Unni Menon

Unni Menon

Birth : 1957-12-02, Palakkad, Kerala, India

History

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 popular songs from films like Karuththamma (1994) and Minsaara Kanavu (1997).

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Unni Menon

Movies

Hridayam
Playback Singer
Arun and Darshana are first-year engineering students and they fall in love soon after their college begins. And just as how things work generally in teenage, the road ahead isn't too easy for them. Life offers many twists and turns that they least expect.
Beautiful
Peter
Beautiful is a 2011 Indian Malayalam musical drama thriller film written by Anoop Menon and directed by V. K. Prakash. The film stars Jayasurya, Anoop Menon and Meghana Raj in the lead roles. The cinematography was by Jomon T. John and the music was composed by Ratheesh Vegha. It tells the story about the intense bonding of two friends, one quadriplegic and other a musician. The film released on 2 December 2011 to predominantly positive reviews
Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu
Playback Singer
DCP Raghavan sets off on the trail of the killers of Rani, the daughter of a police officer. Following this, many more murders take place, leading him to New York to capture the maniac killer.
Oru Kalluriyin Kathai
Playback Singer
After graduating, a young man and a girl, who are in love with each other, promise to meet again after five years in their college campus. When he does show up on the set day, his friends are shocked to see that he has completely changed.
Thennavan
Playback Singer
Thennavan, a successful bureaucrat, is appointed as the Chief Election Commissioner of the country by the Prime Minister himself. But his radical plan to fix the electoral system goes wrong.
Priyamaana Thozhi
Playback Singer
Two childhood best friends, who does not share any love interest, get married to two other people. But, problem arises when his wife doubts their friendship and his friend's husband's father asks him break their friendship.
Sthithi
Vivek
Vivek and Vani are Kerala Government 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.
Rhythm
Playback Singer
Karthikeyan, a photo editor in Mumbai, is a widower whose parents wish to see him settled and happy. Chitra, a widow with a son, gives them hope, unaware that their pasts are intertwined.
Kadhalar Dhinam
Playback Singer
Two college students, the slum child Raja and the dean's daughter Roja, chat with each other over the Internet and fall in love. However, Roja is engaged and Raja cannot bear to disrespect her father, to whom he owes his livelihood.
Dil Se..
Playback Singer
Journalist Amar falls for a mysterious woman on an assignment, but she does not reciprocate his feelings. However, when Amar is about to get married, the woman shows up at his doorstep asking for help.
Daud
Playback Singer
A notorious gangster asks a career thief by the name of Nandu to steal a package worth over one crore rupees for a fee.
Minsara Kanavu
Playback Singer
Priya decides that she wants to be a nun, much to the horror of her father and Thomas, the boy who is in love with her. Thomas decides to enlist the help of Deva to change her mind.
Mr. Romeo
Playback Singer
Romeo lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bangalore, India, along with his widowed mother. He had received considerable assistance and encouragement from Raj Mohan to dance and sing, and as a result gets very popular with young women. He meets and is attracted to Madhu, who is also his fan. His mother meets with Madhu's grandfather and both arrange their wedding. Then Romeo finds out that Raj Mohan has been stealing body parts, 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 that Romeo is shot, taken by ambulance, and thrown off of a cliff.
Karuththamma
Playback Singer
A father blames his miseries on the birth of his third daughter, but soon understands her true value after he becomes paralyzed.
Duet
Playback Singer
Two musical brothers look for love, only to have their quest end in tragedy for one.
Thiruda Thiruda
Playback Singer
An Inspector is assigned to track down a large sum of stolen money. His investigations lead him to a couple of small time crooks, a village belle, a murder, an absconding suspect, and an international drug dealer.
Pudhiya Mugam
Playback Singer
An assassin who undergoes plastic surgery and becomes a member of the Indian Army, and a hero for them while revisiting his past.
Roja
Playback Singer
Roja lives in a Tamil village, and her sister is about to marry a man from the city, who decides to marry Roja instead and gets a job assignment in Kashmir, where some militants decide to kidnap them.
Shyama
Playback Singer
Viswanathan, a famous director, is haunted by the death of his wife and a young man whom he accidentally hit while driving. Later he meets Shyama, the daughter of his friend, still struggling with the death of her boyfriend, the man whom Viswanathan had killed.
Angadikkappurathu
Playback Singer
Itha Innu Muthal
Playback Singer
Widowed Nair, who owns a firm, lived with his only daughter, Sindhu. Nair's nephew, Gopi eyes to marry Sindhu. After knowing Gopi's intentions, Sindhu elopes with her lover Shankar.
Kolakkomaban
Lyricist
Aadhipathyam
Playback Singer
Guru Dakshina
Playback Singer
After rejection from Valli, an uneducated Kannan vows to gain literacy and win over Valli's love. Issues evolve when people misunderstand Kannan's relationship with his teacher Devaki.
Bhookambam
Playback Singer
Thenum Vayambum
Playback Singer
Sridevi, the new teacher of a boarding school, has to deal with Sunil, a difficult student and the only son of Menon, a widower.