Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai (1900-1979) was a Malayalam dramatist, poet, screen play writer and actor. He was born on 1900 in Muthukulam

Muthukulam

- Demographics : India census, Muthukulam had a population of 21,181 with 9,762 males and 11,419 females.Muthukulam is a small backwater village in Central Kerala. It is bordered by the Kanyakumari-Salem National Highway No.47 on the east and the backwaters to the west...

, a small village in Alappuzha District

Alappuzha district

Alappuzha is one of the 14 districts in the state of Kerala in India. It was formed as Alleppey District on August 17, 1957. The name of the district was officially changed to Alappuzha in 1990. The district is a widely known tourist destination, and is well known for its coir factories. Most of...

, Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. Known as the Akshara Guru of Malayalam talkie films, he wrote the screenplay and dialogues of Balan

Balan (film)

Balan is a 1938 Malayalam film directed by S. Nottani. It was the first talkie in Malayalam. Based on the short story Vidhiyum Mrs. Nayarum by A. Sundaram, its screenplay and dialogues are written by Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai. The film is a melodrama and was the first movie in this genre in...

, the first Malayalam talkie and Jeevithanauka, first box office hit in Malayalam film industry. He is also the author of about 55 dramas and dozens of film stories and screenplays. He acted in around 150 Malayalam films and wrote Tatataka Parinayam Kathakali.