Kaviyoor Ponnamma
Acting
Biography
Kaviyoor Ponnamma (10 September 1945 – 20 September 2024) was an Indian actress who appeared in Malayalam films and television. She began her career performing in theatre dramas before foraying into cinema. She also acted in TV serials and commercials and had playback singing credits in few films Ponnamma was a four-time Kerala State Film Award for Second Best Actress winner. Often called as the "mother to all actors", she acted as mother of almost all actors in her career spanning over decades. At the age of 20, she played the mother of older actors Sathyan and Madhu in Thommente Makkal (1965). She particularly gained critical acclaim for acting as the mother of Mohanlal. As a five-year-old, she learned music and sang in stage shows. In 1958, she was spotted by Kerala People's Arts Club (KPAC) who was looking for a girl who can sing in their stage play. They also gave her the role of heroine in Mooladhanam, her debut stage drama at age 13. It was directed by Thoppil Bhasi. After five years came her first movie Kudumbini, in which she did the title role of the mother of two children. Ponnamma died from cancer at Lissie Hospital in Kochi, Kerala, on 20 September 2024, at the age of 79.
Known For
Lal Salam is an Indian entertainment talk show hosted by actor Mohanlal on Amrita TV. The show is themed around Mohanlal's film career, it also introduces and honours humanitarians and social workers, and has other interactive and performance segments. It is the first television presentation by Mohanlal, hosted alongside Meera Nandan.
Lal Salam
A group of Indian Forest Service officers, NGO workers, police constables and good samaritans risk their lives trying to track down the biggest elephant ivory poachers in the history of India and bring them to justice.
Poacher
A retired judge faces difficulty keeping his daughter safe from a convict he imprisoned. Later, when he gets murdered, a man with visual impairment who was loyal to him tries to defend his daughter.
Oppam
Sathya, a jobless youth who does not like injustice becomes a puppet in the hands of a corrupt politician, and unknowingly helps him in his malicious endeavors.
Sathya
Goparajan / Gopan, a native of Neyyattinkara and a real estate tycoon buys a large piece of land in Chittur for a construction purpose, but on his arrival, he learns that the residents are forcefully and unlawfully evicted from their properties by an Andhra based real estate mafia using illegal land acquisition rules with support from the local authorities and government officials.
Aaraattu
Professor Kurian Fernandez escapes from jail with his cellmate Raghu. Inspectors, Unnikrishnan and K.Purushothaman Nair are sent to track him down. They follow Kurian Fernadez's daughter to track him.
Vandanam
A young man narrates two conflicting accounts of his life, changing the details and incidents in both, as he slowly approaches madness.
Anantaram
Madhavan Mahadevan, who comes into the city from a village to see off his sister-in-law and her daughter after the death of his elder brother, an upright Customs Officer (KB Ganesh Kumar). While running around to claim the insurance money, he comes to know that his brother was actually murdered by the underworld don Irumbanakkal John (Joy Mathew).
Avatharam
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.
Manjadikuru
After his retirement, Raghavan Nair (Thilakan) is back at his home. His long cherished dream to spend his retired life along with his family is thwarted after seeing his two sons brawling each other over their political differences.
Sandhesam
Mathukkutty, an unemployed man, lives in Germany with his bossy wife. He is given a chance to travel to Kerala to invite famous actors for an event, but all hell breaks loose after his arrival.
Kadal Kadannu Oru Maathukutty
Unni due to financial problems becomes the renowned smuggler Valayar Paramasivam in the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border check post Walayar.
Runway
Kunju Lakshmi is the youngest daughter of the aristocratic Kavumpattu family in Peruvannapuram. She is pampered by her brothers and is a little arrogant. The family owns the local college. Sivasankaran comes to the college as a peon to replace the Padmanabhan who fails to give the promised donation to the Kavumpattu family in return for the job. In the meantime a love note that was written for Kunju by a classmate ends up in her book and she accuses Sivasankar of writing her the letter. Kunju gets into a fight with Sivasankaran. Her brothers join the fight and Sivasankaran declares that he will marry Kunju in 15 days.
Peruvannapurathe Visheshangal
Mathews has a farm which is the envy of everyone in the village. It catches the attention of a dirty land dealer who traps him in a vicious bureaucratic web to take it from him.
Ividam Swargamanu
Directed by Sandhya Mohan, and written by Siby K. Thomas and Udaykrishnan, Amma Ammayiamma is a 1998 Comedy/Drama film . Mukesh and Sukanya are starring, alongside Kaviyoor Ponnamma, Sukumari, Harisree Asokan and Innocent.
Amma Ammayiamma
Ananthanpilla, a policeman, is killed by a smuggler. His son and his friend, a crime novelist, enlist Ananthanpilla's estranged brother Achuthanpilla, a thief, to masquerade as the former to nab the killers.
Mukhamudra
Identical twins Revathy and Aswathy are married to Balu and Gopi respectively. Their happy lives are turned upside down when a man from their past comes back and haunts them.
Ithu Manjukaalam
When the daughter of a minister gets kidnapped, Christy is called upon to rescue her. Although he manages to save her, he himself gets embroiled in the kidnapper's murder.
Christian Brothers
The Malabar rebellion, more popularly known as the Mappila Lahala, has a dramatic impact on the lives of everyone involved.
1921
In Bangalore, Nanda is in love with a leading architect Narendaran. When Narendran dies, Nanda escorts his body to his homeland in Kerala. To her surprise she sees Narendran's twin brother Unni, who looks exactly like Narendran. She thinks Narendran is not dead and everyone is trying to fool her. Narendran's parents want Nanda to marry Unni but he is already in love with Bhadra.