Akku Akbar

Akku Akbar

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Akku Akbar, also known as Akbar Jose is a successful film director of Malayalam movies known for his association with actors - Jayaram and Dileep. He teamed up with Jayaram and Gopika to direct two successful family entertainers belonging to same genre – Veruthe oru bharya (2008) and Bharya athra pora (2013) repeating almost the same crew.  Vellaripravinte Changathi (2011), based on a real incident in the early 1970s is his most successful film up-to-date, which earned rave reviews and many awards also. It was a challenging project which took audience to 40 years back and to hold on the script as well. Mazhathullikkilukkam (2002), Sadanandante Samayam (2003), Kana Kanmani (2009) and Ulsaha Committee (2014) are other releases. He made his Bollywood debut with Gauri: The Unborn (2007), based on female foeticide. The movie giving a social message to viewers was later made to Malayalam titled – Kaana Kanmani. He has announced his next project with young icon Fahadh Fazil.

 

He was born in Thalikulam of Thrissur district. He schooled at his village itself. Since school days he was keen in watching movies along with his friends. He was so craze in movies that he cut his regular classes to watch movies. He reached film field at a young age and has completed almost 25 years here. He started his film career working as assistant to director Kamal. He, Lal Jose and actor Dileep worked as assistant director under Kamal for many years and that’s how his friendship with Dileep developed.

 

As a film director Mazhathullikkilukkam (2002) was his debut movie with Dileep in the lead role, followed by Sadanandante Samayam and Vellaripravinte Changathi. Rest of his Malayalam movies was made with Jayaram and both these combinations have been successful.

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Updated: July 29, 2014

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