43 Facts About Mammooty

Mammooty has appeared in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, and English-language productions.

Mammooty is the recipient of several accolades, including three National Film Awards, seven Kerala State Film Awards, and thirteen Filmfare Awards South.

Mammooty is the owner of multiple production ventures, including the distribution-production banner Playhouse and the Mammootty Kampany.

Mammooty was raised in the village of Chempu near Vaikom in Kottayam district in the present-day state of Kerala, India in a middle-class Muslim family.

Mammooty has two younger brothers, Ibrahimkutty and Zakariah, and three younger sisters, Ameena, Sauda and Shafina.

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Mammooty went to Government High School, Kulasekharamangalam, Kottayam for his primary education.

Mammooty did his pre-university course at Sacred Heart College, Thevara.

Mammooty married Sulfath Kuttyy in a traditional wedding ceremony, Mammootty considers his wife as his best friend and they are regarded as an ideal couple in the Malayalam film industry.

Mammooty's performances included Aalkkoottathil Thaniye and Adiyozhukkukal in the same year.

Mammooty started in 1982 as a police officer in the investigative thriller Yavanika, directed by K G George, which was both a commercial and critical success, and it is one of the finest investigative thrillers ever made in Malayalam cinema.

Mammooty played the character Tharadas, who is a smuggler and the film was a commercial success.

Mammooty played G Krishnamoorthy, a victimised journalist who systematically arranges the killing of politicians who had implicated him under false charges.

Mammooty won National Film Award for Best Actor for the movie Ponthan Mada and Vidheyan at the same year.

Mammooty acted as an aggressive yet honorable District Collector Thevalliparambil Joseph Alex IAS in his following release, a Political thriller film The King.

Mammooty did a direct Telugu movie in the same year Surya Putrulu, directed by C Umamaheswara Rao.

Mammooty played the lead role in Oru Maravathoor Kanavu, which was the directorial debut of Lal Jose in 1998.

Mammooty has done the lead role in N Lingusamy directorial debut Aanandham in the same year.

Mammooty was seen in never seen characters in the movies like Thommanum Makkalum, Thaskaraveeran and Rajamanikyam.

Mammooty won the Best Actor in Filmfare Awards for the movie Karutha Pakshikal.

Mammooty begin 2008 with action film Roudram, directed by Renji Panicker.

Mammooty done a cameo role in One Way Ticket in which Prithviraj Sukumaran done the lead role.

Mammooty done performance oriented movies like Kerala Cafe and Paleri Manikyam.

Mammooty won Best Actor Award in both Kerala State Film Awards and Filmfare Awards for the movie Paleri Manikyam.

Mammooty acted in Balyakalasakhi, directed by Pramod Payyannur, Praise the Lord, directed by Shibu Gangadharan and Gangster, directed by Aashiq Abu in the first half of 2014.

Mammooty acted in: Manglish, directed by Salam Bappu, Munnariyippu, directed by Venu, RajadhiRaja, directed by debutant Ajai Vasudev and Varsham, directed by Ranjith Sankar.

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Mammooty acted in Kasaba directed by debutant director Nithin Renji Paniker.

Mammooty was then seen in Puthan Panam directed by Ranjith, Pullikkaran Staraa directed by Syamdhar and Masterpiece directed by Ajai Vasudev.

Mammooty has then seen in Uncle written by Joy Mathew and directed by debutant Girish Damodar.

Mammooty was then seen in an extended cameo in the film Pathinettam Padi directed by Shankar Ramakrishnan.

Mammooty was in Ramesh Pisharody's Ganagandharvan in which he plays a 'ganamela' singer named Kalasadhan Ullas and Ajai Vasudev's Shylock.

Mammooty plays Kadakkal Chandran, Chief Minister of Kerala in the film.

Mammooty has acted in Tamil films for directors including K Balachander's, Mani Ratnam's, Fazil's, N Linguswamy's, R K Selvamani's, Marumalarchi Bharathi's and Ethirum Puthirum and Rajiv Menon.

Mammooty played Anantha Sharma in K Viswanath's Telugu film Swathi Kiranam.

Mammooty formed a television production company, Megabytes, which produced television serials, the first being Jwalayay in the late 1990s, which was his first project as a producer.

Mammooty is the owner of Playhouse since 2009, a company which primarily distributes films he has starred in.

Mammooty has been working with the Pain and Palliative Care Centre situated in Kozhikode, India.

Mammooty is a patron of the Care and Share International Foundation, a charity organisation aimed at reducing societal inequality.

Mammooty has promoted the activities of the movement, which coordinates with orphanages and institutions looking after the children.

Mammooty is goodwill ambassador for Akshaya, the information technology dissemination project of the Government of Kerala.

Mammooty formally took over the role on 26 February 2006 at a video-telecasted programme that was linked to all district headquarters of the state.

Mammooty promotes the anti-drug campaign Addicted to Life, launched by the Government of Kerala and affiliated with the Kerala State Beverages Corporation, which aims to eradicate drugs and alcohol usage among people, especially the youth.

Mammooty was featured as the brand ambassador for Kerala Volleyball League.

Mammooty was conferred with the Doctor of Letters degree by the University of Calicut and the University of Kerala in 2010.