sentences:  In 1978, he was cast as the main lead in the Tamil film "Bairavi".The same year, he received critical acclaim for his roles in "Mullum Malarum" and "Aval Appadithan"; the former earned him a Tamil Nadu State Film Award Special Prize for Best Actor.He made his Malayalam cinema debut with I. V. Sasi's fantasy "Allauddinum Albhutha Vilakkum" (1979), an adaptation of a story from "One Thousand and One Nights".