Balachandra Menon

Balachandra Menon is an Indian film actor, director and script writer. He made a number of films in the 1980s and 1990s. He has directedmovies and acted in over 100 movies. He won the National Film Award for Best Actor in the 1998 film Samaantharangal, which was also directed by him. He has also worked as distributor, editor, composer, singer and producer in the Malayalam film industry.

Balachandra Menon was born in Ambalappuzha in 1954 to Shivashankara Pillai and Lalitha Devi. By virtue of his father being a railway station master, he served at Edava railway station and Menon had his formative years of childhood and adolescence life in this village. He studied at Edava Muslim High School and has narrated nostalgically about his memories about his life in this village in his autobiography Ammayaane Sathyam. He is an alumnus of University College Trivandrum and Fatima Mata National College. Sisters Sushma and Prema. Wife Varada Menon. Children Akhil Menon. Menon enrolled as a lawyer onJuly 2012,years after completing his degree.

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