Chat with Narain

Sunil alias Narain is a well-known actor in Malayalam and Tamil.

To be an actor was Narain’s big dream though his parents who have nothing to do with the film industry wanted him to get a degree. Thus to make his father happy, Narain did a course in cinematography at the Adyar Film institute. And when he knew that Rajeev Menon needed an assistant, he met him and confessed about his dream. It was Menon who motivated him to be a good cinematographer first before becoming an actor.

After completing the course in cinematography he came into the film industry as an assistant to Rajeev Menon, one of India’s noted film makers and cameramen. He worked with him for many advertisements and a film - Morning Raga. During those days of working with Rajeev, Narain met Adoor Gopalakrishnan and his cinematographer Mankada Ravi Varma who wanted some camera equipment for Nizhalkuthu. Later he made his debut as an actor by playing the protagonist Oduvil Unnikrishnan's (the hangman) son in the film.

Narain’s performance as the firebrand IPS officer, Rajan Mathew, in Jayaraj's 4 the People and the struggling lawyer, Emmanuel John, in Achuvinte Amma were memorable roles. 4 the People was dubbed in Tamil and Telugu and Narain also did the Bengali version. And who can forget Murali of Lal Jose’s Classmates? The film brought him close to everybody’s heart.

It was around this time that Sunil decided to change his name to Narain when he made his debut in Tamil with that pathbreaking film Chithiram Pesuthadi directed by Mysskin. In Malayalam his solo film Panthaya Kozhi produced by director Lal was lukewarm at box-office. And he also acted in Shyamaprasad’s Ore Kadal a film that was critically acclaimed.

Anjathey-Good in Multiplexes!!

Narain has so far balanced his roles in Tamil and Malayalam successfully. In Tamil, after Chithiram Pesuthadi, Narain did Nenjirikum Varai and Pallikoodam in which he played collector Vertrivel which won him a lot of accolades.

And now the actor is basking in success of his latest release Anjathey in which he has come out with an outstanding performance as Satyavan again with director Mysskin. He has also signed a Malayalam film with noted director Kamal in which he will be paired with Meera Jasmine for the third time.

Narain’s wife Manju is a noted television personality in Kerala.