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Unni Menon is a Actor, Lyricist and Sound Indian born on 2 december 1957

Unni Menon

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Nationality Inde
Birth 2 december 1957 (67 years)

Unni Menon is an Indian film playback singer. He has sung over 3000 songs in South Indian languages like Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. In the early part of his career, he spent many years as a low-profile playback singer. The turning point in his career came when he sang the song "Pudhu Vellai Mazhai" from Mani Ratnam's award winning 1992 Tamil film Roja, composed by A. R. Rahman. He has frequently associated with A. R. Rahman, lending his voice to nearly 25 memorable songs from films like Karuththamma (1994) and Minsaara Kanavu (1997).

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Filmography of Unni Menon (24 films)

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Beautiful
Beautiful (2011)
, 1h48
Directed by V. K. Prakash
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Musical films, Films about disabilities
Actors Jayasurya, Meghana Raj, Anoop Menon, Tini Tom, Nandalal Krishnamurthy, Unni Menon
Roles Peter
Rating74% 3.734833.734833.734833.734833.73483
Stephen Louis (Jayasurya) is a quadriplegic by birth who is immensely rich, but he believes in celebrating each moment of life. He always loves to see beautiful things and speaks about celebrating life even though he can't move any part of his body other than his neck. He is always assisted by his Manager Kamalu (Nandu) and his caretaker/driver Karunan (Jayan) in a palatial house in Fort Kochi. As most of his relatives look to take advantage of his position, Louis has kept all of them at bay, barring his cousin brother Alex (Tini Tom) with whom he shares a good relationship.
Sthithi
Sthithi (2003)

Directed by R. Sarath
Actors Unni Menon, Mallika Sukumaran, Remya Nambeesan, Sreelatha Namboodiri. B
Roles Vivek

Vivek and Vani who are Secretariat employees. They live in a modest house on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram together with their two children. Their lives change when under threat of job losses, the trade unions call for strike action whilst at the same time their landlord asks them to leave.

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Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu, 2h54
Directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Kamal Haasan, Jyothika, Prakash Raj, Bidushi Dash Barde, Rajashree, Kamalinee Mukherjee
Roles Playback Singer
Rating78% 3.9462653.9462653.9462653.9462653.946265
Rani (Bidushi Dash Barde), the daughter of former Chennai police officer Arokiya Raj (Prakash Raj), tells her father over the phone that she will back home in 20 minutes. As she leaves the telephone booth, she is approached by someone. The screen then cuts to black and we find out that Rani does not come home. The following morning Arokiya Raj finds a finger hanging at his door. Police reports confirm that it is his daughter Rani's finger. He calls Raghavan (Kamal Hassan), his old friend, for investigation. Raghavan handles the case and they eventually find the body of Rani in a forest in the city outskirts. The doctor's report states that the killer bisected Rani’s body with a surgical knife, proving that the murderer has a strong medical background. Following the trauma of losing their only daughter, Arokiya Raj and his wife move to New York.
Oru Kalluriyin Kathai, 2h36
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Arya, Sonia Agarwal, Santhanam, Thalaivaasal Vijay, Charuhasan, Charle
Roles Playback Singer
Rating50% 2.5401252.5401252.5401252.5401252.540125
Satya (Arya) is told to meet five friends at their old college at Valentine's Day, when his dad comes in a van. Unfortunate Satya in coma. In a physcho test, conducted by doctor (Charuhasan), it turns out that he`s in love with Jothi (Sonia Agarwal) for five years, but never confesses it to her during college days. On the last day of college, his friends and he decided to meet there again after 5 years. But his friends are shocked to see him, his mind is not completely sound. What happen to Satya, does he become alright, and where does Jothi fit in all, this is what this movie is about..
Sthithi
Sthithi (2003)

Directed by R. Sarath
Actors Unni Menon, Mallika Sukumaran, Remya Nambeesan, Sreelatha Namboodiri. B

Vivek and Vani who are Secretariat employees. They live in a modest house on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram together with their two children. Their lives change when under threat of job losses, the trade unions call for strike action whilst at the same time their landlord asks them to leave.
Thennavan
Thennavan (2003)
, 2h26
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Kiran Rathod, Nassar, Urvashi, Vivek, V Ravichandaran, Ravichandran
Roles Playback Singer
Rating16% 0.802430.802430.802430.802430.80243
Priyamaana Thozhi
Directed by Vikraman
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Cricket films
Actors R. Madhavan, Jyothika, Sridevi Vijaykumar, Vineeth, S. Manivannan, R. Sundarrajan
Roles Playback Singer
Rating58% 2.905682.905682.905682.905682.90568
Ashok (Madhavan) and Julie (Sridevi Vijaykumar) have been friends ever since childhood and they don't share any love interest. Ashok falls in love with Nandini (Jyothika), a rich girl with whom he marries, and although Julie's closeness to Ashok initially irritates Nandini, she subsequently accepts it. Julie falls in love with a guy called Michael D'Souza (Vineeth), a cricketer who's hoping for a place in the Indian cricket team and Ashok happens to be his main opponent.
Rhythm
Rhythm (2000)
, 2h23
Directed by Vasanth
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Arjun Sarja, Jyothika, Meena, Ramesh Aravind, Lakshmi Narayan, Ramya Krishnan
Roles Playback Singer
Rating76% 3.8390653.8390653.8390653.8390653.839065
Karthikeyan (Arjun) is a photographer-cum-editor working in Indian Express. Chitra (Meena) is a bank employee. Both reside in Navi Mumbai. Karthik meets Chitra while opening a bank account. While returning home, Karthik again meets her in a train. He offers his seat but Chitra does not want to accept it. During a train strike he invites her to travel in an auto to reduce expenses, but she declines. When Chitra hesitated to travel in the same train with Karthik, he became angry and explained that he talked to her because both are from same area and he says he will never talk to her anymore. After some days Chitra volunteerily talks to him. Karthik, in return, accompanies her to a police station to get back her snatched handbag. Karthik invites Chitra to his home to meet his parents.
Kadhalar Dhinam, 2h12
Directed by Kadhir
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kunal Singh, Sonali Bendre, Nassar, S. Manivannan, Goundamani, Chinni Jayanth
Roles Playback Singer
Rating65% 3.2981953.2981953.2981953.2981953.298195
Raja (Kunal) is from a poor family. Raja's dad is violent and an alcoholic. He spends the family's income on alcohol. Raja's family struggles to work hard everyday. Raja's mom requests him to move to Mumbai to start a new life. Raja approves his mom's request and moves to Mumbai to attend Ramachandra College.
Dil Se..
Dil Se.. (1998)
, 2h31
Directed by Mani Ratnam
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Films about terrorism, Rape in fiction, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala, Preity Zinta, Jiah Khan, Raghubir Yadav, Zohra Sehgal
Roles Playback Singer
Rating74% 3.748073.748073.748073.748073.74807
Amar Kant Varma (Shahrukh Khan) is a Program executive for All India Radio. He is dispatched from New Delhi to cover festivities in Northeast India. On his way there, during a rainy night, Amar stops at Haflong train station to catch Baraks Valley express, as the train runs late, Amar meets a mysterious woman by herself who asks him for a cup of tea. When he returns with the tea, he watches her board the next train with three male passengers. Later, Amar spots the same woman in Silchar. He attempts to talk to her but she says she cannot recall meeting him before. As part of his news reporting assignment, for the occasion of fifty years of Indian Independence, Amar interviews many citizens of Barak Valley, and an extremist leader, who claim that the reason behind human rights violations, and poverty in the region is due to Indian Government, and that the Liberationists do not wish to enter into any dialogue with the government, and further justify their resistance in Utthar Purv.
Daud
Daud (1997)

Directed by Ram Gopal Varma
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films, Road movies, Bollywood
Actors Sanjay Dutt, Urmila Matondkar, Paresh Rawal, Manoj Bajpayee, Vineeth, Neeraj Vora
Roles Playback Singer
Rating58% 2.9495852.9495852.9495852.9495852.949585
The affable Nandu (Sanjay Dutt), a small-time crook who is hired to deliver a mysterious package to a notorious criminal named Pinky (Paresh Rawal). Feeling that he's being cheated on his delivery fee, Nandu holds out for more money, and soon finds himself on the run from both the angry gangsters and the police, who have launched a massive manhunt. Nandu and Bhavani (Urmila Matondkar), the lovely cabaret dancer who's tagging along for the ride, assume the package contains gold; both are unpleasantly surprised when it turns out to be something deadlier: a nuclear bomb.
Minsara Kanavu, 2h33
Directed by RajivMenon kumar
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Prabhu Deva, Arvind Swamy, Kajol, Nassar, V K Ramasamy, Girish Karnad
Roles Playback Singer
Rating66% 3.3464753.3464753.3464753.3464753.346475
Priya Amal Raj (Kajol) loses her mother at a very young age. She is friendly, outspoken, sensitive, yet precocious.Young Priya is brought by her dad, Amal Raj (Girish Karnad) [who is a very rich old-styled clothing industrialist] to a christian residential convent to stay and study. Since her childhood, Priya is interested in singing, music and church.
Mr. Romeo
Mr. Romeo (1996)
, 2h42
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Prabhu Deva, Madhoobala Shah, Shilpa Shetty, Vadivelu, Vijayakumar, Vijayakumar
Roles Playback Singer
Rating55% 2.767472.767472.767472.767472.76747
Romeo lives a privileged life as a celebrity with his widowed mother, in Bangalore, India. He receives considerable assistance and encouragement from Raj Mohan to dance and sing. He meets and is attracted to Madhoo, who is also his fan. His mother meets with Madhoo's grandfather and both arrange their wedding. Then Romeo finds out that Raj Mohan has been stealing body organs, especially kidneys, from patients in the Satya Moorthy Hospital, and then getting them killed via bus accidents. He meets with Raj and warns him that he is going to expose him publicly. Before he could reveal their actibities Romeo is shot, taken and thrown off of a cliff. His friend, Prakash, takes the blame; he is arrested, tried in Court, found guilty, and sentenced to life imprisonment.