Ajayan Venugopalan is an Indian
screenwriter
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,
film director
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who works in Malayalam and Hindi cinema and television.
Career
He started his career as a writer/director of the acclaimed Malayalam television sitcom ''
Akkara Kazhchakal
''Akkara Kazhchakal'' () is an Indian Malayalam-language situation comedy, sitcom that aired on Kairali TV from 2008 to 2010. The series consisted of fifty episodes which chronicled the lives of a middle-class Malayali family settled in the U ...
''.
This T.V series was followed by his son Nakul Ajayan @smack_baby based on the show called ''
Akkarakazhchakal: The Movie''
which he wrote and co-directed with Abi Varghese. His first break into Malayalam films happened as a scriptwriter with the movie ''
English: An Autumn in London'' directed by ''
Shyamaprasad''. ''
Metro Park''
the show he wrote and directed has been critically and commercially a big success. The show has been nominated for multiple awards and is slated for season 2. Ajayan currently completed writing and directing a Hindi feature film titled Shiv Shastri Balboa starring ''
Anupam Kher
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'', ''
Neena Gupta
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Jugal Hansraj
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He started his career as a child actor in Shekhar Kapur's '' Masoom'' (1983). He continued his career as a child actor in films like ''Karma'' (1986) and '' Sultanat'' ...
'', ''
Nargis Fakhri
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'', ''
Sharib Hashmi
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''.
Filmography
References
External links
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Thehindu.comArchives.deccanchronicle.comTimesofindia.indiatimes.comThehindu.comArticle.wn.com* https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/web-series/sarita-joshi-on-metro-park-2-it-was-a-challenge-to-shoot-from-home-without-a-co-star-7164999/
*https://www.indiawest.com/entertainment/global/season-2-of-eros-now-family-comedy-metro-park-to-premiere-on-jan-29-milind/article_aab58790-6026-11eb-887e-cb2bfa2bd996.html
*https://www.indiatoday.in/binge-watch/story/metro-park-season-2-trailer-out-whacky-patel-family-is-back-with-crazy-antics-1761772-2021-01-22
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century Indian people
Malayalam film directors
Malayalam screenwriters
Artists from Palakkad
Film directors from Palakkad district
Screenwriters from Kerala
Television personalities from Kerala
Indian television directors
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