Sohanlal is an Indian

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

and

writer A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles, genres and techniques to communicate ideas, to inspire feelings and emotions, or to entertain. Writers may develop different forms of writing such as novels, short sto ...

, based in

Kerala Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...

Career

Sohanlal started his career as a production assistant and script writer with

Doordarshan Doordarshan (), abbreviated as DD, is India's State-owned enterprise, state-owned public broadcasting, public television broadcaster. Established by the Government of India on 15 September 1959, it is owned by the Ministry of Information and B ...

in 1996–2000 and later worked with the television channels - Indiavision in 2000–2002, Middle East Television in 2002–2004,

Jeevan TV Jeevan TV is an Indian Malayalam language Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry ( Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of ...

in 2004 and

Amrita TV Amrita TV is an Indian Malayalam-language free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal an ...

in 2004–2011 as Director-Programs.

Director

Sohanlal's first notable work was the 2006 TV film Neermaathalathinte pookkal adapted from a short story by

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of ...

writer Madhavikutty /

Kamala Surayya Kamala Surayya (born Kamala; 31 March 1934 – 31 May 2009), popularly known by her one-time pen name Madhavikutty and married name Kamala Das, was an Indian poet in English as well as an author in Malayalam from Kerala, India. Her fame in K ...

. The film was telecast on

and received several awards including

Kerala State Film Awards The Kerala State Film Awards are the film awards for a motion picture made in Kerala. The awards started in 1969 by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Kerala and since 1998 the awards have been bestowed by Kerala State Cha ...

for Best TV Film, Director, Script Writer, Music and Audiography. Sohanlal's first feature film, '' Orkkuka Vallappozhum'' in 2009 starred mainstream

actors. It won him the Kerala Film Critics Association Award for Best Debut Director and the movie screened in various film festivals worldwide. His second movie Kadhaveedu (House of Stories) was released in November 2013, Based on stories by

M. T. Vasudevan Nair Madath Thekkepaattu Vasudevan Narayanan Nair (15 July 1933 – 25 December 2024) was an Indian author, lecturer, Screenwriter, screenplay writer and film director. He was a prolific and versatile writer in modern Malayalam literature, and was o ...

, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, and Madhavikutty, the film explores the complexities of husband-wife relationships. His third movie
The Great Indian Road Movie
' was released in May 2019. His fourth movie is
Appuvinte Sathyanweshanam
' and the latest film he directed is in 2022,
Swapnangal Pookkunna Kaadu
' which is also the last part of his children's film trilogy. Sohanlal is the director of the first children's film trilogy in Malayalam. He is also a lyricist advertisement film maker and Event Director.

Lyrics written

* 2022
Swapnangal Pookkunna Kaadu
' * 2014 '' Konthayum Poonoolum'' * 2013 '' Kadhaveedu'' * 2013
Teens
' * 2012 ''Mazhanritham'' * 2009 ''Thaalolam''

Books authored

* 2012
Limelight
. Novel. DC Books'' * 2015
Park Street
Novel DC Books'' * 202
Ammamaram
Nove
Green Books
* 2011
London lights
Travelogue
Sign Books
'

Filmography - Director, Feature Films

Filmography - Director, Short Films

Filmography - Director, Documentaries

References

melange of a movie

Abstract and like a haikuSohanlal to helm Mollywood's first children's film trilogy

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sohanlal Living people Film directors from Thiruvananthapuram 21st-century Indian people Indian documentary filmmakers Indian television producers Malayalam film directors Malayalam screenwriters Malayalam-language novelists Screenwriters from Thiruvananthapuram Novelists from Kerala Year of birth missing (living people)