He won his best actor award while in 6th standard competing with 10th standard students. From that on he had received many awards. He is not acting his role, but he is living every character in the films. He has been in the Malayalam film industry for more than 25 years and still continuing his journey contributing good characters to us. Mohanlal made his debut in "Thiranottam", but this film released after 25 years due to some issues. His first movie was "Manjil Virinja Pookkal" in which his role was Antagonist.

Mohanlal has received many awards and honours including "Padma shri" award. He also received National Filmfare Awards and Kerala state Filmfare Awards for his Best Actor and in other categories too several times. He was also bestowed with the title "Black Belt" in Korean Martial Arts. Mohanlal is regarded as one of the most finest actor in Indian Cinemas. Mohanlal was awarded the Honorary Doctarate for his contributions to sanskrit by "Sree Sankaracharya Sanskrit University".

He acted in more than 300 films, produced or co-produced over35 films and he has sung over 30 songs, most of them for the films he acted in. Mohanlal has won four Indian National Film Awards – two Best Actor Awards, one Special Jury Award, and one Award for Best Film as producer along with six Kerala State Film Awards for Best Actor and eight Filmfare Awards for Best Actor.

Mohanlal has started many business ventures related to film production and distribution, restaurants and packaged spices. He owns MAX LAB cinemas and entertainments