James Chacko

Acting

James Chacko

Born — Died

1955-10-16 — 2007-06-14

Place of birth

Kottayam, Kerala, India

Known for

Acting

Credits

33 titles

James Chacko was an Indian actor who starred in more than 150 Malayalam language films. He was active for over three decades. He joined the industry as an art and production manager and later was the manager for actor Nedumudi Venu. He played important roles in New Delhi, Meesa Madhavan, Pathram, Oru Maravathoor Kanavu and Peruvannapurathe Visheshangal. The character Pattalam Purushu played by James in the 2002 movie Meesa Madhavan has attained a cult status in Malayalam cinema. James died following cardiac arrest on 14 June 2007 at his brother's house at Kaduthuruthy.

Known for

Meesa Madhavan poster
7.7

Madhavan is a petty thief who is accused of stealing the idol of the village goddess. However, he soon escapes police custody and tries to find the real culprit.

Meesa Madhavan

2002

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

Vazhunnor poster
7.0

Thevakattil Avarachan is a respectable business man living with his six sons. e controls all businesses in the town. The youngest son, Kuttappayi falls in love with the new teacher, Rebecca in the family-owned school. After the initial resistance, the family agrees to their relationship. But things are about to change with the arrival of the Thevakkattil family.

Vazhunnor

1999

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

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

Film credits

2000s · 7 titles

Meesa Madhavan poster
7.7

Madhavan is a petty thief who is accused of stealing the idol of the village goddess. However, he soon escapes police custody and tries to find the real culprit.

Meesa Madhavan

2002

Meerayude Dukhavum Muthuvinte Swapnavum poster
5.0

Muthu, is a young man devoted to his physically challenged sister Meera. When he falls in love with a woman named Aswathy, his struggle to balance love, duty and survival leads to heartbreaking consequences that redefine his relationship with his sister.

Meerayude Dukhavum Muthuvinte Swapnavum

2003

Pattalam poster
5.8

An Army unit comes to a local village in Kerala because of a terror threat. The plot revolves around the lives of the people and the army and their relationships.

Pattalam

2003

Nammal poster
6.1

Shyam and Sivan are popular students in their college. When Aparna, Shyam's erstwhile girlfriend, joins the same establishment, the truth about the two men is revealed.

Nammal

2002

Sathyam poster
5.3

Frustrated with the rampant bureaucracy in the police force, a police aspirant abducts a corrupt police commissioner. However, things take a turn after the commissioner stages an escape and vows revenge.

Sathyam

2004

Yes Your Honour poster
5.1

After passing his prime years as a junior under a corrupt, dominant boss, Ravi becomes an independent solicitor. He takes on a challenge when he fights against his former employer in a murder case.

Yes Your Honour

2006

No artwork available
5.4

Shivam is a Police thriller, with Biju Menon in the lead, and Shaji Kailas comes back to associate with Revathy Kalamandhir. The theme involves administration of Vigilante justice with the hero taking law into his own hands and bcoming an anti-hero in the process.

Shivam

2002

1990s · 16 titles

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

Vazhunnor poster
7.0

Thevakattil Avarachan is a respectable business man living with his six sons. e controls all businesses in the town. The youngest son, Kuttappayi falls in love with the new teacher, Rebecca in the family-owned school. After the initial resistance, the family agrees to their relationship. But things are about to change with the arrival of the Thevakkattil family.

Vazhunnor

1999

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

Paavam Paavam Rajakumaran poster
7.3

The film is about a parallel college teacher who owns a bizarre and timid personality which forces his friends to fool him by posting him letters in the name of a girl. He gradually develops an intimate relationship with her but all his efforts to meet her are in vain. What happens when he actually meets her, and comes to know that she even had no idea about his existence, forms the crux of the story.

Paavam Paavam Rajakumaran

1990

Soorya Manasam poster
7.5

Putturumees is a mentally challenged man who lives in a small village with this mother. The villagers face several issues due to his condition and compel his mother to take him to a new place.

Soorya Manasam

1992

Sandhesam poster
7.9

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

1991

Oru Maravathoor Kanavu poster
7.2

Chandy arrives in Maravathoor to help out on his brother Michael’s farm. A neighbour who has his eye on the property spreads rumours that Michael's wife Mary and Chandy are having an incestuous relationship. One fine morning, both are nowhere to be seen. What is the truth?

Oru Maravathoor Kanavu

1998

Kalikkalam poster
7.4

Mammootty plays the role of a burglar who is known by different names in different places.He is a kind person and uses the money burgled to help poor and orphans. During one of his burglaries, he happens to witness a murder for which a police officer named Shekharan is falsely accused. He helps Shekharan to prove his innocence.

Kalikkalam

1990

Kottaram Veettile Apputtan poster
5.5

Apputtan, a rich man, gives Ambili, a young woman, the financial help she needs to become a doctor. However, he soon finds himself falling in love with her.

Kottaram Veettile Apputtan

1998

Chandranudikkunna Dikhil poster
6.3

Mukudan comes to a rural town to start his job as the local bank field officer. Through a series of events ,he meets and falls in love with Radha and plans to get married. But fate changes the course and outcome of their life and love.

Chandranudikkunna Dikhil

1999

Pathram poster
6.9

Nandagopal, an associate editor with Keralareshmi, one of the leading dailies, is aggressive and daring and enjoys a good reputation among the media circle. Born and brought up in Mumbai, Nandan is the son of Venugopal, a daring journalist who was killed by textile mafia long back. Nandan, in Kochi meets Sekharan, an old naxalite who is running Jagratha, a newspaper which is feared by political class. Sekharan's outspoken and belligerent nature had earned him more enemies than friends. He is constantly fighting Vishwathan, who rules Kochi with his muscle and money. Vishwanathan holds a large share in Keralareshmi and enjoys a huge political clout at state and central levels. Shekharan brings out the role of Vishwanathan in the murder of Vincent Paul, which creates a panic in the political level.

Pathram

1999

Meleparambil Aanveedu poster
7.6

A young man marries a Tamil girl, and fearing his family, he brings her to the house as a servant. Problem starts when his elder brothers falls for her too.

Meleparambil Aanveedu

1993

Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala poster
7.0

Vijayan, the village school teacher, believes that his degree in economics is sufficient for him to succeed in the business ventures he undertakes. Taking long leaves of absence from work, he roams around with his schemes, all of which turn out to be downright failures.

Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala

1998

No artwork available
6.2

Two thieves (Mukesh and Sreenivasan) become targets of the two rival crime gangs and the police after they are wrongly accused of attempted murder when robbing a hotel.

Manyanmar

1992

F.I.R. poster
5.6

A young journalist gets killed upon following the illegal activities of a corrupt politician. Police officer Mohammed Sarkar and his team set out to find the dark secrets behind the murder.

F.I.R.

1999

1980s · 9 titles

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

Peruvannapurathe Visheshangal poster
7.3

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

1989

Aparan poster
8.0

Viswanathan comes to the city for a job interview, only to find himself entangled in a crisis due to his resemblance with a gangster. Frustrated, he decides to find and face his doppelgänger with the help of a police inspector friend, but finding the imposter proves difficult, and the further they dig, the more mysterious and shocking their findings.

Aparan

1988

New Delhi poster
6.5

A journalist is illegally jailed for exposing two corrupt politicians, He exacts revenge through his new mysterious newspaper.

New Delhi

1987

Vadakkunokkiyantram poster
7.0

A man with a serious case of inferiority complex is married to a beautiful girl. Soon, his love and care turns into suspicion.

Vadakkunokkiyantram

1989

Mahayanam poster
6.8

Chandru, a truck driver, is rude to people and all are scared of him. After the death of his mate, he decides to fulfil his last wish to build a home.

Mahayanam

1989

Sangham poster
4.5

A spoilt rich man Kuttapayi befriends a group of four college students. Kuttapayi uses them to do a lot of his dirty work. When things go awry they take refuge in Kuttapayi's remote estate; where his past catches up with him.

Sangham

1988

Aram + Aram = Kinnaram poster
6.9

The story revolves around two friends Narayanan Kutty and Balan. Narayanan, known for his flirtatious behaviour with rich women is tricked by his friend Balan. Will Narayanan decode the trap?

Aram + Aram = Kinnaram

1985

Mutharamkunnu P.O. poster
7.2

A post-master named Dilip Kumar re-locates to work in Mutharamkunnu. Once there, he sets about to meet the local residents and finds out that they are obsessed with wrestling. He meets with a proud and retired wrestler, Kuttan Pillai, and subsequently gets smitten by his daughter, Amminikutty. When he finds out that she an ardent fan of Mammooty, he lets it known that he is the latter's close friend. He intercepts her fan-mail, and even corresponds with her.

Mutharamkunnu P.O.

1985