Mohanlal played his first comic lead role in an ensemble cast in the 1984 comedy Poochakkoru Mookkuthi, directed by Priyadarshan, as a young man in love with a girl whom he mistakenly believes to be rich. Through Sasikumar's Ivide Thudangunnu, he became a successful hero with a "good heart". Films such as Ente Mohangal Poovaninju, Iniyengilum, Visa, Attakkalasham, Kaliyil Alpam Karyam, Ente Mamattukkuttiyammakku, Engane Nee Marakkum, Unaru and Sreekrishna Parunthu changed his image. īy 1983, Mohanlal was credited in more than 25 feature films, most of them had him playing negative (villain) roles. In an interview with Reader's Digest in 2004, Mohanlal said that his looks as a young man might have fit the villain's image. Displeased with his appearance, two of them gave him poor marks, but Fazil and Jijo Appachan gave him 90 and 95 marks out of 100.
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He auditioned for the role in front of a panel that included professional directors. Mohanlal's friends had sent his application in response to an advertisement released by Navodaya Studio. In 1980, Mohanlal was cast in the lead antagonist role in Manjil Virinja Pookkal – the directorial debut of Fazil. Due to some issues with censorship, the film was not released on time. Mohanlal played Kuttappan, a mentally disabled servant. Mohanlal made his acting debut in 1978 with the film Thiranottam, which was produced and made by Mohanlal and his friends- Maniyanpilla Raju, Suresh Kumar, Unni, Priyadarshan, Ravi Kumar and a few others. ĭuring 19 he was the Kerala state wrestling champion. Mohanlal's first role was as a sixth grader for a stage play called Computer Boy, in which he played a ninety-year-old man.
He studied at Government Model Boys Higher Secondary School, Thiruvananthapuram and graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Mahatma Gandhi College, Thiruvananthapuram. Mohanlal grew up in Mudavanmugal at his paternal home in Thiruvananthapuram. He had an elder brother named Pyarelal (died in 2000, during a military exercise).
He is the youngest child of Viswanathan Nair, a former bureaucrat and Law Secretary with the Kerala government, and Santhakumari. Mohanlal Viswanathan was born in the village of Elanthoor in the Pathanamthitta district, Kerala on. He founded the ViswaSanthi Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization that was started to create and deliver high-impact and focused programs to the underprivileged sections of society in the areas of Healthcare and Education. Mohanlal is also known for his philanthropic endeavours. He received honorary doctorates from Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit in 2010 and the University of Calicut in 2018. Mohanlal has won five National Film Awards-two Best Actor, a Special Jury Mention and a Special Jury Award for acting, and an award for Best Feature Film (as producer), also nine Kerala State Film Awards and Filmfare Awards South and numerous other accolades. Some of his best known non-Malayalam films include the Tamil political drama Iruvar (1997), the Hindi crime drama Company (2002) and the Telugu film Janatha Garage (2016). Mohanlal prefers to work in Malayalam films, but he has also appeared in some Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films. By the mid-1980s, he established himself as a bankable leading actor and attained stardom after starring in several successful films in 1986 the crime drama Rajavinte Makan released that year heightened his stardom. He continued to do villainous roles and rose to secondary lead roles in the following years. His screen debut was in the 1980 romance film Manjil Virinja Pookkal, in which he played the antagonist. Mohanlal made his acting debut at age 18 in the Malayalam film Thiranottam in 1978, but the film was delayed in its release for 25 years due to censorship issues. In 2009, he became the first actor in India to be awarded the honorary rank of Lieutenant colonel in the Territorial Army.
The Government of India honoured him with Padma Shri in 2001, and Padma Bhushan in 2019, India's fourth and third highest civilian honours, for his contributions to Indian cinema. Mohanlal's contributions to the Malayalam cinema have been praised by his contemporaries in the Indian film industry. Mohanlal has a prolific career spanning over four decades, during which he has acted in more than 340 films. Mohanlal Viswanathan (born ), known mononymously as Mohanlal, is an Indian actor, film producer, playback singer, television host and film distributor who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema besides also having sporadically appeared in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi-language films.
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