Mammootty (born Muhammad Kutty Ismail Paniparambil; 7 September 1951) is an Indian film actor and producer who has

mainly worked in Malayalam cinema. He has also acted in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, and Kannada films. During a career spanning more than three decades, he has acted in more than 360 films. He has been awarded the National Film Award for Best Actor three times. Mammootty is the only actor to win the award based on performances in two different films on two different occasions,Mathilukal and Oru [3] Vadakkan Veeragatha (1986) and Ponthan Mada and Vidheyan (1993). He has also won five Kerala State Film Awards and eleven Filmfare Awards. In 1998, he was awarded the Padma Shri for his [4] contributions towards the arts. He was also honoured a Doctor of Letters by the University of Kerala in [5] [6] January 2010 and by the University of Calicut in December 2010. Mammootty is the chairman of Malayalam Communications, which runs the Malayalam television [7] channels Kairali TV, People TV and WE TV. Mammootty is also the goodwill ambassador of [8] the Akshaya project. Mammootty is involved in a number of philanthropic projects aimed at helping needy people.