N. P. Chellappan Nair
# 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. 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). He also scripted the films, Chandrika (1950), Sasidharan (1950), Chechi (1951) and Athmasanthi (1964).

