P. N. Menon
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P. N. Menon P.N. Menon is an artist and Malayalam movie director. He came into cinema as an art director and then branched out into direction.
His 1969 movie Olavum Theeravum (waves and the shore) is considered to have heralded the new wave movement of the 1970s and 80s in the Malayalam movies. It won the state award for the best film. Perhaps his most successful commercial film was Chembarathy (Hibiscus Flower) which was made from a script by Malayattoor Ramakrishnan and starred new comers like Raghavan, Sudhir and Roja Ramani along with veteran actors like Madhu and Usha Nandini. Another script of Malayatoor Ramakrishnan named Gayathri which was directed by him was awarded the President's National Awards Medal for National Integration.
After a long period of absence lasting more than a decade, he directed a film, Nerkkuneraey (face to face) (2004).
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