Indrajith Sukumaran

Indrajith Sukumaran
Indrajith Sukumaran
	Indrajith in 2020
Born	17 December 1979 (age 40); Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Alma mater	Sainik School Kazhakootam
Occupation	Actor; playback singer;
Years active	2002–present
Spouse(s)	Poornima Indrajith (m. 2002)
Children	Prarthana, Nakshatra
Parent(s)	Sukumaran; Mallika Sukumaran
Relatives	Prithviraj Sukumaran (brother)

Indrajith Sukumaran (born 17 December 1979) is an Indian film actor and playback singer. He predominantly works in Malayalam cinema and occasionally acts in Tamil, English, Telugu, and Hindi films. He has acted in nearly 90 films. Indrajith was born to the actors Sukumaran and Mallika Sukumaran and elder brother of actor Prithviraj Sukumaran.

Indrajith made his acting debut in the 2002 romantic drama Oomappenninu Uriyadappayyan in an antagonistic role. And has gone on to star in over 80 films, notably Meesa Madhavan (2002), Runway (2004), Vesham (2004), Classmates (2006), Chotta Mumbai (2007), Arabikkatha (2007), Twenty:20 (2008), Nayakan (2010), Karayilekku Oru Kadal Dooram (2010), Ee Adutha Kaalathu (2012), Amen (2013), Left Right Left (2013), Ezhamathe Varavu (2013), Angels (2014), Amar Akbar Anthony (2015) and Lucifer (2019).

Indrajith has also starred in a few Hindi, English, Tamil and Telugu films, such as Before the Rains (2007), Sarvam (2009), Kavya's Diary (2009), and The Waiting Room (2010).

Early life

Indrajith was born as the elder son of actors Sukumaran and Mallika Sukumaran at Thiruvananthapuram on 17 December 1979. His brother Prithviraj Sukumaran is also a well-known actor in south Indian cinema. Indrajith's initial schooling was at Shrine Vailankanni Senior Secondary School, T. Nagar, Chennai and St. Joseph's Boys' Hr. Sec. School, Coonoor, since the family was settled at Tamil Nadu at that time.[1] Later, when the family shifted to Kerala, he had his education from The NSS Public School Perunthanni, St.Mary's Residential Central School, Poojappura. He completed the rest of his school education at Sainik School Kazhakoottam, along with his brother Prithviraj. He was the captain of Tennis team while studying there. He also participated in music and acting competitions. He pursued his bachelor's with distinction in Computer science engineering from Rajaas Engineering College in Tirunelveli district and was working as a trainee in a software company when he entered into the film career. Later, he dropped his job and became busy with movies.[2]

Film career

His first cinematic role was in New Delhi, directed by Akku. He was noted for his villain role in the blockbuster Meesa Madhavan, directed by Lal Jose.

He acted alongside Mohanlal in Anwar Rasheed's Chotta Mumbai and Shaji Kailas's Baba Kalyani. His performance as the villain in Baba Kalyani was acclaimed by critics.[3] He acted with Mammootty in the movie Vesham

He also acted in Lal Jose's film Arabikkatha and Santhosh Sivan's Before the Rains. He paired with his brother Prithviraj Sukumaran in several films, including the 2006's hit film Classmates.[4][5] He starred in the lead role with Vineeth in Hariharan's Film Ezhamathe Varavu, written by M. T. Vasudevan Nair after the success of Pazhassi Raja (2009).

His debut Hindi film The Waiting Room, directed by Maneej Premnath was released in January 2010.[6]

Personal life

On 13 December 2002, he married actress Poornima Mohan.[7][8] They have two daughters named Prarthana born on 29 October 2004 and Nakshatra.[9] Prarthana has sung three songs for Malayalam cinema. La La Lalettaa for film Mohanlal[10]Naadottukku for Kuttanpillayude Sivarathri, Thaarapadhamaake for Helen

Awards

2013 - TTK Prestige-Vanitha Film Awards - Best Supporting Actor - Amen[11]

Asiavision Awards

2013 - Asiavision Awards - Outstanding Performance of the Year[12]

Filmography

Malayalam

No.	Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1	1986	Padayani	Young Ramesh	T. S.Mohan
2	2002	Oomappenninu Uriyadappayyan	Shyam Gopal Varma	Vinayan	Main Enemy
3	2002	Meesa Madhavan	Eapen Pappachi	Lal Jose	Main Enemy
4	2003	Pattalam	Nandakumar	Lal Jose	Army Man
5		Mizhi Randilum	Dr. Arun	Ranjith
6		Mullavalliyum Thenmavum	Andrew	V. K. Prakash
7	2004	Runway	Balu Damodar	Joshy
8	2004	Vesham	Hariprasad	V. M. Vinu	Brother of Appu
9	2005	Finger Print	Kishore Varma	Satheesh Paul
10		Police	Anand	V. K. Prakash
11		Deepangal Sakshi	Rishikesh	K.B. Madhu
12		Chanthupottu	Komban Kumaran	Lal Jose	Main Enemy
13		Krithyam	Ramdas Menon	Viji Thampi
15	2006	Achanurangatha Veedu	Police Officer	Lal Jose
16		Classmates	Pius George	Lal Jose	Co-Star [Prithvi raj best friend]
17		Oruvan	Sivan	Vinu Anand
18		Baba Kalyani	Babu	Shaji Kailas	Terrorist
19	2007	Chotta Mumbai	Tomichan	Anwar Rasheed
20		Arabikatha	Anwar	Lal Jose	comrade
21		Ayur Rekha	Anand	G. M. Manu
22		Heart Beats	Binoy Idikkula	Vinu Anand
23		Hareendran Oru Nishkalankan	Hareendra Varma	Vinayan	Business Man
24		Flash	Priyan	Sibi Malayil
25	2008	Kanal Kannadi		A K Jayan Pothuval
26		Calcutta News	Hari	Blessy
27		Malabar Wedding	Manu Kuttan	Faisal, Rajesh
28		Soorya Kireedam	Sivaram	George Kithu
29		Minnaminnikoottam	Sidharth	Kamal
30		Twenty:20	Arun Kumar	Joshy
31	2009	Nammal Thammil	Johnny	Viji Thampi
32	2009	Seetha Kalyanam	Ambi	T. K. Rajeev Kumar
34	2010	Happy Husbands	Rahul Valiyathan	Saji Surendran
35		Nayakan	Varadhanunni	Lijo Jose Pellissery
36		Elsamma Enna Aankutty	Eby	Lal Jose
37		Chekavar	Kasinathan	Sajeevan
38		College Days	Rohit Menon	G. N. Krishnakumar
39		Karayilekku Oru Kadal Dooram	Anoop Chandran	Vinod Mankara
40	2011	Race	Niranjan	Kukku Surendran
41		City of God	Swarnavel	Lijo Jose Pellissery
42		Three Kings	Bhaskaranunni Raja	V. K. Prakash
43		Veettilekulla Vazhi	Rassaq	Biju
44		Vellaripravinte Changathi	Manikunju	Akku Akbar
45	2012	Ee Adutha Kaalathu	Vishnu	Arun Kumar
46		Karmayogi	Rudran Gurukkal	V. K. Prakash
47		Outsider	Mukundan	Premlal
48		Bachelor Party	Geevarghese	Amal Neerad
49		Mullamottum Munthiricharum	Churatta Jose	Aneesh Anwar
50		Akasathinte Niram	Young Man	Dr.Biju
51		Husbands in Goa	Jerry	Saji Surendran
52		Poppins	Kanthan	V. K. Prakash
53	2013	Amen	Father Vincent Vattolli	Lijo Jose Pellissery
54		Up & Down - Mukalil Oralundu[13]	Thampuran	T. K. Rajeev Kumar
55		Left Right Left	Jayan	Arun Kumar Aravind
56		Paisa Paisa	Kishore	Prashanth Murali
57		Arikil Oraal	Siddharth	Sunil Ibrahim
58		Ezhamathe Varavu	Gopinath Menon	Hariharan
59		Kaanchi	Madhavan	G.N Krishnakumar
60		Vedivazhipadu	Joseph	Shambu Purushothaman
61		101 Chodyangal	Mugundan	Sidhartha Siva
62		Zachariayude Garbhinikal	Narrator		Voice over
63	2014	Masala Republic	S.I. Shambu	Visakh G.S
64		Naku Penta Naku Taka	Vinay	Vayalar Madhankutty
65		Sapthamashree Thaskaraha	Krishnanunni	Anil Radhakrishnan Menon	Cameo
66		Angels	Hameem Hyder	Jean Marcose
67		Cousins	Joji	Vyshak
68	2015	Rasam	Balu	Rajeev Nath
69		Double Barrel	Vinci	Lijo Jose Pellissery
70		Kohinoor	Haider	Vinay Govind
71		Amar Akbar Anthony	Anthony	Nadirshah
72	2016	Vettah	ACP Xylex Abraham	Rajesh Pillai
73	2017	Kaadu Pookkunna Neram		Dr.Biju
74		Ezra	Narrator	Jay K	Voice Over
75		Lakshyam	Vimal	Anzar Khan
76		Tiyaan	Pattabhirama Giri	Jiyen Krishnakumar
77	2018	Mohanlal	Sethumadhavan	Sajid Yahiya
78	2019	Lucifer	Govardhan	Prithviraj Sukumaran
79		Virus	Dr. Baburaj	Aashiq Abu
80		Thakkol	Fr. Ambrose Vas Pochampalli	Kiron Prabhakaran
81	2020	Kurup		Srinath Rajendran	Filming[14]
82		Ithihasa 2		Binu Sadanandan	Filming
83		Thuramukham		Rajeev Ravi	Post Production
84		Aahaa		Bipin Paul Samuel	Post Production
85		Halal Love Story		Zakariya Mohammed	Post-production
86		Ram	TBA	Jeethu Joseph	Filming
87		Kanneerinum Madhuram	Krishnanunni	Raghunath Paleri	Filming
88		Ayalvasi		Irshad Parari	Announced

Other languages

Year	Title	Role	Language	Director	Notes
2002	En Mana Vaanil	Murali	Tamil	Vinayan
2008	Before the Rains	Manas	English	Santosh Sivan
2009	Kavya's Diary	Raj	Telugu	Karuna Prakash
2009	Sarvam	Naushad	Tamil	Vishnuvardhan
2010	The Waiting Room	Cop	Hindi	Maneej Premnath
2019	Queen	GMR	Tamil	Gautham Menon	Web series
2020	Naragasooran	Lakshman	Tamil	Karthick Naren

Telefilm

Annie (Kairali TV) BY Viji Thampy

Discography

Year	Song	Film	Co-singers	Music
2003	"Anthinilaa"	Mullavalliyum Thenmavum	–	Ousepachan
2010	"Happy Husbands"	Happy Husbands	Andand Narayan, Achu Rajamani	M. Jayachandran
2010	"Ranadheera"	Nayakan	Preethi Pillai	Prasanth Pillai
2010	"Poril Theyyaram"	Chekavar	Ragged Skull	Rahul Raj
2013	"Hey Ithuvazhi"	Arikil Oraal	Chithra Iyyer	Gopi Sunder
2014	"Kalichiri"	Masala Republic	Sithara	Jassie Gift
2014	"Ee Mizhiyimakal"	Angels	-	Jakes Bejoy
2015	"Premamennaal"	Amar Akbar Anthony	Prithviraj, Jayasurya, Kalabhavan Shajon	Nadirshah
2018	"Naadum Vitte"	Mohanlal	-	Tony Joseph

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References

"പൃഥ്വിയ്ക്ക് എന്തെങ്കിലും വിഷമമുണ്ടായാല് ഇന്ദ്രനാണ് ദുഃഖം :Interview with Mallika Sukumaran". malayalam.oneindia.com. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
"പ്രിത്വിക്കു നൊന്ത്തൽ ഇന്ദ്രന് വേദനിക്കും:Interview with Mallika Sukumaran". nanaonline.in. Archived from the original on 17 January 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
Indrajith in heights Archived 8 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Weblokam. Retrieved on 19 August 2012.
"It's been a fabulous onscreen year for Indrajith and Prithviraj". Archived from the original on 28 July 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
"Prithviraj, Jayasurya, Indrajith To Team Up Again?". Archived from the original on 22 July 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
"Prithviraj's brother, Indrajith Sukumaran gets a Hindi film offer". Archived from the original on 22 June 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
"Poornima to tie knot with Indrajith". India Info. 19 August 2007. Archived from the original on 19 August 2007.
Double celebration. The Hindu (2002-12-13)
"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 28 November 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 29 October 2019. Retrieved 29 October 2019.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 March 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
"Mammotty, Kavya Madhavan bag Asiavision awards". Asiavision Awards. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 26 December 2012. Retrieved 27 May 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
"Confirmed! Indrajith Sukumaran joins Dulquer Salmaan starrer 'Kurup' - Times of India". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 10 September 2019. Retrieved 10 September 2019.

External links

Indrajith Sukumaran on IMDb
Indrajith Sukumaran on Facebook
Indrajith at MSI
webindia123.com. "Video Interview".
Official Website of Information and Public Relation Department of Kerala
Indrajith's movies in Malayalam Movies

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[1] "പൃഥ്വിയ്ക്ക് എന്തെങ്കിലും വിഷമമുണ്ടായാല് ഇന്ദ്രനാണ് ദുഃഖം :Interview with Mallika Sukumaran". malayalam.oneindia.com. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.

[2] "പ്രിത്വിക്കു നൊന്ത്തൽ ഇന്ദ്രന് വേദനിക്കും:Interview with Mallika Sukumaran". nanaonline.in. Archived from the original on 17 January 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2015.

[3] Indrajith in heights Archived 8 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Weblokam. Retrieved on 19 August 2012.

[4] "It's been a fabulous onscreen year for Indrajith and Prithviraj". Archived from the original on 28 July 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014.

[5] "Prithviraj, Jayasurya, Indrajith To Team Up Again?". Archived from the original on 22 July 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014.

[6] "Prithviraj's brother, Indrajith Sukumaran gets a Hindi film offer". Archived from the original on 22 June 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2014.

[7] "Poornima to tie knot with Indrajith". India Info. 19 August 2007. Archived from the original on 19 August 2007.

[8] Double celebration. The Hindu (2002-12-13)

[9] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 28 November 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[10] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 29 October 2019. Retrieved 29 October 2019.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[11] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 March 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[12] "Mammotty, Kavya Madhavan bag Asiavision awards". Asiavision Awards. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2016.

[13] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 26 December 2012. Retrieved 27 May 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[14] "Confirmed! Indrajith Sukumaran joins Dulquer Salmaan starrer 'Kurup' - Times of India". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 10 September 2019. Retrieved 10 September 2019.