Shankar Panikkar

Shankar Panicker is an film actor and director, popularly known as Powerstar Shanker in Malayalam films. In the early 1980s, he was a most prominent romantic lead actor of Malayalam cinema. Galatta Cinema magazine described him as the "True romantic hero of Mollywood" in their special edition on 100 years of Indian cinema. Shankar's debut, Tamil film Oru Thalai Ragam, ran for over 365 days in theatres. His Malayalam debut, Manjil Virinja Pookkal, ran over 200 days in theatres and became one of the highest-grossing Malayalam films of all time.