Mohanlal
Mohanlal
made
his
acting
debut
in
Thiranottam
(1978)
but
the
film
was
never
released
due
to
censorship
issues.
He
followed
that
by
a
role
as
the
lead
antagonist
in
his
first
release
Manjil
Virinja
Pookkal
(1980)
at
the
age
of
20.
Mohanlal
Mohanlal
became
a
film
producer
with
the
1990
musical
hit
His
Highness
Abdullah
and
has
also
acted
in
a
number
of
Tamil
and
Bollywood
films.
Mohanlal
He
was
elected
as
most
popular
Keralite
in
a
2006
online
poll
conducted
by
CNN-IBN
on
the
occasion
of
the
50th
anniversary
of
Kerala's
formation.
Mohanlal
In
2001,
the
Government
of
India
honoured
him
with
the
Padma
Shri,
India's
fourth
highest
civilian
honour,
for
his
contributions
to
Indian
cinema.
He
has
won
four
Indian
National
Film
Awards
-
Two
Best
Actor
Awards,
one
Special
Jury
Award
for
acting,
and
one
Award
for
Best
Film
as
producer
along
with
six
Kerala
State
Film
Awards
for
Best
Actor.
Mohanlal
In
2009,
he
became
the
first
actor
to
be
given
the
honorary
rank
of
Lieutenant
Colonel
in
the
Territorial
Army
of
India
and
in
2010
received
an
honorary
doctorate
from
Sree
Sankaracharya
University
of
Sanskrit,
Kerala.
Mohanlal
Mohanlal
was
born
in
Pathanamthitta
in
south
Kerala
to
Vishwananthan
Nair,
an
officer
in
Kerala
Government
Secretariat
who
later
on
became
the
Law
Secretary
of
the
state
and
Santhakumary.
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