Lal (actor)

Lal

Born	M.P. Michael (1958-12-02) 2 December 1958 Kochi, Kerala, India
Occupation	Screenwriter, actor, director, producer, distributor
Years active	1984 – present
Spouse(s)	Nancy
Children	Jean Paul Lal Monika
Parent(s)	M. A. Paul, Philomina
Awards	National Film Awards Special Jury – Actor (2012) Kerala State Awards: Best Popular Film (1991) Best Actor (2008, 2013)

M. P. Michael (2 December 1958), better known by his stage name Lal, is an Indian film director, actor, script writer, producer, and film distributor widely known for his work in Malayalam cinema.

Career

Early career

He started his career as a mimicry artist in Kalabhavan,^[1] along with his childhood friend Siddique, who would later team up as Siddique-Lal to make many films. Lal and Siddique joined as assistant directors to Fazil in 1984.^[2]

Actor

After that, both decided to part ways as a director pair and Lal turned producer with the Siddique-directed Mammootty-starrer Hitler.^[2] Lal debuted in acting with a villain role as Paniyan in Suresh Gopi-starrer Kaliyattam, directed by Jayaraj. Kaliyattam was a new take on Othello, where Lal played Paniyan, the character standing for Iago.

Awards

National Film Awards – Special Mention – Ozhimuri (2012)^[3]

Filmography

Actor

Malayalam

Year	Film	Role	Language
1994	Manathe Kottaram	Guest at the wedding	Malayalam
1997	Kaliyattam	Paniyan/Iago	Malayalam
1998	Punjabi House	Sikkandar Singh	Malayalam
	Daya	Kombanana	Malayalam
	Kanmadam	Johny	Malayalam
	Ormacheppu	Jeevan	Malayalam
1999	Friends	Man at the Park	Malayalam
	Chandranudikkunna Dikhil	Parthan	Malayalam
	Jananayakan	Misra	Malayalam
2000	Mazha	Chandran	Malayalam
	Arayannangalude Veedu	Sukumaran	Malayalam
	Nakshathragal Parayathirunnathu	Gowrishankar	Malayalam
	Thenkasipattanam	Dasappan	Malayalam
2001	Ee Nadu Ennalevare	Plappalli Sreedharan	Malayalam
	One Man Show	Hari Narayanan	Malayalam
	Randam Bhavam	Mohammad Ibrahim	Malayalam
	Unnathangalil	Shiva	Malayalam
2002	Ente Hridayathinte Udama	Pavitran	Malayalam
	Kannaki	Manikyan	Malayalam
	Kalyanaraman	Thekkedathu Achuthankutty	Malayalam
	Krishna Gopalakrishna	Swamiji	Malayalam
2003	Pulival Kalyanam	Karunan	Malayalam
	Anyar	Raghavan	Malayalam
	Sinkari Bolona	Deva Sharma	Malayalam
	Uthara	Ambi	Malayalam
2004	Ee Snehatheerathu	Chinnappa Gounder	Malayalam
	Chathikkatha Chanthu	Film director Ravikumar	Malayalam
	Black	Devin Carlos Padaveedan	Malayalam
2005	Chanthupottu	Divakaran	Malayalam
	Thommanum Makkalum	Sathyan	Malayalam
	Banglavil Outha	Outha	Malayalam
2006	The Don	Kasim Baba	Malayalam
	Pothan Vava		Malayalam
	Oruvan	Bharathan	Malayalam
2007	Rock N Roll	Issac	Malayalam
	Before the Rains	Rajat	English
	Time	Dr. Srinivasa Iyengar	Malayalam
	Panthaya Kozhi	Raghavan	Malayalam
2008	Thalappavu	S. Raveendran Pillai	Malayalam
	Twenty:20	Radhakrishnan	Malayalam
	Pachamarathanalil	Mohammed Ali	Malayalam
	Aayudham	Swami Antony Williams	Malayalam
2009	Thirunakkara Perumal		Malayalam
2010	Anwar	Babu Sait	Malayalam
	Aagathan	Major George Joseph	Malayalam
	April Fool	Dr. Mohana Chandran	Malayalam
	Penpattanam	Inspector Antony	Malayalam
	Best Actor	Vandippetta Shaji	Malayalam
	Shikkar	Cameo in a song	Malayalam
	Kandahar		Malayalam
2011	Payyans	John Varghese	Malayalam
	Salt N' Pepper	Kalathipparampil Kalidasan	Malayalam
	Bombay March 12		Malayalam
	Doctor Love	Cameo	Malayalam
	Vellaripravinte Changathi	As Himself	Malayalam
2012	Father's Day		Malayalam
	Unnam	Sunny	Malayalam
	Cobra	Kari (Karimoorkhan)	Malayalam
	Ozhimuri	Thanupillai & Sivanpillai	Malayalam
	Scene Onnu Nammude Veedu	Ottappalam Unni	Malayalam
	Chettayees	John	Malayalam
	Little Master		Malayalam
	Husbands in Goa	Sunny	Malayalam
2013	Maad Dad	Palachottil Geevargees Kuriyakose Easo	Malayalam
	Shutter	Rasheed	Malayalam
	Isaac Newton S/O Philipose	Isaac Newton	Malayalam
	Kaattum Mazhayum	Hajiyar	Malayalam
	Abhiyum Njaanum	Nandan Menon	Malayalam
	Ayaal	Gurudasan	Malayalam
	Honey Bee	HC Michael	Malayalam
	Buddy	Michael Dominic Savio	Malayalam
	Sringaravelan	Yesudas	Malayalam
	Zachariayude Garbhinikal	Zacharia	Malayalam
	Idukki Gold	Behnnan	Malayalam
	Vishudhan	Mathew Pokkiriyachan	Malayalam
	10:30 am Local Call	Nimmy's father	Malayalam
	Kadhaveedu	Major Frederick Mukundan	Malayalam
2014	Happy Journey	Gopikrishnan	Malayalam
	God's Own Country	Mohammad	Malayalam
	Iyobinte Pustakam	Iyob	Malayalam
	Hi I'm Tony	Tony Kurishingal	Malayalam
	Nagaravaridhi Naduvil Njan		Malayalam
2015	Ennu Ninte Moideen		Malayalam
2016	Swargathekkal Sundaram		Malayalam
	32aam adhyayam 23aam vaakyam		Malayalam
	Puli Murugan		Malayalam

Tamil

Asurakulam (2016)
Chandi Veeran (2015)
Kutti Puli (2013)
Porkkalam (2010)
Azhagar Malai (2009)
Anthony Yaar? (2009)
Kaalai (2008)
Deepavali (2007)
Aalwar (2007)
Rameswaram (2007)
Oram Po (2007)
Marudhamalai (2007)
Sandakozhi (2005)
Engal Anna (2004)

Telugu

Annavaram (2006)
Khatarnak (2006)

Producer

Tournament (2010)
In Ghost House Inn (2010)
2 Harihar Nagar (2009)
Panthaya Kozhi (2007)
Pothan Vava (2006)
Chanthupottu (2005)
Thommanum Makkalum (2005)
Black (2004)
Chathikkatha Chanthu (2004)
Pulival Kalyanam (2003)
Kalyanaraman (2002)
Thenkasippattanam (2000)
Friends (1999)
Superman (1997)
Hitler (1996)

Distributed films

Violin (2011)
Elsamma Enna Aankutty (2010)
Thalappavu (2008)
Cycle (2007)
Thommanum Makkalum (2005)
Banglavil Outha (2004)
Swapnakkoodu (2001)
One Man Show (2001)

Writer

Cobra: Kottayam Brothers (2012)
Tournament (2010)
In Ghost House Inn (2010)
2 Harihar Nagar (2009)
Hera Pheri (2000) (story)
'Mannar Mathai Speaking (1995) (as Siddique Lal)
Kabuliwala (1993) (as Siddique Lal)
Vietnam Colony (1992) (as Siddique Lal)
Makkal Maahathmiam (1992) (story) (as Siddique Lal)
Godfather (1991) (as Siddique Lal)
In Harihar Nagar (1990) (as Siddique Lal)
Ramji Rao Speaking (1989) (as Siddique Lal)
Manivathoorile Aayiram Sivarathrikal (1987) (Script supervisor and assistant, as Siddique Lal)
Nadodikkattu (1987) (story idea)
Pappan Priyappetta Pappan (1986) (as Siddique Lal)
Pappachan(1988)

Director

King Liar (2016)
Cobra: Kottayam Brothers (2012)
Tournament - Play & Replay (2010)
In Ghost House Inn (2010)
2 Harihar Nagar (2009)
Mannar Mathai Speaking (1995) (with Siddique as Siddique Lal)
Kabooliwala (1994) (with Siddique as Siddique Lal)
Vietnam Colony (1992) (with Siddique as Siddique Lal)
Godfather (1991) (with Siddique as Siddique Lal)
In Harihar Nagar (1990) (with Siddique as Siddique Lal)
Ramji Rao Speaking (1989) (with Siddique as Siddique Lal)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Manichithrathazhu (1993) (second unit director)
Manivathoorile Aayiram Sivarathrikal (1987) (assistant director)

References

↑ http://www.cochinkalabhavan.com/contribution.html
1 2 Acting is easy, direction most satisfying: Filmmaker Lal
↑ "A Great year for Malayalam cinema, say National award winners". mathrubhumi.com. 25 March 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2013.

External links

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 171731868

National Film Award—Special Jury Award (Feature Film)

1978–1980

No Award (1978) No Award (1979) No Award (1980)

Special Mention	Mrinal Sen and Muzaffar Ali (1978) No Award (1979) No Award (1980)

1981–2000

Satyajit Ray (1981) No Award (1982) Mankada Ravi Varma (1983) T. S. Ranga (1984) Sudha Chandran (1985) John Abraham (1986) M. B. Sreenivasan (1987) Ashok Ahuja (1988) Amitabh Chakraborty (1989) Pankaj Kapur, Sunny Deol and Jayabharathi (1990) Soumitra Chatterjee (1991) Sivaji Ganesan and Ketan Mehta (1992) Shashi Kapoor and Pallavi Joshi (1993) Radhu Karmakar and Shaji N. Karun (1994) Shyam Benegal (1995) Amol Palekar and Kirron Kher (1996) Jaimala (1997) Drishyakavya and Ashoke Viswanathan (1998) Kalabhavan Mani (1999) Soumitra Chatterjee (2000)

Special Mention	No Award (1981) No Award (1982) Kumar Shahani (1983) No Award (1984) No Award (1985) Sandip Ray (1986) No Award (1987) Aamir Khan (1988) Anupam Kher and Mohanlal (1989) Anoubham Kiranmala (1990) Mamata Shankar and Raveendran (1991) Sibaprasad Sen (1992) Tahir Hussain, Mahesh Bhatt, Jugal Debata and Susant Misra (1993) Mahesh Mahadevan, Bishnu Kharghoria and S. Kumar (1994) Uttara Baokar, Rohini and Benaf Dadachandji (1995) Dolon Roy and Bhagirathee (1996) Akkineni Nagarjuna and Jomol (1997) Dasari Narayana Rao, Prakash Raj and Manju Warrier (1998) Mohan Joshi, Manju Borah and Kavitha Lankesh (1999) No Award (2000)

2001–present

Janaki Vishwanathan (2001) Prakash Raj (2002) Manoj Bajpai, Roopkatha and Goutam Halder (2003) J. Phillip (2004) Anupam Kher (2005) Vishal Bhardwaj (2006) Anil Kapoor and Feroz Abbas Khan (2007) NFDC and K. M. Madhusudhanan (2008) A. Sreekar Prasad (2009) Bindiya Khanolkar, Sachin Khanolkar and Anant Mahadevan (2010) Anjan Dutt (2011) Rituparno Ghosh and Nawazuddin Siddiqui (2012) Viva In En, Mahesh Limaye, Future East Film Pvt Ltd and Ashim Ahluwalia (2013) Bhaurao Karhade (2014) Kalki Koechlin (2015)

Special Mention	Dilip Doley and Narayan Seal (2001) Jyothirmayi (2002) H. G. Dattatreya and Nedumudi Venu (2003) Gurdas Maan and Pradeep Nair (2004) No Award (2005) Thilakan and Prosenjit Chatterjee (2006) No Award (2007) No Award (2008) Padmapriya Janakiraman (2009) K. Shivaram Karanth and V. I. S. Jayabalan (2010) Mallika and Sherrey (2011) Lal, H. G. Dattatreya, Bishnu Kharghoria, Parineeti Chopra, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Hansraj Jagtap and Thilakan (2012) Gauri Gadgil, Sanjana Rai and Anjali Patil (2013) Musthafa, Palomi Ghosh, Parth Bhalerao (2014) Rinku Rajguru, Jayasurya, and Ritika Singh (2015)

Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor

1969–1980	Sathyan (1969) Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair (1970) Sathyan (1971) Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair (1972) P. J. Antony (1973) Adoor Bhasi (1974) Sudheer (1975) M. G. Soman (1976) Bharath Gopi (1977) Sukumaran (1978) Adoor Bhasi (1979) Achankunju (1980)

1981–2000	Nedumudi Venu (1981) Bharath Gopi (1982–1983) Mammootty (1984) Bharath Gopi (1985) Mohanlal (1986) Nedumudi Venu (1987) Premji (1988) Mammootty (1989) Thilakan (1990) Mohanlal (1991) Murali (1992) Mammootty (1993) Thilakan (1994) Mohanlal (1995) Murali (1996) Suresh Gopi (1997) Murali (1998) Mohanlal (1999) O. Madhavan (2000)

2001–present	Murali (2001) Oduvil Unnikrishnan (2002) Nedumudi Venu (2003) Mammootty (2004) Mohanlal (2005) Prithviraj Sukumaran (2006) Mohanlal (2007) Lal (actor) (2008) Mammootty (2009) Salim Kumar (2010) Dileep (2011) Prithviraj Sukumaran (2012) Fahadh Faasil and Lal (actor) (2013) Sudev Nair and Nivin Pauly (2014)

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