Nilambur Ayisha

Nilambur Ayisha

Birth : , Nilambur, Kerala,India

History

Nilambur Ayisha is an Indian actress in Malayalam movies. She was one a supporting actress in late 1960s and 1970s in Malayalam movies. She has acted in more than 50 movies. She was born at Nilambur and was a theatre artist before becoming a cine artist. She made her film debut with Kandam Becha Kottu, the first colour film in Malayalam, in 1961. She suffered many hardships in her early years of drama acting. It was Nilambur Aysha's move against the opposition of Muslim orthodoxy that paved the way for several other Muslim women to take up acting and singing. Zeenath was one of the actresses she inspired

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Nilambur Ayisha

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Wonder Women
Mini's Grandmother
A diverse group of six pregnant women, who are on their way to becoming mothers but are plagued by misconceptions, confusion, and questions about pregnancy and childbirth. In their quest to know it all, they discover their identities and answers to their deep-seated problems.
Mamangam
Based on the medieval fair called Mamankam, which was celebrated every 12 years between 800 AD and 1755 AD, the story of the film is supposedly about a brave warrior of Malabar and his loyal soldiers.
Virus
Enquiry Women in Medical College
A real life account of the deadly Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, and the courageous fight put on by several individuals which helped to contain the epidemic.
Body Deep
Gulikan, born and brought up as a boy in a tribal settlement, has the body and soul of a girl. Dark skinned, fragile, introvert and vulnerable, he struggles to balance his life working as a coolie in the city. Displaced by drought, poverty and addiction, humiliated and abused in a racist society, his tribe is on the run. Udalaazham, the story of a tribal transgender, discusses how color of the skin, not the depth of one’s heart is an approved identity in a ruthless and cold blooded society.
Koode
Velyammachi
After years of being away in Dubai, Joshua returns for his sister's funeral. But it gets weird when he starts seeing his beloved sister's spirit.
Ka Bodyscapes
Kadisumma
Three young people—Haris, a gay painter; Vishnu, a rural kabaddi player and their friend Sia, an activist who refuses to conform to dominant norms of femininity—struggle to find space and happiness in a conservative Indian city.
Alif
Ummakunju
Set in a remote village in Malabar, the film portrays the struggles of a young Muslim woman and her family who is ostracised by society for questioning a religious speech
Koothara
Thufail's mother
Three engineering students whose life takes a twist after meeting a mysterious man who teaches them the real meaning of life.
Balyakalasakhi
Jinnumma
Born to rich parents, Majeed falls in love with his not-so-affluent neighbor Suhra. After her father's death, when Suhra struggles to make both ends meet, Majeed pleads with his father to sponsor her education. Refused, he wanders off to distant lands.
Ms. Lekha Tharoor Kaanunnathu
Lekha Tharoor (Meera Jasmine) is an intelligent woman with a breadth of knowledge about everything who anchors a popular TV show of her own. She was blinded at a young age in an accident involving firecrackers. She gets her sight back after getting a transplant. However post the operation she starts getting strange visions which unfortunately makes the people around her think that she lost her mind.
Passenger
Nabisa Umma
The film narrates how two guys, Sathyanath and Adv. Nandan Menon, who never had anything to do with one another, come into each others lives and what all things happen consequently.
Shakespeare M.A. Malayalam
Mentally challenged man's mother
Pavithran (Jayasurya) is a story writer for the stage plays of Jayabharathy Theaters. Pavithran is also known as 'Shakespeare' because he of his writing abilities. Kottayam Gopalan (Kalabhavan Mani), who runs Jayabharathy Theaters, likes him because all his scripts are super hit and always earn him awards. Once Gopalan makes Pavithran go to a remote village to write a play based on the life of the villagers there. Pavithran comes across Alli, a young country girl who is having a debtful life. Alli impresses him as a character and he sets out seeking to know her story.
Paradesi
Sainu
The film talks the issue of Indian citizens who left the country before independence in search of job, mostly to Arabia, and happened to reach Pakistan, and then when returned to the homeland, happened to be holding a Pakistani passport, and now is forced by the Indian authorities to leave the nation to Pakistan, which even the Pakistani authorities won't allow.
Kaiyoppu
Beeyathu
A amateur writer who seems to have nothing to live for, finds himself as the only hope of three people.
Daivanamathil
After the demolition of the Babri Masjid, Anwar, a student of Aligarh Muslim University, becomes a fundamentalist and ends up in prison. His wife Sameera yearns for him be the soft and loving husband that he once was. But what happens when he is out of jail?
Chandrolsavam
Indu's mother
You can't always turn back time. Circumstances force Sreehari (Mohanlal) to leave his village. He returns after several years as a successful Paris-based musician. While he tries to catch up on the time he has lost away from his village, he finds that things have changed - his former sweetheart is now married to someone else.
Ammakilikkoodu
Saranalayam is an old-age home run by Eradi. He appoints Vivek as the new manager to help him evict the inmates so that he can sell it.
Kaathirunna Nimisham
Kaathirunna Nimisham is a 1978 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Baby. The film stars Jayan, Jayabharathi, Kamal Haasan, MG Soman and Sukumaran in the lead roles. The film has musical score by M. K. Arjunan.
Olavum Theeravum
Ayisha
Baputty goes to his friend Abdu's house after his death to support his family and falls for Nabeesa, Abdu's sister. However, Nabeesa's greedy mother tries to get her close to the rich Kunjali.
Chemmeen
Karutthamma, the daughter of a Hindu fisherman, falls in love with a Muslim fish trader. However, social prejudices seem to ruin their love life and invite the wrath of their communities.
Subaidha
Subaidha's mother
Ahmed marry Subaida. On the way back home, Ahmed meets an accident and becomes unconscious.
Kandam Becha Kottu
Bethatha
The film focused mainly on the evil of dowry system which was rampant in the Muslim community of Kerala