Jishnu Raghavan
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Other names: Jishnu Raghavan Alingkil
Job / Known for: Actor, engineer, social activist
Left traces: debut film Nammal,Guinness World Record
Born
Date: 1979-04-23
Location: IN Taliparamba, Kerala
Died
Date: 2016-03-25 (aged 37)
Resting place: IN Kochi, Kerala
Death Cause: Cancer
Family
Spouse: Dhanya Rajan
Children:
Parent(s): Raghavan, Shobha
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Jishnu Raghavan was an Indian actor who predominantly appeared in Malayalam films. He was the son of actor Raghavan. He is best known for his debut film Nammal (2002), for which he received the Kerala Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor and the Mathrubhumi Film Awards for Best Male Debut. His last film was Traffic (2016). He did his schooling in Chennai and later at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Thiruvananthapuram. He attended a B.Tech in Mechanical engineering at the National Institute of Technology Calicut. He started his film career as a child artist in the 1987 film Kilipattu directed by his father and it was selected for the Indian Panorama. He made his acting debut in Malayalam cinema as a lead in the film Nammal in 2002 alongside newcomer Siddharth Bharathan, Bhavana and Renuka Menon directed by Kamal which turned out to be a commercial success gaining him recognition. His performance in the film won him the Kerala Film Critics Award and the Mathrubhumi Film Awards for Best Debut Male. His career followed up with lead roles in Valathottu Thirinjal Nalamathe Veedu, Choonda, Freedom, Parayam, Two Wheeler and Njaan. He then played supportive parts in Nerariyan CBI, Pauran, Yugapurushan and negative role in Chakkara Muthu along with Dileep. He also took a break from the film industry to work on developing Information Technology in rural areas. He later returned to the film industry and did supportive roles in Nidra, Ordinary, Banking Hours 10 to 4 and guest role in Ustad Hotel. He also experimented with acting at Barry John Theater Studios in Mumbai. In 2013, he played the lead roles in the films Annum Innum Ennum and Rebecca Uthup Kizhakkemala. He also signed his upcoming films Misfit alongside Sidhartha Siva, Indian Coffee House and Iphone with his father Raghavan and Vineeth, but these films did not release in theatres at that time he was diagnosed with cancer in 2014. During his first battle with cancer, his friends made a short film called Speechless. It is about a college lecturer whose life is drastically changed by cancer. He died at his home in Kochi on 25 March 2016, following a respiratory ailment. In 2013, he was honoured with the Guinness World Record for being the most type-cast actor, playing a police inspector in 144 films.
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