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My Take
Mammootty is a giant of Malayalam cinema, and the numbers alone are staggering: over 400 films across more than five decades, almost always in the lead. Earning the National Film Award for Best Actor and the Padma Bhushan, he is essentially a one-man pillar of an entire regional film culture, fluent enough to carry roles in Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu. What strikes me is how little of this reach registers in Japan, when in South India he is simply royalty. I have nothing but respect for actors who can shoulder the cinema of their own land, and I genuinely wish more people here knew his name.
Overview
Muhammad Kutty Panaparambil Ismail (born 7 September 1951), known professionally as Mammootty ([mɐmːuːʈːi]), is an Indian actor and film producer who works predominantly in Malayalam-language films. With a career spanning over five decades, he has appeared in over 400 films, predominantly in lead roles, across Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, and English languages.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Mammootty
- Name (Japanese)
- マンムーティ
- Reading
- まんむーてぃ
- Born
- September 6, 1951 (age 74)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Rabbit
- Origin
- Chandiroor, Alappuzha district, India
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film actor / film producer / screenwriter / model / television producer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Government Law College, Kozhikode
Awards & achievements
- 1998 Padma Shri in arts
- National Film Award for Best Actor
- Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor
- Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Malayalam
- South Indian International Movie Awards
- Padma Bhushan
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttp://www.mammootty.com/
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mammootty/
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.