Viji Thamby

Directing

Viji Thamby

Known for

Directing

Credits

52 titles

Viji Thampi is a popular Malayalam film director. After making his debut in 1988 by directing David David Mr. David, Thampi, directed a series of comedy films, mostly big hits in 90s. By early 2000 most of his films started ending up as moderate hits. He is the son in law of the Malayalam movie actorJagannatha Varma.

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Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2000s · 5 titles

1990s · 10 titles

Anuragakottaram poster
6.8

Charles joins hands with Shobharaj to save his sister who is admitted to a hospital. Paulochan, a wealthy businessman, hires them to impress his daughter Anna who wants to become a nun.

Anuragakottaram

1998

Simhavalan Menon poster
7.5

Gauridasa Menon is a stringent patriot and is an advocate of speaking only mother tongue. A comedy of errors ensue when Hariprasad, a modern youngster with a westernized attitude has to camouflage himself to get a job in Menon's company.

Simhavalan Menon

1995

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

Thiruthalvaadi poster
8.0

Vishnu is the regional manager in a travels company and he is a bachelor. His friends and relatives try to get him to be married, but Vishnu has seven conditions for his future wife, including strange ones such as knowing Carnatic music, Hindi, and Chinese and Western cooking. So his friend Krishnankutty does many cunning things to make Vishnu get married to Lathika. After that, they both get married. But the real problems begin there.

Thiruthalvaadi

1992

Nagarathil Samsara Vishayam poster
6.0

Gopinatha and his friend Samson are in a fix when they find a box containing Rs. 40 lakh in cash. They try to hide it but the owner of the cash gets to know.

Nagarathil Samsara Vishayam

1991

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

Nagarangalil Chennu Raparkam poster
6.5

Kunjoottan, a village simpleton, is not allowed to go out of his house as his overprotective father dreamt of a mishap befalling Kunjoottan. But he escapes with his childhood friend to a city.

Nagarangalil Chennu Raparkam

1990

Avittam Thirunaal Aarogya Sriman poster
9.0

Outspoken Achutha Kurup is the oldest patriarch of the Mankoyikkal family, but who is now persona non grata within his extended family, as each family tries to get rid of him as he takes turns visiting them. His eldest nephew, Prabhakaran, seeing his state, writes a fake letter to each family, including his own, claiming that Kurup owned a big plot of land worth lakhs. After this news, all of Kurup's family starts tripping over each other to care for him.

Avittam Thirunaal Aarogya Sriman

1995

No artwork available
5.9

The story revolves around a paying guest home run by Chinthamani Ammal who is a determined man-hater due to a failed love affair. Only man-haters are allowed as paying guests. Ponnamma hates men because of her parents being partial to her twin brother Ponnappan. Another guest, Nancy, is a lawyer and is engaged on a post divorce custody battle for the child with Tony Varghese. Rudra and Bhagyarekha pretend to be man-haters to please Chinthamani Ammal. The story is about how each of the women finds true life partner.

Pidakkozhi Koovunna Noottandu

1994

No artwork available
9.0

A story of a father and Son and their family , Ismail ( Bharat Balachandra Menon ) is a hardworking , sincere and straight forward station master , he likes to lead a simple life , but his son Najeeb ( Rajesh Rajan ) 18 but yet not matured of his age dreams of making money and want to lead a business life . He once happens to request 10,000Rs for opening a telephone booth . His father asks him to have his studies completed and then he would offer . But Najeeb becomes irritated on his father's advise and leaves home to join Politics with local Political Leader Sai kumar . In Politics Najeeb could meet his aims and becomes popular in the country .

Samantharangal

1998

Behind the camera

Addeham Enna Iddeham poster
9.0

Benny’s (Siddique) bid to leave a life of crime, after a lengthy incarceration, goes horribly wrong. Just when all seems lost, help come in the form of an unlikely benefactor.

Addeham Enna Iddeham

1993

Krithyam poster
4.8

Trouble ensues when Sandra Punnoose, the daughter of a multi-millionaire, discovers that she only has six months to live and hires a professional assassin to end her life.

Krithyam

2005

Bada Dosth poster
4.0

Daya Shankar, a courageous police officer, befriends Geevarghese, a notorious criminal, and earns his trust. However, things get complicated after Daya reveals the real reason for his friendship.

Bada Dosth

2006

Chemistry poster
NR

Three girl students are found to have committed suicide in a boarding school in Alwaye under mysterious circumstances. Their boyfriends are interrogated by the cops, and one of them, Ananthu goes into depression. He happens to be the boyfriend of one of the dead girls, Gowri. The case remains unresolved. A year later, investigating officer Sreekanth's niece Parvati joins the school , and is given the same room where Gowri used to stay. Soon Parvati starts acting weird, which is noted by her classmates, and even the school driver and peon start to also see Gowri appearing at night in the school corridors. Gowri's spirit soon appears before Parvati, seeking her help. At times, it also gets into Parvati, making her act possessed. It is then known that Gowri and her two friends were very happy go lucky characters in the school, and something happens during a picnic which changes their lives forever.

Chemistry

2009

Simhavalan Menon poster
7.5

Gauridasa Menon is a stringent patriot and is an advocate of speaking only mother tongue. A comedy of errors ensue when Hariprasad, a modern youngster with a westernized attitude has to camouflage himself to get a job in Menon's company.

Simhavalan Menon

1995

Killikurushiyile Kudumba Mela poster
NR

A Hindu man falls in love with a Christian woman. He and his friend devises plans to introduce their romantic lives in front of parents while avoiding problems

Killikurushiyile Kudumba Mela

1997

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

No artwork available
9.0

Balachandran follows in his father's footsteps and becomes a politician to help people. But when he is framed for a crime and sent to jail by some corrupt politicians, he decides to take revenge.

Janam

1993

Pandu Pandoru Rajakumari poster
7.0

After the death of her mother and husband, Devu is taken care of by her father-in-law. However, her life takes a turn when she meets Appukuttan, a childhood friend.

Pandu Pandoru Rajakumari

1992

Thiruthalvaadi poster
8.0

Vishnu is the regional manager in a travels company and he is a bachelor. His friends and relatives try to get him to be married, but Vishnu has seven conditions for his future wife, including strange ones such as knowing Carnatic music, Hindi, and Chinese and Western cooking. So his friend Krishnankutty does many cunning things to make Vishnu get married to Lathika. After that, they both get married. But the real problems begin there.

Thiruthalvaadi

1992

Nammal Thammil poster
4.0

Vicky is the student union chairman of an engineering college. He is in love with a fellow student, Anu. Due to some misunderstandings regarding a campus bet, Anu starts to dislike Vicky and moves away from him and grows close to her childhood friend to spark jealousy.

Nammal Thammil

2009

No artwork available
6.3

Marupuram is a 1990 Malayalam film directed by Viji Thampi and jointly written by Renjith and Kaloor Dennis . The film stars Jayaram, Mukesh, Urvashi, Sukumaran, Ashokan, M. G. Soman, Mahesh and Devan in the lead roles.

Marupuram

1990

New Year poster
7.0

A businessman (Prathapachandran) gets murdered by his driver. His daughter Rekha (Urvashi) is married to Vinod (Suresh Gopi) who is more interested in taking over the business than taking care of his wife. Rekha's erstwhile boyfriend Ajith (Jayaram) who's now in the army is more sympathetic to her, but Vinod gets suspicious about their relationship.

New Year

1989

No artwork available
6.0

Sathyameva Jayathe is a 2001 Indian Malayalamaction thriller film, directed by Viji Thampi. The film stars Suresh Gopi, Aishwarya, Balachandramenon and Mini Nair in lead roles

Sathyameva Jayathe

2001

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

Witness poster
6.0

Two friends, Balagopalan (Jayaram) and Jayakumar (Jagathy Sreekumar), own a call service called "We Help" to help people with the assistance of lawyer Madhavan Thampi (Madhu). Balu gets a call from Indu R. Nair, who is the daughter of a businessman. Later, Indu asks Balagoapan to be her bodyguard. But when Jayakumar and Balagopalan visit her home, they discover that Indu has been murdered. Officer Thomas Mathew takes charge of the case. Madhavan tries to find her killer to save Balagopalan and Jayakumar, before it is too late.

Witness

1988

Nadodimannan poster
1.9

In Nadodimannan, Padmanabhan plays a village youth who does not have a particular inclination towards any political party and joins any protest being held. He earns a living by participating in demonstrations for various political parties. He then reaches the city where he is strung to the upper levels of society and gets elected as the Mayor. His conflicts and attempts to cleanse the city form the rest of the story

Nadodimannan

2013

Kunukkitta Kozhi poster
7.0

Jagadish is a poor man who gets by any way possible in life. At a job interview place he get a tip that the manager is a big cricket fan. So , Jagadish pretends to be one , but it backfires when the appointed manager does not come in and his father who hates cricket does the interview and he does not get the job. A woman pretends to be Jagadish's wife for her interview, to get sympathy for having a cricket crazed husband and gets the job. Jagadish finds out and demands 1/3 the payment every week from her for getting the job , by saying he was her husband. The rest of the story forms how they fight over the job/payment and the hilarious situations that happens when their lives intersect.

Kunukkitta Kozhi

1992

Manthrika Kuthira poster
8.0

Sunny Kuruvilla is a famous novelist and a public prosecutor who has a dark side. Police officer Venugopal tries to expose his evil deeds.

Manthrika Kuthira

1996

Nagarangalil Chennu Raparkam poster
6.5

Kunjoottan, a village simpleton, is not allowed to go out of his house as his overprotective father dreamt of a mishap befalling Kunjoottan. But he escapes with his childhood friend to a city.

Nagarangalil Chennu Raparkam

1990

April Fool poster
4.0

Rakesh and his friends own a club where they call amateur artists to perform and make fun of them. However, when they call Krishnanunni, an income-tax officer, to sing, things take a turn.

April Fool

2010

Avittam Thirunaal Aarogya Sriman poster
9.0

Outspoken Achutha Kurup is the oldest patriarch of the Mankoyikkal family, but who is now persona non grata within his extended family, as each family tries to get rid of him as he takes turns visiting them. His eldest nephew, Prabhakaran, seeing his state, writes a fake letter to each family, including his own, claiming that Kurup owned a big plot of land worth lakhs. After this news, all of Kurup's family starts tripping over each other to care for him.

Avittam Thirunaal Aarogya Sriman

1995

Nanma Niranjavan Sreenivasan poster
7.3

Nanma Niranjavan Sreenivasan is a 1990 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Viji Thampi and produced by Kalliyoor Sasi. The film stars Jayaram, Urvashi, Mukesh and Ranjini in lead roles. The film had musical score by Johnson.

Nanma Niranjavan Sreenivasan

1990

Nadakame Ulakam poster
3.5

Omanakuttan, is a Bank Manager by profession. But he is very interested stage plays and he himself has directed and acted in many plays. He is approached by a film crew from town headed by Pavan, to produce their debut venture. Omanakuttan who is a cinema aspirant, agrees to finance the film after he was offered the lead role.

Nadakame Ulakam

2011

Kudumbakodathi poster
8.0

Raman Nair (Innocent) is a miserly business man who is overbearing on his sons, Rameshan (Dileep) and Ramanan (Ashokan). After both of them get married, problems start to creep into the household and Raman's solution is to get married again. Things take a turn again after Gundur Parvathi (Kalpana) comes into their lives as Rameshan's and Ramanan's step-mother.

Kudumbakodathi

1996

No artwork available
10.0

A journalist goes in search of the criminals who are responsible for the death of an income tax officer. However, he struggles to overcome all the obstacles as he is determined to find the culprits.

Kaalal Pada

1989

No artwork available
5.9

The story revolves around a paying guest home run by Chinthamani Ammal who is a determined man-hater due to a failed love affair. Only man-haters are allowed as paying guests. Ponnamma hates men because of her parents being partial to her twin brother Ponnappan. Another guest, Nancy, is a lawyer and is engaged on a post divorce custody battle for the child with Tony Varghese. Rudra and Bhagyarekha pretend to be man-haters to please Chinthamani Ammal. The story is about how each of the women finds true life partner.

Pidakkozhi Koovunna Noottandu

1994

Journalist poster
8.0

Ranjini Menon, an investigative journalist in a newspaper, runs into trouble after reporting the atrocities of Sharma, a millionaire and an industrialist.

Journalist

1993

David David Mr. David poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

David David Mr. David

1988