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About Mohanlal

Mohanlal Vishwanathan Nair (born May 21, 1960) is a Indian film actor, who works in Malayalam Film Industry. He is one of the reigning superstars in Malayalam cinema. A two-time National award winner, Lal is famous for his versatility and natural acting style.Mohanlal is best known for his movie roles of the late 80's and early 90's. His most notable films include Nadodikkattu, Kireedam, Yodha, Kilukkam, Bharatham, Devasuram, Vanaprastham, and Thanmathra. He was awarded the territorial army Honour Lt. Col by the Government of India this year for his excellent performance in keerthichakra and kurukshetra.

Mohanlal was born in Elanthur in patthanamthitta district of Kerala, to Mr.Vishwanathan Nair, a government employee, and Mrs.Santhakumari and later shifted to his father's place, Mudavanmugal in Thiruvananthapuram. An average student at school, he started his association with the world of acting very early, when he used to participate in school-plays. In the sixth grade, young Mohanlal was chosen the best actor in school, an award that was usually bagged by tenth graders.He won university kalaprathibha award in 1978.

After schooling, he joined Mahatma Gandhi College, Thiruvanathapuram (Under Kerala University) for his bachelors degree. He continued his association with acting and won numerous best actor awards. It was here that he met a group of fellow-students, who were passionate about theatre and feature films.They were instrumental in getting him his first breakthrough and some of them, notably Priyadarshan and Manian Pilla Raju, went on to become popular movie director and actor his hobby ragging.

Priayadarshan is currently Hindi's number one director, and another classmate of Mr Mohan Lal, M G Sreekumar is one of the most acclaimed singers in Malayalam.

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