caption website children profession parents birth_date spouse image article_title name occupation
balachandra menon -lsb- http://www.balachandramenon.com/ balachandramenon.com -rsb- akhil menon bhavana menon lawyer shivashankara pillai lalitha devi 11 january 1954 varada menon -lrb- 1982 -rrb- 200px balachandra menon
 balachandra menon film composer director actor scriptwriter distributor film producer editor singer
balachandra menon

balachandra menon is an indian film actor , director , script writer , distributor , editor , composer , singer and producer who works in malayalam cinema .
he made a number of popular films in the 1980s and 1990s .
he won the national film award for best actor for his role as ismail in the 1998 film `` samaantharangal '' , which was also directed by him .
along with fazil and padmarajan , menon has introduced new actors into the malayalam film industry .
actors who made their debut in his films include shobhana in `` april 18 '' , parvathy in `` vivahithare ithile ithile '' , maniyan pillai raju in `` maniyan pillai athava maniyan pillai '' , karthika in `` manicheppu thurannappol '' , annie in `` ammayane sathyam '' , and kausalya aka nandini in `` 19 april '' .
many of his films explore the theme of uncommon relationships between common people .
his box office hits in the early 1980s included `` chiriyo chiri '' , `` kaaryam nissaram '' and `` prasnam gurutharam '' .
