MOHANLAL

Mohanlal Viswanathan[22][23] was born in the village of Elanthoor, Kollam district (present-day Pathanamthitta district), Kerala on 21 May 1960. He is the youngest child of Viswanathan Nair, a former bureaucrat and Law Secretary with the Kerala government, and Santhakumari.[24][25] He had an elder brother named Pyarilal who died in 2000, due to heart related issues.[26] Director B. Unnikrishnan is a close maternal relative of Mohanlal.[1] Mohanlal grew up in Mudavanmugal at his paternal home in Thiruvananthapuram. He studied at Government Model Boys Higher Secondary School, Thiruvananthapuram and graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Mahatma Gandhi College, Thiruvananthapuram.[27][28] Mohanlal's first role was as a sixth grader for a stage play called Computer Boy, in which he played a ninety-year-old man.[29] During 1977 and 1978 he was the Kerala state wrestling champion.[30] Mohanlal was named by his maternal uncle Gopinathan Nair, who initially decided to name him Roshanlal before choosing "Mohanlal".[31]