Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai
Actor, Film writer
1900 – 1979
Who was Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai?
Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai was a Malayalam dramatist, poet, screen play writer and actor. He was born on 1900 in Muthukulam, a small village in Alappuzha District, Kerala, India. Known as the Akshara Guru of Malayalam talkie films, he wrote the screenplay and dialogues of Balan, the first Malayalam talkie and Jeevithanauka, first box office hit in Malayalam film industry. He is also the author of about 55 dramas and dozens of film stories and screenplays. He acted in around 150 Malayalam films and wrote Tataka Parinayam Kathakali. An award named Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai Puraskaram has been instituted by Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai Samraka Samithi in honour of him.
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- Born
- 1900
Muthukulam - Also known as
- Akshara Guru
- Nationality
- India
- Profession
- Died
- 1979
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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