Disney James

Disney James is an Indian actor and screenwriter. He plays lead, supporting and antagonist roles in Malayalam films. His portrayal of the terrorist who kills the family of Sam Alex (Prithviraj) in the film Memories, directed by ace director Jeethu Joseph and the antogonist Stephan Iype in the film Porinju Mariam Jose directed by veteran director Joshiy, won him many accolades.

Disney James
ഡിസ്‌നി ജെയിംസ്
Born	Disney James Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Education	Electrical Engineering(B.E.) St. Xavier's College of Engineering
Occupation	Engineer, Lecturer, Actor, Screenwriter, TV Anchor, Project Manager
Years active	2004–present
Spouse(s)	Misha Disney ( m. after 2016)
Parent(s)	James D. Plackal Tessy James
Relatives	Mahakavi P. C. Devassia P. A. Thomas James
Family	(late)Denny James Deepa Saji

He associated with directors Vipin Das and Arun Shekhar in screenwriting for the films Mudhugauv[1] and Jilebi[2] respectively.

Disney portrayed the lead character, Manu, in the film Velutha Rathrikal[3][4][5][6][7] (White Nights), directed by Razi Muhammed. This film is an independent adaptation of the short story with the same name, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, originally published in 1848. The film went on to bag the 2015 Best Screenplay (Adapted) for Razi Muhammed. Disney has also acted in numerous short films, of which Silent Dark Eyes,[8] directed by Rajesh Divakaran, was selected in the short film corner of Cannes Film Festival. Disney received the Best Actor award for the short films Burning Desire in 2014[9] and Chinsinsi in 2017[10] from Shri. Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Shri V. S. Achuthanandan respectively.

Personal life and education

Disney James was born a Roman Catholic on 21 January 1983 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He is the youngest son of former Bank Manager(CSB), James D. Plakkiyil, who hails from the Plakkiyil family, Kottayam and Tessy James, who hails from the Maliekkal Chethalan family, Chalakudy. Disney has two elder siblings, Deepa Saji and (late) Denny James. He grew up at Thekkada and at his paternal house in Nalanchira, Thiruvananthapuram, where he was greatly influenced by his grandfather, late "Mahakavi Panditaratnam Vachaspathi" Prof. P. C. Devassia.

Disney studied his KG education at Lourdes Mount School, Vattappara. After shifting to his paternal house, Disney joined Sarvodaya Vidyalaya and completed his tenth grade. He did his pre-university course at Mar Ivanios College, after which he completed his Engineering graduation (B.E) in Electrical and Electronics from St. Xavier's Catholic College of Engineering, Nagercoil.

Disney's parents encouraged their children to be active in extra-curricular activities. He was a regular participant in arts, literary, cultural and sports competitions throughout his school and college days and has won several prizes. The acceptance that he got while performing on stage made Disney seriously think about acting.

Disney married Misha, who is a native of Thalayolaparambu-Vaikom and belongs to Puthanangady Peruvelil family, on 27 August 2016 at Lourdes forane church, Trivandrum.

Career

After doing couple of sales jobs in Bangalore and TV anchoring, Disney attended a walk-in-interview at Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology, Trivandrum in 2004. He got selected and joined the Electrical and Electronics department as Lecturer. During an intercollegiate festival at MBCET, Disney performed on stage. Seeing this, his student Firoz cast him in a musical video along with actress Iniya. He did his first short film in 2005 alongside the late veteran actor Bharath Gopi. Disney started doing several musical videos, short films etc. and somehow managed both his professional and acting career. In 2007, Disney took a break and worked as Site engineer and Service engineer in Dubai (Emirates Electrical Engineering. LLC) for two years.

After coming back, he decided to take up film acting as his career. Disney acted in one scene as a gang member in a film directed by (late) Sajan Kurien in 2010. Lack of a mentor made Disney's path to mainstream cinema, more difficult. Meanwhile, he worked as a part-time news reader and anchor for Victors channel. Later that year Disney was selected for the antagonist character Kiran in the film House No.13 and faced the film camera for the first time. The film, directed by Mr. Sinu Nambiar, which also paved way for debut of actors Saju Navodaya and Hima Sankar, stopped production after the first schedule.

Disney also debuted in Tamil with the film Puthumugangal Thevai,[11] directed by Maneesh Babu. Disney went on doing low budget films both in Tamil and Malayalam, until he got to play one of the lead characters in the commercial film @Andheri. In this film he also worked as assistant director (uncredited). The crew of this movie happened to show Disney's working stills to director Jeethu Joseph, who cast him in Memories. Disney won wide acceptance for his portrayal of the terrorist in this movie.

Disney also collaborated with screenwriter Karthik Chintu and film director Arun Shekhar and worked as project manager for their Event and Film Management companies, namely Godjz Events and Arun Shekhar Film company. He started getting acting chances and both companies supported him, as he balanced work and acting.

He has attended couple of training workshops in acting conducted by Artfactory, Trivandrum and Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Arts & Research, Pondicherry. Also he participated in the script writing workshop conducted by Whistling Woods International Institute for Film, communication and Creative arts, Mumbai.

Films in Malayalam

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

As an actor

Year	Film	Role	Director	Notes	Ref
2010	House No. 13	Kiran	Sinu L.R.	Debut Movie
2012	Theruvu Nakshatrangal	Murugan	Jose Maveily		[12]
2013	Pakaram	Bilal	Sreevallabhan		[13] [14]
	Spandanam	Ravi	Jishnu Ravindran
	Memories	Terrorrist	Jeethu Joseph		[15]
	North 24 Kaatham	Railway Guard	Anil Radhakrishnan Menon		[16]
2014	@Andheri	Pappan	Biju Bhasakar Nair		[17][18]
2015	Ennum Eppozhum	Vytila Biju	Sathyan Anthikad		[19]
	Jilebi	Vijay	Arun Shekhar		[20]
	Kunjiramayanam	Kunjiraman's Neighbour	Basil Joseph
	Ennu Ninte Moideen	Prabhavathi's Husband	R. S. Vimal
	Adi Kapyare Kootamani	Ammachi's son	John Varghese
	Velutha Rathrikal	Manu	Razi Muhammed		[21]
	Kranthi	Chandran	Lenin Balakrishnan
2016	Mudhugauv	Disney the carjacker	Vipin Das
	Oru Murai Vanthu Parthaya	S.I. Benjamin G.V.	Sajan K. Mathew
2017	Jomonte Suvisheshangal	Tony	Sathyan Anthikad
	Lakshyam	Constable D. James	Anzar Khan
	Gandhinagaril Unniyarcha		Jayesh Mainagappalli
	Kalam	Thoma	Sooraj Sreedharan
2018	Velakkariyayirunnalum Neeyen Mohavalli	Karappan Unni	Govind Varaha
2019	Porinju Mariam Jose	Stephan Iype	Joshiy
	Lessons-Swargathil Oru Rathri[22][23]	Jomy James	Manoj S Nair
	Marjara Oru Kallu vacha nuna	S.I. Nazzar	Rakesh Balan
	Yuvam	S.I. Nijesh Kurian	Pinku Peter	post production
	Savanika	Basil	Noufaz Noushad	Shoot on progress
	Thami	Raghavan Nair	K.R. Praveen	post production

As script writer

Year	Film	Notes	Ref
2015	Jilebi	Associate Script Writer
2016	Mudhugauv	Assistant Script Writer

Films acted in Tamil

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Film	Role	Director	Notes	Ref
2012	Puthumugangal Thevai	Manohar	Maneesh Babu	Debut Movie	[24]
2016	Irandaam Udhayam	Husband (Flash back )	Raju Thuruthumala

Short films

Disney James has acted in more than fifty short films. He has also worked as associate director, creative consultant, screenwriter and dubbing artist for many short films.

Key

Denotes shortfilms that have not yet been released

Year	Short film	Character	Director	Notes	Ref
2005	Onathidambu	Kiran	Ashok Kumar	Debut
2007	The Cross Roads	Madhavan	Firoz S
2008	Silent Fire	Ananthan	Rakesh
	Narration	Abdul Khader	Firoz S	keltron student project
2009	Duel	Hari	Muralikrishnan KJ	keltron student project
	Modus Operandi		Jishnu SS	Cinemagic team
	Last Page	an IT employee	Vipin V Pulimoottil	Keltron ATC
	The Keyboard		Vishnu Ganesh	Keltron ATC
	The Suicide Point		Ajith M Das
	Spec Ops- The Grunge	James	Suvin George
	Ithirivettom	Joseph	Santosh P.D.	Telefilm
2010	Changadom	TV reporter	Arun
	Jalarekha	A terrorist	Jishnu SS	Cinemagic team
	Silent Dark Eyes	Tribal	Rajesh Divakaran	Cannes Film festival's Short film corner	[25]
	Heaven	Tourist	Vinod Krishnan
	Virus	Lucifer	Ashish Jose Illickal
2011	Last Supper	Gangster	Shahjahan Moidunni
	The Otherside	a robber	Nahas Ibrahim and Anoop Vijayan
	India	a gang member	Anoop Nair	India's first trioscopical 3D film
	A Drop	a careless man	Firoz S
	Iniyumoru Mazhayaayi	Bhaskaran	Jishnu SS	Cinemagic team	[26]
	Offering		Nikhil Sundaram
	The Vault	Ajith	Manikandan V. Nair
	Housefull	Sivaramakrishnan	Ajimshah and Shamsir
2012	The Eclipse	Francis	Hrishy Vasudev
	Free Entry	a drug dealer	Ajmal Taj
	Extremity	Luc Martin	Ajai Rahul
	Nizhal	Psychiatrist	Nikhil Sundaram
	Mudi Azhagu	Hair stylist	Binny John	silent film black humour
2013	Art Cafe	Riyaz	Krishna Murali
	Therapist	Nikhil	Sreedevi Sadasivan		[27]
	Novelist		Firoz S.	Dubbed for Hero's friend
	Chameliyum Kaattupoovum		Ajith M. Das	dubbed for Chameli's husband
	Me too Pappa	Pappa	Manoj S Nair
2014	Pakal Mayumbol	Jeevan	Lijith Jose		[28]
	El Meido	Anthony	Firoz S	Keltron ATC/ script writer( co-written with Naji M. Baji)	[29]
	Seriya Thappa	Vinu Thomas	Firoz S	Keltron ATC/ Script writer	[30]
	Corporate	Victor	Nishant Pillai		[31]
	Unnimoolam	Mahesh	Vipin Das	Associate Director	[32]
	Apologize	Dad	Sanath Sugathan		[33]
	Burning Desire	Siddharth Menon	Harish Mohan	Best Actor
2015	KM & KM	security man	Suvith Krishna
	Mr.Saturday	Rajeev Ganeshan	Karthik Chintu		[34]
	Abhimukham	John	B Govind Raj		[35]
2016	Beloved	Professional Killer	Amal R Velayudhan		[36]
	Naliniyum Manomiyum	Artist	Amrutha Vivek	Neo Film School
	Chinsinsi	Andrew Zachariah	Rahul Ramachandran	Best Actor
2017	Inganeyum Oramma	Muhammed Riyaz	Necer Ashraf		[37]
	Uthama Geetham	Sandeep	Swaroop Ilamon		[38]
	Kalki		Harish Mohan	dubbed for flat owner
2018	Oakhi	Fisherman	Shibu Thirumala
	Driving with your Dad	Dad	Sachin Sanal
	Men at My Door	P. Divaker	Vinay Krishnan		[39]
2019	The Autopsy	Dr.George Idiculla	Nithin Pulimoottil
	Sunilinte swantham Appoos	Sunil	Pradeep
	Yeti/Big Foot	girl's father	Rohit Rajan
2020	Pause	Disney James	Tijo Jose
	Neelakashavum Tharakalum	Edwin	Leo Vijayan

Plays(Theater)

During the initial phase of his acting career, Disney joined Theater of Good hope, Trivandrum and explored the possibility of voice modulation and smooth transition of expression under the guidance of veteran actor and theater personal P.A.M. Rashid. Also he underwent training in physical expression and improvisation on stage from another Veteran actor Surjith Sumathi Gopinath, Thrissur.

Year	Play	Role	Director	Notable actors	Ref
2012	Oru Kadhanatakam	Asst.Director	P.A.M. Rasheed	Hima Sankar, Sunil and Kannan Nair
2013	Nazrani Erukku Murukku Varkey Eembal Kunjuthadayude Kudumbacharithram	Actor (Kunjavarachan)	Surjith Sumathi Gopinath	Manu Joseph, Fawas, Navajith
2018	Kanyakayude Maranam	Actor(Adv.Jeraldo Escobar)	P.A.M. Rasheed	Rudra S. Lal,P.A.M. Rasheed

Television programmes

Year	Programme	Role	Program Producer	Channel	Ref
2004	Inside	Anchor	Suneeth Sam Abraham and Praveen G	TCN	Camera by Manikandan
2011	Weekend News	News reader	Jayalekshmi S	VICTORS
	SSLC Excellence	Anchor	Muralikrishnan K.J.	VICTORS
2014	Today Classic	Anchor/Content writer	Vipin Das	Today T.V.
2017	Ithihasa	Anchor	Rarish	Word to World
2018	Dr.Ram	Actor(Dr.Fayyaz Mohammed)	Nishant	Mazhavil Manorama
2019	Chumma Just for fun Season 2	Actor(Vinod)	Pramod	Amritha T.V.
	Priyapettaval	Actor(Dineshan)	Mohan Kupleri, Krishnakumar Koodallur, Riju Nair	Mazhavil Manorama

Movie advertisements and T.V. commercials

As actor

Year	Brand	Director	Camera	Co-Artists	Ref
2010	Lulu Textiles	Manikandan V. Nair	Tanoop	Arya Rohit
2012	Aadhar(Govt. of Kerala)	Roshan and Varun	Manoj	-
2013	Spot Light	Shihab	Georgy	Jeena (Memories)
2014	Kerajam Keshamrutham	Sharath Kumar Prabhu	Ananth	-
2015	Ayurveda Hospital	Jay	Vishnu	Anson Paul, Mahesh
	Kokos Coconut Oil	Kumar Neelakandan	Sudheer	Tini Tom, Rakhee, Cherthala Kanjana, Shradhamol
2018	Hyundai National TV Commercial December delight	Surjo deb		Pratheek Dogra, Bhavana Aneja
2019	Hindalco Everlast Roofing sheet	Niddhish Puuzhakkal	Anend C Chandran	Sasi Kalinga, Rejith Menon
	Foster Care ( Women and child development department, Govt. Of Kerala)	R.S. Pradeep Kumar	Sreekumar	Sneha Sreekumar, Ambika Mohan
	Sehiyon Tours and Travels	Michael George Kalayil	Sreeraj Rajan	Jacob George James
	Chingavanam Vyaparotsavam	Michael George Kalayil	Michael George Kalayil	Bhavya, Jacob George James
	Colgate (Tamil)	Anand Iyer	Sejal Shah	Samantha, Asha Aravind, Jai, master Sarvesh
2020	Oxygen Digital	Michael George Kalayil	Zulfikar	Jacob George James, Tijo Joseph, KP Nithin etc.

As associate director

Year	Brand	Director	Camera	Artists	Ref
2013	U.A.E. Exchange	Arun Shekhar	Mahesh
	U.A.E. Exchange	Arun Shekhar	Prasanth	Blessy
2014	Samson and Sons	Vipin Das	Vipin Chandran	John and Iera

Musical video albums

Year	Album/Song Name	Visual Director	Music Director	Artists	Ref
2005	Thonnivasam	Firoz S	Emil Mohammed	Iniya, Swathy, Arya, Rasif, Sherin
2006	Sunday	Ajith M. Das	Saju Sreenivas	Prajusha, Binoy Mathew, Rajesh, Manikandan V. Nair
2010	Swamiye Kaanaan	Sreekumar Ambadi	Kannan
	Padmatheertham	Tince James		Tince James
2011	Snehamaayi	Jain	Madhulal
2012	Oru Sandhya	SriRam	Jayahari	Ajai Rahul, Naji M. Baji, Jayahari, Dhanya, Mahesh Gopal
	Pesitholaida	Ajai Rahul	Jayahari	Naji M. Baji, Jeeva

References

1. "Mudhugauv (2016)".
2. "Jilebi (2015)".
3. Venkiteswaran, C. S. (31 March 2016). "Intense encounters" – via www.thehindu.com.
4. "Clipping of Mathrubhumi Printing and Publishing - Kozhikode".
5. Venkiteswaran, C. S.; Venkiteswaran, C. S. (1 April 2016). "Intense encounters" – via www.thehindu.com.
6. "Velutha Rathrikal: This Malayalam film set in tribal Kerala will make you rethink bisexuality". 24 February 2016.
7. "White Nights (2015)".
8. "Silent Dark Eyes". 22 January 2011 – via www.imdb.com.
9. ""Qisa 2014" – Awards announced". www.prathidhwani.org.
10. "Mynaa TV". www.facebook.com.
11. "Puthumugangal Thevai".
12. "Theruvu Nakshathrangal in MSI". malayalasangeetham. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
13. "Pakaram".
14. "Pakaram cast".
15. "Memories Review".
16. "North 24 Katham(2013)". 15 September 2013.
17. "@Andheri (2014) - Movie - MOMdb.com". momdb.com. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
18. "അന്തേരിയുടെ വിശേഷങ്ങളുമായി ഡിസ്‌നി ജെയിംസ്". www.mathrubhumi.com.
19. "Ennum Eppozhum in MSI". malayalasangeetham. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
20. "Jilebi in MSI". malayalasangeetham. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
21. "White Nights(2015) cast".
22. "Swargathil oru rathri_Official Trailer".
23. "Lessons_Swargathil oru rathri_News 18 Kerala TV".
24. "Puthumugangal Thevai cast".
25. "Silent Dark Eyes(2011)".
26. "Iniyumoru Mazhayayi Short Film".
27. "Therapist(2013)".
28. "Pakal Mayumbol".
29. "EL MIEDO MALAYALAM SHORTFILM : GET READY TO SEE YOUR FEAR !!".
30. "Seriya Thappa - malayalam short film 2014".
31. "CORPORATE - A Techno Thriller!! Malayalam short film".
32. "Unnimoolam : (Short Film) : Starring Aju Varghese".
33. "Sharp and succinct".
34. "Mr. Saturday(2015)".
35. "Abhimukham".
36. "Beloved".
37. "A Mother | ഇങ്ങനെയും ഒരമ്മ | Award winning Malayalam Short film | 2017 Scaricare musica".
38. "Uthamageetham - Song of Songs | Malayalam Short Film 2018".
39. "Mystery at the door".

External links

• Disney James on IMDb