Poojappura Ravi
Also Known As: Pujappura Ravi, Poojapura Ravi
Biography: Poojappura Ravi is an Indian actor, primarily concentrating in Malayalam films doing comedy roles.He was a stage actor and was a part of Kalanilyam Drama Vision, the famous drama institution. He started doing Malayalam films in mid-1970s. He has done many " black and white " movies produced in Kerala. Ravi is actually a very flexible character actor who can do almost any roles which is evident from his movies. Even though the exact count of his movies list are not updated, he has surpassed 600 films. In the 1990s he also did TV serials. Now he still continues as a busy actor in both Malayalam television and movies.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Male
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Charavalayam
Overview: Charavalayam is a 1988 Indian Malayalam film, directed and produced by K. S. Gopalakrishnan. The film stars Innocent, Lalu Alex, Santhosh and Priya in the lead roles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-05
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Muthukkudayum Choodi
Overview: A jobless bachelor finally gets lucky. But his greedy relatives are watching him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1989-09-05
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Sandyakkenthinu Sindhooram
Overview: Ambily gets pregnant from movie director Raghunath, who drives her out claiming that she was an enchantress. Ambili gives birth to a son and when he grows up she takes him to Raghunath.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1984-11-03
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Aayiram Chirakulla Moham
Overview: A group of researchers encounter a young unmarried couple at a beachside location. After an initial annoyance, the group befriends them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Rowdy Ramu
Overview: Ramu, a farmer, fights against an evil landlord when he uses illegal ways to make money. He faces many challenges when the landlord tries to plot against him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1978-02-17
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Kadathu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1981-10-30
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Isaac Newton S/O Philipose
Overview: Isaac is given the condition that he can only marry his girlfriend, Annie, if he passes his SSLC exams. However, things take a turn when another man sets his eyes on Annie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 2013-01-11
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Kannezhuthi Pottum Thottu
Overview: Bhadra wants to take revenge against Natesan who had murdered her parents 15 years before.
Genres: Thriller Romance Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1999-08-15
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Mazha Peyyunnu Maddalam Kottunnu
Overview: Mazha Peyyunnu Maddalam Kottunnu is a 1986 Malayalam comedy film directed by Priyadarshan. Starring Mohanlal, Mukesh, Lizy, Sreenivasan, Jagathi Sreekumar, Maniyanpilla Raju, and Kuthiravattam Pappu in the main roles. This film was a huge hit in theaters and is considered as one of the best comedy films in Malayalam cinema.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1986-01-25
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Nandi Veendum Varika
Overview: Nandi Veendum Varika is a 1986 Indian Malayalam film, directed by P. G. Viswambharan and produced by M. Sunil Kumar. The film stars Mammootty, Suresh Gopi, Urvashi, M. G. Soman and Sreenivasan in lead roles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1986-08-12
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Aayirappara
Overview: In a time of rapid social and economic changes, a group of villagers resort to a revolution against the systematic exploitation meted out by moneylenders and politicians.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1993-02-03
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Harikrishnans
Overview: When Guptan, a college lecturer, gets killed, the police suspect Gabriel to be the murderer. A girl takes help from her brothers, who are famous lawyers, in proving his innocence.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller Romance
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1998-06-22
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Janathipathyam
Overview: Janathipathyam movie is all about the communist party wins the assembly election but their proposed chief minister candidate loses the election. The party chief Bhattathirippadu suggests the name of R D Nayanar (Suresh Gopi) for the top post in Kerala. Nayanar, who was the former asst city police commissioner of Trivandrum has his own reasons to come back to the city. He has to take the revenge.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1997-06-22
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Agnidevan
Overview: Agnidevan is a 1995 Malayalam film directed by Venu Nagavalli. The film stars Mohanlal, Revathi Menon, Devan and Bharath Gopi in lead roles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1995-07-04
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Pathamudayam
Overview: B. G. Menon recruits Vikrman, a criminal and the lookalike of Jayamohan, an honest cop who was killed by Lion C. Menon's men, to nab him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1985-07-04
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Poochakkoru Mookkuthi
Overview: Poochakkoru Mookkuthi movie tells Revathi (Menaka) who comes to the city from a small town in search of job and to have a good life and as it is with everyone her problem starts with finding a house. Shyam (Shankar) loves to become a popular singer. His parents are dead against his will. So he runs away from home and needs a shelter. Revathi accidentally meets Shyam who too is in search of a house through the common Milkboy, Chikku(Baiju). Chikku offers them both a house if they are ready to pose as husband and wife in front of the house owners.Supran (Poojapura Ravi), a lender, a miser who doesn
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1984-07-04
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Freedom
Overview: Complications arise when Lalan, a crook, returns from jail and learns that his friend Majeed has turned into a gangster.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 2004-02-13
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Manyanmar
Overview: Two thieves (Mukesh and Sreenivasan) become targets of the two rival crime gangs and the police after they are wrongly accused of attempted murder when robbing a hotel.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1992-04-28
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Njangalude Kochu Doctor
Overview: The movie opens with Revathi coming with his son to visit Balachandra Menon’s house where only his grandmother Sukumari lives now. Menon’s son, during the stay at his house, asks Sukumari who is his father and the movie cuts to the flashback.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1989-01-26
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Odaruthammava Aalariyam
Overview: Gopan, Kora, and Bhakthavalsan are three college students who share same house along with Prem, another classmate. While the trio is more interested in loafing their time by flirting with girls, Prem is more serious in his attitude towards life. On a usual encounter, the trio meets Major Nair, a retired man in his fifties, who but loves romancing young girls. After a series of ego clashes, Nair learns that the trio is trying to woo his daughter Minu. Nair, enraged, challenges them to make his daughter fall for them.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1984-05-07
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The Car
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1997-02-03
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Aalavattam
Overview: Kesavankutty (Nedumudi Venu) is the head of an aristocratic family in Kerala. Despite financial troubles that he faces, he never lets anyone know about these including his wife Urmila (Shanthi Krishna) and grandmother (KPAC Lalitha). To keep his struggling family business going he ends up taking loans at huge interests and ends up in a trap of debt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1993-01-30
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Superstar
Overview: Superstar tells the story of a barber Nanappan, who is the look alike of Superstar "Madanraj" and how he uses it to his advantage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1990-02-14
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Mutharamkunnu P.O.
Overview: A post-master named Dilip Kumar re-locates to work in Mutharamkunnu. Once there, he sets about to meet the local residents and finds out that they are obsessed with wrestling. He meets with a proud and retired wrestler, Kuttan Pillai, and subsequently gets smitten by his daughter, Amminikutty. When he finds out that she an ardent fan of Mammooty, he lets it known that he is the latter's close friend. He intercepts her fan-mail, and even corresponds with her.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1985-06-14
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Pavam I. A. Ivachan
Overview: Pavam I. A. Ivachan is a 1994 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Roy P Thomas, starring Innocent and Srividya in the lead roles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1994-12-25
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Nariman
Overview: The film portrays an aggressive and belligerent police officer named Nariman who investigates a murder case for which an innocent man is falsely accused.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 2001-10-30
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Achaneyanenikkishtam
Overview: The story is about a poor lorry driver named Bhaskaran (Kalabhavani Mani), who tries to give his son Kunjunni (Ashwin Thampi), a good education by sending him to a very expensive school. The rest of the story revolves around the events Kunjunni goes through in his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 2001-10-31
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Konthayum Poonoolum
Overview: The movie deals with the trials and tribulations of multiple disconnected characters trying to find meaning in the spiritual and super natural experiences they have. The intertwining story threads include a baker (Kunchako) going to meet his pregnant wife (Bhama), a moneylender (Manoj K Jayan) with an imaginary friend (Saiju Kurup), an atheist policeman (Kalabhavan Mani) who is unfaithful to his wife, an old man (Janardhanan) whose daughter (Anju Aravind) gets into a road accident, a photographer (Joy Mathew) and a college girl (Sarayu) trying to prank her room mates.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 2014-03-14
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Kilukkam
Overview: Nandini is an illegitimate child who comes to Ooty in search of her father. She meets Joji, a tourist guide, and pretends to be mentally unstable in order to get shelter in his house.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1991-08-15
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Charithram
Overview: Philip (Mammootty) is the owner of a financing company. Raju (Rahman), Philip's younger brother is a drug addict and is put under rehab. Convinced that he's out of his habit Philip sends him off to Madras to pursue his studies. However on a subsequent visit to the city Philip realises that Raju has gone back to his old habits. Amidst this Raju steals some money and gets away in Philip's car which meets with an accident killing him. Years later Philip gets married to Cicily (Sobhana) and one day mysteriously Raju comes back to their house alive.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1989-01-25
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Pooram
Overview: Appu works as an assistant in a theatre troupe. However, due to some unexpected turn of events, the theatre director makes him his lead actor, which changes his life for the better.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1989-01-06
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Guppy
Overview: The story revolves around a boy named Guppy(Master Chethan) who finds his living out of rearing and selling the small fish Guppy. Guppy has this dream of buying an automatic wheel chair for his ailing mother (Rohini). Things gets into turmoil when Engineer Thejus Varkey (Tovino Thomas) comes to the seaside village for the construction of a railway bridge. Many unexpected things occur when a small rivalry starts between Guppy and Engineer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 2016-08-05
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Muthodu Muthu
Overview: Muthodumuthu is a 1984 Indian Malayalam film, directed and produced by M. Mani. The film stars Sukumari, Adoor Bhasi, Shankar and Menaka in lead roles. The film had musical score by Shyam
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1984-09-06
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Enikkum oru Divasam
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Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1982-10-22
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Darvinte Parinamam
Overview: The film revolves around the life of an ordinary man and a local goon and how their lives get changed due to some unfortunate events.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 2016-03-18
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Manjadikuru
Overview: A story of homecoming from late 1970s, when 10 year old Vicky arrives at his grandparents home in rural Kerala to attend his grandfather's funeral. The disjointed family gathers together for the sixteen day long funeral period. During this period, Vicky discovers more about himself, his family and culture than he had expected to. The journey is narrated through the memories of an adult Vicky who returns to the same house to recount the experience.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 2008-12-17
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Thacholi Ambu
Overview: Thacholi Ambu is a 1978 Malayalam-language film starring Prem Nazir, Sivaji Ganesan, Ravikumar and Jayan. Directed and produced by Navodaya Appachan, it was the first cinemascope film in Malayalam. Prem Nazir played the title role in the film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1978-10-27
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Kilichundan Mampazham
Overview: A young man tries to rescue the woman he loves after she is forced into marrying another.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 2003-04-11
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August 15
Overview: The film is a sequel to the 1988 film August 1, which was directed by Sibi Malayil, and written by S. N. Swamy. Following from August 1, Mammootty plays the character of the Crime Branch officer Perumal who investigates into an attempt of assassination on the chief minister of Kerala on the 15th of August, the Independence Day of India.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 2011-03-24
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Pilots
Overview: Bobby (Suresh Gopi) comes to high range as a helicopter pilot working for Robinson (Sreenivasan). His job is to spray copper sulphate (thurisu) in the rubber plantations. He is assisted by Venkidi (Manian Pillai Raju), Nandu and Indrans. He faced some resistance from local workers like Chako (Jagathy Sreekumar). He also had to save Robinson from many troubles.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Kallan Kappalil Thanne
Overview: Appukuttan receives a letter, for a job offer for his brother who is a good kalari fighter, to do some rogue work for a swami in another town. Appukuttan goes to the town with the letter and pretends to be his brother, in order to get the job and provide money for his poor family. There he falls in love with the swami's daughter which leads to trouble later.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1992-04-16
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Thenum Vayambum
Overview: Sridevi, the new teacher of a boarding school, has to deal with Sunil, a difficult student and the only son of Menon, a widower.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1981-11-17
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Kuyiline Thedi
Overview: Syam goes to a village in search of his uncle to get a job. He falls in love with a girl, but problems start when a womanizer tries to disturb her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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Vanitha Police
Overview: The story revolves around Vanitha who helps her friend suffering from a mental disability.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1984-06-11
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Engane Nee Marakkum
Overview: Friends Shambu and Premkumar fall in love with the same girl, Shobha, and are unaware about it. Matters become more complex when another person also begins to woo her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1983-10-14
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Kilikkonchel
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1984-05-24
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Itha Innu Muthal
Overview: Widowed Nair, who owns a firm, lived with his only daughter, Sindhu. Nair's nephew, Gopi eyes to marry Sindhu. After knowing Gopi's intentions, Sindhu elopes with her lover Shankar.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1984-11-23
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Nettippattam
Overview: Peethambaran (Sreenivasan) is an unemployed man who is addicted to solving other people's problems. He gives more priority to the people in his village than his family. His well intended actions though leads him to troubling situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1991-11-22
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Highway Police
Overview: Two young men Mammad (Babu Antony) and Circle Inspector Jayachandran (Riaz Khan) team up in their war against an underground mafia and smuggling ring while also avenging the deaths of their loved ones.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 2006-06-09
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Seetha Kalyanam
Overview: Sreeni, a simpleton has a high paying job in Bangalore. His mother, who is traditional to the core, is looking for the perfect match for him. Sreeni is a butt of the joke among his female colleagues and they tease him by pretending to flirt with him. The leader among them is Nimisha. Their relationship is purely platonic. Meanwhile, his mother succeeds in finding a traditional girl in Abhirami; brought up in an Aghraharam. Later, Nimisha realizes all on a sudden one day, that she had been long in love with Sreeni. Abhi, on the other hand has her own personal battles to deal with, since she had always been in love with Ambi.
Genres: Romance Family
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 2009-11-14
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Sayoojyam
Overview: Sayoojyam is a 1979 Indian Malayalam film, directed by G. Premkumar and produced by Sukuprasad. The film stars Jayabharathi, M. G. Soman, Jayan and Thikkurissi Sukumaran Nair in the lead roles. The film has musical score by K. J. Joy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1979-07-20
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Ormakal Marikkumo?
Overview: Chandrasekharan suspects his wife Parvati of cheating and kills her. After several years, she reincarnates as Amini and tells him the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1977-08-26
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Veendum Chalikkunna Chakram
Overview: Pramila's mother reveals to her that she was married twice and both her husbands had left her. Pramila later falls in love with Jose and discovers that he is her brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1984-02-17
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Love Story
Overview: Love Story is a love story following the rich boy meets the poor girl formula
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-24
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Naranathu Thamburan
Overview: Ananthan Unni falls in love with Hemlatha, a poor girl. As per the will written, he has to produce a heir, or else his property will be taken over by the Government.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 2001-06-18
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