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Maniyanpilla Raju

Maniyanpilla Raju

Acting

Biography

Sudheer Kumar, better known by his stage name Maniyanpilla Raju, is an Indian film actor and producer who appears in Malayalam films. His stage name is derived from the name of the character he played in the film Maniyanpilla Adhava Maniyanpilla (1981), his break-through role. His debut film was Mohiniyattam (1976) directed by Sreekumaran Thampi. He has played a variety of roles as a character actor, starring in over 400 films

Known For

Annan Thambi
5.3

Appu and Achu are twin brothers who do not get along with each other since childhood. When their enemies create misunderstandings between them, they bay for each other's blood.

Annan Thambi

2008
Lal Salam
10.0

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

2017
Prathichaya
3.3

After Kerala’s Chief Minister dies in a scandal engineered by a ruthless media tycoon, his son a brilliant tech entrepreneur enters the blood-soaked arena of politics to expose the conspiracy, vindicate his father, and turn technology against those who weaponized it

Prathichaya

2026
Thudarum
7.5

A taxi driver finds himself embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy after his car is confiscated by a corrupt police officer.

Thudarum

2025
Premam
7.5

Three stages in George's life, and three girls he encounters in each stage.

Premam

2015
Pathinettam Padi
5.3

Students of two schools in Thiruvananthapuram that cater to different economical classes are in a tussle. While one set struggles for survival, the other is busy finding joy in drugs. The two groups keep finding reasons to mess with each other. Will they find the purpose of their lives amid the chaos?

Pathinettam Padi

2019
Bha. Bha. Ba.
3.8

After the Chief Minister of Kerala is kidnapped, a determined investigator is brought in to track down the mysterious abductor, uncovering hidden motives and secrets behind the crime.

Bha. Bha. Ba.

2025
Jai Mahendran
8.0

When Mahendran, a corrupt and manipulative deputy Thasildar, believes in getting things done through powerplay and influence within the system, becomes the victim of his own plans to sabotage an entire system in an attempt to safeguard his job and restore his reputation.

Jai Mahendran

2024
CIA: Comrade In America
6.0

A young Aji Mathew is a communist who goes the whole nine yards for the ideologies he believes in. When the girl he loves leaves to the US out of the blue and her parents fix her wedding, Aji is left with just a fortnight to reach the country albeit with no passport or visa. How far he is willing to go for love forms the plot.

CIA: Comrade In America

2017
Bangalore Days
7.6

A fun roller coaster ride about three young people, Aju, Divya and Kuttan who are cousins, reach Bangalore to dream, discover & explore!

Bangalore Days

2014
Nocturne Indien
6.9

The enigmatic but vivid imagery of this loosely plotted film is based on a similarly evocative novel by the Italian author Antonio Tabucchi, Noturno Indiano. An old friend of the hero's has been living in Bombay with a prostitute. His friend Peter Schlemihl (Otto Tausig) is a concentration camp survivor, who went to India after being captivated by a photograph he saw there. When the prostitute writes to him in Europe asking that he rescue his friend from a mysterious malaise, he flies into India to try and help. When he gets to Bombay, he discovers that his friend has disappeared. Following the clues left behind by the friend, and based on his acquaintance with him, he journeys to Madras to speak to a Theosophist dignitary there, and then journeys on to Portugues Goa. With each step of his journey, the hero (Jean-Hugues Anglade) becomes more identified with his friend, and re-enacts in his own person the transformations he must have experienced.

Nocturne Indien

1989
Ustad Hotel
7.5

When his father refuses to support his choice of a career, an aspiring chef tries to fulfil his dream by helping his grandfather run his small eatery.

Ustad Hotel

2012
Chithram
7.9

A young woman is dumped by her boyfriend just before the wedding as she will not be inheriting any wealth from her father. When the girl's father pays her a visit, she hires a man to act like her husband.

Chithram

1988
Adam Joan
5.7

Adam, a young man from Kerala, returns to Scotland upon learning that his family has been murdered and his daughter, Ila, kidnapped. He then sets out to find the offenders and rescue Ila.

Adam Joan

2017
Big B
7.2

Four brothers try to find the mystery behind the murder of woman who raised them.

Big B

2007
Arabeem Ottakom P. Madhavan Nayarum in Oru Marubhoomi Kadha
6.0

Madhavan Nair has over the years, finally managed to start leading a comfortable life in Abudhabi, when Meenakshi drops into his life from heaven. Love strikes, and in no time breaks, and a disheartened Nair finds himself lost in the desert along with Abdu, who spells disaster. The duo runs into Eliana , who has been kidnapped, and together they devise a new plan to mint some easy money.

Arabeem Ottakom P. Madhavan Nayarum in Oru Marubhoomi Kadha

2011
Aaram Thamburan
6.5

Jagannadhan moves to Kanimangalam and wins over the locals, but falls into trouble with Appan Thamburan, a feudal lord. It starts after he organises a festival that has been banned by Appan himself.

Aaram Thamburan

1997
Vellanakalude Naadu
7.9

Vellanakalude Nadu movie which is a political satire based against municipal mafia in the form of Buildings

Vellanakalude Naadu

1988
Narasimham
7.3

Poovalli Induchoodan (Mohanlal) is sentenced for six years prison life for murdering his classmate. Induchoodan, the only son of Justice Maranchery Karunakara Menon (Thilakan) was framed in the case by Manapally Madhavan Nambiar (Narayanan Nair) and his crony DYSP Sankaranarayanan (Bheeman Raghu) to take revenge on idealist judge Menon who had earlier given jail sentence to Manapally in a corruption case. The story begins with Induchoodan released and his father & mother coming to stay with him.

Narasimham

2000
Kauravar
6.8

Antony, a convict, wants revenge against Haridas, a police officer, for killing his family and arresting him. However, his motive changes when he discovers that his daughter is still alive.

Kauravar

1992