N. P. Chellappan Nair

N. P. Chellappan Nair (1903 - 1972) was a playwright and short story writer from Kerala, India. He concentrated on social comedy of manners. Of his 200 stories, thirty-one have been published in a separate volume.^[1] He received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Drama in 1961 for the play Iblisukalude Naattil.^[2]

N. P. Chaellappan Nair was born in 1903 in Mannar, a small town in what is now Alappuzha district of Indian state of Kerala. He died in 1972 at the age of 69.^[3]

Works

Plays

• Pranaya Jambavan (1938)
• Lady Doctor (1940)
• Minnal Pranayam (1941)
• Vanakumari (1942)
• Lieutenant Nani (1946)
• Iblisukalude Naattil (I960)^[4]
• Ksheerabala (1966)
• Itiyum Minnalum
• Vikata Yogi
• Bhavana
• Nurse^[5]
• Minnal Pinarukal
• Aa Prakasham Poliyukayilla^[6]
• Vazhivilakkukal^[7]
• Devadasi^[8]
• N. G. O.^[9]
• Gangayum Yamunayum Onnuchernnozhukanam^[10]
• Mohangal, Mohabhangangal^[11]
• Kakkakalum Kakkathamoburattikalum^[12]

Short stories

• NPyude Charithrakathakal (Collection of 21 short stories)^[13]
• Ere Nerum Kure Nunayum^[14]
• Dasapushpangal^[15]

Films

N. P. Chellappan Nair wrote the screenplay and starred in K. Subrahmaniam's film Prahlada (1941).^{[citation needed]} He also scripted the films, Chandrika (1950), Sasidharan (1950), Chechi (1951) and Athmasanthi (1964).^{[citation needed]}