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Vineeth Sreenivasan


Dhyan Sreenivasan


Deepak Dev


Shaan Rahman


Shajith Koyeri


Jitesh Sundaram


Santhosh Raman


Sivaprasad K


Sushin Shyam


Shibin K K


Anoop C K


Fabid Farooq


Ahmed Farzeen


Anjali Babu


Salman Nizar


VINEETH SREENIVASAN

Vineeth Sreenivasan is a playback singer and film actor. He is the son of Malayalam scriptwriter/actor Sreenivasan.

He born on 1st October 1985 at Kuthuparamba, Thalassery. He completed his SSLC from Rani Jai High School, Nirmalagiri and did his Engineering degree from KCG College, Chennai.

He got first prize in Mappilappattu in the Kerala State Youth Festival 1998. Vineeth won the AMMA Best Male Singer Award 2008 and also the Best Male new face of the year 2008 by Asianet, for his role in Cycle.

His first directed movie 'Malarvadi Arts Club' released in July 2010.

Thattathin Marayathu, a 2012 Indian Malayalam musical-romance film written and directed by Vineeth Sreenivasan got 9 Asiavision awards.

Vineeth married his college sweetheart Divya Narayanan on 18 October 2012.

Vineeth Sreenivasan

DHYAN SREENIVASAN

Dhyan Sreenivasan

Dhyan Sreenivasan is an Indian film actor who works in Malayalam cinema. He made his debut in 2013 with Thira, directed by his elder brother Vineeth Sreenivasan.

Dhyan Sreenivasan born on December 20, 1988 at Thalassery. Dhyan is the younger son of noted Malayalam screenwriter and actor Sreenivasan and Vimala.

After dropping out of his engineering course, Dhyan joined a visual communication course because of his wish to work in cinema. According to some of his interviews, Dhyan states his brother Vineeth Sreenivasan watched a short film which Dhyan directed and acted in, and offered him a role in Thira. In the film he co-starred with 2 time National Award winning actress Shobana. His performance in the film was generally well received by critics. He got Asianet Film Award - Best Debut Actor - for that movie.

In 2015, he acted along with his brother Vineeth Sreenivasan in the film which is directed by Basil Joseph.

DEEPAK DEV

Deepak Dev is an Indian music composer, best known for his compositions in Malayalam cinema, with films such as Chronic Bachelor, Symphony, Udayananu Tharam, Naran, Puthiya Mukham, Grand Master etc.

He is a native of Thalassery, (born on 2nd March 1978) in Thalassery and was raised in Dubai and completed his schooling in the Indian High School, Dubai. Music has always been in his blood line. His father, Devraj, and mother, Asha Dev, are singers, though not professionals. Both parents have played a major role in nurturing Deepak’s passion and love for music. Deepak, who has had hands on composing several successful romantic melodies, was also successful in transforming his love life into a melody-filled married life with his love Mrs. Smitha Deepak Dev.

The couple has now located their base to Chennai, where they now live happily with their two daughters, Devika Deepak Dev and Pallavi Deepak Dev. Acoustic guitar is Deepak’s favorite instrument. His constant use of Acoustic guitars in his songs has set the new trend in the Malayalam music industry.

He got Best Music Director Award couple of times from Asianet in 2006 (Udayananu Tharam) and 2009 (Puthiya Mukham) and got Kerala State Film award for Best Background score in the year 2011 for the movie 'Urumi'

Deepak Dev

SHAAN RAHMAN

Shaan Rahman

Shaan Rahman (born 30 December 1979) is an Indian music composer and singer, best known for his compositions in Malayalam cinema, with films such as Ee Pattanathil Bhootham, Malarvaadi Arts Club, Thattathin Marayathu, and Om Shanthi Oshaana.

He is born in Thalassery. His father is Abdul Rahman and Mother is Laila. Shaan got married to Zaira on 11 October 2009. They have a son Ray.

Shaan made his debut as a music director in Ee Pattanathil Bhootham a Malayalam movie which was directed by Johny Antony and released in 2009. The music won him immediate attention. He got the chance to work in this film, after the wide acceptance of his music album named Coffee at MG Road with which his friend, singer and film director Vineeth Srinivasan, was also associated. Vineeth Srinivasan invited him to work in his directorial debut film named Malarvaadi Arts Club. The movie and its songs were hits. This gained Shaan more popularity. Shaan's third movie as music director was Thattathin Marayathu, directed by Vineeth Srinivasan. The songs in Thattathin Marayathu were among the most popular songs of the year 2012 and won several awards.

Shaan Rahmaan is also a singer and has sung songs for music director Deepak Dev in films like Urumi, Teja Bhai & Family, and I Love Me.

SHAJITH KOYERI

Shajith Koyeri is one of the most promising sound designers in Indian film industry. He made his mark in the industry with his exceptional talent in sound designing. Shajith Koyeri has worked on over 60 films in total, winning the National and Filmfare Awards for Omkara and the Star Screen Award for Kaminey. He made his debut in Hollywood with DAM999.

Shajith was born in Punnol, Thalassery to Soma Sundaran and Rathibayi. He had to discontinue his studies while studying for Pre Degree at Brennan college due to rheumatoid arthritis. At the age of 25, he decided to move to Mumbai with an ambition of making a life of his own. He joined the fireflys Post Sound Studio, the first exclusive sync sound design studio in the country, where he was trained by national award winner Satheesh PM and learned the art of sound design from first principles. From there Shajith Koyeri went on to specialize in postproduction for sync sound films and sound design.

His first independent work was with the movie, Perfect Husband in 2003. Later he worked for movies like Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Black and Saawariya, Shimit Amin's Ab Tak Chappan, Ketan Mehta's Mangal Pandey: The Rising, Rohan Sippy's Bluff Master, Vishal Bharadwaj's Maqbool, The Blue Umbrella, Omkara, Kaminey, Ishqiya, Barfi, Haider.

Shajith Koyeri is best known in the industry for his perfectionism. He never let the realistic ambience lose in order to captivate the audience inside the world which cinema creates. He won accolades from critics and viewers for his magnificent aural artistry, dedication and courage to experiment.

In the year 2015, he won many awards such as IIFA, Star Guild for the movie Haider.

He got his 2nd Film Fare Award in the year 2016 for the film TALWAR

Shajith Koyeri

JITESH SUNDARAM

Jitesh Sundaram

Jitesh Sundaram was born at Thalassery in the year 1971, as the second son of Dr. M.A. Sundaram, a leading Medical Practicioner. He completed his formal education from St. Josephs Boys High School and S.N. College, Kannur. Later on he did his LL.B from S.D.M Law College, Mangalore. He is a trained musician and is one of the foremost disciple of ghazal and bhajan Masestro Shri Anup Jalota. His greatest privilege of accompanying his Master at various concerts makes his talents well matured and well disciplined.

He had the rare opportunity to perform in the "KHAZANA" two day ghazal festival organised by ghazal Maestro Pankaj Udhas in Mumbai. Stalwarts of ghazal world unite together for this festival. He also did share the same stage with well known ghazal Maestros Ghulam Ali, Anup Jalota, Pankaj Udhas, Talat Aziz, Chandan Das, Anuradha Paduwal to name a few on various occassions.

An audutioned & graded artisle of All India Radio, Mangalore has been regularly giving recordings and performances for AIR, Doordarshan and for various T.V. Channels.

He has performed at major Music Festivals like, Swaralaya Music & Dance Festival, India Festival, Mumbai Festival, Nishangandhi Festival, Vasantholsavam, Mayyazhi Mahotsavam, Karavali Ustav & Soorya Festival.

He did a brief appearance as a ghazal singer in the award winning Malayalam movie "Megha Malhar" directed by well known director Kamal.

He has toured extensively for concerts, covering USA, Canada, West Indies, Europe and the Middle East. Jitesh has to his credit ghazal and bhajan albums Chahat, Dard, Saadgee, Bhajan Ratan and Bhajan Tulsi.

In January 2011 released a Malayalam Ghazal Album "Ennumeeswaram" sung and composed by him, along with Ghazal Maestros Pankaj Udhas and Anup Jalota, penned by Rafeeq Ahamed.

Website : www.jiteshsundaram.com

SANTHOSH RAMAN

SIVAPRASAD K

sivaprasad k

Sivaprasad K is an iphone Application Developer. But he became famous when he came out with a 100-minute feature film titled Shadows, which is one of the first ‘blind accessible cinemas in the country. The film is taken in DAISY – Digital Accessible Information System — a digital talking book format, which is accessible to the blind. The movie revolves around a visually impaired character and his two friends.

He is born on 29 May 1990 at Thalassery. After completing his matriculation from St. Josephs Higher Secondary School and Plus Two from Pinarayi AKG Higher Secondary school, he joined RVS College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore. He got his B.E. degree (Computer Science) in the year 2007.

He made his debut as a director with the short film Ormayil ninnoru nadham in 2010 .The short film was well appreciated. Since then he has churned out two more short films. His third telefilm,The bridge in which he got special jury award from kerala film audience council.

 

SUSHIN SHYAM

Sushin Shyam is a famous young Music Producer/Composer/Keyboardist/Actor/Singer.

He started playing keyboards at a tender age of 3.

He has done the background score for the film 'Lord Livingstone 7000 Kandi'.

He has been working with music directors creating background scores for feature films over the past 4 years. He is a part of a folk metal band 'The Down Troddence' based from Kannur. TDT has performed over 40 venues across South India and performed on stage individually as well, over a 100 events and Few TV shows; the latest being one in Kappa TV with Sayanora for ' Music Mojo'.

He also appeared in some of the malayalam movies such as Grandmaster, Thattathin Marayathu, Da Thadiya, Honey Bee with short roles that have been well appreciated by the audience and film community.

sushin shyam

SHIBIN KK

Shibin K K

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) invitied designers around the world to create an official logo for the World Environment Day (WED) campaign 2015. The logo designed by Shibin KK selected as the best among 300 entries recieved from 70 countries.

UNEP Logo

He was born to K. Karunan, Retired Pharmacist and Prasannakumari C. P. at Koorara, Thalassery.

Earlier On 5 March 2009, when the Indian government announced a contest to create a sign for the Indian rupee, he contested for the same and he was among the final five whose symbols were shortlisted.

rupee symbol

He is a Freelance Graphic Designer. In the past he had worked at Govt. Vocational Higher Secondary School, (GVHSS) Chirakkara as Computer Science teacher. He has won many online logo design contests. Made hundreds of logos for companies all over the world during his Bangalore career as well as when he was working as a teacher.

He completed his graduation from M.G.G.A College, Mahe and Post Graduation from University of Calicut.

His wife, Maya is a Higher Secondary Teacher, Peralassery GHSS.

ANOOP CK

Anoop C K is one of the youngest groundsmen in India. He is born on 24th February 1977. He passed SSLC from BEMP Higher Secondary School. He is a diploma holder in electrical engineering from the Indian Technology Institute in Thalassery.

Anoop turned his attention to cricket in 2000 when he attended a BCCI umpires' seminar in Thalassery. That four-day event proved to be a catalyst as he qualified as an umpire and travelled through his home state, standing in tournaments conducted by the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA). While umpiring, Anoop got curious about the "behaviour" of the pitches and wanted to dig deeper. In 2006 he attended another BCCI seminar, this time for curators in Visakhapatnam. Fascinated by the process of pitch-making as well as the intricacies of weather and soil, Anoop decided to take it up as a serious vocation. To learn more, he attended a few more seminars and field workshops conducted by Daljit Singh, the head of BCCI's grounds and pitches committee.

Anoop topped the BCCI's certification course for groundsmen, held for 25 candidates between July 15 and 31 at the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore. The test, in which he scored 126 out of 150, involved practicals, theory as well as a viva.

The lovely cricket stadium at Krishnagiri, Wayanad, where the first unofficial cricket match between India ‘A’ and South Africa ‘A’was played, is the product of Anoop C K, BCCI Curator.

Anoop Cholath Kandy

FABID FAROOQ

Fabid Farooque

Fabid Farooque Ahmed is an Indian first-class cricketer who plays for Kerala.

Fabid Farooque Ahmed, son of Farooque and Sajina born on July 27, 1995, Thalassery.

His impressive performance in the C.K. Nayudu Trophy National under-23 cricket championship last year, have been rewarded with Ranji Trophy berths this season. In Ranji Trophy his debut match, he scored 37* against Hyderabad at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad on 8 October 2015. He also took two wickets in the same match.

AHMED FARZEEN

COT Ahmed Farzeen is an Indian first-class cricketer who plays for Kerala.

Ahmed Farzeen, son of T M Savan and Amina Beebi born on January 10, 1992 at Thalassery.

Ahmed Farzeen did his First class debut against Jammu and Kashmir at Srinagar on Oct. 1, 2015 and took 2 wickets for Kerala. In the same match he scored 17* while batting. It was his impressive performance in the C.K. Nayudu Trophy National under-23 cricket championship last year, which have been rewarded with Ranji Trophy berths this season.

Ahmed Farzeen

ANJALI BABU

Anjali Babu

Anjali Babu is a Junior Indian Team and Kerala Senior Volley ball Team player.

Anjali Babu is the youngest player in the Kerala Senior Volleyball Team which is now participating in the National championship, which has begun at Bengaluru on January 2, 2016. Though this is her first senior Nationals, she has been a regular for Kerala in the age-group championships for the last five years. She was able to make an impact soon after taking up the sport while studying at the St. Joseph’s HSS, Cherupuzha, Kannur. Then she joined SAI, Thalassery and trained at SAI, under coach T. Balachandran.

In 2014, she was picked for the junior India team, for the Asian championship in Taiwan. India finished sixth in that tournament. She is now a B.A. first year (English) student at Govt. Brennen College, Thalassery.

Kerala’s coach Muraleedharan Palat says Anjali is the most promising woman player he has seen in Kerala for some time. He added that she has exceptional power, speed and reach. And she has got great fighting sprit, too.

SALMAN NIZAR

Snake Park is a famous landmark in the district of Snake Park at Parassinikadavu, en route from Thalassery to Taliparamba, 2 km from National Highway 17. Here one gets to see a large genre of snakes and other small animals and there is even a live show, where trained personnel play and 'interact' with a variety of snakes, including cobras and vipers, and seek to quell mythical fears and superstitions about snakes.

The Snake Park set up by the Visha Chikista Kendra at Pappinisseri, has been a centre of attraction to both foreign and domestic tourists. This Kendra(center) offers effective treatment for snake bites with almost 100% cure. This is the only place, perhaps where Ayurveda and Allopathy are effectively combined for curing snake bites. The snake park here houses about 150 varieties of snakes including the Spectacled Cobra, King Cobra, Russell's viper, Krait and various pit vipers. There is also a large collection of non-poisonous snakes including Pythons.

parassinikkadavu snake park