

His most popular commercials are for Coca-Cola, American Express, Nokia, Parker Pens, Asian Paints, Kinley and Max New York Life Insurance. Priyadarshan has also directed many advertisement films. His multiple collaborations in Hindi include Tabu, Paresh Rawal, Pooja Batra, Amrish Puri, Johny Lever, Asrani, Akshay Kumar, Anil Kapoor, Akshaye Khanna, Kareena Kapoor, Om Puri, Tinnu Anand, Shakti Kapoor, Rajpal Yadav, Manoj Joshi, Sharat Saxena, Arbaaz Khan, Jackie Shroff and Suniel Shetty. Most notable such Bollywood films include Hera Pheri, Hungama, Hulchul, Garam Masala, Bhagam Bhag, Chup Chup Ke, Dhol, and Bhool Bhulaiyaa. He is known for adapting stories from Malayalam films into Bollywood, from his own work as well as other films. Soman, Thilakan, Jagathy Sreekumar, Innocent, Nedumudi Venu, Sreenivasan, Sukumari, Kaviyoor Ponnamma, Shobana, KPAC Lalitha, Revathi, Lissy, Cochin Haneefa, Maniyanpilla Raju, Mukesh, Jagadeesh, C.I. Other Malayalam actors he frequently collaborated with are: Mammootty, Shankar, Kuthiravattam Pappu, Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair, Sankaradi, M.G.

Priyadarshan's collaborations with Mohanlal were highly popular in Malayalam cinema during the 1980s and 1990s, with most notable films being Poochakkoru Mookkuthi, Mazha Peyyunnu Maddalam Kottunnu, Thalavattam, Vellanakalude Nadu, Chithram, Vandanam, Kilukkam, Abhimanyu, Mithunam, Thenmavin Kombath, Kala Pani, and Chandralekha.

In 2021, his period epic Marakkar: Lion of the Arabian Sea won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film. In 2012, the Government of India honoured him with Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award for his contribution towards the arts. In 2007, his Tamil film Kanchivaram won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film. His collaborations with Mohanlal were highly popular in Malayalam cinema during the 1980s and 1990s.
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In 2021 ,He returned to Hindi cinema with the movie Hungama 2.īest known for his comedy films, Priyadrshan has also experimented with some action, thriller and period films. In 2013, he announced that Rangrezz would be his last Hindi film for a while and shifted focus to Malayalam cinema. Towards 2000s, he moved to Bollywood (Hindi-language cinema) and remained active throughout the decade. Priyadarshan began his career in Malayalam cinema in the early 1980s and was active throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He was one of the first directors in India to introduce rich color grading, clear sound and quality dubbing through his early Malayalam films. He has done about 27 films in Hindi alone, the highest number of films done by any Hindi film director after David Dhawan. In a career spanning over three decades, he has directed more than 95 films in various Indian languages, predominantly in Malayalam and Hindi, while also having done six films in Tamil and two in Telugu. Priyadarshan Soman (born 30 January 1957), better known by the mononym Priyadarshan, is an Indian film director, writer and producer.
