Kalamandalam Kesavan
Acting
Biography
Kalamandalam Kesavan was an Indian kathakali percussionist, playwright and actor in Indian cinema. He did roles in Malayalam movies during the 1990s and 2000s.
Known For
Vanaprastham
Kunhikuttan, a famous Kathakali dancer, meets Subhadra, a woman from an upper caste family, who falls in love with his character rather than himself.
Vettam
Petty thief Gopi steals a chain, and in order to escape a police inspector, drops it in Veena's bag. Later, he tries to take it from her, but the chain is no longer there. He becomes a part of her plan to stop her boyfriend from marrying a rich tycoon’s daughter
Swapnam Kondu Thulabharam
Aniyankuttan falls for Ammu, who wishes to marry his elder brother, Vishnu. Soon, misunderstanding creeps up between the siblings when Aniyankuttan learns the truth about Ammu's love.
Kadhanayakan
Padmanabhan, a wealthy man, cares for his family but is unaware of the fact that they are only with him for his money. He encounters a difficult situation when his estranged son asks to accept him.
The Car
Mahadevan and his uncle Kumar are still struggling to find money after the deaths of Mahadevan's parents and Kumar's sister. One day, luck comes to them when Mahadevan wins a car as the 1st prize of a promotional contest held by a washing-powder brand. The new car brings him a lot of bad luck.
Nadan Pennum Natupramaniyum
Govindan, a rich businessman, goes to any extent to make money. However, his life takes a turn when Gayathri enters his life to take revenge against him for ruining her father's life.
Bosco
The film ‘Bosco’ portrays the heart-capturing life sketch of one of the most popular saints of the last millennium – Don Bosco.
Marattam
Panicker's one-act play deals with the relation of identification between an actor and his or her role. The action takes place on the eve of the last act of the Kathakali piece Keechakavadham (The Killing of Keechaka). The events surrounding the performance uncannily echo events in the play. One character even claims to have killed the lead actor of the play because he detested the character the man portrayed. However, the three different accounts that are presented of the same plot are never resolved or reconciled with each other. Each version is accompanied by a different style of folk music: the tune and rhythm of southern Kerala’s thampuran pattu, the pulluvan pattu and the ayappan pattu. The performers were drawn from the theatre and from Kathakali. In southern India, with its plethora of politicians using their film images to acquire inordinate wealth and power, Aravindan’s TV film bears on an eminently sensitive political as well as aesthetic issue.
Filmography
as Gopalakrishnan's father
as Vishnu's real father
as Vishnu Narayanan Namboothiri
as Thirumeni
as Bishop
as Payyarathu Padmanabhan Nair
as Maya's Grandfather