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.

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).[citation needed] He also scripted the films, Chandrika (1950), Sasidharan (1950), Chechi (1951) and Athmasanthi (1964).[citation needed]

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