Shanker Ramakrishnan is an Indian film screenwriter, director, producer and actor, who works primarily in the

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Career

He is Law Graduate (LL.B) from

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and He started his career immediately after completing post-graduation from the School of Management Studies, CUSAT. In the collective film Kerala Café, Shankar scripted and directed the critically acclaimed film segment "Island Express". Prithviraj who played the lead character “Leon” in the film invited Shankar to write August Cinema's maiden venture “

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”. Urumi was a historical drama film directed and filmed by

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with Prithviraj and

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in the lead roles. The movie created a turning point in Shankar's artistic career and gave him opportunities to work on the wider canvas. V. K. Prakash, the National Award winner, invited Shankar to write the Malayalam version of the Hindi film "Freaky Chakra". The Malayalam version was titled " Netholi oru Cheriya Meen Alla" and was a postmodern experimental film starring

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and

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. Shankar's filmography took a surprise detour when his mentor Ranjith offered him a role to play Alexey Thadeus, the free-spirited cancer patient, in his movie “ Spirit”. The role won Shankar the ' SIIMA Award for Best Male Debutant' and best supporting actor awards including the ‘Mathrubhumi Medimix Movie Award’. Spirit was followed by V.K.P's “ Poppins” and G.S. Vijayan's “ Bavuttiyude Namathil” starring

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and written by Ranjith. Shankar then went on to play vivid characters in movies like "Seconds", Sreebala K. Menon's “ Love 24X7” with Dileep, and Bobby-Sanjay's "

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" with

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, directed by

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. He took a break from acting and began working on the mega project "Kunjali Marikkar IV"" originally written by T. P. Rajeevan. The movie was initially expected to hit screens by end of 2018; however the film was indefinitely postponed owing to prior commitments of the crew. Shankar has also completed the scripting of " My Story", which will have Prithviraj and Parvathy playing the lead roles. Shankar recently announced his directorial debut with

Pathinettam Padi ''Pathinettam Padi'' () is a 2019 Indian Malayalam-language coming of age drama film, written and directed by Shankar Ramakrishnan and produced by Shaji Nadesan under the banner of August Cinema.The film Stars Akshay Radhakrishnan, Ashwin Go ...

to be produced by August Cinema. The video casting call for the new movie was hosted by actor

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on 17 August 2017, which went viral in the social media. On 2 October 2017, actor

Mohanlal Mohanlal Viswanathan (; born 21 May 1960), known mononymously as Mohanlal, is an Indian actor and filmmaker who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema, Malayalam cinema besides also having sporadically appeared in Tamil cinema, Tamil, Hin ...

unveiled the title art of the movie.

Filmography

*''All films are in

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language unless otherwise noted''.

As actor

As scriptwriter

As director

;Television

References

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