title: N. P. Chellappan Nair
text: # 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).
  
  