A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Vijayan Thirur
Vijayan Tirur
Born:
May 17, 1944
Died:
September 22, 2007
Vijayan was an Indian actor primarily concentrated in Malayalam and Tamil cinema. A respected character actor in the 1970s and 80s, he was best known for his villainous leading role in Uthiripookkal (1979), which was called one of the 100 greatest Indian films of all time by News18 in 2013. He also played a minor role in Mani Ratnam's Nayakan (1987), which is considered a classic of Tamil cinema and is listed in TIME's "All-Time 100 Movies".
Dialogue:
1978 Kaathirunna Nimisham
1978 Lisa
1985 Choodatha Pookkal
1986 Sobharaj
Lyricist:
1978 Kaathirunna Nimisham
1978 Lisa
1985 Choodatha Pookkal
1986 Sobharaj
1991 Onnaam Muhurtham
Screenplay:
1978 Kaathirunna Nimisham
1978 Lisa
1985 Choodatha Pookkal
1986 Sobharaj
1991 Onnaam Muhurtham
Story:
1978 Kaathirunna Nimisham
1978 Lisa
1983 Guru Dakshina
1985 Choodatha Pookkal
1986 Sobharaj
1991 Onnaam Muhurtham
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While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.