Nedumudi Venu

Acting

Nedumudi Venu

Born — Died

1948-05-22 — 2021-10-11

Place of birth

Alleppey, Travancore

Known for

Acting

Credits

69 titles

Kesavan Venu Gopal, known popularly by his stage name Nedumudi Venu, was an Indian actor, writer and director. He was widely regarded as one of the greatest actors in Indian cinema. Venu was born as Venugopal to P. K. Kesavan Nair-a school master- and P. Kunjikkuttiyamma in Nedumudi, Alappuzha as the youngest of their five children. He has four elder brothers. He had his primary education from N S S Higher Secondary School, Nedumudi, and St. Mary's Higher Secondary School,Champakulam. He was involved in art and music since his academic period. After graduating from Sanatana Dharma College, Alappuzha, he worked as a journalist in Kalakaumudi and as a teacher in a tutorial institute. Venu was…

Known for

Navarasa poster
5.4

From amusement to awe, the nine human emotions of Indian aesthetic theory are explored in this anthology series.

Navarasa

2021

Lal Salam poster
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

Manorathangal poster
4.5

Eight legendary filmmakers collaborate with 9 superstars, breathing life into the timeless stories of author M.T. Vasudevan Nair. Based in Kerala, these stories explore the nuances of human nature.

Manorathangal

2024

Oru Kochu Swapnam poster
8.5

Sindhu is a spoilt teenage girl living with her sister Sulochana and her brother-in-law Venu. She then moves into a hostel where her roommate is Sofia who is in a relationship with a music store owner who is of questionable character. Sindhu becomes intrigued by her sexual desires and falls for Sofia's boyfriend.

Oru Kochu Swapnam

1984

Anniyan poster
7.4

Unable to tolerate society's injustices and devastated by rejection from the woman he loves, a meek lawyer develops a split personality: one side a vengeful vigilante killer punishing evildoers, the other a dashing playboy capable of winning her heart. Complications arise when the three sides begin to collide.

Anniyan

2005

Indian 2: Zero Tolerance poster
3.1

As corruption becomes rampant in the country, a group of idealistic youngsters attract attention of freedom fighter-turned-vigilante Senapathy through social media, who returns to his homeland to finish what he started.

Indian 2: Zero Tolerance

2024

Film credits

2020s · 3 titles

2010s · 11 titles

Pattinte Palazhi poster
2.0

Veena, a young woman, aspires to be a renowned singer and struggles to achieve her dream. However, her journey to stardom is fraught with obstacles and losses.

Pattinte Palazhi

2010

Madura Raja poster
5.5

When an illegal hooch baron's reign of terror troubles an entire village, the people turn to the only man who can save them: Raja, the flamboyant don with a heart of gold.

Madura Raja

2019

Memories poster
7.1

Sam Alex, a former police officer haunted by the tragic loss of his family, drowns his grief in alcohol until duty calls him back. When a string of eerily similar murders emerges, he’s forced to confront both the case and the ghosts of his past.

Memories

2013

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

Kanchana 3 poster
4.2

A young man who gets easily scared is possessed by a ghost that is seeking revenge.

Kanchana 3

2019

Oppam poster
7.1

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

2016

Rasam poster
3.8

Valliyottu Thirumeni's catering is booked by a business tycoon Shekar Menon, for his daughter's wedding. Circumstances force Balu to take over the catering from his father Vasu.

Rasam

2015

Arabeem Ottakom P. Madhavan Nayarum in Oru Marubhoomi Kadha poster
6.1

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

Thelivu poster
2.0

Gauri accidentally kills a wealthy businessman to stop him from molesting a little girl. When his minions chase after her and her husband, they must hide until the proof to exonerate them is found.

Thelivu

2019

A for Apple poster
NR

Achu, a runaway orphan, comes back looking for his childhood sweetheart, Vishnupriya. But time has changed her and he will have to win her over. Meanwhile Vishnupriya, now a rebel activist, is looking for answers from her past, has her own demons to deals with and has no time for love. So, Achu joins her in her quest to find answers from her past.

A for Apple

2019

Joseph poster
7.6

Joseph is a retired police officer with adept investigative skills. He accidentally gets involved in a crime case after his ex-wife’s unexpected demise.

Joseph

2018

2000s · 12 titles

Anniyan poster
7.4

Unable to tolerate society's injustices and devastated by rejection from the woman he loves, a meek lawyer develops a split personality: one side a vengeful vigilante killer punishing evildoers, the other a dashing playboy capable of winning her heart. Complications arise when the three sides begin to collide.

Anniyan

2005

Shadow Kill poster
6.9

A hangman questions the moral implications of his job after learning that he executed an innocent man.

Shadow Kill

2002

Thanmathra poster
7.8

A man leading a happy life with his loving wife and two children suddenly starts getting forgetful and lost. Then, he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease leaving his family devastated.

Thanmathra

2005

Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja poster
6.9

Set in the backdrop of the seventeenth century, the royal family of Kottayam is ruled by Pazhassi. The British government begins to impose heavy taxes on the locals in the Thalassery region of Kerala.

Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja

2009

Vinodayathra poster
7.4

Vinod, a quarrelsome young man, moves to his sister's house in a village to get his life in order. There, he happens to meet Anupama and falls in love with her.

Vinodayathra

2007

Vettam poster
7.1

Petty thief Gopi steals a chain, and in order to escape a police inspector, drops it in Veena's bag. Later, he tries to take it from her, but the chain is no longer there. He becomes a part of her plan to stop her boyfriend from marrying a rich tycoon’s daughter

Vettam

2004

No artwork available
NR

Padmanabhan Embranthiri (Nedumudi Venu) is running an institution viz. 'Kalanikethan' . He is invited to perform the Kerala art forms on the stage of a cultural festival named Keralotsavam 2009. His daughter Ganga (Vishnu Priya) was doing research in Mohiniyattam. So she was entrusted in doing all the arrangements of the programme. Sandeep Subramanyam (Vinu Mohan) arrives there to perform Kalaripayattu. There he meets Ganga and falls in love. But he is a terrorist named Javed Ibrahim in disguise and his mission is to blast a bomb during the Keralotsavam event. The terrorist group aims to destroy the communal harmony and evoke a riot. Whether or not Sandeep aka Javed succeeds in the mission forms the climax of the movie.

Keralotsavam Mission 2009

2009

Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded poster
5.1

Sagar, known as Jackie, among the criminal underworld, is called by his friend Indu to rescue her husband Manu from the Rozario gang, who kidnapped him. Jackie rescues Manu with ease, but it ensues a gang war.

Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded

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

Uthaman poster
5.8

Uthaman, an orphan, puts his life in jeopardy when he accepts the blame for a murder committed by a member of the family he is living with. Soon, the siblings of the deceased decide to seek revenge.

Uthaman

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

Mr. Brahmachari poster
4.6

Ananthan Thampi is a middle-aged man who has decided to remain a bachelor and maintain his youthful looks. However, in an unexpected turn of events, he ends up marrying a girl to save her life.

Mr. Brahmachari

2003

1990s · 12 titles

Manichitrathazhu poster
7.6

A young couple, Ganga and Nakulan, arrives at the ancestral home called Madampalli of the latter. Hailing from a family that follows tradition and superstitions, Nakulan's uncle Thampi objects to the couple's idea of moving into the allegedly haunted mansion, which Nakulan ignores. The couple moves in anyway following which seemingly supernatural events begin to happen.

Manichitrathazhu

1993

Indian poster
7.0

Senapathy, an ex-freedom fighter, is angry. He is angry against the rampant corruption at every level of the bureaucracy. He will clean it up at any cost.

Indian

1996

Raktha Sakshikal Zindabad poster
5.7

Raktha Sakshikal Zindabad is a 1998 Malayalam film directed by Venu Nagavalli. The film stars Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Suganya and Murali in lead roles.

Raktha Sakshikal Zindabad

1998

Harikrishnans poster
6.5

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.

Harikrishnans

1998

Kaalapani poster
7.9

Govardhan, a doctor by profession, is wrongly accused of bombing a train and is jailed by the British in Cellular Jail, also known as Kala Pani in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He witnesses sufferings of hundreds of Indian prisoners there.

Kaalapani

1996

Ee Thanutha Veluppan Kalathu poster
6.2

When a series of murders of prominent people remain a mystery, Hariharan is assigned to capture the culprit. His investigations lead to a spiritual guru who is highly revered in society.

Ee Thanutha Veluppan Kalathu

1990

Devasuram poster
7.0

Neelakanthan squanders away the inheritance left by his father. However, his life turns upside down when his mother reveals a terrible secret on her deathbed that changes the course of his life.

Devasuram

1993

Aham poster
6.8

Ramya visits her aunt who is a nun in a mental asylum. There she meets Sidharthan (Mohanlal) who leads a spiritual life in the mental asylum. She gets intrigued by his unique personality and starts studying him. Sidharthan on the other hand gets reminded of his x-wife (Urvasi) while interacting with Ramya closely and starts falling in love with her. But when he comes to know that he was just a subject to her study, things get murky.

Aham

1992

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

Rajashilpi poster
7.5

Shambu is a renowned sculptor who lives with the memories of his deceased wife, Uma. However, his life takes a turn when he meets a woman who falls in love with him.

Rajashilpi

1992

Midhunam poster
7.6

Midhunam movie is all about Sethumadhavan (Mohanlal) who has plans to start a biscuit factory near his house. But the bureaucracy and the corruption of the officials are the hurdles in front of him. Along with that he has to solve the problems in his family, which his brother (Innocent) and brother-in-law (Jagathy Sreekumar) creates. he marries his long-term fiancée Sulochana (Urvashi) who always cribs that he doesn't have love towards her, which he had shown before their marriage. How sethumadhavan succeeds in his life beating all the odds against him forms the rest of the story.

Midhunam

1993

Sadayam poster
7.0

Sathyanathan is condemned to death for brutally murdering four persons – two adults and two young girls – and is awaiting his final call. He shows no remorse and is just as cheerful as a man who knows he has done no wrong. In a series of flashbacks, Sathyanathan's story is revealed.

Sadayam

1992

1980s · 21 titles

Oru Kochu Swapnam poster
8.5

Sindhu is a spoilt teenage girl living with her sister Sulochana and her brother-in-law Venu. She then moves into a hostel where her roommate is Sofia who is in a relationship with a music store owner who is of questionable character. Sindhu becomes intrigued by her sexual desires and falls for Sofia's boyfriend.

Oru Kochu Swapnam

1984

No artwork available
NR

A young man with mental disability who is always ravenous, steals money from his father's pocket for food and falls into a bigger trouble

Enikku Vishakunnu

1983

Kaveri poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kaveri

1986

Chithram poster
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

Chakkikotha Chankaran poster
7.6

Raghavan Thampi (Thilakan) and his wife Subhadra (Sukumari) have two sons, Prabhakaran (Nedumudi) and Pradeep (Jayaram). Prabhakaran wants to become a mridungam maestro against the wishes of his parents who want him to get married. When Prabhakaran refuses, Subhadra emotionally blackmails him and gets him married off to Shailaja (Geetha). Meanwhile Pradeep falls in love with Roshni (Urvashi) and they get married secretly without their parents' knowledge.

Chakkikotha Chankaran

1989

Ente Mohangal Poovaninju poster
7.0

A wealthy man, Shankar falls in love with a girl from a middle class family. His father opposes the relationship and plots against the couple.

Ente Mohangal Poovaninju

1982

Football poster
8.0

Sunny, a star college football player, gets a two-week suspension after he morphs a picture of Celine, his classmate, and puts it up on the notice board.

Football

1982

Irakal poster
8.4

Mathews, a ruthless rubber baron, is involved in various criminal activities. Baby, Mathews' son, begins to turn violent due to the environment he has grown up in, causing Mathews to repent his deeds.

Irakal

1985

Mandanmar Londonil poster
9.0

A group of naive drama artists from a village in Kerala get lost in London after their host does not arrive to pick them up at the airport.

Mandanmar Londonil

1983

Chatta poster
9.0

The story revolves around a bullock seller and his family. It tells how his grief and lust leads him to destroy his family.

Chatta

1981

Yavanika poster
8.3

Ayyappan, a tabla player of a touring drama group, goes missing. Later on, Sub-Inspector Jacob Eeraly is assigned to investigate the case and finds out disturbing truths.

Yavanika

1982

Vellanakalude Naadu poster
7.9

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

Vellanakalude Naadu

1988

Lekhayude Maranam Oru Flashback poster
6.1

Lekha is an aspiring actress who becomes successful and very popular. One day, she commits suicide! Why?

Lekhayude Maranam Oru Flashback

1983

Palangal poster
7.5

Usha (Zarina Wahab) comes to her sister's house for relief from a terrible tragedy of her life which is the accidental death of her lover Ravi played by Shankar. In the new place, she meets Ramankutty, played by Nedumudi Venu, who is the friend of Vasu Menon (Bharath Gopi), husband of her sister. Their friendship eventually turns into love, but Ramankutty's mother does not allow this proposal. Usha slowly realizes that Vasu Menon's feelings for her are wayward, but she does not tell her sister as she fears that this will ruin their family. So Usha decides to go back to her home, on the way she meets Ramankutty, who has convinced his mother about marrying Usha.

Palangal

1981

My Dear Kuttichathan poster
7.5

The story revolves around a mystical indigenous goblin called "Kuttichathan" who is under the spell of an evil sorcerer; however, it gets released by three children and then befriends them.

My Dear Kuttichathan

1984

Mukunthetta Sumitra Vilikkunnu poster
6.7

Mukundan loves Sumithra and starts building his career with a decent job. But when Viswanath, his old college classmate and a conman, comes to meet him, things start going downhill.

Mukunthetta Sumitra Vilikkunnu

1988

Rachana poster
9.0

Rachana is a 1983 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Mohan and produced by Sivan Kunnampilly. The film stars Srividya, Nedumudi Venu, Bharath Gopi and Mammootty in lead roles. The film had musical score by MB Sreenivasan.Bharath Gopi won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film.

Rachana

1983

Padamudra poster
10.0

An emotional battle begins between a father and his son, one of whom works in a quarry while the other owns a business.

Padamudra

1988

Chidambaram poster
7.6

Chidambaram is based on a short story by noted Malayalam writer C. V. Shriraman. The film is a deeply symbolic exploration of the man-woman attraction leading to betrayal and eventually to the purgatory of guilt.

Chidambaram

1985

Manja Mantharangal poster
9.0

Isaac is a dedicated doctor who leads a happy life with his family. He falls in love with Gladia. His life is rocked when he suddenly learns about a secret from his past.

Manja Mantharangal

1987

Cheppu poster
6.2

Ramachandran (Mohanlal) got a job as an English lecturer in T. K. P. Memorial College, only to find that the college is full of drugs and politics, led by young Ranjith Mathews (Ganesh), son of an M.P. (Prathapachandran). Ramachandran has helped the students, including a geek who was beaten by Ranjith's gang.

Cheppu

1987

Series credits

Behind the camera