Madampu Kunjukuttan
Madampu Sankaran Namboothiri | |
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Born | Kiralur, Thrissur, Kerala, India | 23 June 1941
Died | 11 May 2021 Thrissur, Thrissur, Kerala, India | (aged 79)
Pen name | Madampu Kunjukuttan |
Occupation | |
Nationality | Indian |
Genre | Novel, Short story |
Subject | Social aspects |
Notable awards | National Film Award for Best Screenplay writer in 2000, Kerala Sahitya Academy Award |
Spouse | Savithri Antharjanam |
Madampu Sankaran Namboothiri (23 June 1941 − 11 May 2021), popularly known as Madampu Kunjukuttan, was a Malayalam actor, author and screenplay writer.
Background and personal life
Kunjukuttan was born in Kiralur village of Thrissur District on 23 June 1941.[citation needed] He studied Sanskrit, Hasthyaayurvedam (treatment of elephants), worked as teacher for Sanskrit at Kodungalloor and was also a priest in a nearby temple. Madampu also worked for Ākāsha Vāṇī (All India Radio).[citation needed] He was married to Savithri Antharjanam and had two daughters, Jaseena Madampu and Haseena Madampu.
Career
His noted works includes Aswathamavu, Mahaprasthanam, Avighnamasthu, Bhrashtu, Entharo Mahanubhavulu, Nishadam, Pathalam, Aryavarthanam, Amrithasya Puthrah and Thonnyasam. He also wrote screenplays for the movies 'Makalkku', 'Gourisankaram', 'Saphalam', 'Karunam' and 'Deshadanam'. Kunjukuttan's novel Mahaprasthanam won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Best Novel in 1983. He won the National Film Award for Best Screenplay in the year 2000 for the Malayalam film Karunam, directed by Jayaraj. He contested in the Assembly election in 2001 from Kodungallur on a BJP ticket, but did not win. In 2003, he won the Ashdod International Film Award for Best Screenplay for the film Parinamam (The Change) directed by P.Venu. He received Sanjayan Award in 2014. He was famous for being the host of TV show E4 Elephant along with Sreekumar Arookutty on Kairali TV. He died on 11 May 2021, at a hospital in Thrissur, succumbing to COVID-19 related complications.
Filmography
- Shyamaragam (2020)
- Utyopyile Rajavu (2015)
- Chirakodinja Kinavukal (2015)
- Aattakatha (2013)
- Orma Mathram (2011)
- Adayalangal (2008)
- Veeralipattu (2007)
- Aanachandam (2006)
- Vadakkumnadhan (2006)
- Rasikan (2004)
- Agninakshatram (2004)
- Parinamam (The Change) (2003)
- Maargam (2003)
- Kattu Vannu Vilichappol (2001)
- Karunam (2000)
- Shantham (2000)
- Agnisakshi (1999)
- Purushardham (1986)
- Aaraam Thampuran (1997)
- Ashwathama (1978)
Television
- E4 Elephant
- 1941 births
- 2021 deaths
- People from Thrissur district
- Male actors from Thrissur
- Male actors in Malayalam cinema
- Indian male film actors
- Malayalam-language writers
- Malayalam novelists
- Malayalam short story writers
- Recipients of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award
- 20th-century Indian male actors
- 21st-century Indian male actors
- 20th-century Indian short story writers
- 21st-century Indian short story writers
- Indian male short story writers
- Indian male novelists
- Indian male screenwriters
- 20th-century Indian novelists
- 21st-century Indian novelists
- Malayalam screenwriters
- Novelists from Kerala
- 20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century Indian dramatists and playwrights
- Screenwriters from Kerala
- 20th-century Indian male writers
- 21st-century Indian male writers
- Best Original Screenplay National Film Award winners
- Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India