Art
imitating life and fact inspiring fiction is no new drill. In fact the earliest
artistic creations have to have originated from life. So obviously they’ve been
doing this for longer than you think. Biopics and movies based on true events even
form a sizable genre, although the allusions to real life are way too direct
there, and shall be discussed in a different list altogether. But then there are cases where real people inspire fictitious characters that
may not always be exact replicas, and may occasionally even be used with
artistic license to tell a different story. Following is a list of such movie
characters from the Malayalam cinema based on real people.
