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O. N. V. Kurup is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Sound Indian born on 27 may 1931
Ottaplakkal Nambiyadikkal Velu Kurup (Malayalam: ഒറ്റപ്ലാക്കല് നമ്പിയാടിക്കൽ വേലു കുറുപ്പ്), popularly known as O. N. V. Kurup or simply O. N. V., is a renowned Malayalam poet and lyricist from Kerala, India, who won Jnanpith Award, the highest literary award in India for the year 2007. O. N. V. Kurup is also a lyricist in Malayalam cinema. He has penned a lot of lyrics for dramas and TV serials also. He received the awards Padma Shri in 1998 and Padma Vibhushan in 2011, the fourth and second highest civilian honours from the Government of India. In 2007 he was bestowed an Honorary Doctorate by University of Kerala, Trivandrum. O. N. V. is known for his leftist leaning. He was the Left Democratic Front (LDF) candidate in the Thiruvananthapuram constituency for the Lok-Sabha elections in 1989.
O.N.V. was a lecturer at Maharajas College - Ernakulam, University College - Trivandrum, Arts and Science College - Kozhikode, and Brennen College - Thalassery. He joined Government Women's College - Trivandrum as the Head of Malayalam Department. He was also a visiting professor at Calicut University. He retired from service in 1986.
He received the Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honour, for the year 2007. He is the fifth Jnanpith laureate from Kerala and the second Malayalam poet to win the prestigious award. According to a statement by Bharatiya Jnanpith, the trust which presents the award, Kurup began his career as a "progressive writer and matured into a humanist though he never gave up his commitment to socialist ideology".
He is now settled at Vazhuthacaud in Thiruvanathapuram, with his wife Sarojini. His son Rajeev works with the Indian Railways Authority, and daughter Dr.Mayadevi is a noted gynaecologist in Durham, United Kingdom. Malayalam playback singer Aparna Rajeev is his granddaughter.
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O. N. V. Kurup
Nationality Inde
Birth 27 may 1931
Death 13 february 2016 (at 84 years)
Awards Sahitya Akademi Award, Padma Shri, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, Filmfare Awards South, Padma Vibhushan
Birth 27 may 1931
Death 13 february 2016 (at 84 years)
Awards Sahitya Akademi Award, Padma Shri, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, Filmfare Awards South, Padma Vibhushan
Biography
O.N.V Kurup was born to O. N. Krishna Kurup and K. Lakshmikutty Amma, on May 27, 1931 at Chavara, Kollam (Quilon) in Kerala. He lost his father when he was eight. His childhood days were spent in the village where he attended the public 'Government School, Chavara'. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in Economics from SN College, Kollam, he moved to Thiruvananthapuram city (Trivandrum) where he joined Travancore University (now Kerala University) and pursued Master of Arts (postgraduate) in Malayalam literature.O.N.V. was a lecturer at Maharajas College - Ernakulam, University College - Trivandrum, Arts and Science College - Kozhikode, and Brennen College - Thalassery. He joined Government Women's College - Trivandrum as the Head of Malayalam Department. He was also a visiting professor at Calicut University. He retired from service in 1986.
He received the Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honour, for the year 2007. He is the fifth Jnanpith laureate from Kerala and the second Malayalam poet to win the prestigious award. According to a statement by Bharatiya Jnanpith, the trust which presents the award, Kurup began his career as a "progressive writer and matured into a humanist though he never gave up his commitment to socialist ideology".
He is now settled at Vazhuthacaud in Thiruvanathapuram, with his wife Sarojini. His son Rajeev works with the Indian Railways Authority, and daughter Dr.Mayadevi is a noted gynaecologist in Durham, United Kingdom. Malayalam playback singer Aparna Rajeev is his granddaughter.
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Chithramela (1967)
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Crime
Themes Musical films
Actors Prem Nazir, Sharada, Sheela, K. P. Ummer, S. P. Pillai, Adoor Bhasi
Scriptwriter
Pranayam (2011)
, 2h19Directed by Blessy
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Mohanlal, Anupam Kher, Anoop Menon, Niveda Thomas, Sreenath Bhasi, Dhanya Mary Varghese
Roles Lyricist
Rating74%
The film begins with Achutha Menon (Anupam Kher), a man in his late sixties arriving in the city to stay with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after suffering a heart attack. He was a football player who had got selected in the State team but could never play for the team. He moulded his life and career to accommodate the romance in his life.
Thaskara Veeran (2005)
Genres Comedy
Themes Heist films
Actors Mammootty, Nayantara, Sheela, Innocent, Siddique, Rajan P. Dev
Roles Lyricist
Rating31%
Meghamalhar (2001)
Directed by Kamal
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Biju Menon, Samyuktha Varma, Poornima Indrajith, Sreenath, Siddique, Shivaji
Rating76%
The film is the story of Rajeevan, an advocate and Nandita Menon, a writer. Rajeevan is married to Rekha, a bank employee, and has two kids. Nandita is married to Mukundan (Siddique), a businessman in the Gulf, and has a daughter. Both meet each other accidentally and in due course their relationship becomes intimate. Their tastes and thinking are almost alike. Megha Malhar movie tells Nandita (Samyuktha Varma) who is a budding writer who works with a leading newspaper and Rajeev (Biju Menon) an attorney. They lead their normal family life happily. A mix-up in the cakes they ordered for their respective kids introduce the protagonists and their background.
Elavamkodu Desam (1998)
Directed by K. G. George
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Mammootty, Kushboo Sundar, Thilakan, Shruti, Rajeev, Babu Namboothiri
Roles Lyricist
Rating55%
Jathavedan is invited to Elavamkodu Desam, a princely state in pre-independent India, to treat the king's wife. He comes to know that Unikkoman, the wicked king of Elavamkodu Desam, rose to power in coup and killing the noble king Udayavarman. How Jathavedan raises an army to bring the crown back to its true owner form the crux of the story.
Thumboli Kadappuram (1995)
Directed by Jayaraj Rajasekharan Nair
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Mukesh, Manoj K. Jayan, Annie, Priya Raman, Vijayaraghavan, Silk Smitha
Roles Lyricist
Rating35%
Grihaprevesam (1992)
Actors P. V. Jagadish Kumar, Siddique, Jagathy Sreekumar, Thilakan, Devan, Deepa Unnimary
Roles Lyricist
Rating57%
Isabella (1988)
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Sumalatha, Balachandra Menon, Nedumudi Venu, K.P.A.C. Sunny, Jayalalita, Nanditha Bose
Roles Lyricist
Rating59%
Sumalatha plays the role of Isabella, a tour guide, who falls in love with Unnikrishnan (Balachandra Menon), one of her customers. She has family problems as her father(Alby) is dead, her mother(Maggy) has become a drunkard and her brother(Tony) is a lunatic. Nedumudi Venu was her mentor and well wisher, who introduced her to Unnikrishnan. After that season, Unni returned to his residence and Isabella, whom he called affectionately Bella, awaited for his return towards her. He returned on several seasons, but on each time he refused to accept her as his life-partner.Terribly distracted by his family's behaviour, Unnikrishnan once decides to spend his remaining life with Bella. But on reaching there, he has surprises waiting for him.
Ponmuttayidunna Tharavu (1988)
Directed by Sathyan Anthikad
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Jayaram, Urvashi, Sreenivasan, Innocent, Parvathy, Jagathy Sreekumar
Roles Lyricist
Rating80%
Bhaskaran(Sreenivasan), the local village goldsmith is in love with Snehalatha(Urvashi), the daughter of P.V.Panicker(Innocent), the local astrologer. They are neighbors. Snehalatha asks for a gold necklace made of 10 pavans (sovereigns) as a symbol of Bhaskaran's love. Bhaskaran makes a necklace and hands it over to Snehalatha. An angry Panicker (her father) finds this out, admonishes her and pockets the golden necklace. He reasons that it was "brotherly love" which made Bhaskaran give the necklace to his daughter.
Vaishali (1988)
Directed by Bharathan
Genres Drama
Actors Suparna Anand, Geetha, Babu Antony, Nedumudi Venu, V K Sreeraman, Parvathy
Roles Musical
Rating77%
Angarajyam, under King Lomapadan (Babu Antony) is suffering from severe drought. There had been no rain for past 12 continuous years as the result of a curse by a Brahmin. The film begins with king Lomapadan's visit to Rajaguru (Nedumudi Venu) requesting him to return to Champapuri, the royal capital of Angarajya. Chitrangadan (Ashokan), the son of rajaguru was in love with Vaisali (Suparna Anand), daughter of a devadasi, which was against the social customs. Rajaguru had migrated away from capital with an aim of separating his rebellious son from his lover. Now, with the repeated requests from King, Rajaguru decides to shift back to Champapuri to perform a yagam to please Lord Indra, the god of rain. On the night of arrival at the capital, Rajaguru, gets a mystic vision, in which his guru advices him to bring Rishyashrungan (Sanjay Mitra), the only son of Mahirshi Vibhandakan to perform a mahayagam at Angarajyam. Only the son of Vibhandakan can now save the nation. Rishyashrungan is a teenager, living deep inside a dense forest, along with his father, who is famous for his spiritual powers. Vibhandakan had taken all care to keep his son away from the rest of the world, since the day he was born. Rishyashrungan had not met any human being in his whole life apart from his father, and is unaware of the world outside his ashram inside the deep forest. Lomapadan and his group of ministers decide to send a beautiful girl to seduce and bring Rishyashrungan to Champapuri. Rajaguru, who had a deep rooted anger against Vaisali (Suparna Anand) asks king to send her to the forest. Vaisali, daughter of Malini (Geetha), a famous dancer in the palace, is also the illegitimate daughter of King Lomapadan, which he is unaware of. Malini, on the demand of the king sets out with her daughter to the forest. While the rest of the team waits outside the deep forest, Vaisali sets in and meets Rishyashrungan and attempts to seduce him with her looks. He unaware of the existence of any human being on the earth, is easily carried away by her exotic looks. But by evening Vibhandakan smells out the trouble and warns his son about the danger. But the teenager is again lost by the charm of Vaisali. But soon realizing his mistake, Rishyashrungan decides to take up deep meditation to attain mental power to win over Vaisali, whom he mistakes to be a Mayavi, who had come to prevent him from gaining eternal happiness and salvation. Vaisali, who by now had started loving him seriously is completely broken by seeing him on meditation in midst of fire. She, in her final attempt starts dancing sensuously in front of Rishyashrungan, and succeeds in alluring and taking him to Angarajyam. But the boy hermit regains his sense at the boat and is about to curse her. Malini, by then begs for mercy. On seeing Malini, another woman, the teenager hermit is surprised. Vaisali explains her mission to Rishyashrungan and convinces him of his power to bring rain. They start back to the kingdom. They are welcomed royally at the capital. King Lomapadan welcomes Rishyashrungan personally and takes him to the stage where the yaga has to be performed. Malini, who by now is expecting the King to accept Vaisali as his child tries to move towards him, but is stopped by the Rajaguru. Rishyashrungan performs the yagam successfully, and it rains heavily by the time havan ends. The entire nation is now on joyous mood and they celebrate by singing and dancing. Vaisali and her mother Malini, are completely forgotten by the King now. The Rajaguru, by then advises the king to offer Princess Shanta (Parvathi), his daughter to Rishyashrungan, which means that the offspring of Rishyashrungan will rule Angarajyam after the time of Lomapadan. The King obeys the order and announces the marriage of the young saint and the princess, which is welcomed by the crowd whole heartedly. Vaisali, who, with in this time was completely in love with the saint is heartbroken. Her attempts to reach the king ends in vain and she along with her mother falls down on the ground. The mother is trampled to death by crowd. The crowd is no more bothered about them and the heavy rain continues.
Directed by A. M. Fazil
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Mammootty, Suhasini Maniratnam, M. G. Soman, Lissy, Devan, Sukumari
Roles Musical
Rating69%
Thirteen-year-old Vineetha and her father, Dr. Vinayachandran goes to visit her grandfather John Samuel in Ooty on the death anniversary of Veena's mother Neena who died in a tragic accident. The movie flashes back to when Vinay meets Neena at a Church Service and falls in love.Both the families, despite belonging to different religions, gives full consent to the couple to marry.After the wedding, Vinay takes Neena to his home back in Manivathoor to meet his mother(played by Sukhumari).Neena accidentally tips off the sacred deepam over and is seen as an omen against a long married life.
Nombarathi Poovu (1987)
Directed by Padmarajan
Genres Drama
Actors Madhavi Alladurgam, Mammootty, Sonia. V, Lalu Alex, Jagathy Sreekumar, Shari
Roles Lyricist
Rating73%
The movie shows how a young woman Padmini(Madhavi) who is separated from her husband gets attached to a young orphan girl Gigi(Sonia) when they meet in a hospital during their stay after a bus accident. Gigi has lost her mother in the accident and Padmini decides to take Gigi with her. Gigi is not completely mentally stable and is a special needs child. Padmini brings Gigi to Dr. Padmanabhan (Mammootty) who after initial apprehension accepts Gigi in his institute as a student by the day. Gigi gradually improves and Padmini is peaceful. Padmini's separated husband Sethu (Lalu Alex) is still trying to win her back. The viewers are shown that Padmini separated from her husband because she lost her children due to an episode of reckless motorcycle riding from husband. Padmini decides to go back to Sethu and adopt Gigi as their daughter. However Gigi's special behavior annoys Sethu and Gigi starts to feel insecure about losing her mother again. The movie goes on to show Padmini's emotional turbulence.
Sukhamo Devi (1986)
Directed by Venu Nagavally
Genres Drama
Actors Mohanlal, Shankar Panicker, Shankar, Urvashi, Geetha, Jagathy Sreekumar
Roles Lyricist
Rating69%
Sukhamo Devi is the story of Nandan and Thara getting married as their personal love affairs failed. Nandan was in love with Devi, but circumstances force Devi to choose another person. Thara was in love with Sunny, but he is killed in an accident. The film also shows the good side of friendship between Sunny and Vinod, who survives the accident, but living a mechanical life.
Choodatha Pookkal (1985)
Genres Drama
Actors Kalpana, Lakshmi Narayan, Ratheesh, T. R. Omana, Shankar Panicker, Zarina Wahab
Roles Lyricist
Adaminte Vaariyellu (1984)
, 2h22Directed by K. G. George
Genres Drama
Actors Sreevidya, Suhasini Maniratnam, Venu Nagavally, Mammootty, Soorya, Bharath Gopi
Roles Lyricist
Rating77%
Vasanthi has to mother three generations of her family in addition to her daytime job. She finds liberation by escaping into madness and a mental asylum. Alice is married to a ruthless businessman and seeks solace in affairs. When she is refused a divorce, she commits suicide. When both the middleclass women prefer self-destruction as their way to liberation, the third, a brutally exploited housemaid, Ammini ends up in a home for women, but latter helps all the inmates of this home to break out of the suffocating atmosphere of the home to freedom.