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VMC Noushad is a popular malayalam movie producer and the brother of poluar malayal comedy actor Cochin Haneefa. His nominations are listed below.

Best Movies

  • Thirakkatha
  • Cycle
Best Actor
  • Mammootty
Best Actress
  • Priyamani
Best Music
  • Rahul Raj (Annan Thampi, Mayabazar, Crazy Gopalan)

Thomas Sebastian is the director of last year released movie Mayabazaar. His nominations are listed below.

Best Movie
  • Thirakatha
  • Calcutta News,
  • Veruthe Oru Bharya

Best Actor
  • Mohanlal
Best Actress
  • Priyamani
Best Music
  • Rahul Raj
  • Debjyothi Mishra

Collins Leophill is one of the most popular designers of malayalam cinema now. His choices for the various categories are listed below.

Best movie
  • Twenty 20
  • Calcutta News
Best Actor 
  • Mohanlal
Best Actress
  • Priyamani
Best Music 
  • Rahul Raj (Annan Thampi, Mayabazar, Crazy Gopalan)
Vinod Vijayan is the director of movies like Quotation and Red Salute. His choices for various categories are listed below.

Best Movies

  • Annan Thampi
  • Thirakkatha
  • Cycle
Best Actor
  • Mammootty
Best Actress
  • Priyamani
Best Music
  • Rahul Raj (Annan Thampi, Mayabazar, Crazy Gopalan)

Deepu Karunakaran is the director of the recently released Dileep movie Crazy Gopalan. The following are his choices for best films of 2008.

  • Culcutta News
  • Cycle
  • Pachamarathanalil
  • Madambi
  • Veruthe Oru Bharya
  • Thalappavu
  • Gulmohar
  • Kurukshetra
  • Rathrimazha
  • Pakal Nakshathrangal
  • Twenty 20

uday Director Uday Ananthans choice for Best Movies 2008

Uday Ananthan is the director of the movie Pranayakalam. The following are his list of nominations.

Best Actor

  • No Nominations

Best Actress

  • Priyamani (Thirakkatha)

Best Film

  • Thirakkatha

Best Director

  • Blessy (Calcutta News)

sanjay Writer Sanjays choice for Best Movies of 2008

Sanjay is one of the most promising young writers in Malayalam cinema. He started his career along with his brother Bobby by scripting a TV serial named Avasthantharangal which won the state awards including best serial, screenplay, director etc. Afterwards, Bobby Sanjay team wrote scripts for movies like Ente Veedu Appoontem and Notebook. Now Bobby Sanjay duo is doing the script work of their new film Casanova, which will be directed by Roshan Andrews with Mohanlal in the lead.

Best Films

  • Thirakkatha
  • Pakalnakshatrangal
  • Thalappavu

ranjini Ranjini Haridas choice of Best Films of 2008

Ranjini Haridas, Miss Kerala 2000 and the host of popular reality show Idea Star Singer, has sent us her suggestions 

Best Films

  • Twenty 20
  • Thirakkadha
  • Adayalangal 

Best Director

  • Joshiy (Twenty 20)
  • Ranjith (Thirakkadha)
  • M G Sasi (Adayalangal)

Best Actor

  • Mohanlal

Best Actress

  • Priyamani (Thirakkadha)

Best Music Director

  • Sarath (Thirakkadha)
  • Vidyasagar (Mulla)

Best Singer Male

  • Dr K J Yesudas
  • Madhu Balakrishnan
  • Shankar Mahadevan (Thirakkadha)

Best Singer Female

  • Gayathri Asokan
  • Shwetha Mohan
  • K.S.Chitra
  • Rimi Tomi

joshua Writer Joshua Netwons choices of the Best Films of 2008

Joshua Newtonn is an international award-winning journalist based in Kochi. His first original screenplay ‘Ritu ‘, is to be filmed by Shyamaprasad early this year. He blogs at www.joshcafe.com

T he list of films of 2008 is the worst package of Malayalam films I’ve come across in one bunch. Handpicked here are five (couldn’t go for more without feeling ashamed) films, which were relatively less pretentious films, in terms of both aesthetic and commercial aims.

- Joshua Netwonn

  • Thirakkatha - Renjith
  • Gulmohar - Jayaraj
  • Cycle - Johnny Antony
  • Swarnam - Venugopan
  • Malabar Wedding - Rajesh, Faizal

jo Joseph Thomas choices in the Music Category

Joseph Thomas (known as Jo in the blogging world) is a blogger, singer, composer and podcaster. A goldsmith-turned-techie, who hails from Thrissur is now working as a Web Designer in an MNC in the capital city of Kerala. Jo has founded Blogswara, an internet platform for amateur musicians. Blogswara produces internet music albums which are freely available to listen and download original music created by amateur as well as professional musicians. So far it has released 5 albums as of December 2008. You can cath Jo at his blog.

 

Best Music Director

  • Debjyothi Misra (Calcutta News)
  • Sreevalsan J Menon (Laptop)
  • Sarath (Thirakkatha)
  • Vidyasagar (Mulla)
  • Bijibal (Minnaminni koottam)

Best Singer Male

  • Yesudas (Madambi)
  • Madhu Balakrishnan  (Calcutta News, Thirakkatha)
  • Sreevalsan J Menon (Laptop)
  • Amal Antony (Laptop)
  • Nishad (Thirakkatha)

Best Singer Female

  • K S Chitra (Calcutta News)
  • Gayatri Asokan (Mulla)
  • Swetha Mohan (Thirakkatha)
  • Rimi Tomy (Mulla)

Best Lyrics 

  • Rafiq Ahmad (Laptop, Thirakkatha)
  • ONV (Mizhikal Sakshi)
  • Vayalar Sarathchandra Varma (Mulla)
  • Anil Panachooran (Minnaminni koottam)

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