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. He is mainly noted for his performances in the movies

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, One,

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. An experienced animator and entrepreneur, he ventured into acting with Saleem Baba's Gunda in 2014 and has worked with directors like

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, Tharun Moorthy,

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and

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. He has also worked as assistant director and chief associate director in nearly a dozen movies, including

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. Before joining the movie industry, he worked as a 3D visualiser and creative supervisor for an architectural firm handling clients from across the world. Binu has also worked as a casting director for films like

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, and

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. A gearhead and an avid traveller, he is a member of

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, a Kerala-based organisation of off-roading enthusiasts. It holds events and camps to help charitable causes. Binu is inspired by the famous

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quote: "Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive." He believes his background in animation has paved the way for his interest in cinema.

Early life and education

Binu was born in Chennai to Padmini and actor

. He moved to Calicut when he was around 4 years old and joined

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. He went on to study high school at Shri Gujarathi Vidyalaya Higher Secondary School. Binu showed an interest in drawing and painting since childhood and participated in school competitions. After studying pre-degree at

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, he briefly pursued a BA in History at

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. In 2004, Binu left for Bengaluru and joined BA Animation at

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on a scholarship. He also briefly worked at the institute’s Koramangala centre as a faculty member before starting his own company, BlueGrass Studios, in 2006. After leaving the company due to internal issues, he freelanced for some time, before joining Khan Global Engineering Consultants Private Limited in 2007 as a 3D visualiser. Despite the global recession, Binu achieved steady growth at Khan Global. He particularly enjoyed creating 3D walk-through videos and other cutting-edge technology in architectural visualisation. He stayed with Khan Global for the next decade, serving as team leader, assistant manager, and executive director of

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, a digital studio he co-founded in 2014.

Career

Actor

Though his father was an actor, Binu never planned on entering the movie industry. His debut role was in 2014 in Gunda, directed by Salim Baba, where he was cast alongside

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and

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. It was his acquaintance with director

that got Binu his more notable roles in Aashiq’s next two movies that year—

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and Rani Padmini. He did

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in 2016 and Sakhavu in 2017 and

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in 2018, a role that was critically acclaimed. The year 2019 was pivotal in Binu’s acting career. He was appreciated for his powerful, albeit brief role in

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. Then came

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, and

, all career hits. After a small role in

in 2020, in 2021 Binu acted in the crime thriller

, where he played Joy Pulimoottil. His role in

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-strarrer One was also noted.

Assistant Director

It was sometime in the year 2015 that Binu realised that his corporate career was clipping his artistic expression. He launched an animation company in Dubai around the time and was also acting in movies, shuttling between Kerala, Bengaluru, and Dubai. Simultaneously, he developed an interest in movie directing. While he was acting in

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in 2015, Binu, who has travelled the northern states extensively, worked with the crew of the film closely, inspiring him to pursue that interest. In 2016, he joined Johnpaul George’s Tovino-strarrer

as an assistant director. In 2018, he started working with Aashiq Abu on

, and has been involved with it since the conception of the story. He left his corporate job in 2018 to pursue films full-time. In 2019, Binu worked as an assistant director for

’s

and

’s

. He worked with Zakariya Mohammed for

in 2020 and Santhosh Viswanath for One in 2021.

Chief Associate Director

Binu Pappu’s debut as Chief Associate Director was with Tharun Moorthy’s Saudi Vellakka. He was a chief associate in pre-production for

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, and

Thallumaala ''Thallumaala'' () is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-language action film directed by Khalid Rahman and produced by Ashiq Usman. It is written by Muhsin Parari and Ashraf Hamza. The film stars Tovino Thomas, Kalyani Priyadarshan and Shine Tom Chacko. ...

Filmography

*''All films are in

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language unless otherwise noted''.

Associate Director

References

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