mohanlal Viswanathan, known mononymously as mohanlal, is an indian actor, producer, playback singer, distributor and philanthropist who predominantly works in malayalam cinema besides also appeared in tamil, telugu and hindi language films. He is regarded as one of the greatest actors in the history of indian cinema. In addition to malayalam, he has also appeared in other indian language films. mohanlal has won five National Film Awards—two best actor, a Special Jury mention and a special jury award for acting, and an award for Best Feature Film producer, also nine kerala State Film Awards and Filmfare Awards south and numerous other accolades. The government of india honoured him with padma shri in 2001, and Padma bhushan in 2019, India's fourth and third highest civilian honours, for his contributions to indian cinema.