Priya

Actress

Biography

Priya is an Indian film actress in South Indian movies. She was a prominent lead actress during the 1980s and 1990s in Malayalam films. She had acted in few Tamil films as well. She now works with Tamil TV films and soap operas in antagonist roles. She was noted for her performance in the Malayalam film Ninnishtam Ennishtam

Filmography

10.0

Chinna Thambi

Kanchana (Varsha's mother & Nandhini's aunt, Antagonist)

Two people, who are poles apart, find love in each other. However, they face several problems because they belong to different cultures.

7.2

Bombay

A Hindu man and a Muslim woman fall in love in a small village and move to Mumbai, where they have two children. However, growing religious tensions and erupting riots threaten to tear the family apart.

7.3

Chinna Veedu

Gopal marries Bhagyalakshmi, a plain and unsophisticated woman, at his father's behest. However, when he meets Banu, he gets attracted to her without realising her true motives.

7.0

Mazha Peyyunnu Maddalam Kottunnu

Aruna

Mazha Peyyunnu Maddalam Kottunnu is a 1986 Malayalam comedy film directed by Priyadarshan. Starring Mohanlal, Mukesh, Lizy, Sreenivasan, Jagathi Sreekumar, Maniyanpilla Raju, and Kuthiravattam Pappu in the main roles. This film was a huge hit in theaters and is considered as one of the best comedy films in Malayalam cinema.

6.7

Anjathe

Sathyavan's Mother

Sathya and Kiruba are friends. Sathya is reckless and gets into drinking and violent fights whereas Kiruba studies hard to become a Sub-Inspector. Tables are turned when Sathya becomes a Sub-Inspector.

3.8

Motta Shiva Ketta Shiva

A corrupt cop who has a heartbreaking childhood realises his mistakes and turns into a sincere officer to take on a dreaded criminal and his son.

6.9

Moonnam Mura

Ali Imran's Sister

A group of high-ranking political officials are on a trip when their bus is hijacked by a group of terrorists headed by Charles (Lalu Alex). They demand the release of their old colleagues languishing in prison in exchange for safe release of the politicians. An ex-cop is hired to free the officials from the group of terrorists.

3.0

Manthrikan

Exorcist Mukundan meets and falls in love with Malu, a girl who has lost her memory. A few years later, he arrives at a palatial house for an exorcism and bumps into Malu who fails to recognise him.

6.9

Aryan

Subhadra

Aryan movie is all about Devanarayan (Mohanlal) who is a Brahmin priest who is falsely accused of theft and forced to leave his village in Kerala. He moves to Bombay where he gets drawn into the underworld through an ageing don Kareem (Goga Kapoor). Some interesting comment initially on Brahmin priesthood in Kerala, but halfway through the film goes haywire.

5.0

Sreekrishna Parunthu

Bhanumathi

Kumaran Thampi, a wizard, is not able to keep his vow of celibacy. This keeps getting him into many troubles, most of which are lethal.

10.0

Kadathanadan Ambadi

Unichara's daughter

Kadathanadan Ambadi is a 1990 Malayalam-language Indian sword and sorcery film directed by Priyadarshan and produced by Sajan Vargeese, starring Mohanlal, Swapna, Raadhu and Prem Nazir. The film was in production from 1985 and was stalled due to financial crisis faced by the producer Sajan Vargeese. The film is a sequel to 1964 film Thacholi Othenan. Few shots from Tacholi Othenan is shown in this movie also.The film was released after the death of Prem Nazir.

7.1

Sukhamo Devi

Dr. Ambikadmajan Nair's wife

Nandan (Shankar) an introverted singer from a poor background falls in love with Devi (Urvashi). Their friends Sunny (Mohanlal) and his girlfriend Thara (Geetha) are quite the opposite and are extremely outgoing. When Devi's parents do not approve of her relationship with Nandan, they try to force her into an arranged marriage. Sunny and their other friends decide to help the couple elope. However things go awry when Sunny & Vinod (Jagathy) meet with a horrific accident.

N/A

Naalu Perukku Nandri

(uncredited)

Lakshmi, a fun-loving woman, challenges her friends that she will make Babu, the son of a rich businessman, fall in love with her.

6.3

Adiverukal

Selvi

Balakrishnan owns an elephant and is very fond of it. His mother sells it in order to find money to secure the job of a lecturer for Balakrishnan which devastates him.

7.3

Mukham

Prema

A police officer tries to uncover and stop an unknown serial killer who sniped three victims and plans for a fourth one.

6.5

Pappan Priyappetta Pappan

Dancer

A singer Pappan (Rahman) is killed in a bike accident, but Yamaraj the Lord of Death (Thilakan) realizes that Pappan has a few more days to live. Yamarajan allows Pappan to enter into bodies of other dead people including that of Inspector Devdas (Mohanlal) in a bid to tell his girlfriend Sarina (Lizy) that Pappan is dead, and to look forward to someone else in life.

7.7

Malootty

Five-year-old Malooty is visiting her grandparents' home and ends up falling in a borewell while playing ball with her dog. Her father struggles to rescue her before it is too late.

N/A

Police Maman

Celina

Shankaranunni (Baburaj) is an eccentric cop in the Kerala Police Dept. with a lackadaisical characteristic and is married to Lekshmy (Sunitha Varma), the only daughter of a senseless politician from Tamil Nadu. Instead of serving his duty or investigate crimes, he likes to remain at his home 'Pulikkattil' as he does agriculture work, continuously opting for medical leaves. But as the murder of a college student comes to fore, he is forced to take charge of the investigation. How he sorts out the mystery forms the rest of the movie.

8.0

Padayani

Rajini

A remake of the 1973 Bollywood classic 'Yaadon Ki Baaraat', the movie stars Mammootty, Mohanlal, and Devan as long-lost brothers. In the end, they reunite to take revenge for their parents's death.

7.2

Gandhinagar 2nd Street

Sethu, an unemployed youth, struggles to find a job. When a spate of robberies takes place in his friend's neighborhood, he poses as a Gurkha to get a job as a security guard.