie’s plot revolves around Vishnu who had to act as the husband of Kalyani in front of her father. He does it for money and Kalyani’s uncle Kaimal is the brains behind the whole plan. At first Kalyani and Vishnu hate each other but later both developed a kind of liking for each other which turns to love and decide to marry.

But at that time a stranger comes in their life and then it is revealed that Vishnu is an escaped prisoner who was sentenced to death penalty and that stranger is the warden of the prison from where Vishnu had escaped. He reaches there to arrest Vishnu and take him along with him to complete the death penalty. The climax of the movie is one of the most haunting scenes in Mollywood history.

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The story of the film was written by Padmarajan in collaboration with M K Chandrashekharan and the screenplay of the film was penned down by the director Padmarajan himself. Johnson master handled the musical department while Venu was the head of the camera department. B. Lenin was the editor of this great film. The star cast of the film includes Jayaram(debut film) , Mukesh, Madhu, Shobhana, Parvathy and Sukumari etc.

The movie was released on 12 May, 1988.It is primarily a mystery thriller which mainly deals with the plot of mistaken identity and that confusion creates problems in the life of an innocent young man named Vishwanadhan (played by jayaram). He was arrested by the police, mistaking him as a criminal who really look like him, but manages to get out of jail with the help of a police inspector named Georgekutty (played by Mukesh), who was his classmate.

Georgekutty explains him about his look alike who is a criminal with lot of cases charged against him and police did not even know his real name or background. Later, Vishwanadhan gets a job in the town and he falls in love with one of his colleagues named Ambili, played by Shobhana.

But there too this mistaken identity comes as a villain and he loses his job due to that. Then he thought of taking revenge on the criminal who ruined his life invite that criminal to his own life pretending himself as criminal and extracting money from some of the clients of that criminal. And when the criminal came to him and they had a fight and during that fight the criminal is stabbed to death by an accomplice of his and the real problem occurred there was that the body of the criminal is mistook as of Vishwanadhan as police found a bag containing educational certificates that belonged to Vishwanadhan.

Later the criminal is cremated at their ancestral house and Vishwanadhan came their alone and told his father all the truth. And when his father want him to stay with them, he refused it and decided to live the life of that criminal and walk away from there, which really makes the audience wondering whether who is actually dead there, Vishwanadhan or the criminal.

It was a one of the classics from Padmarajan and the film was a success at box office as well as a critically acclaimed one. Jayaram’s journey as an actor starts from there in top gear.

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And now he become the universal star from Mollywood and still he remains the best in crowd pulling capacity and in star value. He is the actor/star with most number of blockbuster and record breaking or record creating hits in Mollywood and his journey of that sort of creating records at box office had really begun from this mass entertainer directed by Thampi Kannamthanam. This character was initally offered Mammootty but he rejected to do it citing the reason that the director was not good enough.

But when the offer came to Mohanlal he accepted it with both hands and the history was born there and that film paved the way for Mohanlal to become the superstar of the. Rajeev’s story was developed into a screenplay by Dennis Joseph. The movie was produced by Sharon Pictures. It was distributed by Jubilee
Release and become the highest grosser of that year.

Music for the film is composed by S P Venkitesh and DOP was Jananan Vincent. The section of editing was handled by K Sankunni and the film got released on 17th july 1986.The film is one the class actions films ever made in Mollywood which tells the story of an underworld don named Vincent Gomas and Kerala’s Chief Minister Krishnadas. The film ends as a tragedy and that too in a heroic way with the death of the hero Vincent Gomas and that experiment was really a bold one in Mollywood and that really paid off as well.

Mohanlal’s each dialogue in the film were sensational and his style of subtle acting, stylized but easy movements and sparkling looks with the eye made that character an epic one. The main actors in the film apart from Mohanlal who played Vincent Gomas was Ratheesh who played N Krishnadas, Suresh Gopi as Kumar, Ambika as Nancy etc. The film had ran over 200 days all over kerala.

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Jagathy Sreekumar’s spectacular perfomance as Appukuttan, and his hilarious one liners are hugely popular among Malayalis even today. His chemistry with Mohanlal has always been great and it was no different in Yodha. Mohanlal is arguably as the best ever action hero in Mollywood and his performance in Yodha was much talked about.

Yodha was released as an Onam release in 1992 with a budget of Rs 2 crore and got great returns at the box office. As it was a big budget movie, it had to settle with a super hit status. The film was directed by Sangeeth Sivan. Sasidharan Arattuvazhi wrote the screenplay for the director’s story. The main backdrop of the story was in Nepal and dealt with the lives and legends of Lamas.

Cinematography was handled by Santhosh Sivan. Music was composed by AR Rahman and incidentally Yodha is the only Malayalam film in his career. The film was produced and distributed by Saga Films. Editing was done by Sreekar Prasad, for which he won the Kerala State award that year. Urvashi, Puneet Isar, Madhubala, Master Sidhartha, MS Tripunithura, Jagannadha Varma, Sukumari and many others were part of the cast.

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Padayottam had a plethora of stars that included all the leading actors of that time- Prem Nazir, Madhu, Mohanlal, Mammootty, Shankar, Thikkurisi Sukumaran Nair, Poornima Jayaram, Lakshmi, Meena Kumari and Sukumari. Other supporting actors like Pappu, Alummoodan, GK Pillai, Nellikkodu Bhaskaran, Achankunju and N Govindan Kutty were also part of the cast.

Padayottam was shot on a big canvas with a budget of Rs 50 lakhs. N Govindan Kutty, who wrote the movie based on the famous English novel ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ by Alexandre Dumas. Guna Singh composed the music and lyrics were penned down by Kavalam Narayana Panicker. Ramachandra Babu cranked the camera while TR Shekhar handled the edits. The movie was distributed by Navodaya Films and was released on 1 September 1982.

There are many interesting facts related to this film. Mohanlal acted as Mammootty’s son in the movie. Normally Mohanlal used to play the negative roles, but in this film it was kind of a role reversal as Mammootty essayed a negative character. Another interesting fact is that Aarambham, the success of which stopped Padayottam from emerging a blockbuster, is also a Prem Nazeer starrer.

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Manjil Virinja Pookkal, was the directorial debut of one of the finest filmmakers of all time. The movie was written and directed by Fazil. Navodaya Appachan funded and distributed the movie under his banner Navodaya films. The movie was released on a Christmas day, 25th December 1980. Sankar, Poornima Jayaram, Mohanlal, Nedumudi Venu, Prathapachandran and Alummoodan were also part of this film. The songs in the film, composed by Jerry Amal Dev were runway hits. Ashok kumar cranked the camera for the film while T R Shekhar handled the editing. Guna Singh composed the background score of the film.

Manjil Virinja Pookkal was a love story of Prem Kishore and Prabha, who had a cruel husband Narendran. The film ends tragically as Prabha is killed by her husband Narendran. Prem avenges his lover’s death by killing Narendran before committing suicide.

The movie was made on a budget of Rs 15 lakhs. It earned almost Rs 1 crores to emerge as the biggest blockbuster of the year. The film had also won several accolades at the State level including the ones for best actress, best male singer, female singer, popular film, music director and for background music.

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The film was written and directed by Fazil. He was also the co-producer of the film along with Joseph Valakkuzhy popularly known as Ouseppachan within the industry circles. The film was produced under the banner of Bodhi Films and it was distributed by Dinny Films. It was released on 26 October 1984.

Ashok Kumar was the movie’s DOP while the evergreen music of the film was composed by master musician Jerry Amaldev. The lyrics for the super hit songs were written by Bichoo Thirumala. The editing section of the film was handled by T R Shekhar, who was one of the best in Malayalam that time.

Artists list of the film includes Mohanlal, Padmini, Nadia Moidu, Thilakan, Maniyan Pilla Raju, K P Ummar and Sukumari. Director Fazil also played a small role in this film.

The story of the film revolves around the characters of Kunjoojamma Thomas, played by Padmini and her grand daughter named Girly, played by Nadia Moidu. Kunjoojamma lives alone in her house after the death of her husband and only daughter. One day her grand daughter comes to visit her. It was the first time Kunjoojamma was seeing her grand daughter.

Eventhough she does not like her at first, later they become very close and it is revealed that Kunjoojamma was waiting for her all these years. Sreekumar, played by Mohanlal, is their neighbor and he falls in love with Girly. When one of his friends Alex visits him, he identifies Girly who is a girl missing from Delhi. He immediately informs her father and on his arrival, it is revealed that Girly is suffering from a rare brain tumour and is counting her last days. She visits her grandmother’s place to enjoy the remaining days of her life.

Girly is unwilling to go with her father but Kunjoojamma to make her sleep using sleeping pills and sends her with her father for treatment. The movie’s last scene is a very poignant one. When Sreekumar turns around after Girly departs in an ambulance, he sees Kunjoojamma replacing the door- bell which she had removed after Girly arrived. Now she is replacing it with the hope that Girly will be returning back soon.

The movie was a great success at the box office and deservingly won the Kerala State Award for Best Film with Popular Appeal and Aesthetic Value. KS Chithra got the State award for the famous song, ‘Aayiram Kannumayi’. It is also the debut film of Nadia Moidu and also Siddique-Lal team who started working as the assistant directors of Fazil.

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The film released in 1989 and that too alongside Mohanlal-Priyadarshan team’s ‘Vandanam’. However, Ramji Rao Speaking toppled Vandanam to the second spot, emerging as a box office winner. The film was produced by director Fazil and Joseph Valakuzhy alias Ousepachan under the banner of Adheeya Films and distributed by Century Films. The movie was written by the director duo of Siddique and Lal. The camera for the film was cranked by Venu and editing was done by T R Shekar. Song lyrics were written by Bichoo Thirumala and music was composed by S Balakrishnan. The film is regarded as a classic in all sense.

The movie had three main characters; Mannar Mathai, Gopalakrishanan and Balakrishnan, player by Innocent, Mukesh and Sai Kumar respectively. It dealt with the issue of unemployment in our society that time and the problems that associated with it. The story was told in a humorous way mixing up situational as well as slapstick comedy. Devan, Vijayaraghavan, Mamukkoya, Rekha, Sankaradi, Sukumari, NF Varghese and many others were also part of the cast.

Priyadarshan remade this film into Bollywood as ‘Hera Pheri’, which was a blockbuster as well. Ramji Rao speaking was the debut movie of Sai Kumar, who later went on to become one of the best supporting actors in the industry.

In 1995, a sequel to this film was released titled as ‘Mannar Mathai Speaking’ which was directed by Mani C Kappan and written by the same Siddique-Lal duo. In 2014, ‘Mannar mathayi speaking 2’ was released as well, which was written and directed by Mamas.

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