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K. J. Yesudas is a Actor and Playback Singer Indian born on 10 january 1940
Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (born 10 January 1940) is an Indian classical musician and playback singer.
Yesudas sings Indian classical, devotional, and popular music. He has recorded more than 50,000 songs in many languages including Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tulu, Malay, Russian, Arabic, Latin and English during a career spanning five decades. He has performed in most Indian languages except Assamese, Konkani and Kashmiri. He also composed a number of Malayalam film songs in the 1970s and 1980s. Yesudas is fondly called Gana Gandharvan (The Celestial Singer).
Yesudas has won the National Award for the Best Male Playback Singer seven times (the most by any Indian singer) and the State Award for the Best Playback Singer 43 times, which consists of awards by the state governments of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and West Bengal. He was awarded Padma Shri in 1975 and Padma Bhushan in 2002 by the Government of India for his contributions to the arts. In 2011 Yesudas was honoured with the CNN-IBN outstanding achievement award having recorded over 50,000 songs in a five-decade career
In 2006, he sang 16 film songs in four South Indian languages on the same day at AVM Studio, Chennai.
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K. J. Yesudas
Birth name Kattassery Joseph Yesudas
Nationality Inde
Birth 10 january 1940 (85 years)
Awards Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Nationality Inde
Birth 10 january 1940 (85 years)
Awards Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (born 10 January 1940) is an Indian classical musician and playback singer.
Yesudas sings Indian classical, devotional, and popular music. He has recorded more than 50,000 songs in many languages including Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tulu, Malay, Russian, Arabic, Latin and English during a career spanning five decades. He has performed in most Indian languages except Assamese, Konkani and Kashmiri. He also composed a number of Malayalam film songs in the 1970s and 1980s. Yesudas is fondly called Gana Gandharvan (The Celestial Singer).
Yesudas has won the National Award for the Best Male Playback Singer seven times (the most by any Indian singer) and the State Award for the Best Playback Singer 43 times, which consists of awards by the state governments of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and West Bengal. He was awarded Padma Shri in 1975 and Padma Bhushan in 2002 by the Government of India for his contributions to the arts. In 2011 Yesudas was honoured with the CNN-IBN outstanding achievement award having recorded over 50,000 songs in a five-decade career
In 2006, he sang 16 film songs in four South Indian languages on the same day at AVM Studio, Chennai.
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Aayiram Vilakku (2011)
Genres Action
Actors Sathyaraj, Shanthanu Bhagyaraj, Sana Khan, Suman, Kamal Kamaraju, Delhi Ganesh
Rating18%
The film opens when a child named Tarun starts asking his father Gopal
Boyy Friennd (2005)
Directed by Vinayan
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Romance
Actors Manikuttan, Lakshmi Gopalaswamy, Madhumitha, Honey Rose, Mukesh, Sreenivasan
Roles Himself
Rating43%
Nandanam (2002)
, 2h25Directed by Ranjith
Genres Romance
Actors Navya Nair (Dhanya Veena), Prithviraj Sukumaran, Kaviyoor Ponnnamma, Revathi, Innocent, Siddique
Roles Himself
Rating73%
Balamani (Navya Nair) is a young orphaned girl and housemaid, she is an ardent devotee of Lord Krishna. Balamani takes care of Unni Amma (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) who lives in the ancestral house. Unni Amma considers Balamani like her daughter. For Balamani everything is her Lord Krishna and Unni Amma. Unni Amma's grandson Manu (Prithviraj) comes from Bangalore to stay with his grandmother for a few days before he leaves for the US. Balamani is infatuated at the sight of Manu for the first time, because she had dreams about her groom as him and believes it is him. Eventually, they fall in love.
Krishna Babu (1999)
, 2h6Actors Nandamuri Balakrishna, Abbas, Meena, Raasi, Chandra Mohan, Gangasani Rami Reddy
Rating51%
Paathira Sooryan (1980)
Actors Prem Nazir, Jayabharathi, Sreevidya, M. G. Soman, Adoor Bhasi, Kalpana
Nirakudam (1977)
Directed by A. Bhimsingh
Actors Kamal Haasan, Sridevi, Sudheer, Sukumari, Kaviyoor Ponnnamma, Adoor Bhasi
Rating24%
Harshabashpam (1976)
Actors K. J. Yesudas, Adoor Bhasi, Bahadoor, Janardhanan, K. P. Ummer, M. G. Soman
Achaani (1973)
Directed by Aloysius Vincent
Actors Prem Nazir, Nanditha Bose, Adoor Bhasi, Sankaradi, Sreelatha Namboodiri. B, Bahadoor
Anarkali (1966)
Directed by Kunchacko
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Prem Nazir, K. R. Vijaya, Sathyan, Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair, Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair, K. J. Yesudas
Roles Tanzen
Prince Salim falls in love with Anarkali, a courtesan in his father Akbar's kingdom. Akbar forbids Salim to prolong this affair as he wanted his son to marry a Rajput princess and thereby strengthen communal harmony. So Akbar forbade Saleem from seeing Anarkali again. But Salim becomes blind in his love for Anarkali leading to a struggle between father and his adamant son. All of Akbar and Minister Man Singh's attempts to separate the lovers fail.
Kayamkulam Kochunni (1966)
Actors K. J. Yesudas, Sathyan, Adoor Bhasi, Manavalan Joseph, T. R. Omana, K. P. Ummer
Roles Khader
Rating70%
Kavyamela (1965)
Genres Drama
Actors Prem Nazir, Sheela, Adoor Bhasi, G. K. Pillai, S. P. Pillai, Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai
Roles himself
Rating60%
Jayadevan (Prem Nazir), the blind poet, has a burning passion to earn literary fame, but fate conspires to deny it to him for long. And when it comes, he disdains it.
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Action Hero Biju (2016)
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Nivin Pauly, Joju George, Saiju Kurup, Major Ravi, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Rohini
Roles Playback Singer
Rating75%
Pulimurugan (2016)
Directed by Vysakh
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Mohanlal, Kamalinee Mukherjee, Paul Michael, Jagapati Babu, Vinu Mohan, Kishore
Roles Playback Singer
Rating66%
Lorsqu'un petit village près d'une forêt est sous la menace d'un tigre mangeur d'homme et d'une mafia de la drogue, les villageois demandent l'aide d'une force imparable, d'un chasseur invincible: Murugan
Mithunam (2012)
Directed by Tanikella Bharani
Genres Drama
Actors S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Lakshmi Narayan, Prakash Raj, Mohan Krishan Indraganti, Brahmanandam, Maadhavi Latha
Roles Playback Singer
Rating80%
Nandalala (2010)
, 2h5Directed by Mysskin
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Snigdha Akolkar, Mysskin, Rohini, Nassar, Kalaiyarasan
Roles Playback Singer
Rating76%