Mahesh (Malayalam actor)

Mahesh
Born	Tanzania
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	actor
Years active	1984–present
Spouse	Hema
Children	Malavika Nair, Meghna Nair
Parents	P K Padmanabhan Nair (father) P Padmakumari (mother)

Mahesh is an Indian actor in Malayalam 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 J. Sasikumar 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 Mudra, directed by Sibi Malayil in 1989 at the age of 23. He went on to act in classic movies like Mrugaya, Sadayam Vyooham, etc. He took a break in the late 1999s and went to United States and settled there. He made a comeback in 2006 and directed a Malayalam movie in 2008; Calendar, with Prithviraj Sukumaran, Zarina Wahab and Navya Nair in the lead. He did story, screenplay and dialogue for the Malayalam movie Ashwaroodan. 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.(Sanatana Dharma College), Alappuzha. 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

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Mrugaya	Thomaskutty
	Mudra	Babu
	News	Roy Jacob
	Shilpi
1990	Purappadu
	Commander
	Vyooham	Kishore
	Marupuram	Binoy's friend
	Ponnaranjaanam	Vinod
	Vembanaad
1991	Arangu	Vineeth Menon
	Parallel College	Ashok
	Cheppukilukkana Changathi
	Kuttapathram	Mahesh
1992	Priyapetta Kukku
	Sadayam	Vijayan
	Chevaliyar Michael
	Soorya Chakram
	Neelakkurukkan
	Kaazhchaykkappuram
	Kakkatholaayiram
	Kasarkode Khaderbai	Jayan
1993	Uppukandam Brothers	Ettuveettil Sunil
	Padhavi
	Aacharyan	Jeevan Kumar
	City Police	Jayan
1994	Kambolam
	Ponthan Mada
	Sudhinam	School Manager
	Simhavaalan Menon	Arun Nambiar
	Dollar
	Sukham Sukhakaram
	Njaan Kodeeshwaran	Vijayan
	Mimics Action 500	Rajan Thampan
1995	Special Squad	Martin
	Kidilol Kidilam
	Thirumanassu
	Minnaminuginum Minnukettu
	Tom & Jerry	Ramanan
1996	Man of the Match
	Mimics Super 1000
	Sulthan Hyderali
	KL-7-95- Eranakulam North
1997	Kalyana Unnikal	Krishnanunni
	Moonukodiyum Munnurupavanum
	Poothumbiyum Poovalanmarum
	Irattakuttikalude Achan
	Oral Mathram	Hameed
1998	Achamakuttiyude Achayan
	Gloria Fernandes From U.S.A.
1999	Auto Brothers
2001	Soothradharan
2006	Chakkara Muthu	Ravi
2008	Malabar Wedding
	Best Friends
	Twenty:20		Video Archive
2009	Calendar
2010	Puthumukhangal	John
	Sakudumbam Shyamala
	Again Kasargod Khader Bhai		Video archive
2011	Uppukandam Brothers: Back in Action		Video archive
2012	Last Bench	Rejimon
	Masters
	101 Weddings
	Face2Face	Raghuprasad
	Second Innings
	White Paper
	Manthrikan
2013	Lokpal	Tomichan
	Omega.exe
	Geethaanjali	Koshy
2014	The Dolphins
2016	Marubhoomiyile Aana
	Ore Mukham
	Kattappanayile Rithwik Roshan	Geo's father
2017	Honey Bee 2: Celebrations
	Lakshyam
	Kala Viplavom Rashtreeyam		Cameo
	Honey Bee 2.5
	Angarajiyathile Ginmanmmaar
	Ayaal Jeevichirippundu
2018	Vallikudilile Vellakkaran
	Theater
	Wonder Boys
	Vikadakumaran	Renjith
2019	Janaadhipan
	Orma
	Oru Yamandan Premakadha
	Kottayam
2020	Ellom
2022	Upacharapoorvam Gunda Jayan
	Eesho
	Sheela
	Autorickshawkarante Bharya
2023	Garudan	Judge

Tamil

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Mohamul
1993	Ippadikku Kaadhil
2016	Reengaara Oosai
2018	Aruppukotti	Arjun
2022	Arram Aruvu

Hindi

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Jaal
1991	Galat Sambandh
1992	Shauqeen Haseena

Telugu

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2018	RX 100	Raju Bhai

Kannada

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2023	Sheela

Story

• Ashwaroodan (2007)
• Calendar (2009)

Direction

• Street Of Harmony (documentary) (2004) (Won the New York film award in documentary category 2005.)
• Calendar (2009)
• Paarkathonnume Unmayalli (2011)
• Reengaara Oosai (Tamil) (2016) (Won special jury award for environmental friendly movie at Goa international Film festival 2022.)

Dialogue

• Ashwaroodan (2007)

Screenplay

• Ashwaroodan (2007)
• Reengaara Oosai (2016)

Television

Year	Serial	Channel	Notes
1988	Nezhelyoudham	DD Malayalam	Serial debut
2007	Pavithra Jailelannu	Asianet	Return to serials
2007	Swami Ayyappan	Asianet
2008	Mounanombaram	Kairali TV
2008-2011	Paarijatham	Asianet
2009	Vigraham	Asianet
2010	Rahasyam	Asianet
2012	Kadhyile Raajakumari	Mazhavil Manorama
2012	Agniputhri	Asianet
2012	Achante Makkal	Surya TV
2012	Snehakoodu	Surya TV
2014	Amma Manasam	Surya TV
2014	Ganga	DD Malayalam
2014	Ithalukal	Amrita TV
2014-2015	Balaganapathy	Asianet	Asianet television award 2015 for best Character actor (Special Jury)
2015	Arayikkal Bivi	Sakhi TV
2015	Junior Chanakyan	Flowers TV
2015	Sthreedhanam	Asianet
2015	My.Marumakan	Surya TV
2015	Kalyanasougandhikam	Asianet
2016	Jagratha	Amrita TV
2016-2017	Sathyam Shivam Sundaram	Amrita TV
2017	Ennu Swantham Jani	Surya TV
2017-2018	Mamankam	Flowers TV
2017-2018	Parishudhan	Flowers TV
2018–2019	Bhagyajathakam	Mazhavil Manorama
2019–2020	Pournami Thinkal	Asianet
2019-2020	Bhadra	Surya TV
2020	Koodathayi	Flowers TV
2021–2022	Priyankari	Flowers TV
2021–2022	KaanaKanmani	Surya TV

External links

• Mahesh at IMDb
• Mahesh at MSI
• "Mahesh". Archived from the original on 4 March 2014.