Nedumudi Venu

Over 500 films across nearly five decades stops me in my tracks. Nedumudi Venu wasn't just prolific; he was complete, winning honors as a lead, as a supporting actor, and even for art direction, then writing and directing too. To me that signals a man who loved cinema as a whole craft, not merely as a stage for himself. Malayalam film history would look thinner without his quiet, grounded presence. He passed in 2021, but a body of work that vast keeps an actor alive on screen long after. He's a reminder of how deep Indian cinema really runs.

Name (English)

Nedumudi Venu

Name (Japanese)

ネドゥムディ・ヴェーヌ

Reading

ねどぅむでぃ・ゔぇーぬ

Born

May 22, 1948 – October 11, 2021

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rat

Origin

Nedumudi, Alappuzha district, India

Occupation

film actor / television actor / film director / screenwriter / actor

University

Sanatana Dharma College

Awards & achievements

• Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Malayalam
• 1991 National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor
• Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedumudi%20Venu
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8D%E3%83%89%E3%82%A5%E3%83%A0%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8C
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12072044

Tags

• Alappuzha district
• film actor
• television actor
• film director

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.