2. INTRODUCTION
His full name is Mohanlal Viswanathan, known mononymously as Mohanlal.
He is an Indian actor, producer , playback singer , director , distributor and philanthropist.
Mohanlal Viswanathan was born in the village of ellanthoor in the pattanamthitta district,
kerala on 21 may 1960.
He is the youngest child of Viswanathan nair , former bureaucrat and Law secretary with
the kerala government and Santhakumari.
Mohanlal is also known for his philanthropic endeavors, he founded the ViswaSanthi
Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization
Mohanlal married Suchitra, daughter of the Tamil film producer K. Balaji,
3. EARLY LIFE
• EDUCATION
He studied at Government Model boys Higher secondary school, Thiruvananthapuram
and Graduated with Bachelor of commerce degree from Mahatma Gandhi college,
Thiruvananthapuram.
• CAREER
Mohanlal made his acting debute in 1978 with the film THIRANOTTAM, which was
produced and made by Mohanlal and his friends.
During his career, he has appeared in more than 346 feature films,mostly in
Malayalam cinema and also in Bollywood, tamil , telugu , and kannada.
4. PERFORMANCE
• Mohanlal had acted in several amateur plays before entering into films.
In 2001, he debuted in professional drama playing Karna (a character from the Indian epic
Mahabharata) in Karnabharam, a Sanskrit-language play directed by Kavalam Narayana
Panicker. It premiered at the Siri Fort Auditorium in New Delhi on 29 March 2001 as part
of the National Theatre Festival of the National School of Drama.
5. HONOURED AND AWARD
• Mohanlal has won five National Film Awards and also nine Kerala State Film Awards.
• The Government of india honoured him with the padma shri in 2001 and padma
Bhushan in 2019.
• He became the first actor in India to be awarded the honorary rank of Lieutenant
colonel in the Territorial Army.
• He received honorary doctorates from Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit in 2010
and from University of Calicut in 2018.