Sathyan Anthikkad

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name = Sathyan Anthikkad

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occupation = Director, Screenwriter
yearsactive = 1982–present
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children = Arun, Akhil, Anoop
parents = M.V. Krishnan, M.K. Kalyani
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Sathyan Anthikkad is a Malayalam film director known primarily for family based mainstream movies. He has created many hits, especially when working with Sreenivasan as the scriptwriter.

Personal life

Sathyan was born in 1954 January 3 in Anthikkad, Thrissur, Kerala. He was born to M.V. Krishnan and M.K. Kalyani.

Family

Wife: Nirmala Sathyan

Children: Arun M.S., Akhil M.S., Anoop M.S.

Career

Sathyan made his Maiden appearance in Malayalam film industry in 1973 as Assistant Director in Rekha Cine Arts. He turned to writing lyrics and penned about 100 popular malayalam film songs.He wrote the famous lines

"Oru nimisham tharoo
Ninnilaliyan,
Oru yugam tharoo
Ninneyariyan..."

Though he was successful as a lyricist, his wish was to become a director. To fulfil that, he became the Assistant director to Dr. Balakrishnan. Sathyan kickstarted his film direction with Kurukkante Kalyanam in 1982 [ [http://www.weblokam.com/cinema/profiles/0611/02/1061102041_2.htm Weblokam profile] ] and there was no turning back. He teamed-up with Sreenivasan and made some of the most memorable films in Malayalam film history, with Sreenivasan as the screenwriter. "Thalayanamanthram", "Nadodikkattu" and "Sandesam" are some of the films born from the team, with socially relevant matters in a comic touch. Sathyan made two novels into films:"Appunni" starring Superstar Mohanlal which was a film adaptation of V. K. N.'s novel and "Irattakkuttikalude Achan" starring Jayaram and Manju Warrier, which was an adaptation of C. V. Balakrishnan's novel. [ [http://www.weblokam.com/cinema/profiles/0611/02/1061102041_4.htm Weblokam profile] ] Off late, he has ventured into screnwriting also and made films like "Rasathanthram" and "Vinodayathara" with credits of story, dialogues, screenplay and direction. He is a pet of family filmgoers because of his selection of plots in family-life background having social relevance and because of his comedic tastes [ [http://www.weblokam.com/cinema/profiles/0611/02/1061102041_2.htm Weblokam profile] ] . He has often made maestro Ilayaraja to set scores for his films. They teamed-up in films like Achuvinte Amma, Rasathanthram and Vinodayathara", and many of the tracks from the albums were chartbusters. Sathyan has used Mohanlal or Jayaram to play protagonists in most of his films. [ [http://www.weblokam.com/cinema/profiles/0611/02/1061102041_4.htm Weblokam profile] ]

Lyrics

Sathyan turned to writing lyrics and penned about 100 popular malayalam film songs. [http://www.devaragam.com/vbscript/MusicNew.aspx?ArtistID=231 Click here to play] .

Filmography

References

External links

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* [http://www.weblokam.com/cinema/interview/sathyan.htm Weblokam articles by Sathyan Anthikkad]