
Acting
KPAC Lalitha
Born — Died
1947-02-25 — 2022-02-22
Place of birth
Kayamkulam, Kerala, India
Known for
Acting
Credits
61 titles
Maheshwari Amma, better known by her stage name K. P. A. C. Lalitha, was an Indian film and stage actress who works primarily in Malayalam cinema and few Tamil films. She was married to the Bharathan, a Malayalam filmmaker.
Known for
10.0Lal 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
7.6A 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
7.4Karthik and Shakthi marry against the wishes of their families and start their new life. However, they soon realize that marriage is not the bed of roses they had imagined it would be.
Alaipayuthey
2000
2.0A kind-hearted Pavithran dreams of meeting a beautiful lady someday. In his desperation to find true love, he is shocked when an astrologer he approaches predicts that he is going to marry a widow.
Annarakkannanum Thannalayathu
2010
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Kaveri
1986
9.0British Market is a 1998 Malayalam film directed by Nizar and starring Vijayaraghavan, Jagathy Sreekumar, Sudheesh and Anju Aravind in major roles.
British Market
1998
Film credits
2020s · 3 titles
6.6A divorced woman trying to get hired as a French tutor and teaching classical dance, and she has a daughter. Her brother Manuel also resides in a flat in Chennai. Their next door neighbours are Unnikrishnan, a retired Major who has a pet dog, Prabhakaran and Bibeesh who lives with a serial-actress aunt (not related by blood) and his young school going brother. The story revolves around the divorced mother and daughter finding happiness of love in their own ways. The film explores commonality of romantic love in different stages of life.
Varane Avashyamund
2020
6.6Set in the backdrop of 1980s, Micheal helms his influential family in Kochi, inspiring fear and respect through his unnerving past. When a few younger members in the household feel his power over their lives too are aggravating, they join hands with foes to clamp down on him. And the story follows what’s in store for them.
Bheeshma Parvam
2022
7.8The humble, technology-challenged Oliver Twist struggles to keep close with his sons as they grow up and become active on social media.
#Home
2021
2010s · 15 titles
2.0A kind-hearted Pavithran dreams of meeting a beautiful lady someday. In his desperation to find true love, he is shocked when an astrologer he approaches predicts that he is going to marry a widow.
Annarakkannanum Thannalayathu
2010
2.0Viswanathan takes to drinking when his daughter falls in love with Kishore, who comes from a family selling illicit liquor. Tired of Viswanathan's alcoholism, his wife decides to set things right.
Oru Small Family
2010
4.6A school kid commits suicide after a humiliating incident at school. All hell breaks loose as his brute businessman dad gets obsessed with finishing off all responsible for the same.
Mikhael
2019
4.7After SI Vyshakhan commits suicide at the police station following his failure to take control of the law and order situation, Inspector K takes charge at Nanjankode. Will he succeed in quelling the fire?
Kalki
2019
4.5A gold-smuggle deal goes awry, and an array of characters becomes involved.
Loham
2015
5.6Romance is in the air as the lives of Fighter Pilot Varun & Medical Doctor Leela collide amidst the scenic beauty of Kashmir. While Leela yearns for Varun’s affection in the delicate of ways, Varun’s idea of love is all give-give, not give-take. Just as the avalanche of built-up emotions sets rolling, Varun becomes a PoW post the Kargil episode. Do their paths cross later?
Kaatru Veliyidai
2017
3.9When roommates Madhav and Jerrin bought two adjacent villas and started living with their families, they never thought that their friendship will be affected in any way.
Hello Namasthe
2016
6.1Vinayachandran, a young teacher arrives at a failing village school determined to transform it. Through patience and empathy, he inspires his disheartened students and colleagues, turning the neglected institution into a place of hope, learning and second chances.
Manikyakallu
2011
4.2The son of a popular martial arts expert, Manikkunnel Ittymaani is an impulsive man who keeps landing into trouble.
Ittymaani: Made In China
2019
7.6A young, nonconforming woman named Tessa gets entangled in a cat-and-mouse chase in the by-lanes of Kerala, hunting for a mysterious artist who previously lived in her apartment.
Charlie
2015
4.4Joseph Alex and Bharathchandran, two police officers, try to prevent Major Abu Jalal Rana, a terrorist, from attacking New Delhi.
The King & The Commissioner
2012
4.1Dr. Love is the story of Vinayachandran, a person who is a consistent helper of those who are in love and who wants to be in love. He comes to a college to settle a love matter and becomes the hero of the college. He is then given the title Doctor Love - Romance Consultant by all in the campus.
Doctor Love
2011
5.9Kunnel promises to help Palunni convey his feelings for Elsamma. However, things take a turn when Kunnel's grandson falls in love with Elsamma.
Elsamma Enna Aankutty
2010
2.7Meenukutty is an ardent Mohanlal fan, whereas her husband, Sethumadhavan, struggles with the usual family life due to Meenukutty's celebrity worship syndrome.
Mohanlal
2018
5.4Aami is a biopic based on the life of the renowned poet and author Kamala Das, who was fondly referred by her pet name Aami. The film mainly deals with two relationships the writer had - with the husband and after his demise, with a suitor from a different religion.
Aami
2018
2000s · 10 titles
7.4Karthik and Shakthi marry against the wishes of their families and start their new life. However, they soon realize that marriage is not the bed of roses they had imagined it would be.
Alaipayuthey
2000
6.6Premachandran, a carpenter, rescues Kanmani, an ill-treated maid, and takes her into his care. However, to escape from her former abusers, Kanmani dresses up as a boy and joins the team of carpenters.
Rasathanthram
2006
5.5Two police officers, Shekhar and Anand, work for the narcotics department. While the two have a different approach towards their job, they both get caught in a web of deception.
Police
2005
NRIn the village of Kannadipuzha, Gauri, a young college student, falls in love with Chandran, a married man. However, their affair throws both of their lives in disarray.
Parayan Marannathu
2009
NRThree 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
5.5Saranalayam is an old age home run by Eradi. He appoints Vivek as the new manager to help him evict the inmates so that he can sell it.
Ammakilikkoodu
2003
6.9Although Achu's mother loves her dearly, she never shares anything about her father. When Achu falls in love with an orphan, her mother opposes her love, which creates a rift between the two.
Achuvinte Amma
2005
6.7Satyapratapan and Kuruvila are chronic bachelors. SP's sister Sandhya lives as a paying guest in their neighbourhood. Problems begin when Mukesh and Harishree Ashokan join Mammootty and Rambha joins Sandhya.
Chronic Bachelor
2003
5.8An 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
4.5Nandakumar, a police officer, appoints Siva, a convict, to find and kill the terrorists responsible for a bomb blast. However, Siva is unaware that Nandakumar intends to kill him after the mission.
Paramasivan
2006
1990s · 17 titles
7.6A 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
9.0British Market is a 1998 Malayalam film directed by Nizar and starring Vijayaraghavan, Jagathy Sreekumar, Sudheesh and Anju Aravind in major roles.
British Market
1998
7.5A retelling of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", the film revolves around the rivalry between two families, the Anjooran and Anappara houses, and the consequences faced when two members of the families fall in love.
Godfather
1991
6.1Fifteen-year-old Parvathi (Annie) witnesses her family getting murdered and runs away from them to save her life. To prevent getting caught, she disguises herself as a boy named Thomas and starts living as a servant in a house of bachelors. One of the bachelors, Omanakuttan (Mukesh) discovers that Thomas is actually a girl. After hearing her story, Omanakkuttan and his friends try to help her. Before Jaganatha Varma could kill her, Policeman S. Narayanan (Balachandra Menon) discovers his plan and saves Parvathi.
Ammayane Sathyam
1993
7.0A young man's relationship with his career, fiancee and brother is brought under stress by the birth of an unexpected sister. The film deals with the relationship between siblings Unnikrishnan and Meenakshi who have an almost 30 year age difference between them.
Pavithram
1994
7.1Unnikrishan wants to become a secret agent like his idol, Prem Nazir. His parents and his girlfriend support him but Unnikrishan still cannot find a job. He later gets selected as a trainee in a private detective agency called Secret Files. He is given the task of investigating a businessman's daughter's record. He faces two rivals, Premshankar who pretends to love Arundathi, and Oomen Koshy is a working as a gardener in her house. They are from the same detective agency investigating the same case. Things go wrong and the 3 decide to investigate the case as a group.
C.I.D. Unnikrishnan B.A., B.Ed
1994
7.4Sathyanathan 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
7.4Krishnamurthy is appointed by a real estate company to vacate Vietnam Colony, a place buzzing with illegal and antisocial elements.
Vietnam Colony
1992
7.0Ramdas and Vijayan are sent on a mission to the US to retrieve a priceless gold crown stolen from India. With a couple of clues, the comic duo embarks on the adventure.
Akkare Akkare Akkare
1990
7.8Vishwanathan is a thug who accidentally kills Damodaran. Later, he falls in love with Bhanu. Will Vishwanthan reveal his true identity to Bhanu?
Kanmadam
1998
10.0Snehasagaram is a 1992 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Sathyan Anthikkad, starring Murali, Manoj K. Jayan and Sunitha in the lead roles.
Snehasagaram
1992
7.6Mathilukal ('Walls') is a free adaptation of the novelette of the same name, written by the celebrated Malayalam writer, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. Autobiographical in character, it is set against the background of India’s freedom struggle in the ’40s when he was serving a term of imprisonment in the Trivandrum Central Jail. When the film opens, we see Basheer in a police lock-up, quite at home in the company of a few petty criminals. He has been languishing there for more than a year now without a trial.
Mathilukal
1990
Prathapan, a young dynamic person, strives hard to find a job. However, his life takes a turn, when he meets Nair, who offers him a job in his soap factory.
Apaaratha
1992
7.5The story follows Abdullah (Mohanlal) who is hired by the members of a wealthy royal family to assassinate the family head Maharaja Udayavarma (Nedumudi Venu). Abdullah comes into the royal palace under the disguise Ananthan Namboothiri, a classical singer, and tries to use this mask to softly kill the Maharaja.
His Highness Abdullah
1990
7.2Raman and Gopi are brothers who have a musical heritage. Raman's addiction towards alcohol becomes a threat to his career and Gopi is forced to take up his role.
Bharatham
1991
6.7Peethambaran (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
5.5Brothers Ganapathi Pai and Ananda Pai fall for a young stenographer they hire for their company. However, they are in trouble when they learn that she has ulterior motives.
Pai Brothers
1995
1980s · 12 titles
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Kaveri
1986
7.5Usha (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
6.7Mukundan 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
7.0CID officers Ramdas and Vijayan go to Kerala to find the murderer of a police officer. While doing so, they face a dangerous crime syndicate that deals in drug trafficking.
Pattanapravesham
1988
No synopsis available yet.
Dooram Arike
1980
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Neram Pularumbol
1986
7.6The only way Gopalakrishnan can escape from certain bankruptcy is to sell the property he owns in the city and use the proceeds to settle his debts. To do that, he has to evict his tenants from there first. Unfortunate for him, his tenant is the feisty Meera and her family, who absolutely refuses to vacate the house. Gopalakrishnan uses an obscure clause in the contract to take up residence at the house, and tries his best to smoke his tenants out.
Sanmanassullavarkku Samadhanam
1986
7.9Vellanakalude Nadu movie which is a political satire based against municipal mafia in the form of Buildings
Vellanakalude Naadu
1988
7.3Murali returns to his home in Kerala after working in the Gulf for seven years. He decides to settle in his hometown, but things do not go as expected.
Varavelpu
1989
7.5The film revolves around T.P. Balagopalan (Mohanlal), a middle class post-graduate salaried person, who wants to build himself and also needs to take care of his extended family members. The film went over factors influencing Kerala of the 1980s such as widespread unemployment, poverty, and the poor economy.
T. P. Balagopalan M.A.
1986
7.2Sethu, an unemployed youth, struggles to find a job. When a spate of robberies takes place in his friend's neighborhood, he poses as a Gurkha to get a job as a security guard.
Gandhinagar 2nd Street
1986
8.0Lathika is happily engaged to her cousin who works abroad. While she waits for him to come back, Lathika gets raped by her brother's friend. She becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son.
Ente Upasana
1984
1970s · 3 titles
No synopsis available yet.
Thenaruvi
1973
10.0Lora Nee Evide (transl. Lora Where are you?) is a 1971 Indian Malayalam film, directed by T. R. Raghunath and produced by M. Kunchacko. The film stars Prem Nazir, Ushakumari, K. P. Ummer, KPAC Lalitha, Radhika and Adoor Pankajam in the lead roles. The film had musical score by M. S. Baburaj.
Lora Where Are You?
1971
9.0The story takes place in a small village surrounded by hills and valleys. Young Pappu, a teenager, awaiting school results to go to college, has plenty of time on hand. His trouble is adolescence, but neither his mother nor his aunt can diagnose his affliction. Everything around him excites and stimulates his sexual curiosity. Twenty plus Rathi, the girl next door, has been chechi (elder sister) to him since he was a child. Unaware of the stirrings of his desire, she dismisses his first overtures to her as boyish pranks. But soon her feelings change. She is sympathetic to the boy's confusion and goes to the sarppakkavu (cobra-shrine) to keep a midnight date with Pappu. It storms and thunders while Pappu makes love to Rathi. Only then do the storms—the one tormenting him inside his mind and the other raging thunderously on the outside, subside. Aghast at what has happened,
Rathinirvedam
1978
