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Kavalam Narayana Panicker is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Sound Indian born on 28 april 1928 at Kavalam (Inde)
Kavalam Narayana Panicker (or Panikkar) (born 28 April 1928) is an Indian dramatist, theatre director and poet. He has written over 26 Malayalam plays, many adapted from classical Sanskrit drama and Shakespeare, notably Madhyamavyayogam (1979)
Kalidasa's Vikramorvasiyam (1981, 1996), Shakuntalam (1982), Karnabharam (1984, 2001), Bhasa's Uru Bhangam (1988), Swapnavasavadattam and Dootavakyam (1996). He is the founder-director of theatre troupe, Sopanam, which led to the foundation of 'Bhashabharati: Centre for Performing Arts, Training and Research, in trivandrum.
He was awarded the 1983 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Direction by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama, which gave him its highest award for lifetime achievement the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship in 2002.
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Nationality Inde
Birth 28 april 1928 at Kavalam (Inde)
Death 26 june 2016 (at 88 years)
Awards Padma Bhushan, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Birth 28 april 1928 at Kavalam (Inde)
Death 26 june 2016 (at 88 years)
Awards Padma Bhushan, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Kalidasa's Vikramorvasiyam (1981, 1996), Shakuntalam (1982), Karnabharam (1984, 2001), Bhasa's Uru Bhangam (1988), Swapnavasavadattam and Dootavakyam (1996). He is the founder-director of theatre troupe, Sopanam, which led to the foundation of 'Bhashabharati: Centre for Performing Arts, Training and Research, in trivandrum.
He was awarded the 1983 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Direction by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama, which gave him its highest award for lifetime achievement the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship in 2002.
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Kodiyettam (1978)
, 2h8Directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Genres Drama
Actors Bharath Gopi, K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair, Kaviyoor Ponnnamma, Kuttyedathi Vilasini, Adoor Bhavani
Rating71%
The film captures the ascent of the protagonist, Shankaran Kutty, from a carefree individual to a mature responsible adult. The opening sequences, canned by the director himself, shows Shankaran Kutty- attending a temple festival. The film proceeds to show the irresponsible and often nomadic life style of Shankaran Kutty. Shankaran Kutty, though seemingly at the beginning of middle age, spends most of his time playing around with children, joining political processions and helping the villagers when he is not attending temple festivals. He is provided for by his younger sister who works as a house maid in the city of Thiruvananthapuram. His sister in an attempt to get his life organized arranges a marriage for him. But to the dismay of his new wife, Shankaran Kutty continues his life style often staying away from home for weeks. The already pregnant wife soon leaves him, and Shankaran Kutty does not make any attempt to have her back at home.
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Amen (2013)
, 2h45Directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery
Genres Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Indrajith Sukumaran, Fahadh shanu, Swathi Reddy, Rachana Narayanankutty, Joy Mathew, Nandalal Krishnamurthy
Roles Musical
Rating78%
The plot revolves around the lives of few people around an ancient Syrian church in a Kuttanadan village called Kumarankari. Solomon (Fahadh Faasil) is in love with Shoshanna (Swathi Reddy) who is the daughter of a wealthy contractor. Solomon is the son of a band master who died after a show by drowning. Solomon is a failed band member. Here comes the entry of Fr. Vincent Vattoli (Indrajith) to the church. He learns about the relationship and tries to unite them. It was this time the marriage of Shoshanna gets fixed. Solomon attempts to elope with Shoshanna by taking the help of Fr. Vattoli but in vain. They are caught by their people and beaten up. The people then place a bet in which the Band is asked to win the band competition in which they lost in the previous years. It was said that Shoshanna would be married to Solomon if they win the competition with Solomon leading the band. The band takes intense practices and wins the bet. Solomon gets married to Shoshanna. The next day a call comes to the church informing that the new Priest Fr. Vincent Vattoli is taking charge. The Kumarangiri folks now come to know that Fr. Vincent Vattoli was actually the saint himself who appeared in front of them.
Esthappan (2012)
Directed by G. Aravindan
Genres Drama
Actors Gemini Ganesan
Rating69%
Esthappan, a fisherman lives in a seashore colony of fishermen. To the fisherfolk of the coastal Christian village, he is at once an eccentric simpleton, a possessed soothsayer and faith healer, a Satanic grave stealer. Esthappan's story unfolds through narrations of other fishermen about the miracles created by him. Through the contradictory statements of these people, a mystical figure of Esthappan unfolds.
Manjadikuru (2008)
, 2h17Directed by Anjali Menon
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Prithviraj Sukumaran, Urvashi, Rashin Rahman, Thilakan, Kaviyoor Ponnnamma, Jagathy Sreekumar
Rating81%
Manjadikuru is a story of homecoming from late 1980s, when 10-year-old Vicky arrives at his grandparents home in rural Kerala to attend his grandfather's funeral. The disjointed family gathers together for the sixteen-day-long funeral period. During this period, Vicky discovers more about himself, his family and culture than he had expected to. The journey is narrated through the memories of an adult Vicky who returns to the same house to recount the experience. After some years the boy returns as a young man (Prithviraj), to visit old grounds, and finds the 'Lucky red seeds' scattered away.
Moksham (2005)
Genres Drama
Actors Zeenat Aman, Jagathy Sreekumar, Nandalal Krishnamurthy, P. Sreekumar
Roles Lyricist
Marattam (1987)
Directed by G. Aravindan
Actors Kalamandalam Kesavan, Krishnan Kutty Nair, Urmila Unni
Rating77%
Kummatty (1979)
Directed by G. Aravindan
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Actors Kuttyedathi Vilasini
Roles Story
Rating73%
The film is a Pied Piper-like figment of Malabar’s folklore about a partly mythic and partly real magician called Kummatty (bogeyman). Kummatty materialises from nature one day to mingle with and weave a spell of carefree abandon around the children of the village. Kummatty travels from place to place and entertains children with dancing, singing and performing magic. At one such performance at a village, Kummatty starts to mingle with and weave a spell of carefree abandon around the children of the village. He turns a group of children into animals. But one boy, who was changed into a dog, is chased away and misses the moment Kummatty changed the children back to their human form. The dog-boy has to wait a year until Kummatty returns to the village to get back his human form. All ends well and Kummatty melts back into nature.
The Circus Tent (1978)
, 2h10Directed by G. Aravindan
Genres Drama
Themes Circus films
Actors Bharath Gopi, Nedumudi Venu, Jalaja, V K Sreeraman
Roles Lyricist
Rating72%
Besides a long glittering river some men raise a pole. A tent balloons up. Where there was wide sand and the sound of water lapping, there is now a truck, chairs, hoops, stools, ropes, goats, a lioness, a pair of fat girls, some bicycles, and an old man with a philosopher's dignity, putting on white paste.
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Manjadikuru (2008)
, 2h17Directed by Anjali Menon
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Prithviraj Sukumaran, Urvashi, Rashin Rahman, Thilakan, Kaviyoor Ponnnamma, Jagathy Sreekumar
Rating81%
Manjadikuru is a story of homecoming from late 1980s, when 10-year-old Vicky arrives at his grandparents home in rural Kerala to attend his grandfather's funeral. The disjointed family gathers together for the sixteen-day-long funeral period. During this period, Vicky discovers more about himself, his family and culture than he had expected to. The journey is narrated through the memories of an adult Vicky who returns to the same house to recount the experience. After some years the boy returns as a young man (Prithviraj), to visit old grounds, and finds the 'Lucky red seeds' scattered away.
A Dog's Day (2001)
, 1h14Directed by Murali Nair
Genres Drama
Rating64%
A local ruler bows down to the pressure from democratic forces and is forced to hand over a part of his province to a democratically elected leader. He also presents his pet dog to a poor peasant and his wife. For the poor peasant and his wife, the dog is not a mere dog, but a symbol of the royalty which had always inspired in them feelings of respect, admiration and blind worship. They bathe the dog in a very ceremonious manner and take much care of it. They even desist from tying it up. But when the dog bites and kills a duck and then a boy, it leads to problems. The democratic leader orders the arrest of the dog, followed by the arrest of the poor peasant. Then follow protests, talks, negotiations leading to more interesting developments.
Alolam (1982)
, 2h2Actors Bharath Gopi, K. R. Vijaya, Nedumudi Venu, Thodupuzha Vasanthi, Sankaradi
A childless couple comes to a village. The husband who is a veterinary doctor (Bharath Gopi) is befriended by a man named Thampuran (Nedumudi Venu) who is a womanizer. He takes advantage of the monotony and bleakness of the doctor's life to tempt him into an act of infidelity, endangering the doctor's precarious family life. The final 20 minutes of the movie is a riveting drama, intensely capturing the tragedy that has befallen the couple. The movie can also be seen as commentary on decaying family and village values.
Aalolam (1982)
, 2h10Actors Nedumudi Venu, Bharath Gopi, K. R. Vijaya, Sankaradi, Thodupuzha Vasanthi
Aalolam is an emotional family film.