Jayarajan Rajasekharan Nair, professionally credited as Jayaraj, is an Indian filmmaker, who predominantly works in the Malayalam film industry.
Jayaraj
Jayaraj being felicitated at IFFI (2015)
Malayalam cinema is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Malayalam language, which is widely spoken in the state of Kerala, India. In 1982, Elippathayam won the Sutherland Trophy at the London Film Festival, and Most Original Imaginative Film of 1982 by the British Film Institute. The film Marana Simhasanam has won the prestigious Caméra d'Or at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
A scene from Vigathakumaran, the first Malayalam feature film
PK Rosy, the first actress of Malayalam movie industry
Adoor Gopalakrishnan is one of the pioneers of Indian parallel cinema.