Shankar

Shankar Panicker, is an Indian film actor and director, popularly known as Shankar in Malayalam films. In the early eighties, he was the most prominent romantic lead actor of Malayalam cinema after Prem Nazir for nearly 10 years. 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.