Mohanlal Vishwanathan Nair，单名 Mohanlal，是一位印度演员、制片人和歌手，以其在印度电影中多才多艺和自然的表演而闻名。他在未上映的电影 Thiranottam （1978） 中首次亮相，随后在 1980 年首次上映的 Manjil Virinja Pookkal 中担任主要反派，这是他的银幕处女作。

在莫汉拉尔确立自己作为主角的地位之前，在几部电影中扮演了反派角色，在喜剧和动作片等中扮演了各种各样的角色类型。1986 年，在 Rajavinte Makan 大获成功后，他被贴上了马拉雅拉姆语电影巨星的标签，他在片中扮演了一个黑社会唐。莫汉拉尔在1990年的音乐剧《阿卜杜拉殿下》中成为电影制片人，还出演了多部泰米尔语和宝莱坞电影。其中，他的主要角色是 Mani Ratnam 执导的 Iruvar 和 Ram Gopal Varma 执导的 Company。除了是一名演员和制片人外，Mohanlal 还拥有涉及电影发行、餐厅和包装香料的企业。

莫汉拉尔被认为是印度电影界最优秀的演员之一，也是印度喀拉拉邦的文化偶像，在 2006 年喀拉拉邦成立 50 周年之际，CNN-IBN 进行的在线民意调查中，他被选为最受欢迎的人。2001年，印度政府授予他莲花士勋章，这是印度第四高的平民荣誉，以表彰他对印度电影的贡献。他获得了四项印度国家电影奖——两项最佳男演员奖、一项表演评审团特别奖、一项最佳制片人奖以及六项喀拉拉邦电影奖最佳男主角奖。2009 年，他成为第一位获得印度领土军队中校荣誉军衔的演员，并于 2010 年获得喀拉拉邦梵文大学荣誉博士学位。

Mohanlal Vishwanathan Nair known mononymously as Mohanlal is an Indian actor, producer and singer who is well known for his versatile and natural acting in Indian cinema. He made his acting debut in the unreleased movie Thiranottam (1978), which was followed by a role as the lead antagonist in his first release Manjil Virinja Pookkal in 1980, his onscreen debut.

Antagonistic parts in several movies followed before Mohanlal established himself as a lead actor playing a wide variety of character types in comedy and action films amongst others. He was labelled a superstar of Malayalam cinema in 1986 after the success of Rajavinte Makan, in which he played an underworld don. Mohanlal became a film producer with the 1990 musical hit His Highness Abdullah and has also acted in a number of Tamil and Bollywood films. Of these, his notable roles were in Iruvar, directed by Mani Ratnam, and Company, directed by Ram Gopal Varma. As well as being an actor and producer, Mohanlal also owns businesses involved in film distribution, restaurants and packaged spices.

Mohanlal is regarded as one of the finest actors in Indian cinema and is a cultural icon in the Indian state of Kerala, where he was elected its most popular individual in a 2006 online poll conducted by CNN-IBN on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Kerala's formation. In 2001, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian honour, for his contributions to Indian cinema. He has won four Indian National Film Awards — two Best Actor Awards, one Special Jury Award for acting, and one Award for Best Film as producer along with six Kerala State Film Awards for Best Actor. In 2009, he became the first actor to be given the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army of India and in 2010 received an honorary doctorate from Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kerala.