Ali Akbar (Rama Simhan – new name) made his directorial debut with the 1988 film Mamalakalkkapuram. Counting from that film to the film Puzha De Puzha To Puzha, there are only 12 films in the career. face seal Those movies are Ponnuchami, PyBrothers, Junior Mandrake, Gram Panchayat, Kudumba News, Swastam Grihabharanam, Bamboo Boys, Senior Mandrake, Dad, Puzha To Puzha. One thing that is clear when looking through these films is his method of making films on a low budget using actors who were once considered second-tier or third-tier stars in the film industry.
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Actors like Jagadish, Jagathy, Innocent and Indrans have mostly collaborated in his films. The fact is that the actor Suresh Gopi had not reached the status of a superstar when he acted in the film Ponnuchami. In 1988, the director won the State Film Award for Mammalukkupuram.
Junior Mandrake can be said to be a hit film in Ali Akbar’s career. Film lovers remember that this film, which brought together the best comedy stars of Malayalam, ran for 100 days in theaters. Perhaps Ali Akbar was the propagandist of anti-tribalism in Malayalam cinema. The film was presented as a tribal genocide by making a perverse film like Bamboo Boys. Due to some personal differences, he assumed the name Ali Akbar Ramasimhan and became a propagandist of Hindutva and completed the movie Puzha Dat Puzha Paa with popular participation and released it in theaters.
The distance from Ali Akbar to Ramasingham is a political distance. At the same time, the director also evolves from being a comedy filmmaker to a historical filmmaker.