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Priyadarshan is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Second Unit Director and Second Unit Indian born on 30 january 1957 at Thiruvananthapuram (Inde)
Soman Priyadarshan Nair is an Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter. In a career spanning almost three decades, Priyadarshan has directed over 80 films in several Indian languages including Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu. Though he began his career in Malayalam cinema in 1984, Priyadarshan has been mainly active in Hindi cinema for the past decade.
Best known for his comedy films, Priyadrshan has also tried his hand at action and thriller films from time to time. His collaborations with Mohanlal were highly popular in Malayalam cinema during the 1980s and 1990s, with films such as Poochakkoru Mookkuthi, Mazha Peyyunnu Maddalam Kottunnu, Thalavattam, Vellanakalude Nadu, Chithram, Vandanam, Kilukkam, ;Abhimanyu, Mithunam, Thenmavin Kombath, and Kala Pani. Actors he has worked with over several films include Kuthiravattam Pappu, Jagathy Sreekumar, Nedumudi Venu, Sreenivasan, Sukumari, Mukesh and Mammukoya.
Priyadarshan was one of the first directors in India to introduce rich color grading, clear sound and quality dubbing through his early Malayalam films. Upon entering Bollywood, he has mostly adapted stories from popular comedy films from Malayalam cinema, some from his own work and some from others. These include Hera Pheri, Hungama, Hulchul, Garam Masala, Bhagam Bhag, Chup Chup Ke, Dhol, and Bhool Bhulaiyaa. Actors he has worked with multiple times in Hindi cinema include Tabu, Paresh Rawal, Akshay Kumar, Akshaye Khanna, and Suniel Shetty.He has copied almost all his movies from other language films which consists of many award winning foreign movies.
In 2007, his Tamil film Kanchivaram won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film. The government of India honoured him by giving the Padma Shri in 2012 for his contribution towards the arts.
Issu d'une famille intellectuelle, il a très tôt manifesté son intérêt pour les livres et les bandes-dessinées. Il s'est marié avec l'actrice Lizzy (Lakshmi Priyadarshini) et a tourné avec elle une douzaine de films. Il fréquentait jeune un cercle d'amis qui se sont tous retrouvés dans l'industrie cinématographique. Ainsi en est-il de son acteur fétiche et ami Mohanlal
Son premier film Poochakkoru Mookkuthi a été un grand succès grâce à l'emploi du slapstick.
On lui a souvent reproché son plagiarisme tant d'Hollywood, que de films indiens régionaux, dont les créateurs originaux ne sont que rarement mentionnés. Ce à quoi il répond : Aujourd'hui, 99 % des films sont copiés.
Il a reçu quatre National Film Awards.
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Priyadarshan
Birth name Soman Priyadarshan Nair
Nationality Inde
Birth 30 january 1957 (68 years) at Thiruvananthapuram (Inde)
Awards Padma Shri, Filmfare Awards South
Nationality Inde
Birth 30 january 1957 (68 years) at Thiruvananthapuram (Inde)
Awards Padma Shri, Filmfare Awards South
Best known for his comedy films, Priyadrshan has also tried his hand at action and thriller films from time to time. His collaborations with Mohanlal were highly popular in Malayalam cinema during the 1980s and 1990s, with films such as Poochakkoru Mookkuthi, Mazha Peyyunnu Maddalam Kottunnu, Thalavattam, Vellanakalude Nadu, Chithram, Vandanam, Kilukkam, ;Abhimanyu, Mithunam, Thenmavin Kombath, and Kala Pani. Actors he has worked with over several films include Kuthiravattam Pappu, Jagathy Sreekumar, Nedumudi Venu, Sreenivasan, Sukumari, Mukesh and Mammukoya.
Priyadarshan was one of the first directors in India to introduce rich color grading, clear sound and quality dubbing through his early Malayalam films. Upon entering Bollywood, he has mostly adapted stories from popular comedy films from Malayalam cinema, some from his own work and some from others. These include Hera Pheri, Hungama, Hulchul, Garam Masala, Bhagam Bhag, Chup Chup Ke, Dhol, and Bhool Bhulaiyaa. Actors he has worked with multiple times in Hindi cinema include Tabu, Paresh Rawal, Akshay Kumar, Akshaye Khanna, and Suniel Shetty.He has copied almost all his movies from other language films which consists of many award winning foreign movies.
In 2007, his Tamil film Kanchivaram won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film. The government of India honoured him by giving the Padma Shri in 2012 for his contribution towards the arts.
Biography
Durant les années 1980 et 1990 il a renouvelé le genre du cinéma indien en malayalam, et il a ensuite fait des remakes en hindi à Bollywood, tel Gardish (1993), Muskurahat (1993), Virasat, Hera Pheri (2000), Hungama (2003), Hulchul (2004), Garam masala (2005), Bhool Bhulaiyaa (2007) et Billu (2009). Son style s'inspire de celui de David Lean.Issu d'une famille intellectuelle, il a très tôt manifesté son intérêt pour les livres et les bandes-dessinées. Il s'est marié avec l'actrice Lizzy (Lakshmi Priyadarshini) et a tourné avec elle une douzaine de films. Il fréquentait jeune un cercle d'amis qui se sont tous retrouvés dans l'industrie cinématographique. Ainsi en est-il de son acteur fétiche et ami Mohanlal
Son premier film Poochakkoru Mookkuthi a été un grand succès grâce à l'emploi du slapstick.
On lui a souvent reproché son plagiarisme tant d'Hollywood, que de films indiens régionaux, dont les créateurs originaux ne sont que rarement mentionnés. Ce à quoi il répond : Aujourd'hui, 99 % des films sont copiés.
Il a reçu quatre National Film Awards.
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Kalimannu (2013)
Directed by Blessy
Genres Drama
Actors Shweta Menon, Biju Menon, Suhasini Maniratnam, Valsala Menon, Suniel Shetty, Anupam Kher
Roles Himself
Rating53%
Meera is a club dancer in the dark streets of Mumbai, who like all performers of Mumbai, aspires to be on the screen someday. She gets used by film producers who promise her roles in their films, but fail to do so later. Frustrated, she even thinks of ending her life. But the unexpected arrival of Shyam, a taxi driver, changes the course of her life. He marries her and makes for a lovely husband. Her career also starts looking up as she progresses to being a popular item dancer and then gets cast as the heroine in a film. But, on the day of the preview of her debut film, Shyam is involved in a fatal road accident and declared brain dead. Meera who is left all alone again, thinks of donating Shyam’s organs to people in need. She wants to have his child through artificial insemination. She fights for her parenting rights as the technique would have created much uproar in the media.
Kilukkam Kilukilukkam (2006)
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Kunchacko Boban, Jayasurya, Kavya Madhavan, Jagathy Sreekumar, Mohanlal, Adithya Menon
Roles Himself
Rating28%
Chandini (Kavya Madhavan) sees her father Krishnadas (Vijayaraghavan), Mayor of Cochin being killed by the rivals, but manages to escape from them and comes to Ooty. The needle of suspicion falls on Royichan (Kunchacko Boban) and friend Appachan (Salim Kumar). So they shift to Ooty to escape. Meanwhile,Balu(Jayasurya) and Ponnappan (Harisree Ashokan) sees a lost child information and goes to ooty expecting her parents to give them lots of money. Nischal captivated by the beauty of Chandini is also in Ooty trying to impress her.
Kilukkam Kilukilukkam (2006)
Directed by Balachandra Menon
Genres Comedy
Actors Balachandra Menon, Mohanlal, Shanthi Krishna, Sukumari, Kunchacko Boban, Jayasurya
Roles Himself
Rating41%
No. 20 Madras Mail (1990)
, 2h57Directed by Priyadarshan, Joshiy
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Mohanlal, Mammootty, M. G. Soman, Maniyanpillai Raju, P. V. Jagadish Kumar, Suchitra Murali
Roles Cameo
Rating77%
The train No.20 Madras Mail to Madras starts from Trivandrum Central. R.K. Nair (M.G. Soman), a Kollam-based businessman takes the first class coupe of the train to Madras with his wife Geetha (Jayabharathi) and daughter Devi (Suchitra) from Kollam Junction. Tony Kurushingal (Mohanlal), along with his friends Hitchcock Kanjikuzhi (Manianpilla Raju) and Kumbalam Hari (Jagadish) boards the same coach from Kottayam. Tony is the son of a wealthy businessman, Kurishinkal Kariyachan (Jagannatha Varma), Kanjikuzhi is a detective novelist and Hari is an young politician. The three of them are going to Madras for seeing a cricket match and to make attempts to make Kanjikuzhi's novel Vaazhikuzhiyile Kolapathakam a film. All the three are heavily drunken while boarding the train. After entering the train and seeing Devi, Tony and friends make several attempts in getting a seat for Tony in the same coupe of Devi, with the help of TTE officer Nadar (Innocent) but with little success. While doing so Tony gets into heated arguments with RK Nair and Sunil (Ashokan), who has a reserved seat in the same coupe (from Ernakulam) as that of R.K. Nair. Actor Mammootty boards the train from Thrissur and gets into the same coach. Nadar leaves the train at Palakkad after giving company with Tony and gang and the new TTE Chokalingam a.k.a. Choki (Jagathy Sreekumar) enters the train. Tony and his friends visit Mammootty in his coupe and soon become friends with him. Meanwhile Tony tries to flirt with Devi while she returns from the toilet, which causes Tony to land in trouble with R.K Nair but Mammootty cools the scene. All goes to sleep late night.
T. P. Balagopalan M.A. (1986)
, 2h10Directed by Sathyan Anthikad
Genres Drama
Actors Mohanlal, Shobana, Balan K. Nair, Kuthiravattam Pappu, Maniyanpillai Raju, Sreenivasan
Rating77%
The film revolves around T.P. Balagopalan (Mohanlal), a middle class post-graduate salaried person, who wants to build himself and also needs to take care of his extended family members. The film went over factors influencing Kerala of the 1980s such as widespread unemployment, poverty, and the poor economy.
Hello Madras Girl (1983)
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Shankar Panicker, Madhavi Alladurgam, Shankar, Mohanlal, Poornima Bhagyaraj, Kuthiravattam Pappu
Roles Man in Restaurant
Rating63%
Sindoora Sandhyakku Mounam (1982)
Directed by I. V. Sasi
Genres Drama
Actors Lakshmi Narayan, Madhavi Alladurgam, Ratheesh, Mohanlal, Kuthiravattam Pappu, Pratap K. Pothen
Rating65%
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Peruchazhi (2014)
, 2h34Directed by Arun Vaidyanathan, Priyadarshan
Genres Comedy
Actors Mohanlal, Nishan, Madhu, Mukesh, Pooja Kumar, Innocent
Rating39%
In California, the Republican party governor candidate John Kory (Sean James Sutton) is striving to raise his dismal ratings. Sunny Kurishingal (Vijay Babu), the chief campaign officer of John Kory, is failing with his campaign strategies and runs out of ideas to ensure Kory's victory. Sunny is forced to consult a third person's advise and calls Francis Kunjappan (Mukesh), a PWD minister and his native friend in Kerala, for hiring any good political consultant for devising campaign strategies. Kunjappan, initially reluctant, later recommends his friend and political competitor Jagannathan (Mohanlal), thus also hoping to get rid of him as he is a political threat to his ministerial position. Jagannathan, a young politician and a sports enthusiastic, is illiterate in English but has an inborn talent to solve the gravest of issues in the most prudent manner. Even Francis had consulted him for solving his toughest problems. But Francis thinks that Jaganathan’s unorthodox ideas will fail miserably in the US. Kunjappan meets Jagannathan and offers him the job and a remuneration of ₹30 crores which is sufficient to raise Jagannathan's dream project, a sports academy in Kerala. Jagannathan takes up the assignment and flies to the US, together with his assistants Pottakuzhi Jabbar (Baburaj) and Vayalar Varkey (Aju Varghese).
Aamayum Muyalum (2014)
, 2h44Directed by Priyadarshan
Genres Comedy
Actors Jayasurya, Piaa Bajpai, Innocent, Nedumudi Venu, Nandalal Krishnamurthy, Mamukkoya
Rating34%
The film is set in a fictitious poverty-ridden village of Gowlipady, which is virtually ruled by the ruthless zamindari Bhandaravathi (Sukanya). Kashi (Nedumudi Venu) is a lottery salesman. He is the only literate person of his village. Once, a lottery sold by him happens to win the first prize of 5 Crore Indian Rupee. Greedy Kashi tries to get back the lottery ticket but doesn't know to whom he has sold the ticket to. So, he conducts a treat exclusive to all those who buys ticket from him and to gain entrance need to give their tickets back. As the treat ends, all the tickets he have sold except one is collected. Later, he comes to know that the one remaining ticket, the same ticket which won the prize, sold to Anthony (Nandu) is still not collected.
Rangrezz (2013)
Directed by Priyadarshan
Actors Jackky Bhagnani, Priya Anand, Rajpal Yadav, Rajpal Yadav, Akshara Gowda, Pankaj Tripathi
Rating52%
Geethanjali (2013)
, 2h30Directed by Priyadarshan
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Mohanlal, Nishan, Suresh Gopi, Nassar, Keerthy Suresh, Siddique
Rating39%
Anjali (Keerthi Suresh), has a recent shocking history of her twin sister Geetha (Keerthi Suresh) committing suicide. She is already betrothed to Anoop (Nishan) from a prominent family. But when her mother suddenly falls down from the staircase ending up in paralysis, Anjali and Anoop proceed to her Arackal house. Once they reach there, they are into more mysteries as the spirit of Geetha starts to haunt Anjali, which even physically disturbs her. Within days from a series of horrifying incidents arrives Dr. Sunny Joseph (Mohanlal) with his style of wit and wisdom, to treat Anjali and to help her out of the crisis that she is in. He finds the shocking truth that Anjali is actually Geetha. Geetha had a criminal nature by birth. She accidentally killed Anjali during an argument,to not loose Anoop from her. Geetha tries to kill Anoop when he rejected her upon knowing the truth. However , in the end, Anjali's spirit prevent Geetha from shooting Anoop. Geetha is killed by the fire in the house. The film shows Anjali's spirit over Geetha while she is dying.
Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal (2012)
Directed by Priyadarshan
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Nana Patekar, Paresh Rawal, Om Puri, Rajpal Yadav, Shreyas Talpade, Shakti Kapoor
Rating43%
This movie is the sequel of Malamaal Weekly. The insinuating cry of every man, woman and child in this village when they see Johnny Belinda (Shreyas Talpade). Afraid of everything and everyone, Johnny is one terrified soul. Born into the household of Om Puri, a local farmer and being the only son, Johnny does what he's best at to help his ailing father. Nothing, other than buying lottery tickets every week. The only thing going in his life is his love for Maria (Madhurima) the daughter of the village's biggest gunda (gangster), Paresh Rawal, and sworn enemy of Om Puri. Paresh Rawal, armed with three herculean sons, goes to all ends to make sure his daughter and Johnny never marry, until one day, hope comes in the form a silent, strong but hungry man, Nana Patekar.
Tezz (2012)
, 2h2Directed by Priyadarshan
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Rail transport films, Musical films, Dans un avion, Bollywood, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie, Films about hijackings
Actors Anil Kapoor, Ajay Devgn, Mohanlal, Zayed Khan, Boman Irani, Kangana Ranaut
Rating41%
Aakash Rana (Ajay Devgn), is an illegal immigrant married to British citizen Nikita (Kangna Ranaut) living as a successful engineer but is eventually caught and deported from the UK thus crushing his dreams of an ideal life. Four years later, Aakash returns with vengeance on his mind and teams up with his former employees Aadil Khan(Zayed Khan) and Megha (Sameera Reddy) to wreak some havoc. What follows is a bomb threat on a train and a tensed Railway Control officer Sanjay Raina (Boman Irani) and Anti-Terrorism officer Arjun Khanna (Anil Kapoor) trying every trick in the book to avert the disaster and to apprehend the culprits. Sanjay Raina trying his best to save his daughter Piya (Avika Gor) and the passengers in the train who are thrown in the mix are police officer Shivan Nair (Mohanlal) and his team of cops, who are escorting a prisoner on the same ill-fated train. Aakash demands 10 million euros and then he will tell how to disarm the bomb. The ministry does not want to give the money, but Khanna convinces them that the money will be given back and is a way to lure the terrorists. After following Aakash's instructions and dropping the money in a river, he walks away. Meghna gets the money and tries to get away. She evades the cops after a vicious chase but unfortunately she is killed by a van in an intersection. Khanna finds out that Khan is one of the bombers and chases him. Khan is shot in the leg, but he gets away after jumping from the bridge and landing on a jet ski driven by Aakash. Aakash once again demands money and tells it to be left in a dustbin. The dustbin falls inward and Aakash runs away with the money even though the police attempt to pursue him. Khanna and his team find out where Aadil is and go there to arrest him. However, Aadil commits suicide with a bomb almost killing Khanna. Aakash calls Raina and tells him that a note has been left at a restaurant called Delhi Darbar that tells how to defuse the bomb. However, the restaurant catches on fire and the letter is burnt. Aakash visits Nikita and his son and they arrange to leave UK that night via flight. Khanna visits Nikita and tells who her husband is. After changing the plan, that they should leave UK via train because the police has found out about his plan of leaving via plane, he goes to the train station. There he sees a video of Raina asking the bomber to call again as the letter was burnt. Aakash calls Raina and tells him that the bomb was not connected to the wheels and the train will not explode if stopped. Raina stops the train and everyone disembarks safely. Nikita who is helping Khanna now, goes to the train station and sees Aakash and the news that the bomb threat was a hoax. She lets Aakash go, but Khanna finds out as Aakash's son calls him Daddy. Khanna chases him and they fight. After Aakash pleas to Khanna to let him go and explains why he took such drastic actions. Realizing that Aakash was a victim of deportation and wants to just be with his family again at peace, Khanna stays silent (hinting he will let him leave scotfree). However, the police arrive and after seeing that Aakash had a gun, they shoot him.
, 2h55Directed by Priyadarshan
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Mohanlal, Mukesh, Raai Laxmi, Vidya Balan, Shakti Kapoor, Karthika Menon
Rating56%
P. Madhavan Nair (Mohanlal) is a middle-aged man who has come to toil in the deserts of the Middle East to fulfil his responsibilities to his family of two younger sisters who must be married, and a father whose debt has to be paid. He has neither found the time to get married nor to have a life of his own.
Aakrosh (2010)
Directed by Priyadarshan
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Ajay Devgn, Akshaye Khanna, Bipasha Basu, Paresh Rawal, Reema Sen, Jaideep Ahlawat
Rating69%
Three friends from Delhi go missing in a small village – Jhanjhar. It's two months and there is no clue about their disappearance. The media and students movement demand action from the authorities. It's then that the government orders a Central Bureau of Investigation enquiry with officers Sidhant Chaturvedi (Akshaye Khanna) and Pratap Kumar (Ajay Devgn) to solve the case. They find it difficult to solve the case as the local police and other authorities are a part of Shool Sena, which is responsible for illicit activities. Sidhant and Pratap also face Superintendent of police Ajatshatru Singh IPS (Paresh Rawal), a ruthless police officer who misuses his power. Not only that even the locals don't support the investigation.