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. He received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Drama in 1961 for the play Iblisukalude Naattil."Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award (Play)". Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award.. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
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.
Works
Plays
Pranaya Jambavan (1938) Lady Doctor (1940) Minnal Pranayam (1941) Vanakumari (1942) Lieutenant Nani (1946) Iblisukalude Naattil (I960) Ksheerabala (1966) Itiyum Minnalum Vikata Yogi Bhavana Nurse Minnal Pinarukal Aa Prakasham Poliyukayilla Vazhivilakkukal Devadasi N. G. O. Gangayum Yamunayum Onnuchernnozhukanam Mohangal, Mohabhangangal Kakkakalum Kakkathamoburattikalum
Short stories
NPyude Charithrakathakal (Collection of 21 short stories) Ere Nerum Kure Nunayum Dasapushpangal
Films N. P. Chellappan Nair wrote the screenplay and starred in K. Subrahmaniam's film Prahlada (1941). He also scripted the films, Chandrika (1950), Sasidharan (1950), Chechi (1951) and Athmasanthi (1964).
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