Mohanlal

Mohanlal is a famous Indian actor, producer, Playback singer, Distributor of Indian theater who works mainly in the Malayalam cinema. He has had a charming career for four decades, acted in more than 340 films. He has also acted in other regional Indian films.

Mohanlal was born on May 21, 1960, in the village of Elanthoor, Pathanamthitta District, Kerala. He is the youngest child of Viswanathan Nair, a former bureaucrat, and Santhakumari. He studied at the Thiruvananthapuram High School Government Model High School and earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Mahatma Gandhi College in Thiruvananthapuram.

He married Suchitra, daughter of Tamil film producer K.Balaji, on April 28, 1988. The couple has two children, Pranav Mohanlal and Vismaya Mohanlal. He launched a restaurant chain in India and Dubai called Mohanlal's Tastebuds. He is the co-founder, partner and chairman of Jose Thomas Performing Arts Centre (JTPac) in Thrippunithura, Kochi, an arts center for performing arts and music established in 2009.

Mohanlal first starred in the 1980 Malayalam romantic film 'Manjil Virinja Pookkal' as Narendran. He made his Tamil debut with the 1997 film 'Iruvar' as one of the lead roles alongside Prakash Raj. He landed a first leading role in Hindi in 2002 with the Film Company. In 2016, he debuted in Telugu with the film Manamantha.

Mohanlal has won five National Film Awards for acting, also nine Kerala State Film Awards and Filmfare Awards South and many other awards. For his contributions to Indian cinema, The Government of India honored him with India's fourth-highest civilian honor Padma Shri in 2001, and Padma Bhushan in 2019, which is India's third-highest civilian honor.