Madhavan Nair, commonly known by his stage name Madhu, is an Veteran Indian film actor, director, producer, and former film studio owner, who works in Malayalam cinema. Madhu has so far acted in nearly 400 movies including Malayalam, Hindi and Tamil languages. Madhu made his directoral debut in 1970 through the movie Priya, based on the novel ‘Thevadissi’ written by C. Radhakrishnan. Madhu directed eleven more movies including hit films like Sindooracheppu, Manyasree Viswamithran, Neela Kannukal, Akkaldaama, Kamam Krodham Moham, Theekkanal, Dheerasameere Yamuna Theere, Aaraadhana, Oru Yuga Sandhya and Udayam Padinjaru. He was the producer of most of these films. He also produced movies like Kaithappoo, Asthamayam, , Prabhatha Sandhya, Vaiki Vanna Vasantham, Archana Teacher, Grihalakshmi, N