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Anil Kapoor is an Indian actor and producer who mainly appears in Bollywood films. He won a Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award his role in Yash Chopra`s drama Mashaal (1984).

Kapoor earned his first Filmfare Best Actor Award for his performance in N. Chandra`s Tezaab in 1988, and later for Indra Kumar`s Beta in 1992. Since then, he has starred in films including Virasat (1997), for which he won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance Biwi No.1 (1999) Taal (1999), for which he won his second Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award Pukar (2000), for which he won his first National Film Award for Best Actor No Entry (2005) and Welcome (2007).

Kapoor`s first role in an international film was in Danny Boyle`s 2008 Academy Award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, for which he shared the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. His performance in the eighth season of the action series 24 generated rave reviews from the American press. Globally, Anil Kapoor is one of the most recognised Indian actors.

Anil Kapoor was born into a Punjabi Khatri family in a chawl in Tilak Nagar, Mumbai, to a film producer Surinder Kapoor and his wife Nirmal. He attended Our Lady of Perpetual Succour High School - Chembur, in the Chembur suburb of Mumbai and then St. Xavier`s College, Mumbai. Kapoor`s elder brother, Boney Kapoor, is a producer while younger brother Sanjay Kapoor is also a well-known actor. Anil and Sanjay have never been in the same movie, as yet, but both have worked for elder brother Boney.

In 1984, he married Sunita Kapoor (née Bhambhani) and has two daughters and a son. Kapoor`s elder daughter is the actress Sonam Kapoor who starred in Saawariya alongside Ranbir Kapoor (distant relatives Anil Kapoor`s father Surinder Kapoor is cousin of Prithviraj Kapoor, who is the father of Raj Kapoor). Rhea Kapoor attended school in New York and is now a producer in Mumbai.

He is the brother-in-law of the actress Sridevi with whom he has starred in many films.

Kapoor made his Bollywood debut with Umesh Mehra`s Hamare Tumhare (1979) in a supporting role. After a few minor roles in films such as Hum Paanch (1980) and Shakti (1982), he got his first leading role in the 1983 Hindi film, Woh Saat Din and mastered an excellent performance which was absolutely natural and illumined every bit of innocence, subtlety and maturity as required by the numerous shades of his character. Kapoor later tried acting in Tollywood and Kollywood, and appeared in the Telugu film Vamsa Vriksham and Mani Ratnam`s Kannada debut film Pallavi Anu Pallavi (released in 1983, his first film in a leading role).

Next, followed a polished performance in Yash Chopra`s drama Mashaal (1984), where he held his own and came out as a surprise packet of the movie delivering one of his career-defining performances against the acting prowess of legendary Dilip Kumar in the role of a rough Tapori which incidentally signaled the homecoming of Tapori roles in Indian cinema, for which he won his first Filmfare Award in the Best Supporting Actor category. Kapoor`s 1985 release, Yudh (film) was an average hit. His sensitive portrayal of a middle class sports person in the 1985 film, Saaheb was extremely convincing and was a box office success.

In 1986, Kapoor played the role of a care free playboy in the hit Janbaaz, costarring Feroz Khan. His other release of 1986 Insaaf Ki Awaaz was a box office hit. In the same year Basu Chatterjee directed Chameli Ki Shaadi and he displayed his crackling flare in comedy.

Going on to deliver huge commercial success with films like Meri Jung (1985), a career-defining role of an angry young lawyer fighting for justice, which eventually established Kapoor`s credential as a mature actor and both audience and critics gave their thumbs up to his performance. Kapoor played a comic tapori in Karma (1986), the biggest hit of the year. Kapoor generated wide applause from audience of all walks of life for his title role in Shekhar Kapur`s sci-fi film Mr. India (1987), the biggest hit of the year. The film became one of his biggest box office hits and shot him to superstar status. Anil kapoor was equally impressive in Mahesh Bhatt directed film Thikana. In 1988, he was rewarded with his first Filmfare Best Actor Award for his rivetting performance in the hit film, Tezaab, the biggest blockbuster of 1988. Anil proved to be the only saving grace even in flops like Ram-Avtar. The following year he delivered more mega commercial and critical successes with Ram Lakhan (which became the second highest box office earner of 1989) and the audience went berserk with the song One Two Ka Four. In the highly acclaimed film Parinda, Kapoor played his role with conviction, and his biggest achievement was displaying the vulnerability of his character so perfectly. In Rakhwala, Kapoor played a tapori again and the film was declared a success. Kapoor excelled brilliantly in his eccentric portrayal of an autistic person in the 1989 hit, Eeshwar and this film proved his versatility as an actor.

The year 1990 saw him play a dual role, as twin brothers in the highly successful Kishen Kanhaiya and in the same year he further attained reasonable box office success with Ghar Ho To Aisa. Kapoor came up with a critically acclaimed performance in Awaargi. Many critics called that his best performance ever. This was followed by a restrained yet striking performance as a middle age man in Yash Chopra`s romantic drama Lamhe, a landmark film of Indian cinema and Yash Chopra`s best work to date. It was the first film in which he appeared without a moustache. Although the film was a box office failure in India, it proved to be a success overseas. Kapoor`s 1991 release, Benaam Badshaah was accorded above average status at the ticket window.


In 1992, Kapoor received his second Filmfare Best Actor Award for his hard-hitting performance in Indra Kumar`s Beta — the biggest blockbuster of the year — opposite Madhuri Dixit. Kapoor was highly impressive with his comic act in Khel and his comic timing was one of the highlights of the film. In 1993, Boney Kapoor`s much delayed mega-budget, Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja was a disaster at the box office and damaged Kapoor`s reputation as the industry`s biggest star at the time. The only major success in these years was Laadla with Sridevi, a film produced by Nitin Manmohan. Kapoor gave a splendid performance as a simpleton lover in the hit musical 1942: A Love Story. His 1995 release, Trimurti (film) was a box office disaster, though Kapoor`s performance was creditable. Kapoor came up with a decent performance in the average performer Gharwali Bharwali.


After a few box office failures, he had box office success with films like Loafer (1996),. In Judaai, Kapoor`s depiction of a loving husband twisted between his two wives was appreciated and this film fared well at the box office. Deewana Mastana (1997), Biwi No.1 (1999) and Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain (1999) were box office hits. Kapoor`s unusual characterization of a zealous, crooked musical superstar in Taal (1999) shocked both audience and critics alike. He also won rave reviews for his superb performance in Virasat, a remake of the Tamil film, Thevar Magan (1992), in which Kamal Hassan had played Kapoor`s role. He also starred in the unsuccessful Jhooth Bole Kauwa Kaate, which was legendary filmmaker Hrishikesh Mukherji`s last commercial release, along with Juhi Chawla. He shaved his moustache once again for the film, in the second half, where he played actor Sajid Khan`s wife and his delightful comic timing was a real treat to watch.


Kapoor`s first release of 2000 was Bulandi (2000 film), in which he played a double role, showing restraint and maturity as the elder Thakur. He won his first National Film Award in the Best Actor category for his role in Rajkumar Santoshi`s critically acclaimed Pukar in 2000. Kapoor again tasted critical and commercial success with Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai in 2000. Kapoor stole the show as Rajeev in the much delayed, Karobaar, a film directed by Rakesh Roshan, where Kapoor’s dialogue delivery was appreciated. He delivered a powerhouse performance in Shanker`s Nayak which is considered to be his best performance by many.


In 2002, Kapoor gave an excellent performance in the role of a fat man in Badhaai Ho Badhaai, a takeoff from the Hollywood hit, Nutty Professor. He notched up yet another glorious performance in the Indra Kumar directed film Rishtey. In Om Jai Jagadish, he gave an amazing performance. Kapoor shared the screen with Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan for the first time in Armaan, and underplayed his character of a neurosurgeon superbly.


In his 2003 release, Calcutta Mail, he delivered one of his best performances. His character was defined with ample scope to perform in this screenplay-driven performance and in spite of the strong supporting cast, this really came out as Kapoor´s one-man show. He ignited the silver screen with an authoritative performance in Musafir. Kapoor gave an incredibly restrained performance as the stricken husband in the thriller My Wife`s Murder, which he also produced. Anees Bazmee`s super-hit comedy No Entry (2005), followed for Kapoor that year. The film went on to become the highest grossing film of the year.


Kapoor played a grey character with finesse in the 2005 thriller, Chocolate. Anil`s first release of 2007 Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute to Love was a box office hit in overseas though a flop in India. Anees Bazmee`s Welcome, which released on 21 December 2007 and was declared the biggest success of the year. Kapoor`s understated performance in Subhash Ghai`s Black and White was highly lauded. His first release in 2008, Abbas Mustan`s thriller, Race became a box office hit. Vijay Krishna Acharya`s, Tashan marked Anil`s comeback to Yash Raj Films but failed to do well at the box office.


His most recent films were his first English-language film, Slumdog Millionaire, which was released on 12 November 2008, and Yuvvraaj, which was released on 21 November 2008. Yuvvraaj, with Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif in the lead roles, failed to do well at the box office. On the other hand, Slumdog Millionaire has won a number of international awards and received rave reviews from critics across the globe, costing only US $15 million to produce, but pulling in more than $352 million worldwide. In January 2009, he attended the 66th Golden Globe Awards ceremony along with the team of Slumdog Millionaire, which won four Golden Globe Awards. Kapoor also received a nomination for Best Ensemble at the Black Reel Awards of 2008 and has won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.


In 2010, Kapoor starred in the eighth season of the American television series 24, portraying Omar Hassan, President of the fictional Islamic Republic of Kamistan. In October of that year he was cast to play a villain in both Mission: Impossible IV and Power.


In 2002, Kapoor produced his first film, the comedy Badhaai Ho Badhaai, in which he also starred in. It was followed by My Wife`s Murder (2005), and Gandhi, My Father. Gandhi, My Father focuses on the relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and his son Harilal Gandhi (2007) and was awarded the National Film Award - Special Jury Award / Special Mention (Feature Film). He also produced the movie Shortkut: The con is on starring Akshaye Khanna and Arshad Warsi.  

Avinash is an Indian actor who stars predominantly in South Indian language films and notably in the Kannada, Telugu and Tamil film industries.

Avinash married lawyer-turned-actress Malavika Avinash, who was his co-star in the soap opera Mayamriga, in 2001.

Anandan Sivamani (born 1 December 1959), popularly known as Sivamani, is a percussionist based in India. He plays many instruments including drums, octoban, darbuka, udukai, and kanjira. He performed drumming during the IPL Championships in 2008 and 2010. He is affiliated with the Chennai Super Kings team, but gained recognition through his role as A. R. Rahman's lead percussionist.


Sivamani is the son of S. M. Anandan, a Chennai-based percussionist. He began drumming at the age of seven. Sivamani started his musical career at the age of 11, and later shifted to Mumbai. He was inspired by Noel Grant and Billy Cobham. He has played for M.S.Viswanathan, Illayaraja, A R Rahman and others. In 1990, he shared the stage with Billy Cobham at Mumbai's Rang Bhavan. He has stated that S. P. Balasubrahmanyam is his godfather.


Sivamani's earliest experiments with music were with Carnatic maestros including Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan, T. V. Gopalakrishnan, Valliyapatti Subramaniam and Pazhanivel, and L. Shankar. The tabla player Zakir Hussain invited him[when?] to share the stage with himself and Trilok Gurtu at a fusion concert in Mumbai. Sivamani has since collaborated with several musicians including Louis Banks. He has done world tours with A. R. Rahman[4] and collaborated with him for Bombay Dreams. He has also been a part of a musical group called Shraddha which comprises Shankar Mahadevan, Hariharan, U. Srinivas and Loy Mendonsa.


Shivamani has a band called "Asia Electrik" with Niladri Kumar, Louiz Banks and Ravi Chari. He also plays at another world music band named "Silk & Shrada."


Sivamani has played drums for many film score composers hailing from Tamil Nadu. He has played drums for many Indian films including Roja, Rang De Basanti,Swades, Taal, Lagaan, Dil Se.., Guru,Kabul Express and Rockstar . Some of the songs that he has contributed to include "Kadhal Rojave," "Pudhu Vellai Malai" Chaiya Chaiya and Nadaan Parinde.


Sivamani has also acted in 2 Telugu films: Padamati Sandhya Ragam and Sirivennela .


Sivamani has performed in Dubai, Moscow, New York, Doha and Toronto. During the Mumbai Festival 2005, Coca-Cola India invited him to perform at the Limca Fresh Face 2005 event, where he created melody from Limca bottles.He has also worked on Galli Galli Sim Sim, an educational series on Pogo and Cartoon Network.


Sivamani is the recipient of Kalaimamani award announced by the Tamil Nadu Government in 2009.

Srinivas or Srini as he is fondly referred to is an award-winning playback singer who has sung over 2000 songs in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. He is also a music composer.


Srinivas was born in Ambasamudram, Tamil Nadu, though his family moved and has since then lived his entire childhood in Thiruvananthapuram. He started listening to Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, KV Narayanaswamy and others through his aunt Mrs. Padma Narayanan, his guru in music. The soul-stirring magic of Kishore Kumar-R.D.Burman deeply influenced him in his childhood days.


He went to complete his B.Tech from Bombay University, Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT, now known as ICT); during which he represented his university in youth festivals. After pursuing his career as a chemical engineer and a marketing professional for 10 years, his passion for music got the better of him, and did very well in that field.


In 1983, Srinivas approached music director Vidyasagar, who was at the help of Tamil film music. He was offered the opportunity to work with Vidyasagar, but things did not work out, as he was suffering from severe throat infection that day.

In 1992, the soundtrack of Mani Ratnam's Tamil film Roja reignited his dreams of playback singing. Mani Ratnam introduced composer A. R. Rahman with this movie, who then went on to change the music scene in the whole Indian film industry. Encouraged by the use of fresh voices in Roja, Srinivas approached Rahman. Rahman took a liking to his rendition of Mehdi Hassan's ghazals and offered him work at Chennai.


In 1994, Srinivas shifted base to Chennai and started lending his voice to advertisement jingles and devotional albums.


His first foray into playback singing began with the song "Sorgam Enbathu Namakku" with Swarnalatha from the movie Nammavar, composed by Mahesh. It went on to became a runaway hit.Only in 1996 did he gained recognition with the song "Maana Madurai" from A. R. Rahman's Minsaara Kanavu. Then came "En Uyire" in Mani Ratnam's Uyire.. (the Tamil version of Dil Se..). This Rahman composition catapulted Srinivas into fame.

Pandiarajan is an actor who had played leading roles in many humorous Tamil films and currently plays supporting and comedy roles.

Pandiarajan was born to Rathnam and Sulochana in Saidapet, Chennai. He has two sisters namely, Maheshwari & Geetha. He is married to Vasuki in 1986, daughter of Director, Producer, and Poet Avinasi Mani. He has three sons, Prithvi Rajan, Pallavarajan and Premrajan.

Pandiarajan wanted to act in films. But due to his height and appearance he decided to join as an assistant director. He joined Thamizisai College where he had learnt violin and got his diploma as "Isai Selvam" in 1977. After that he had joined writer Thooyavan as an office assistant. Here he met director K. Bhagyaraj and later joined him as an assistant director.

He had become his associate director in Darling Darling Darling and worked till the discussion of Munthanai Mudichu. Pandiarajan told the story of the film kanniraasi to Sivaji ganesan's brother shanmugam, he listened to the story and accepted it, though financiers refused to buy, the film was successful at the box-office.

His first directorial venture was Kanni Rasi in 1985 starring Prabhu and Revathi. He directed and made his debut as a hero in Aan Paavam. Till now, he had directed nine films, including Kaivantha Kalai, Doubles where he directed prabhudeva in the lead role and acted in some 90 Tamil films and one Malayalam hit Kathavasheshan, where he acted with Dilip. Recently, he is acting in a TV serial called Mama Maaple in Sun TV. His English short film called Help has been nominated at the ArtDeco Film Festival 2011, at São Paulo, in Brazil. ‘Help' is Pandiarajan's first short film in English.

Akkineni Nagarjuna (born 29 August 1959) is an Indian film actor, producer and television presenter who works primarily in the Telugu Cinema, and Television. He has acted in over ninety films as an actor in a lead, supporting and cameo roles, including Bollywood and Tamil films. He has received two National Film Awards, nine state Nandi Awards and three Filmfare Awards South. He received critical reception for his performance in biographical and historical films.

He enacted the role of 15th century composer Annamacharya in the 1997 film Annamayya; as Yavakri (the son of the ascetic Bharadwaja) in the 2002 film Agni Varsha; as Major Padmapani Acharya in the 2003 war film, LOC Kargil; as 17th-century composer Kancherla Gopanna in the 2006 film Sri Ramadasu; as Sai Baba of Shirdi in the 2012 film Shirdi Sai; and as Chandaludu (Lord Siva in disguise) in the 2013 film Jagadguru Adi Sankara.

In 1989, he was starred in the Maniratnam directed Romantic drama film, Geetanjali, which won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. In the same year, he acted in Siva, an action blockbuster directed by Ram Gopal Varma, premiered at the 13th International Film Festival of India. In 1990, he subsequently made his Bollywood debut with the Hindi remake of the same film titled Shiva, and tasted success. In 1997, he received the National Film Award for producing Ninne Pelladata. In 1998, He received the National Film Award-Special Mention for his performance in the historical film Annamayya.

In 2013, he has represented Cinema of South India at the Delhi Film Festival's 100 Years of Indian Cinema's celebration, alongside Ramesh Sippy and Vishal Bharadwaj from Bollywood. In 1995, He ventured into film production, with a production unit operating in Seychelles, and was a co-director of an Emmy Award-winning film animation company in Michigan, U.S. Along with his brother, Akkineni Venkat, Nagarjuna is the co-owner of the Production company, Annapurna Studios and is the president of the non-profit film school Annapurna International School of Film and Media based in Hyderabad.

Suman is an Indian film actor from Karnataka, India. However, known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema, known for essaying the roles of mythological characters like, Venkateswara, Shiva and Rama in Telugu, Suman has also starred in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada films.  Recently, he has enacted the historic character Pazhayamveedan Chandhu in the biopic Malayalam film, Pazhassi Raja.

Suman was born to a Famous Billawa family in Mangalore, on 28 August 1959 and later moved to Chennai. He did his schooling from The Besant Theosophical High School, Chennai and joined the Pachayappas College for his B.A. in English Literature. His mother, (Late) Kesari Chandra, was the Principal of the Ethiraj College for women in Chennai. His father, Susheel Chandra, worked for I.O.C. Chennai. Suman learnt Music and Sanskrit from Sri. H.A.S. Sashtri.

He was married to Sirisha, grand daughter of Telugu writer D. V. Narasaraju. They have a daughter, Akilaja Prathyusha. Suman is an accomplished 6th Dan, Black Belt in Karate, from Shotokan Karate Association of Japan and Martial Arts of Kerala. He has also serves as the Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh Karate Association.

Suman started his film career as a police officer in Tamil movie Neechal Kulam (1977) produced by T.R.Rammanna. Then he gave a power packed performance in the remake of classic Hindi movie Deewar made into Tamil as Thee(1981). He played a sincere police officer with the upcoming superstar rajinikanth. In more than 3 decades, he acted more than 150 films as a hero in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and English language films. After a break, he returned to acting by playing the villain in Kollywood movies Sivaji and Kuruvi. He was casted as the main antagonist, in the Malayalam movie Sagar Alias Jacky.

Suman started his career as a Sensei (Master) in Karate. His family friend Mr. Kittu introduced him to a Tamil producer. He thus started off his film career in the year 1977.In his final year he acted in his first Tamil movie "Neechal kulam" produced by well-known producer in Tamil Nadu Late Sri.T.R.Rammanna. His first role was that of a Police officer. Today, Suman has to his credit more than 250 films, in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada.

He is also the first actor from Telugu Film Industry to act in a Hollywood movie--"Death And Taxis" produced by Clear Water Pictures and directed by Kevin Mukherji. He has been rechristened as Kevin Sumunt in this movie.

Zarina Wahab is an Indian actress and former model, who was critically acclaimed for starring roles, such as in Chit Chor and Gopal Krishna in the 1970s. She has also appeared in Malayalam films including the critically acclaimed Madanolsavam, Chamaram, Palangal and Adaminte Makan Abu.

Wahab was born into an Andhra Muslim family in Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh. She is fluent in Telugu (her mother tongue), Urdu, Hindi and English. She was trained at Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune.  Wahab has two sisters and one brother.

After receiving negative feedback about her appearance from film producer Raj Kapoor, Wahab worked on her appearance and attended film parties and events. She eventually got noticed and was cast in films.  She was usually cast as the middle-class, natural beauty. Wahab had a major hit film in Basu Chatterjee's Chit Chor (1976). She earned a Filmfare nomination as Best Actress for her role in Gharonda (1977).
She has acted in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam films.

Wahab made a comeback to Malayalam films with Calendar, in 2009. She appeared in My Name Is Khan as the mother of Rizwan Khan (Shah Rukh Khan's character).Wahab currently plays older roles in television serials.

Wahab met actor Aditya Pancholi on the sets of Kalank Ka Tika. Pancholi is 6 years her junior. They married in 1986 and have a daughter, Sana and son Suraj. News of their turbulent marriage, her husband's temper and rumors of infidelity have been in the gossip columns.  Wahab's daughter is an actress.  Her son, Suraj, was arrested in June, 2013, for aiding and abetting the suicide of his girlfriend, Jiah Khan.

Neena Gupta is an Indian actress born on July 4, 1959 in Delhi to R. N. Gupta. As a child, she attended the Lawrence School of Sanawar and got her formal training in acting from National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi. She has craved a niche of herself by working in theatre, non-commercial Indian films and in the international platform.

After acquiring a rooted experience in Indian theatres, Neena marked her big screen debut with 'Yeh Nazdeekiyan' in 1982. Same year she got a chance to work in an international Academy Award winning film 'Gandhi', alongside Sir Ben Kingsley. She holds the record of working in critically acclaimed films like 'Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro', 'Mandi' and 'Utsav' to name a few. While, her international projects includes film 'The Deceivers', 'In Custody' and 'Cotton Mary'. She dazzled the screen with the controversial song "Choli Ke Peeche" matching her steps with Madhuri Dixit in the film 'Khalnayak'.

Neena holds the phenomenal career in Television too, where she debuted with 'Khandaan' and further she enlightened the screen with her extra ordinary character performances in the serials 'Mirza Galib', 'Bhaarat Ek Khoj', 'Dard', 'Gumrah', 'Saans', 'Saat Phere', 'Meri Biwi Ka Jawab Nahi', 'Kitni Mohabbat Hai', 'Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi' and 'Ladies Special'. She always played the role of a strong headed woman which readily suits her real life personality too. She is a successful director of TV serials 'Saans', 'Ans Siski' and 'Kyunn Hota Hai Pyaar'. She also owns a production house named "Sahaj Production" with her NSD mate-actor Rajendra Gupta.

Unlike those typical 1980s ladies, Neena was much ahead of her time. She lived her life on her own terms and never bended in front of the society. This can rightly be concluded by her headline-making relationship with former West Indian cricketer Vivian Richards, with whom she got a daughter Masaba Gupta. Though she was highly criticized for her deed yet she successfully overcame it and raised her daughter being a single mother. Later she was rumored of being in relationships with Alok Nath and Sarang Dev. In 2008, she got married to a Delhi based Chartered Accountant Vivek Mehra.

Suresh Gopinathan Nair (born 26 June 1959) often credited as Suresh Gopi is a national award winning Indian film actor who works mainly in Malayalam cinema, he is famous for his roles in police dramas. He is noted for his leading roles as much as his character roles. He is also famous for his philanthropic efforts.He was born in Kollam into a Hindu family to Gnanalekshmi and Gopinathan Pillai.He graduated with a BSc in Zoology and M.A in English literature from Fatima Mata National College in Kollam.He is married to Radhika, the granddaughter of late actress Aranmula Ponnamma, and has five children: Lekshmi (deceased in a traffic accident at the age of two in 1992), Gokul, Bhagya, Bhaavni, and Madhav.