Vinayan

Vinayan is an Indian film director, mainly of Malayalam movies. He started his career with the film Super Star, in which he used a Mohanlal look-alike in the lead role.

Vinayan is noted for the films Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum pinne Njanum, Karumadikkuttan, Oomappenninu Uriyadapayyan, Dada Saheb, Vellinakshthram, Akasaganga and Sipayi Lahala. He has directed both comedy and serious films.

In 2005, Vinayan created history by writing and directing the film Albhuthadweep (Wonder Island) which cast around 300 midgets for the first time in a film. The two-foot-high hero of the film Ajayan(Undapakru) found place in the Guinness Book of Records and India’s Limca Book of Records. The film was immensely successful, especially among children, besides garnering the FilmFare and the Cinema Express awards. The film was successfully remade in...