Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair
Actor, Award Winner
1922 – 1986
Who was Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair?
Sreedharan Nair, popularly known as Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair or just Kottarakkara, was an Indian film actor in Malayalam movies. He hailed from Kottarakkara in Kollam district of Kerala.
Sreedharan Nair won two Kerala state film awards. In 1970, he won the best actor award and in 1969 the second best actor award.
He is best remembered for his role as Chempankunju in the national award winning film Chemmeen directed by Ramu Kariat. Other impressive performances were in the films Veluthampi Dalava, Thommante Makkal as Thomman, and Pazhassi Raja as Pazhassi Raja. He is often considered to be one of the greatest actors of Malayalam cinema.
Sreedharan Nair was born in 1922 to Padinjattinkara Korattiyode Narayana Pillai and Ummini Amma. His son Saikumar, daughter Shobha Mohan, his son-in-law Mohan Kumar, his grand children Anil Pappan, Vinu Mohan, Anu Mohan, his great-grandson Master Kailasveswar S Nair are all film/TV actors.
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- Born
- Sep 11, 1922
Kottarakkara - Also known as
- Kottarakra
- Kottarakara
- Kottarakkara
- Sreedharan Nair
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- Nationality
- India
- Profession
- Died
- Oct 19, 1986
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on July 23, 2013
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