Anoop Krishnan

Anoop Krishnan is an Indian television actor, director and anchor, who works predominantly in Malayalam film industry. He is mainly noted for this role Kalyan in the television series Seetha Kalyanam telecasted in Asianet.

Anoop Krishnan Anugil
Anoop in 2018
Born07 May 1990 (1990-05-07) (age 30)
Pattambi, Palakkad, India
Occupation
  • Actor
  • Director
  • Anchor
Years active2010–present

Early and personal life

Anoop was born to Unnikrishnan K, a railway mail servant and K. M Shobhana Devi, a homemaker in Pattambi, Palakkad, Kerala. He has two siblings, Akhilesh Krishnan, a high school teacher and Akhila Krishnan, a college lecturer. He had his primary education from AUP School, Muthuthala and high school at PHS Pallippuram. He did his vocational higher secondary from VHSE Koppam. He is a graduate in B.A Literature from SNGS & Co-Operative College, Pattambi.

Career

In 2010, Anoop Krishnan was selected for the movie Face in Facebook directed by Jibin George James. Unfortunately, this project was not completed due to technical reasons and Anoop shifted his career into anchoring live stage shows.

Anoop in an audio launch ceremony at Singapore

He started doing anchoring for various stage shows and continued to perform for more than 80 stages both in India and abroad with Malabar Maholtsavam, DTPC Onam fest and National Games closing ceremony among few of them. It was during this period that he got callback into two back-to-back movies alongside Mammootty - Daivathinte Swantham Cleetus directed by G. Marthandan (2013) and Praise the Lord directed by Shibu Gangadharan (2014). Unfortunately, those two characters didn't get much of an attention.

In 2014, Anoop’s mentor and music director Sunny Viswanath introduced him to Padma Shri Balachandra Menon for doing a stage show in Dubai and that got him an opportunity to assist Balachandra Menon on his comeback movie Njan Samvidhanam Cheyyum which was released in 2015. While doing that movie, he got selected for doing a lead role in a Sanskrit movie called Ishti directed by G. Prabha. Anoop learned Kathakali Padam and trained himself in making kadhakali ornaments and handicrafts. He also has reduced 11 Kg to play the character in the movie. He got attention from national and international film fraternity.[1] Ishti made him to walk through red carpet of Indian Panorama of IFFI held at Goa held in 2016.

By 2015, he started making short music videos, documentaries and short films. Some of works were selected for Malayalam TV channels. One of his documentary - 'Raise of hope'[2] was done for kidney related diseases and its awareness, with the help and support of Dr. Jayant Thomas Mathew (Nephrologist in Amala Institute of Medical Sciences) and Sunny Viswanath. During this time, Anoop did minor roles in cinemas like Sarvopari Palakkaran(2017) directed by Venugopan, Ennaalum Sarath..? (2018) directed by Balachandra Menon and Contessa directed by Sudip E.S (2018). He was a male lead character in known commercial movie called Ammamarathanalil (2017) directed by Jibin George James. He gained 8 Kg to play a middle-aged character in the movie Ammamarathanalil.[3][4]

Anoop in Ammamarathanalil

In 2018, director Sunil Kariattukara selected him for a television serial called Seetha Kalyanam telecasted in Asianet and Hotstar. He turned a household name with his lead character ‘Kalyan’ in this television show and his on-screen chemistry with actress Dhanya Mary Varghese is widely appreciated as well.[5] He, alongside actress Dhanya Mary Varghese, received the Asianet Television Award for the best pair . He was also nominated for the best actor and popular actor category in the same year.

Anoop receiving Best Pair award in Asianet Television Awards

At the end of 2019, Anoop Krishan's suspense thriller short film 'De-javu'[6][7][8][9] was successfully released on Christmas day and received broad attention.

Filmography

Films
YearTitleLanguageRoleDirectorNotes
2010Daivathinte Swantham CleetusMalayalamShopkeeperG. MarthandanDebut
2014Praise the LordMalayalamSamkutty's friendShibu Gangadharan
2015Njan Samvidhanam CheyyumMalayalamShyamBalachandra Menon
2015IshtiSanskritRaman NamboothiriG. PrabhaLead character
2017Sarvopari PalakkaranMalayalamHeroine's friendG Venugopan
2017AmmamarathanalilMalayalamPrakashanJibin George JamesLead character
2018Ennaalum Sarath..?MalayalamSub Inspector RaviBalachandra Menon
2018ContessaMalayalamRajanSudip E.S
2020AjagajantharamMalayalamDevarajanTinu Pappachan

Television serials
Year Serial Role Channel Notes
2018–PresentSeetha KalyanamKalyanAsianetLead character

Awards & Recognitions

Asianet Television Awards

Recognitions
  • 2016 - Indian Panorama recognition for Inaugural Movie for Ishti

References
  1. Pradeep, K. (22 December 2016). "A memorable break". The Hindu.
  2. "Documentary film on fight against kidney diseases". YouTube. 10 April 2018.
  3. "Red lining to green cause". Deccan Chronicle. 6 October 2017.
  4. "Trailer of Ammamarathanalil". YouTube. 13 April 2018.
  5. "The satisfaction I get for playing Kalyan is akin to doing 10 films: Anoop Krishnan". The Times of India. 4 January 2019.
  6. "അര്‍ദ്ധരാത്രിയില്‍ മരണദൂതുമായെത്തിയ 'ദേജാവു'". Malayala Monorama. 23 January 2020.
  7. "കൈയടി നേടി "ദേജാവ്'; യൂട്യൂബിൽ തരംഗമാകുന്നു". Deepika. 24 January 2020.
  8. "അര്‍ദ്ധരാത്രിയില്‍ വിജനമായ സ്ഥലത്തെ'ദേജാവു' അനുഭവം, ഹ്രസ്വചിത്രവുമായി സീരിയല്‍ നടന്‍". Mathrubhumi. 23 January 2020.
  9. "Anoop Krishnan excited about his short film, Déjà Vu". The Times of India. 27 December 2019.
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