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Shaji Neelakantan Karun (born 1 January 1952) is a National Award-winning Indian film director and cinematographer. His debut film Piravi (1988) won the Caméra d'Or - Mention d'honneur at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. He was the Premiere Chairman of the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, the first academy for film and TV in India and was also the executive chairman of International
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Kalaranjini is an Indian actress and classical dancer who started her career in the early 1980s. She is the elder sister of actress Urvashi and actress Kalpana. She was a successful heroine of the 1980s and has lately been appearing in Television serials including Daya, Velankanni Mathavu, Devimahatymam, Kumkumappoovu etc. Kalaranjini was born to Theater artists Chavara V.P. Nair and
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R. Sankar (1909–1972) was the third Chief Minister of Kerala from 1962 to 1964. He was also the Deputy Chief Minister of the State from 1960 to 1962. Sankar apart as a politician is known as a statesman, administrator, orator, educationist, writer and editor. Early life He was born to Raman and Kunjaliamma on April 30, 1909
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C. Kesavan (23 May 1891 – 7 July 1969) was the Chief Minister of Travancore-Cochin during 1950–1952. He was born in an Ezhava family in 1891 in the village of Mayyanad, near to Kollam in the then princely state of Travancore. Kesavan was influenced by the work of Padmanabhan Palpu, the social reform campaigner who was a member of the backward Ezhava community and
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Kollam G. K. Pillai was an Indian film actor in Malayalam cinema. He acted in more than 50 films. He handled character roles and comedy roles during the 1970s and 1980s. He died on 30 January 2016 Career He was a theater artist turned movie actor. He entered into the field of
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Kollam Kanjaveli Kuttilazhikathu Thulasidharan Nair is an actor in Malayalam cinema who is better known as Kollam Thulasi relating the name of his birthplace Kollam to his first name as customary in some parts of Kerala. His first appearance was in Ezhuthappurangal (1987). He is well known for his unique
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Thangal Kunju Musaliar was born into a middle-class family in Kollam on 12 January 1897. His ancestry can be traced back to Malik Bin Deenar, the legendary Islamic missionary who came to India in the 8th Century. The name Thangal Kunju Musaliar conjures up memories of an era when the area that was eventually to become Kerala State
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