Mahesh is an Indian actor in

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films and television serials. He came into the movie industry as a hero and later started doing negative roles and supporting roles.

Career

He started his career as an assistant director for the director

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in the early 1980s. Then he worked as an associate director for 16 Malayalam movies with different leading directors. Later he turned to the acting career. He first acted in the movie ''

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'', directed by

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in 1989 at the age of 23. He went on to act in classic movies like '' Mrugaya'', ''

Sadayam ''Sadayam'' () is a 1992 Indian Malayalam-language psychological fiction, psychological Drama (film and television), drama written by M. T. Vasudevan Nair and directed by Sibi Malayil. It stars Mohanlal, Thilakan, Nedumudi Venu, Murali (Malayal ...

'' ''

Vyooham ''Vyooham'' is a 1990 Indian Malayalam-language action film, directed by Sangeeth Sivan, starring Raghuvaran, Sukumaran, Captain Raju, Babu Antony, Urvashi, Rajan P. Dev and Parvathy Jayaram. It was the debut directorial of Sangeeth Sivan. T ...

'', etc. He took a break in the late 1999s and went to

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and settled there. He made a comeback in 2006 and directed a Malayalam movie in 2008; ''

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'', with

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and

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in the lead. He did story, screenplay and dialogue for the Malayalam movie ''

Ashwaroodan ''Ashwaroodan'' () is a 2006 Indian Malayalam-language action drama film directed by Jayaraj and produced by D. Ramanaidu under the company Suresh Productions. The film stars Suresh Gopi, Padmapriya, Sai Kumar and Jagannatha Varma. The film fea ...

''. Currently he is active in direction for Malayalam films.

Personal life

He was born to P. K. Padmanabhan Nair and Padmakumari in Tanzania, though he originally hails from Trivandrum. His father was working for the British government in Tanganyika, then he moved back to India in the early 1970s. They settled down in Alleppey near to Udaya Studio, which attracted him to the film industry. He had his primary education from St. Joseph's Higher Secondary School, Pulinkunnoo and graduation in Bcom from S.D.(

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. His father died when he was eleven years old. He is married to Hema. They have two daughters, Malavika and Meghna. He currently resides at Tripunithura. His elder daughter Malavika married Ajay Nair, a senior sub-editor for Sky news, in September 2021. They are settled in UK.

Filmography

As an actor

Malayalam

Tamil

Hindi

Telugu

Kannada

Story

*''

'' (2007) *''

'' (2009)

Direction

*''Street Of Harmony'' (documentary) (2004) (Won the New York film award in documentary category 2005.) *''

'' (2009) *''Paarkathonnume Unmayalli'' (2011) *''Reengaara Oosai'' (Tamil) (2016) (Won special jury award for environmental friendly movie at Goa international Film festival 2022.)

Dialogue

*''

'' (2007)

Screenplay

* ''

'' (2007) * ''Reengaara Oosai'' (2016)

Television

References

External links

*
Mahesh at MSI
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mahesh Male actors from Kerala Male actors in Malayalam cinema Indian male film actors Living people 20th-century Indian male actors 21st-century Indian male actors People from Kottayam district Indian male television actors Male actors in Malayalam television Male actors in Tamil cinema Male actors in Hindi cinema 21st-century Indian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Indian people Film directors from Kottayam district Malayalam screenwriters Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Indian screenwriters