Priyadarshan, a famous film director, is a prominent figure in the Mumbai film industry. This well-known film maker is highly influenced by Mickey Mouse, Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin. Now days, he has become the most sought-after film director in Mumbai. His hit movies include Viraasat as well as Saat Rang Ke Sapne.

The hometown of this filmmaker was Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala. His father Mr. Nair was a librarian in the University of Kerala. In his childhood he used to go to the library to read literary works of famous writers. He had a great interest in comics and fairy tales. The impact of this sort of reading is reflected in his movies.

His college friend, Mohanlal urges him to come to the films and this inspiration encourages him to start writing short stories. Apart from these, Priyadarshan in India also began writing scripts for Malayalam films. The first film he directed in the year of 1984, namely Poochaikyu Oru Mookkutheen in Malyamlam.



Priyadarshan's other major hit films include Vandanam, Chitram, Thalavattam, Kilukkam, Thenmavin Kombathu as well as Chandralekha. The Saat Rang Ke Sapne is the remake of this film. In between, he also directed films including Gardish and Muskurahat in Hindi, Gopura Vaasililae in Tamil and Nirnayam in Telegu.

The specialty of this director is that he usually cut the budget of a Hindi movie by half. The remarkable strength of this movie maker is the pace of work. His film Kalapani was shot in 72 days and budget was 3.5 crore magnum opus.

Interesting thing about Priyadarshan is that he was very much attached with cricket. It is only because of injury on his left eye he could not be able to fulfill his desire. After that he also became part of All India Radio.

Priyadarshan is one of the most reputed film makers in Bollywood. In his film like Virasat, the actors were Anil Kapoor, Tabbu, Pooja Batra. His other hit numbers were Saza-E-Kaalapani in which Mohanlal, Tabbu, Amrish Puri were main attractions. In the year of 1998, the film industry was gifted with another box office hit film Doli Saja Ke Rakhna. Apart from these, Priyadarshan also offers film like Hera Pheri and Kabhi Na Kabhi.

Priyadarshan also had been awarded for his great contribution to film industry in Mumbai. He has received awards from state as well as Central government for his films. In the year of 1995, he won the Kerala State Award for best direction. For the film 'Kalapaani', he has bagged 4 National Awards. Apart from these, he also awarded Santosh Sivan and Sabu Cyril for this particular movie.

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