Balachandra Menon

Balachandra Menon
Balachandra Menon
Born	(1954-01-11) 11 January 1954^[1]
Occupation	Film director, actor, scriptwriter, author, film journalist, lawyer, film producer, distributor, editor, singer, composer
Spouse(s)	Varada Menon (1982)
Children	Akhil Vinayak Menon Bhavana Menon
Parent(s)	Shivashankara Pillai Lalitha Devi
Website	balachandramenon.com

Balachandra Menon(born 11 January 1954) is an Indian film actor, director and script writer. He made a number of films in the 1980s and 1990s. He has directed 40 movies and acted in over 100 movies.^[2] He won the National Film Award for Best Actor in the 1998 film Samaantharangal, which was also directed by him. He has also worked as distributor, editor, composer, singer and producer in the Malayalam film industry.

Menon has introduced many actors into the Malayalam film industry. Actors who made their debut in his films include Shobhana in April 18, Parvathy in Vivahithare Ithile Ithile, Maniyan Pillai Raju in Maniyan Pillai Athava Maniyan Pillai, Karthika in Manicheppu Thurannappol, Annie in Ammayane Sathyam, and Nandini in April 19.^[3]

Personal life

Balachandra Menon was born in Ambalappuzha in 1954 to Shivashankara Pillai and Lalitha Devi. By virtue of his father being a railway station master, he served at Edava railway station and Menon had his formative years of childhood and adolescence life in this village. He studied at Edava Muslim High School and has narrated nostalgically about his memories about his life in this village in his autobiography Ammayaane Sathyam. He is an alumnus of University College Trivandrum and Fatima Mata National College.^[4] Sisters: Sushma and Prema. Wife: Varada Menon. Children: Akhil Menon.^[5] Menon enrolled as a lawyer on 29 July 2012, 22 years after completing his degree.^[6]

During his early days in Madras, he worked in Nana film weekly as a correspondent. He has completed a diploma in journalism from Trivandrum Press Club

Literary works

Achuvettante Veedu
Mugam Abhimugam
Samantharangal
18 April 19 April
Ninnay Enthinu Kollaam ?
Kaanatha Sulthanu Snehapoorvam
Ammayanay Sathyam
Ariyathathu, Ariyendathu^[7]
Balachandramenonte 12 cherukathakal^[8]
His book Ithirineram Othirikaryam recently released by veteran actor Madhu by handing over a copy to lyricist Sreekumaran Thampi.^[9]^[10]

Awards

Civilian Awards:

2007 – Padma Shri^[11]

National Film Awards:

1998 – Best Actor – Samantharangal
1998 – Best Film on Family Welfare – Samaantharangal

Kerala State Film Awards:

1979 – Best Screen Play – Uthrada Rathri
1997 – Special Jury Award – Samaantharangal

Filmfare Awards South:

1998 – Best Actor – Samaantharangal

Filmography

Year	Film	Credited as						Role	Notes
Year	Film	Actor	Director	Producer	Screenplay	Story	Dialogue	Role	Notes
2015	Njan Samvidhanam Cheyyum	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Krishna Das
2013	Kadal Kadannu oru Mathukkutty	Y						Father Vattathara
2013	Kunjananthante Kada	Y
2013	Buddy	Y						Shankaran Namboothiri/Shanku Bhai
2009	Nammal Thammil	Y						Ramachandran Nair
2009	Utharaswayamvaram	Y						'Yamandan' Sreedhara Kurup
2008	College Kumaran	Y
2008	De Ingottu Nokkiye	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	Joji
2007	Pranayakalam	Y						Balagopal
2006	Classmates	Y						Prof. Iyer
2005	December	Y						Patteri
2005	Rappakal	Y						Deva Narayanan
2003	Varum Varunnu Vannu	Y			Y	Y	Y	Johny
2003	Saphalam	Y						Barrister Nambiar
2002	Nammal	Y						Sathyanadhan
2002	Krishna Gopalakrishna	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	Gopalakrishnan	Editor, Playback Singer,Composer
2001	Ishtam	Y						Anjana's Father
2000	Sathyam Sivam Sundaram	Y						K.S.K Nambiar
2000	Sathyameva Jayathe	Y
1998	Samaantharangal	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Ismail	Editor, Composer
1998	The Truth	Y						Chief Minister Madhavan
1997	Janathipathyam	Y
1997	Krishnagudiyil Oru Pranayakalathu	Y						Pavi
1996	April 19	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y
1996	Kanden Seethaiyai	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y		Unreleased film
1995	Avittam Thirunaal Aarogya Sriman	Y						Prabhakaran
1994	Sukham Sukhakaram	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y
1993	Ammayane Sathyam	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	S. Narayanan
1991	Nayam Vyakthamakkunnu		Y		Y	Y	Y
1990	Kuruppinte Kanakku Pustakom	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	Vinayachandra Kurup	Editor, Composer
1990	Sasneham	Y						Thomas Kurien
1990	Varthamana Kalam	Y						Jameskutty
1989	Najangalude Kochu Doctor	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	James Varghese	Editor
1989	Kandathum Kettathum	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	P K Krishnankutty
1988	David David Mr. David	Y						David
1988	Isabella	Y						Unnikrishna Menon
1988	Janmandharam	Y						Police Officer
1988	Kudumbapuranam	Y						Krishnanunni
1987	Oru Maymasappularayil	Y
1987	Vilambaram	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	P. K. Nampoothiri
1987	Achuvettante Veedu	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	Vipin	Editor
1986	Rithubhedam	Y						Rajan
1986	Vivahitare Itihile	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Appu
1986	Thaiku Oru Thalattu		Y		Y	Y	Y		Tamil film
1985	Menicheppu Thurannappol	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y
1985	Daivatheyorthu	Y						Aniyankuttan
1985	Ente Ammu Ninte Thulasi Avarude Chakki	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	S. Nandakumar	Playback Singer, Soundtrack Performer
1984	Oru Painkilikatha	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	Kannan
1984	Arante Mulla Kochu Mulla	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	Prabhakaran
1984	April 18	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	Ravikumar
1983	Sesham Kazhchayil	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	G K Raja
1983	Prasnam Gurutharam	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	Balu
1983	Karyam Nissaram	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	Shekhar
1982	Kilukilukkam	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	Mahendran
1982	Kelkatha Shabdam	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	Lambodharan Nair
1982	Ithiri Neram Othiri Karyam	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	Geejo
1982	Chiriyo Chiri	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	Unni
1981	Thenum Vayambum	Y						Babu Mathew
1981	Tharattu		Y		Y	Y	Y
1981	Prema Geethangal		Y		Y	Y	Y
1981	Maniyan Pilla Adhava Maniyan Pilla	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	Gopinathan
1980	Vaiki Vanna Vasantham		Y		Y	Y	Y
1980	Kalika		Y			Y	Y
1980	Ishtamanu Pakshe		Y		Y	Y	Y
1980	Aniyatha Valakkal		Y		Y	Y	Y
1979	Radha Enna Pennkutti		Y		Y	Y	Y
1978	Uthrada Rathri		Y		Y	Y	Y

As a singer

Aanakoduthaalum ... Oru Painkilikkadha (1984)
Kochu Chakkarachi Pettu ... Ente Ammu Ninte Thulasi Avarude Chakki (1985)
Kaattinum Thaalam ... Njangalude Kochu Doctor (1989)
Choodulla kaattil ... Krishnaa Gopaalakrishnaa (2002)

References

↑ "Balachandra Menon – Who am I?". Retrieved 6 October 2012.
↑ "Balachandra Menon thrilled by Dubai audience". http://www.emirates247.com. http://www.emirates247.com. Retrieved 18 April 2016. External link in |website=, |publisher= (help)
↑ http://www.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/malayalamContentView.do?contentId=15587935&tabId=8&BV_ID=@@@
↑ http://newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/article560553.ece
↑ "CiniDiary". CiniDiary. Retrieved 15 January 2011.
↑ "Actor Balachandra Menon enrolled as lawyer". Chennai, India: www.thehindu.com. 29 July 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
↑ http://entertainment.oneindia.in/malayalam/news/2011/oommen-chandy-release-balachandra-menon-book-030911.html
↑ "Ace director, master storyteller". The Hindu (Chennai, India). 7 July 2012.
↑ http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/Balachandra-Menons-New-Book-Released/2013/12/01/article1921590.ece
↑ http://www.manoramaonline.com/advt/Specials/Ithiri-Neram-Othiri-Karyam/index.html
↑ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved July 21, 2015.

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Films directed by Balachandra Menon

Uthrada Rathri (1978)
Radha Enna Pennkutti (1979)
Kalika (1980)
Chiriyo Chiri (1982)
Karyam Nissaram (1983)
Arante Mulla Kochu Mulla (1984)
Oru Painkilikatha (1984)
Ente Ammu Ninte Thulasi Avarude Chakki (1985)
Thaaiku Oru Thaalaattu (1986)
Achuvettante Veedu (1987)
Najangalude Kochu Doctor (1989)
Kuruppinte Kanakku Pustakom (1990)
Nayam Vyakthamakkunnu (1991)
Ammayane Sathyam (1993)
Sukham Sukhakaram (1994)
April 19 (1996)
Kanden Seethaiyai (1996)
Samaantharangal (1998)
Krishna Gopalakrishna (2002)
De Ingottu Nokkiye (2008)
Njan Samvidhanam Cheyyum (2015)

National Film Award for Best Actor

1967–1980	Uttam Kumar (1967) Ashok Kumar (1968) Utpal Dutt (1969) Sanjeev Kumar (1970) M. G. Ramachandran (1971) Sanjeev Kumar (1972) P. J. Antony (1973) Sadhu Meher (1974) M. V. Vasudeva Rao (1975) Mithun Chakraborty (1976) Bharath Gopi (1977) Arun Mukherjee (1978) Naseeruddin Shah (1979) Balan K. Nair (1980)

1981–2000	Om Puri (1981) Kamal Haasan (1982) Om Puri (1983) Naseeruddin Shah (1984) Shashi Kapoor (1985) Charuhasan (1986) Kamal Haasan (1987) Premji (1988) Mammootty (1989) Amitabh Bachchan (1990) Mohanlal (1991) Mithun Chakraborty (1992) Mammootty (1993) Nana Patekar (1994) Rajit Kapur (1995) Kamal Haasan (1996) Balachandra Menon and Suresh Gopi (1997) Ajay Devgan and Mammootty (1998) Mohanlal (1999) Anil Kapoor (2000)

2001–present	Murali (2001) Ajay Devgan (2002) Vikram (2003) Saif Ali Khan (2004) Amitabh Bachchan (2005) Soumitra Chatterjee (2006) Prakash Raj (2007) Upendra Limaye (2008) Amitabh Bachchan (2009) Dhanush and Salim Kumar (2010) Girish Kulkarni (2011) Irrfan Khan and Vikram Gokhale (2012) Rajkummar Rao and Suraj Venjaramoodu (2013) Vijay (2014) Amitabh Bachchan (2015)

Padma Shri awards

1954–59 1960–69 1970–79 1980–89 1990–99 2000–09 2010–19

Padma Award winners of Kerala

Padma Vibhushan	Adoor Gopalakrishnan E. C. George Sudarshan E. Sreedharan G. Madhavan Nair John Mathai K. N. Raj K. R. Ramanathan K. Shankar Pillai Kottayan Katankot Venugopal M. S. Valiathan N. R. Pillai O. N. V. Kurup V. K. Krishna Menon V. R. Krishna Iyer Verghese Kurien

Padma Bhushan (Male)	A. C. N. Nambiar Ammannur Madhava Chakyar A. Ramachandran A. Sreedhara Menon C. P. Krishnan Nair Chembai E. C. George Sudarshan Eledath Thaikkattu Narayanan Mooss G. Madhavan Nair G. Sankara Kurup Gabriel Chiramel George Joseph (scientist) Guru Kunchu Kurup Jacob Chandy K. G. Subramanyan K. J. Yesudas K. M. Cherian K. M. George K. M. Mathew K. N. Panikkar K. P. Kesava Menon K. P. P. Nambiar K. P. S. Menon (senior) K. R. Ramanathan K. Radhakrishnan K. Sankaran Nair K. Shankar Pillai K. Sukumaran K. T. Thomas (Justice) Kandathil Mammen Cherian Kavalam Narayana Panicker Kottayan Katankot Venugopal Kunhiraman Palat Candeth Kuzhur Narayana Marar M. S. Valiathan M. T. Vasudevan Nair M. V. Pylee Madavoor Vasudevan Nair Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai O. V. Vijayan P. K. Warrier Palghat Mani Iyer Pothan Joseph Prem Nazir Raghavan Thirumulpad Ramankutty Nair Satish Nambiar # T. J. S. George T. K. Oommen T. N. Krishnan * T. V. Gopalakrishnan T. V. R. Shenoy Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Thayil John Cherian Thomas Kailath # Trichur V. Ramachandran V. K. Narayana Menon Vainu Bappu # Vallathol Narayana Menon Verghese Kurien

Padma Bhushan (Female)	Balamani Amma Lakshmi N. Menon P. Leela Tara Cherian #

Padma Shri (Male)	A. Marthanda Pillai A. Sivathanu Pillai Adoor Gopalakrishnan Ammannur Madhava Chakyar Antony Padiyara Ayyappa Paniker Azad Moopen B. Paul Thaliath B. Ravi Pillai Balachandra Menon C. G. Krishnadas Nair Cheril Krishna Menon E. Sreedharan Eledath Thaikkattu Neelakandan Mooss Eluvathingal Devassy Jemmis G. Aravindan G. Shankar G. Vijayaraghavan Gopinath Pillai J. Hareendran Nair Jayaram Jose Chacko Periappuram K. J. Yesudas K. M. Cherian K. M. George K. M. Mammen Mappillai K. P. Haridas K. P. Udayabhanu K. Raghavan K. Ravindran Nair K. Shankar Pillai Kalamandalam Gopi Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair Kalamandalam Sivan Namboodiri Kandathil Mammen Cherian Kandathil Mammen Philip Kavungal Chathunni Panicker Keezhpadam Kumaran Nair Kunhiraman Palat Candeth Kunnenkeril K. Jacob Kurian John Melamparambil Kuzhivelil Mathew Laurie Baker ! M. A. Yousuf Ali M. G. Ramachandran # M. Krishnan Nair (doctor) M. Night Shyamalan # M. R. Kurup M. S. Valiathan M. Vijayan Madhu (actor) Mammen Mathew Mammootty Mani Madhava Chakyar Mathew Kalarickal Mattannoor Sankarankutty Mitraniketan Viswanathan Mohanlal N. Kesava Panikkar N. R. Madhava Menon Narayana Panicker Kochupillai Neyyattinkara Vasudevan O. N. V. Kurup P. Gopinathan P. K. Narayanan Nambiar P. K. Rajagopalan P. K. Warrier P. Parameswaran Paul Pothen Perakath Verghese Benjamin Peruvanam Kuttan Marar Philip Augustine Prem Nazir Priyadarshan Pucadyil Ittoop John Puthenpurayil Mathew Joseph R. Marthanda Varma R. K. Krishna Kumar Rajagopalan Krishnan Resul Pookutty Shaji N. Karun Sooranad Kunjan Pillai Stanley John Sunny Varkey T. K. Alex T. N. Krishnan * Thayil John Cherian Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair Thilakan Thomas Kunnunkal Vaikom Muhammad Basheer Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair Vellayani Arjunan Verghese Kurien Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri

Padma Shri (Female)	Achamma Mathai Anju Bobby George Dipika Pallikal # K. M. Beenamol K. S. Chithra Kalamandalam Kshemavathy Kalamandalam Satyabhama Leela Omchery Lucy Oommen M. D. Valsamma M. Leelavathy M. Subhadra Nair Mary Poonen Lukose Mary Verghese P. T. Usha Pepita Seth ! Rachel Thomas (skydiver) Shiny Abraham Shobana Sudha Varghese Sugathakumari Sukumari Thangam Philip Usha Uthup Vidya Balan *

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