K. J. Yesudas
出生 : 1940-01-10, Ernakulam, Kerala, India
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Kattassery Joseph Yesudas is an Indian Carnatic musician and film playback singer.
Yesudas sings Indian classical, devotional and cinematic songs. He has recorded more than 50,000 songs in a number of Indian languages as well as Russian, Arabic, Latin and English during a career spanning more than five decades. He has performed in most Indian languages except Assamese, Konkani and Kashmiri. He also composed a number of Malayalam film songs in the 1970s and 1980s. Yesudas is fondly called Gana Gandharvan (The Celestial Singer). He is considered to be a cultural icon of the Malayalam language - as well as of its ethnic group spread across the world - due largely to the fact that his songs have been profoundly ingrained into the minds of Malayalam speaking people for five decades.
Yesudas has won the National Award for the Best Male Playback Singer seven times, the Filmfare Awards five times, and the State Award for the Best Playback Singer forty-three times, which consists of awards by the state governments of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and West Bengal. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1975, the Padma Bhushan in 2002, and the Padma Vibhushan (second-highest civilian award) in 2017 by the Government of India for his contributions towards the arts. In 2011 Yesudas was honoured with the CNN-IBN outstanding achievement award having recorded over 20,000 songs in a five-decade career. In 2006, he sang 16 film songs in four South Indian languages on the same day at AVM Studio, Chennai
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A pregnant woman's baby is stolen from her womb. Can a cop find the culprits behind such a heinous crime?
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Simple yet smart, sexagenarian Keshu has a loving family and a driving school to call his own. Everything's perfect until he wins a lottery worth crores.
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ADGP Mathew Manjooran, returns to work after a seven-month sabbatical, only to take voluntary retirement. His last day has him investigating a case involving triple murder, including a police officer. Soon a pattern emerges and each clue also links Mathew. How is the veteran police officer tied to the murders and who is the real villain?
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Murugan, with his tools and expertise, protects Puliyoor's villagers from deadly tiger attacks. However, Daddy, an illegal drugs dealer, takes advantage of Murugan's innocence and wrongly frames him.
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Biju is an honest policeman who fights the injustice head-on. In his pursuit to keep things under control and clean, he encounters a series of events and cases which test his authority, honesty and integrity. With a week to his wedding, what ensues is a heartfelt story of a cop sans the cinematic hype.
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An elderly couple live by themselves while their children are settled abroad; they take each day as special and enjoy their life.
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Road journey of two people, a mentally challenged adult and an eight-year-old schoolboy, both in search of their respective mothers.
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Madhu aka Madhavan (Jayaram) is a successful playback singer. Chandramathi (Urvashi) is his illiterate, rustic, betel-chewing wife with a bad habit of spitting in wrong places, and they have four children. It can be described as incompatible matrimony but still a happy one. Madhu loves his wife even though they are out of sync because she has brought him luck. Here enters Lekha (Mamta Mohandas), a sophisticated urban model-cum-singer, who finds a place in the hearts of all the family members. Chandramathi thinks Lekha will be the perfect wife for her husband and a good mother for her children.
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Home Minister Nateshan tries to molest Nandini the government servant, who files a criminal case against him (a throw-back on the Neelalohidadasan vs. Nalini Netto case?). In the mean time her son Manikuttan becomes the college champion and is scheduled to receive the trophy from the Chief Minister. As chance would have it, it is the Home Minister who turns up to give away the trophy. In the course of his speech he insults Nandini. Provoked by his words, Manikuttan assaults the minister and is arrested, but cannot be traced after that
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A minister's secretary is killed in an explosion. Later, the minister gets killed in a hospital while under the medical supervision of a doctor who is the son of the deceased secretary.
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Ram is falsely charged for killing his mother. His neigbours are also called for interrogation. Everyone's effort leads to tracking down the real killer.
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Jalolsavam is a 2004 Malayalam-language Indian feature film directed by Sibi Malayil, starring Kunchacko Boban and Navya Nair in lead roles.
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Kunjoonju, Deepu and Ashtamurthy are studying hotel management at Pondichery. Kunjoonju is a 'Kanjirappally Achayan' who is always after girls. But his 'thrill' for a girl will end the moment he finds that she is interested in him. Abbas ,the trio's friend, arranges the top floor of a house for them to stay. The house is owned by Sophy and she she stays there with her two daughters Kamala and Padma. All three guys fall for Kamala, but Kunjunju and Deepu joins together and push Ashtamurthy out of the race by making him the 'Rakhi Brother' of Kamala. Kamala knows that Kunjunju is a flirt and so she tries to keep away from him. Deepu never tells about his love to Kamala or to Kunjunju, but Ashtamurthy knows about it. Kunjunju and Deepu falls apart after a fight and Ashtamurthy brings them together. The story takes a turn, when Sophy dies and the sisters are left alone
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Satyapratapan and Kuruvila are chronic bachelors. SP's sister Sandhya lives as a paying guest in their neighbourhood. Problems begin when Mukesh and Harishree Ashokan join Mammootty and Rambha joins Sandhya.
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Nammal is another campus movie from Kamal after Niram. What is different this time is Kamal introduces new faces Siddharth and Jishnu. Kamal provides glimpses of the new campus with adventure in his movie with these debutants. Snehalatha (Suhasini) takes charge as the Principal in a college where Shyam (Siddharth) and Sivan (Jishnu) are the heroes. Shyam and Sivan are fun filled characters as well as naughty. Aparna (Renuka Menon) is teased and ragged by the duo, who happens to be the daughter of Principal's friend. Aparna complaints and Snehalatha takes action against Shyam and Shivan. Soon to her surpurise she discovers that Shyam and Shivan are orphans, hardworking and their guardian is a priest (Balachandra Menon).
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Balamani is the housemaid looking after Unni Amma. There are three more housemaids in the house but it is Balamani's duty to look after them too. Balamani is a devotee of Guruvayoorappan (Lord Krishna of Guruvayoor). But she could never visit the Guruvayoor temple, though her house is very near to the temple. Unni Amma's grandson Manu comes to spend a couple of weeks with Unni Amma before he goes to USA. Manu and Balamani fall in love but the whole family is against their union. Will Balamani's friend Guruvayoorappan (Lord Krishna of Guruvayoor) come to their help..?
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Kaiyethum Doorath movie tells a flashback when Sachin (Shanu) is on his way to attend his lover's Sushma (Nikitha) marriage as he tells his past to the co-passengers on a ferryboat who gets hooked on to his love story. What happens at the marriage forms the interesting twist in this love story.
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Solomon was practically raised by his teachers Anna and Mari. He mysteriously shows up one day years later when they are both retired in a hill-station, offering to live with them and take care of their affairs. The teachers are elated, and Solomon quickly works his magic to liven up things, in the process starting a little romance with the teachers' nurse . Unfortunately, a turn of events brings out the real reason behind Solomon's sudden migration to the hills.
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Royal Circus, owned by Govindan, is on rocks. With the help of his manager Khader, Govindan just manages to run the company, though not in a satisfactory manner. All the members of the troupe live as a family, sharing intimate bonds of love and camaraderie. Babu, the favorite of the troupe is the clown of Royal Circus. He has learned the perfect art of masking his sorrows behind the clown's ever laughing mask. He has been there in the troupe ever since his childhood, looking after the other children, especially Govindan's daughter Kamala. And Govindan has always been saying that Babu is to be his heir and is to marry Kamala. And of course Babu, deep in his heart, has feelings of love for Kamala.The movie takes a turn when Sudheer Misra, the young son of Padmini, a former member of the troupe makes his entry into the camp. Sudheer's arrival marks the beginnings of change. He steers the company out of its crisis and gives it a new form and name as New Royal Circus.
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Gopan is living with his 6 year old son Ashok. His neighbor Celin falls in love with him. But he reveals that Ashok's mom is alive and he narrates his story.
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Subhash Chandra Bose aka Kochu Kurup heard a phone call by a teenage girl named Padmaja 'Pappi' Warrier and soon falls in love with her. But his parents send him to Bangalore to his best friend Kartik aka Aniyankutty (Dileep), who is a rich womanizer
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Pappu is a barber whose son Chakrapani has been promised in marriage to Sunanda, the daughter of Gunasekharan. Gunasekharan has a change of heart after coming into a fortune, and so Chakrapani must strive to win Sunanda's heart.
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A girl falls for a violent man, who keeps taking law in his hands and beats people up. She wants to marry to him and eventually even he says yes, but her father has a condition that he should control his anger and work with him in his factory.
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A notorious gangster asks a career thief by the name of Nandu to steal a package worth over one crore rupees for a fee.
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Senapathy, a veteran freedom fighter, is angry. He is angry against the rampant corruption at every level of the bureaucracy. He will clean it up at any cost.
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Two musical brothers look for love, only to have their quest end in tragedy for one.
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A young couple, Ganga and Nakulan, arrives at the ancestral home called Madampalli of the latter. Hailing from a family that follows tradition and superstitions, Nakulan's uncle Thampi objects to the couple's idea of moving into the allegedly haunted mansion, which Nakulan ignores. The couple moves in anyway following which seemingly supernatural events begin to happen.
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Chidambaram, a newly appointed school teacher, stays in an allegedly haunted house. He comes to an agreement living with the ghost of the house, Shivakami, who actually pretends as a ghost to him. The relationship builds on and both end up in love.
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The story depicts the life of a young farmer who has lived life to his fullest and made others live it too.
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A romantic film packed with fun and adventure Gandharavam tells the story of an auto mechanic who falls in love with the daughter of a crime mob family.
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Porutham is a 1993 Indian Malayalam-language film, directed by Kaladharan, starring Murali and Sreelekshmi.
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Ashokan goes on a trip to Nepal to meet his uncle who is settled there. To his surprise, his rival from his village Appukuttan is already there impersonating him. He is unable to convince his uncle about the truth and gets kicked out of the house. While trying to find shelter he meets a young Nepalese boy. Though they don't understand each others' language, they quickly form a bond. Meanwhile Ashokan is able to convince his cousin Aswathy that Appukuttan is an impostor. Aswathy who is a student researching ancient Nepalese traditions realizes that the young Nepalese boy is actually a Rimpoche, the spiritual leader of his tribe and is on the run from evil forces who want to banish him. Ashokan gets sucked in to the scenario unknowingly and ends up being the Rimpoche's protector.
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A police inspector and a London returned crime journalist, amongst others, are baffled by a modern day Robin Hood, who robs the rich and distributes the wealth amongst the poor and needy.
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Bhaskaran, a goldsmith, is madly in love with Snehalatha, the daughter of astrologer, Panicker. When Bhaskaran asks for Sneha's hand in marriage, to his shock, she denies their love affair.
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Two step sons of an honest noble man choose different professions. One becomes a police office and the other turns into a goon. The rest of the film revolves around how the two confront each other.
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This is a movie about a married man who falls in love with another woman. How his wife is able to get him back and how he realises his mistake is the plot.
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Krishnadas is fond of Parvathy but he decides to express his love after getting a good job. What happens when he comes to know that Parvathy is in a relationship with Mohanan?
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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.
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The story revolves around Vanitha who helps her friend suffering from a mental disability.
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Two brothers, Sukumaran and Sudhakaran, love their cousin Radha. Radha marries Sukumaran, but her marital bliss is shattered when he becomes paralysed after an accident.
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Friends Shambu and Premkumar fall in love with the same girl, Shobha, and are unaware about it. Matters become more complex when another person also begins to woo her.
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A head injury causes a woman to regresses to childhood. Lost and confused, she is eventually befriended by a school teacher. A remake of the 1982 film Moondram Pirai by the same team.
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Naseema, a village girl, and Ravi, a music teacher, fall in love. But Mammad, a ruffian, too has eyes on Naseema.
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Syam goes to a village in search of his uncle to get a job. He falls in love with a girl, but problems start when a womanizer tries to disturb her.
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LAL (Mohanlal) and his gang puts up posters and writings of Shyam (Rajkumar) and Swapna(Poornima Jayaram) in the college campus announcing their love affair, leading to a quarrel with Suresh(Shanker), her brother.
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A young musician falls in love with Sumangala, the daughter of an impoverished Brahmin in a village of the Namboodiri community. Obeying her father, the young woman marries a mentally retarded member of her own community. The drama is further heightened by first equating Sumangala with the mystificatory folk rituals the musician sets out to discover, and then by the book of poems in which he expresses her condition. The lovers remain separated, with dire consequences, especially for the woman.
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Aa Divasam is an action film where lead players hunger for revenge.
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A young woman suffers a major head injury in a car accident after which she begins behaving like a child. Trapped at a brothel, she finds hope in a lonely school teacher who decides to rescue her.
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Sridevi, the new teacher of a boarding school, has to deal with Sunil, a difficult student and the only son of Menon, a widower.
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Dhruvasangamam is a 1981 Indian Malayalam film, directed by J. Sasikumar. The film stars Mohanlal, Manavalan Joseph, Shubha and Sukumaran in lead roles.
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When a man finds his wife cheating on him, he leaves her and brings up his son on his own. Years later, his fortune changes, but he is forced to face the demons of his past.
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Appu is very close with his elder sister, Malu. When she gets married to Govindan, she takes Appu along with them. But problems arise when Appu becomes jealous of Govindan.
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After a prostitute ruins Chandru's family, he develops a strong aversion towards them. His childhood trauma creates unrest in his present life as he starts killing sex workers whenever he sees them.
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Manju, a modern woman who works for a male chauvinist boss, helps Arun to film a documentary on the lifestyle of women from different backgrounds. As their work progresses, he falls in love with her.
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Vijay Kumar is the illegitimate son of a construction baron, Raj Kumar Gupta and his first love, Shanti, whom he gives up in order to marry a wealthy heiress. Raj does not know of this son, who grows up and after his mother's death comes to Delhi to take revenge on the Gupta family by destroying the family's business and connections with each other.
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The entire plot is woven around Indian family values, enterprise and meteoric rise in business.
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Dedicated to the memory of the great singers K. L. Saigal and Mukesh, this charming and unpretentious film offers a palate-cleansing change from the spicy “masala” epics that dominated its era, and features their superstar Amitabh Bachchan in a decidedly offbeat role.
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Sivathaandavam is a 1977 Indian Malayalam film, directed by N. Sankaran Nair. The film stars Kamal Haasan, Kaviyoor Ponnamma, Bahadoor and Jayasudha in the lead roles. The film has musical score by M. B. Sreenivasan.
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Chandran, a farmer, leaves his village when he is falsely accused of a murder. He faces many challenges when he goes to an unknown city for a living.
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A young man and an older woman fall in love and decide to marry. However, their lives become more complicated when he learns that his father is in love with the same woman's daughter.
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Ponnapuram Kotta is a 1973 Malayalam language film starring Prem Nazir, K. P. Ummer, Vijayasree and Vijayanirmala in the lead roles.
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On his pilgrimage to a temple to immerse the ashes of his mother in the sacred river, Rakhavan befriends a tribal family. He comes across the lives of the tribal people and their struggle.
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A conservative village girl Rosamma (Sheela) is exploited by various men including her husband. She goes to Bombay where she starts an escort service and ends up being a person of influence and power.
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Ramu, a postman, gives shelter to a girl, who has escaped from the hands of a few Naxalites. However, problems arise when his fiance's parents doubt him to be a Naxalite as they find a gun with him.
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Meena marries her brother-in-law after her sister dies, even though she is in love with Rajendran. Years later, she meets Rajendran and is forced to confront her past.
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Sreenivasan gets disfigured in a laboratory accident and is shunned by people once close to him. He marries Ragini, a beautiful woman, but has doubts that she is a demigoddess.
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A young woman, who after being cured of leprosy, is disapproved by her family and society. However, she then makes it her mission to educate the illiterate society about the disease.
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Prince Salim, son of Akbar falls in love with Anarkali. Akbar forbids Salim to prolong this affair as he wanted his son to marry a Rajput princess and thereby strengthen communal harmony.
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Kochunni dislikes moneylenders, misers and landlords as he grew up in extreme poverty. He and his friend Ithikkarappakki steal from rich travellers and give to the poor.
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The business partner and some employees of the elderly Mr. Somasundaram plot to eliminate him by hiding a bomb inside a doll. Learning of the plot, a few others try to avert the calamity. The story consists of the series of events by which the doll keeps changing hands, while being chased by those involved in the plot, and also by those trying to prevent it from exploding.
