T. P. Madhavan

Acting

T. P. Madhavan

Born — Died

1935-11-07 — 2024-10-09

Place of birth

Thiruvananthapuram, Kingdom of Travancore

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

T. P. Madhavan was an Indian actor who worked in Malayalam films. He began acting at age 40 and appeared in over 600 films. Initially known for playing antagonistic roles, he transitioned to comedic roles and to character roles in his later career.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 7 titles

Pokkiri Raja poster
5.3

Two estranged brothers , one a feared gangster and the other a spirited youngster, whose lives collide when crime and family honor intertwine. Their reunion sparks a battle of loyalty, power, and redemption set against a backdrop of high energy action and drama.

Pokkiri Raja

2010

Indian Rupee poster
7.4

Jayaprakash, a real estate agent aspiring for success in his field, experiences a paradigm shift in his outlook on life and work upon meeting Achutha Menon.

Indian Rupee

2011

Cinema Company poster
4.2

Four intimate friends who dream to make a film. Plot The film traces the journey of four friends as they strive to give life to their dream cinema. And how their lives are upturned as the cinema becomes their life.

Cinema Company

2012

The King & The Commissioner poster
4.4

Joseph Alex and Bharathchandran, two police officers, try to prevent Major Abu Jalal Rana, a terrorist, from attacking New Delhi.

The King & The Commissioner

2012

Ordinary poster
6.4

Iravi works as a bus conductor on a bus that shuttles between a city and a hill station. His life changes when he gets involved in the villager's problems.

Ordinary

2012

Makeup Man poster
5.2

Balachandran, a struggling man who is forced to pose as the makeup artist of his newly married wife when she unexpectedly becomes a film star. As he juggles jealousy, deception and fame, their secret marriage spirals into a series of comic and emotional twists.

Makeup Man

2011

Ayalum Njanum Thammil poster
7.7

Ravi, an irresponsible doctor, joins Dr Samuel's hospital as an intern. Dr Samuel tries to change the intern's attitude towards work and life, while Ravi has to fight his own inner demons after a breakup.

Ayalum Njanum Thammil

2012

2000s · 29 titles

Pandippada poster
6.7

Bhuvana wishes to sell his land to clear his debts. However, his life takes a turn for the worse when he finds himself caught in the power battle between two landlords.

Pandippada

2005

Twenty 20 poster
6.1

Advocate Ramesh saves Devan from a murder case. Later, he realize Devan was the actual culprit. Ramesh tries for a payback, unaware of Devan's real intentions and the reason for the murder.

Twenty 20

2008

Evidam Swargamanu poster
6.6

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.

Evidam Swargamanu

2009

Ayur Rekha poster
4.0

Doctor Aparna is the Managing Director of a hospital, whose divorce with her husband is in progress. However, when she is found dead, a police officer sets out to find the culprit

Ayur Rekha

2007

Ravanaprabhu poster
7.2

Karthikeyan, a liquor baron, sets out to take back his ancestral house which was usurped by Shekharan. To seek revenge, Karthikeyan abducts Shekharan's daughter and ends up falling in love with her.

Ravanaprabhu

2001

Prajapathi poster
4.1

Narayanan, who gets convicted for killing his father, returns from prison to his village and works selflessly for its people. However, his vengeful relatives create obstacles for him.

Prajapathi

2006

Anandabhadram poster
7.5

To honour his mother's final wish, Ananthan returns to his ancestral village from America and attempts to light a lamp at the family temple. However, his quest is thwarted by an evil magician named Digambaran who seeks to harness the temple's hidden powers.

Anandabhadram

2005

Thandavam poster
4.8

Brothers Kasinathan and Swaminathan strive for the good of their village. But after Swaminathan dies mysteriously, Kasi investigates and eventually becomes the new patriarch.

Thandavam

2002

Balram v/s Tharadas poster
4.3

When Balram nabs a cache of arms and ammunition, his investigations lead him to a criminal leader, Tharadas. However, it is not easy for Balram to catch Tharadas until he involves his girlfriend.

Balram v/s Tharadas

2006

The Tiger poster
6.3

Varma, a senior government official, who is about to expose an anti-corruption racket, is found dead under mysterious circumstances. Officer Chandrashekhar investigates the case to find the culprit.

The Tiger

2005

Naranathu Thamburan poster
5.5

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.

Naranathu Thamburan

2001

Mayavi poster
6.2

Mahi, a seasoned convict who is well-known for attacking his enemies stealthily, decides to murder someone in order to raise money for his friend.

Mayavi

2007

Chathikkatha Chanthu poster
7.1

Chanthu posts fake love letters to an imaginary girl Vasumathi, so that his landlord's daughter Indira who is in love with him won't pursue him. Things go awry when a real Vasumathi receives the letters and start looking for Chanthu

Chathikkatha Chanthu

2004

Nala Damayanthi poster
6.8

A village cook Ramji goes to Australia to become a chef at a multi-millionaire Indian's home. Unfortunately, the millionaire dies of indigestion the day Ramji arrives, leaving him jobless with an expired visa. Desperate to stay and earn, he starts working illegally as a cook, but to stay on, he needs to get legal. A solution comes up when Damayanthi, a free-spirited biker, agrees to marry the docile cook for a price.

Nala Damayanthi

2003

Vismayathumbathu poster
4.8

Sreekumar comes across a girl while visiting his childhood friend, Govindan Kutty. However, he later realises that she is the spirit of a student who disappeared a while ago.

Vismayathumbathu

2004

No artwork available
NR

After his mentor Viswanathan gets brutally murdered, Jitendra, an IPS officer, travels from London to investigate his death.

Udayam

2004

Nariman poster
5.8

An astute policeman, Ashok Nariman, is determined to get to the bottom of a murder case, for which a guiltless man has been declared guilty and is facing the likelihood of capital punishment.

Nariman

2001

Narasimham poster
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

Rajamanikyam poster
7.4

Bellary Raja is disowned by his stepfather in his childhood. Years later, his stepfather calls him to resolve the disputes between his children and makes him the caretaker of his properties.

Rajamanikyam

2005

Pilots poster
6.0

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.

Pilots

2000

Black poster
7.1

Devin Carlos Padaveedan and Shanmugham, who run a crime syndicate, turn foes when the latter wants to turn a new leaf and live a normal life.

Black

2004

Pauran poster
6.0

Diwakaran, an honest politician, raises his voice against the atrocities of his party. His life is no more a pleasant journey as he earns the wrath of other members of the party.

Pauran

2005

Bharathchandran I.P.S poster
4.9

Hyder Ali Hassan, a scheming politician, is in league with the underworld and runs a lot of illegal businesses. Balachandran, an IPS officer, is sent on a mission to capture him.

Bharathchandran I.P.S

2005

Natturajavu poster
5.2

Pulikkattil Charlie is an affluent and honest man who is forced to spend most of his time sorting out the mess left behind by his evil late father, Pulikattil Mathan.

Natturajavu

2004

Arayannangalude Veedu poster
6.8

The movie begins in Bhilai where Ravi tells his daughters that he will show them swans, once they are back at his native place, a place where people know only to love.Ravi who returns to his tharavaadu after a long time, where he was labelled as a Mudiyanaaya Puthran.But his dream and real facts stood very much apart.His elder brother and almost all his siblings tries to gang up against him, making the place which he called home, nothing short of hell.But he is determined to bring back the olden days.He could do justice to that to an extent. But in the end he decided to return to Bhilai , but this time taking his mother along. The movie ends he could show the arayannagal to his kids at his home itself.

Arayannangalude Veedu

2000

Yathrakarude Sradhakku poster
6.8

Two strangers pretend to be husband and wife in order to use a pre-reserved ticket bought from a scalper to get on a train, because of last second plans, find that their lives intersect and later fall in love.

Yathrakarude Sradhakku

2002

Smart City poster
4.2

Shekharan is a noble gangster and his trusted henchman is Madhvan. When the Kotturan brothers try to plot against Shekharan, Madhavan strives to save his employer from their evil intentions.

Smart City

2006

Rashtram poster
3.2

Maliakkal Ouseppachan is a politician. The chief minister of Kerala Janardhanan Kurup is his friend along with Saghav Gopalan. One day Janardhanan Kurup dies in hospital after having a heart attack at a meeting. he says to Ouseppachan that he wants him to be minister. Janardhanan Kurup dies after saying this. Ouseppachan thinks a lot about this and calls other people of the Party. In the end he says he is unfit for the job and makes his son Malaikkal Thommi (Suresh Gopi) chief minister.

Rashtram

2006

Roudram poster
3.6

Narendran is a righteous cop who is given the job to solve the murder case of a drug baron. He encounters many obstacles from influential people when he is close to resolving the mystery.

Roudram

2008

1990s · 17 titles

Mukham poster
7.3

A police officer tries to uncover and stop an unknown serial killer who sniped three victims and plans for a fourth one.

Mukham

1990

Aaram Thamburan poster
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

Kilukkam poster
7.5

A tourist guide (Joji) in Ooty shelters a mentally unstable woman (Nandini) in return for the reward offered by her relatives. Later, he comes to know that she is in danger from her relatives.

Kilukkam

1991

Nettippattam poster
6.7

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.

Nettippattam

1991

No artwork available
6.5

Unnikrishnan and his family is chased from his home after his father's death. He accidentally meets a genie who helps Unni get back everything he lost.

Sakshal Sreeman Chathunni

1993

Ayal Kadha Ezhuthukayanu poster
6.3

Sagar Kottapuram is a pulp fiction writer who comes to visit his friend Ramakrishnan but find themselves dragged into a lawsuit by a vengeful Tahsildar Priyadarshini.

Ayal Kadha Ezhuthukayanu

1998

Vietnam Colony poster
7.4

Krishnamurthy is appointed by a real estate company to vacate Vietnam Colony, a place buzzing with illegal and antisocial elements.

Vietnam Colony

1992

Chandralekha poster
7.5

An unemployed man saves a rich woman and takes her to the hospital where her relatives mistake him as her husband. He plays along as he needs money to repay a loan.

Chandralekha

1997

Pappayude Swantham Appoos poster
7.2

Balachandran had resorted to his work after he is unable to cope up with the death of his wife, Bhama. During the process, he neglects his only son, Appu. When Appu returns home for his school vacation, Balachandran promises to take him on a lot of trips, but is unable to do any as he is caught up with work. Pappayude Swantham Appoos movie is all about the bonds between the father and his son.

Pappayude Swantham Appoos

1992

No artwork available
6.0

Suresh Gopi losses his sister in Bangloore. He is trying to find who abducted her(Mathu) and finds out that there is a gang war going on and he finds himself in the middle with another girl that he meets (Anne) and rest of the story is how they escape and confront these gangsters

Rudraksham

1994

Kaatttile Thadi Thevarude Ana poster
8.0

Venugopal is an honest politician who wants to curb the illegal activities of the mafia dons. However, things take a turn when he gets shot and is replaced by his lookalike as the home minister.

Kaatttile Thadi Thevarude Ana

1995

Janathipathyam poster
6.0

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.

Janathipathyam

1997

Pavam I. A. Ivachan poster
4.7

Pavam I. A. Ivachan is a 1994 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Roy P Thomas, starring Innocent and Srividya in the lead roles.

Pavam I. A. Ivachan

1994

Mayilpeelikkavu poster
5.8

60 years after a lass of the Aalathoor Thekkemadam manor, Kuttimani, was putatively killed by her jealous lover Krishnanunni, & after which he was hanged, the current patriarch, Valiyathan, looks to restart a defunct religious rite. However, things get edgy after it started to seem like the old lovers have reincarnated as Gayathri, a young girl of the current generation & Manu, the caretaker's son, & they fall in love.

Mayilpeelikkavu

1998

Superman poster
5.9

Nithya is the deputy commissioner of the city who lives with her uncle since both her parents were killed in an accident. She was put on to investigate a corruption case done by the Home Minister and his friend a businessman called Rajan Phillip. Unknowingly she was helped in the investigation by a criminal nicknamed Superman.

Superman

1997

Madamma poster
7.0

Nanu, a villager, wishes to go abroad to earn money. A ray of hope strikes through the gloom when his childhood friend promises a job in the US

Madamma

1996

Sooryaputhran poster
4.5

When Jeevan is not allowed to adopt a boy from an orphanage for being a bachelor, he convinces a woman to pose as his wife.

Sooryaputhran

1998

1980s · 4 titles

Series credits