Karakulam Chandran
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Karakulam Chandran | |
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| Born | 19 April 1950 |
| Died | 7 December 2018 (aged 68) |
| Occupations | drama director, drama-television serial-movie actor |
| Partner | Soosan Chandran |
| Children | Nitheesh Chandran (son) Nithin Chandran (son) |
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Karakulam Chandran is a Malayalam language drama, television serial, film actor and drama director from Kerala, India. He has directed 118 plays and acted in over fifty plays. He has also acted in 88 television serials and five movies. He has won more than eighty state level awards, including the state award for best drama director (in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 years), Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award for Best Drama Director (2008), the State Government's special jury award for best serial actor (2015) and the Ramu Karyat Award for outstanding contribution (2008).[1]
Personal life
He was born on 19 April 1950, to Narayana Pillai and Vishalakshi Amma at Nellivila House, Karakulam, near Nedumangad in Thiruvananthapuram district.
At the age of four, he began his acting career as a child actor in a play in a rural library. After joining as a student in Prof. G. Sankara Pillai's drama school, he became active in the field of professional drama in 1968.[2] Vayala Vasudevan Pillai's Theerthadanam was his first professional play.[2]
Karakulam Chandran and his wife Susan Chandran have two sons Nithish Chandran and Nitin Chandran, both journalists under Malayala Manorama group.[3]