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Pappu is a common nick name in North India and Pakistan. It conjures up the image of a common man who is full of innocence and simplicity .'Pappu' has been used frequently in popular culture (e.g. the A R Rahman's chartbuster "Pappu can't Dance Sala", Election Commission's "Pappu can't vote" campaign and Cadbury's "Pappu Pass Ho Gaya" ad campaign).
Kuthiravattam Pappu, often credited as Pappu, was a popular Indian stage and film actor. His repertoire of acting was based on his unique style and use of the Kozhikodan dialect, impeccable timing and the capability to grasp the subtle nuances of any character and mould it into his signature "Pappu style". He has acted in over thousand Malayalam films.
Pappu was born as Padmadalakshan in Feroke in Kozhikode, Kerala and was the only son of Panagodu Raman and Devi. The family moved to the village of Kuthiravattam (Half a kilometre from Govindapuram), Kozhikode when Pappu was still a child. He was keen in acting since childhood and performed his first major stage performance when he was 17. At that time he was studying in Kozhikode St. Antony's School.[citation needed]
Pappu started his career as a drama artist. He acted in about thousand instant plays and two professional dramas, Samasya and Manasu. His role in the drama Samasya fetched him the Best Comedian Award.
Pappu has worked with Kunjandi, Nellikode Bhaskaran, Thikkodiyan and K. T. Muhammed. Film personalities, Ramu Karyat and A. Vincent were impressed by his performance in Mudiyanaya Puthran and gave him chance to act in the film Moodupadam. His first noted role was in Bhargavi Nilayam, written by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer and directed by A. Vincent. The name of his character in the film given by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, "Kuthiravattam Pappu" stayed with him for the rest of his life.
Actors: Dilip Prabhavalkar (actor), Bharati Achrekar (actress), Nagesh Bhonsle (actor), Subodh Bhave (actor), Abhijit Deshpande (editor), Vibhawari Deshpande (writer), Vibhawari Deshpande (actress), Shrirang Godbole (writer), Shrirang Godbole (director), Shrirang Godbole (producer), Vijay Patwardhan (actor), Suhrud Godbole (producer), Mridul Patwardhan (actress), Prashant Tapaswi (actor), Alok Rajwade (actor),
Genres: Family,Actors: Bipasha Basu (actress), Robin Bhatt (writer), Ajay Devgn (actor), Priyadarshan (director), Pritam Chakraborty (composer), Ouseppachan (composer), Akash Khurana (writer), Paresh Rawal (actor), Rajendra Gupta (actor), Akshaye Khanna (actor), Matt Zemlin (producer), Reema Sen (actress), Parag Desai (miscellaneous crew), Sameera Reddy (actress), Sameera Reddy (actress),
Plot: Giving in to intense media pressure, the Home Minister in Delhi finally instructs the Central Bureau of Investigation to depute Special Officer Siddhant Chaturvedi to travel to Jhanjhar, Bihar, and work together with Pratap Kumar to try and locate three medical students from M.K. Gandhi Medical College. The three students, Gautam Sharma, Dhirush Patel and Dinu were in Jhanjhar to celebrate Dusshera and were scheduled to return back to Delhi. Ramesh Jain, the student Union President, informs the media that the trio were arrested by Jhanjhar Police and since then their whereabouts are unknown. Jhanjhar Police deny that the students were ever there, and are hostile, compelling the CBI to bring in more agents. While differences crop up between investigative tactics of the two agents, upper Caste Hindus, aided by the police, target the fearful Dalits and lower-caste Hindus, brutally torturing them and setting their houses on fire. With the entire local community refusing to come forward with any information, and pressure from the Chief CBI Chief to withdraw, the duo must now consider using other methods to try and find out what really happened to the three students.
Keywords: abduction, abuse-of-power, anger, angry-mob, apathy, argument, arrest, arson, attack, attempted-murderActors: P.C. Mohanan (editor), Indrans (actor), Manoj K. Jayan (actor), Mammukoya (actor), Jagathi Sreekumar (actor), Kollam Thulasi (actor), Suraaj Venjarammoodu (actor), Kalpana (actress), Geetha Vijayan (actress), Bijukuttan (actor), Mamta Mohandas (actress), T.S. Raju (actor), Deepika (actress), Vincenzo Bocciarelli (actor), Anish J. Karrinad (writer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Mushtaq Khan (actor), Jackie Shroff (actor), Alok Nath (actor), Kashmira Shah (actress), Narendra Bedi (actor), Narendra Bedi (actor), Sambhavna Sheth (actress), K.K. Goswami (actor), Krishna Abhishek (actor), Krishna Abhishek (actor), Ravi Chopra (composer), Sikander Kharbanda (actor), Rahul Kanawat (actor), Shradha Kamle (actress), Shradha Kamle (actress),
Plot: Day-dreamer Pappu lives a poor lifestyle with his mom and dad in a village in India. In order to better his prospects, he re-locates to Bombay and finds a job as a mechanic in Sardar Tara Singh's garage. He meets with and falls in love with Kiran Chauhan, who is the sister of dreaded gangster, Sudhakar Chauhan, and lives a very wealthy lifestyle surrounded by bodyguards. Pappu feigns that he is really a runaway Prince of Trikamgarh, worms his way into Kiran's heart and also wins over Sudhakar and their grandmother. When Sudhakar asks Pappu to bring his father to finalize the marriage, he asks Tara to be his dad, to which he agrees, and in this way fool Sudhakar and Kiran. When Tara borrows money from Pathan in order to enable Pappu live a princely lifestyle, they are unable to re-pay this debt, but help comes unexpectedly from the real Raja of Trikamgarh, who also travels to finalize his son's marriage - much to Pappu's surprise. Things spiral out of control when Pappu's real father and mother also decide to pay their son a visit!!!
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Rahul Nanda (miscellaneous crew), Atul Kulkarni (actor), Vaibhavi Merchant (miscellaneous crew), Vivek Shaq (actor), Ahmed Khan (miscellaneous crew), Himanshu Nanda (miscellaneous crew), Diya Mirza (actress), Yashpal Sharma (actor), Anang Desai (actor), Govind Namdeo (actor), Brahmanandam (actor), Mukesh Rishi (actor), Sandeep Chowta (composer), Sushant Singh (actor), Harsh Chhaya (actor),
Plot: Uday dreams of becoming a police officer and serving his country. His dream is accompanied by a fierce determination and drive to make his dream come true. Even as he courageously treads on his chosen path, he is confronted by the face of evil in the form of a crooked police officer, Shankar. But Uday soon meets with a television employee named Kaveri and once again finds his life upside down.
Genres: Crime,Actors: Sridevi (miscellaneous crew), Sudhir Pandey (actor), Suleiman Merchant (composer), Salim Merchant (composer), Patrick Sobelman (producer), Sushant Singh (actor), Shirish Kunder (editor), Piyush Mishra (actor), Nicolas Blanc (producer), Mukesh Bhatt (actor), Boney Kapoor (miscellaneous crew), Pankaj Jha (actor), Aditya Srivastava (actor), Tulip Joshi (actress), Darshan Jalan (costume designer),
Plot: A woman, attended by two midwives, is giving birth in a small village in India. When the child's cry rings, the father bangs on a steel plate to attract the attention of all the villagers, who assemble, eager to hear the good news. But when the midwife announces that the child is a daughter, the banging stops, followed by a stunned silence. Shortly thereafter the father takes the baby and drowns it in a Calderon of milk. This practice continues on and as a result, many years later there are men and boys everywhere and no women. A widowed man, Ramsharan, ponders his plight and that of his two grown son, who he is unable to get married. No marriage has taken in this village for 15 years, save for one, which was annulled as the young 14-year old bride turned out to be a 14 year old boy. But there is hope when a friend informs Ramsharan that he has located a bride for his eldest, a beautiful young woman named Kalki, who lives nearby, sheltered by her father. Ramsharan pays a substantial dowry for Kalki and gets her married to his eldest - or so he hopes - for every male in the village, including his younger son, Sooraj, and he himself wants a piece of Kalki - for himself - and are willing to do anything to satiate their non-existent sex-life.
Keywords: baby-killer, birth, bride-price, caste-discrimination, cross-dressing, dowry, father-and-son-have-sex-with-the-same-woman, frustration, gang-rape, gender-discriminationActors: G. Murali (editor), Rajan P. Dev (actor), Indrans (actor), Jagadish (actor), Salim Kumar (actor), Jagathi Sreekumar (actor), N.F. Varghese (actor), Kalpana (actress), Harisree Asokan (actor), Rajamani (composer), Vazhoor Jose (miscellaneous crew), Zeenath (actress), Abraham Lincoln (miscellaneous crew), Kaveri (actress), Berny-Ignatious (composer),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,Actors: Birbal (actor), Mithun Chakraborty (actor), Mithun Chakraborty (actor), Mohan Choti (actor), Danny Denzongpa (actor), Danny Denzongpa (actor), Vijayendra Ghatge (actor), Vijayendra Ghatge (actor), Amjad Khan (actor), Amjad Khan (actor), Mac Mohan (actor), Yunus Parvez (actor), Ranjeet (actor), Shivraj (actor), Gurbachchan Singh (actor),
Plot: Radha lives a poor lifestyle with her husband, Mohan, and four sons, Chandan, Raju, Bablu, and Pappu. Although Mohan comes from a rich family, his dad had disapproved of his marriage, and since that day he has not met with him. Now his dad is very ill and the entire family go to visit him, and are welcomed with open arms. Before he passes away, he shows Mohan the family's treasure, which consists of gold and jewelery, hidden under a temple, which can only be opened by four different keys. Mohan asks his children to keep one key. Then his dad passes away, and Lalchand, an employee, who has overheard the conversation between father and son decides to keep the treasure to himself. He ends up killing Mohan, getting arrested and sentenced to a long prison term. Alone and widowed, Radha, gets separated from her sons and loses her mind. Years later the sons have grown up. Chandan calls himself Bholaram and runs a milk dairy farm; Raju is a career thief and burglar and goes by the name of Johny; Bablu is the DS of Police, Vijay; while the youngest, Pappu, also has taken to a life of crime and calls himself Tony. The lives of these four young men are all set to collide with each other with Bholaram and Vijay on the side of the law, and Johny and Tony on the run from them. The question that comes to mind is will the four brothers ever get to meet their mom in this lifetime, and what of the treasure that is still buried beneath the temple?
Genres: ,Actors: Danny Denzongpa (actor), Jeetendra (actor), Maruti Rao (actor), Ramesh Deo (actor), Jagdeep (actor), Jankidas (actor), Agha (actor), Satyendra Kapoor (actor), Feroz Khan (actor), Rajendra Kumar (actor), Rajendra Kumar (actor), Mahipal (actor), Narendra Nath (actor), Prem Nath (actor), Leena Das (actress),
Plot: Rani is a child who is being brought up by her mother, Kamla, as her dad has gone out of the town on business. Both mother and daughter live with their cruel and selfish relatives. One day Kamla gets the news that her husband is returning, and she is overjoyed. This joy turns to sorrow when she finds out that he has passed away in an accident. Shortly, thereafter she too passes away, leaving poor Rani at the hands of the cruel relatives. Rani loves her parents, as they are her world, and she undertakes a journey into the netherworld to try and bring her parents back to life. This movie also features the story of Cinderella and Gulliver's Travels, in two songs.
Genres: Fantasy, Musical,Actors: Bahadur (actor), Adoor Bhasi (actor), Prem Nazir (actor), Jose Prakash (actor), K.P. Ummer (actor), Jayabharati (actress), G. Venkitaraman (editor), Sreelatha (actress), Venu (director), Venu (producer), P.J. Anthony (writer), Nellikode Bhaskaran (actor), M.K. Arjunan (composer), T.S. Muthaya (actor), Sadhana (actress),
Genres: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller,Wie wöhr't met nem Breef,
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