Santhosh Keezhattoor (a.k.a. Maranan) is an Indian film & theatre actor. He had acted in many leading and supportive roles. He won acclaim though doing character roles.[1] Before entering into the film industry, he was working as a theatre artist.[2] and a programme producer. He started his career in Taliparmba a town in Kannur district Kerala

Santhosh Keezhattoor
Born	Santhosh Taliparamba, Kannur Kerala, India
Occupation	Film actor & Theatre Actor
Years active	1992–present
Spouse	Sini Santhosh
Children	Yadusanth
Parent	P Damodran & K Karthyani

Early life

Santhosh was initiated to the world of drama at the age of five. He became part of Kannur's professional theatre group Sangha Chethana the age of sixteen. He had played major roles in dramas like Sakhavu, Pazhassi Raja, Soorya Pett, Swathanthryathinte Murivukal, Freedom Road, Samaya theeram, Marupuram and Che Guevera. He played the lead role for the first time in Beegum Mary Biswas, a drama promoted by Theatre Vision Kerala. He was actively involved in Kozhikode Chiranthana's Kodeeswaran and Padanilam, KPAC's Innalekalile Aakasam, Thiruvananthapuram Aksharakala's Kottayath Thampuran, Kollam Viswabhavana's Avathara Purushan and Alapuzha Sangha Chithra's Karashaka Rajavu. Santhosh had also directed many school and campus theatre ventures.[3][4]

Apart as Film Actor

Santhosh was one of the best drama trainer across schools and colleges. He had won wide acclaim for his solo drama that narrates the life of Ochira Velu asan.[5][6][7]

Solo Play

Among the theatre ventures of Santhosh, Pen Nadan (പെൺ നടൻ) won large scale critical acclaim.[8] Pen Nadan is his theatre interpretation of the life and times of Ochira Sivaprasad C Velukutti alias Velu Kutti Asan, who don many remarkable women characters in the evolving years of Malayalam theatre. Velukutti had metamorphosed as many women characters of legendary poet Kumaran Asan on stage and they include Vasavadatta, Nalini, Seetha, Leela and Mathangi.[9][10][11]

Filmography

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

• All films are in Malayalam language unless otherwise noted.

Year	Film	Role	Director(s)
2003	Chakram	Satheeshan	Lohith Das
2014	Varsham	Satheesan	Ranjith Sankar
2014	Vikramadithyan	Kunjunni Menon	Lal Jose
2015	Aana Mayil Ottakam	Kunjunni Menon	Jayakrishna, Anil Sign
2015	Ivan Maryadaraman	Puthkottayil Veerabhadran	Suresh Babu
2015	Kanal	Anandan's Friend	M. Padmakumar
2015	Saigal Padukayanu		Sibi Malayil
2015	Ennum Eppozhum	Jaleel Taxi driver	Sathyan Anthikad
2015	Onnam Loka Mahayudham		Sree Varun
2015	Mariyam Mukku	Bernard	James Albert
2015	Oru Vadakkan Selfie	Mohan	G. Prajith
2015	KL.10	Ali Sir	Muhsin parari
2015	Urumbukal Urangarilla	Davis	Jiju Asokan
2015	Loham	Sudheer	Ranjith
2015	Pathemari	Majeed	Salim Ahamed
2015	Jamna Pyari		Thomas
2015	Aana Mayil Ottakam		Jayakrishnan & Anil Sign
2016	Pulimurugan	Murugan's father (cameo)	Vysakh
2016	Marupadi		V.M. Vinu
2016	Swarna Kaduva	as Surendran	Jose Thomas
2016	Ottakolam
2016	Karinkunnam 6's	as Vasudev	Deepu Karunakaran
2016	Mudhugauv	as Chandran, Bharath's father (cameo)	Vipin Das
2016	Mohavalayam
2016	Vettah	as Security Guard	Rajesh Pillai
2016	Style (2016 film)		Binu Sadanandan
2017	Samarpanam	Chandrkanth	K. Gopinathan
2017	The Great Father	James a.k.a. Joker	Haneef Adeni
2017	Sakhavu	Senthil	Siddhartha Siva
2017	Viswasapoorvam Mansoor		P. T. Kunju Muhammed
2017	Kharam	as Murali	P.V. Jose
2017	Nilavariyathei	--	Utpal V Nayanar
2017	Paathi: the Half	Pavithran	Chandran Narikode
2017	Pretham Undu Sookshikkuka	--	Mohammed Ali, Shafeer Khan
2017	Gemini (2017)	Mohana Varma	P.K. Baaburaaj
2018	Queen	Bride's father (Cameo)	Dijo Anthony
2018	Aami	Protester (Cameo)	Kamal
2018	Kammara Sambhavam	Kammaran's father	Rathish Ambat
2018	Koode	Lilly's brother (Cameo)	Anjali Menon
2018	Ranam	Aadhi's father	Nirmal Sahadev
2018	Kala Viplavam Pranayam	Comrade Ravi	Jithin Jithu
2018	Odiyan	as Vasudevan	V. A. Shrikumar Menon
2018	Thanaha	Prabhakaran	Prakash Kunjhan Moorayil
2018	Aickarakkonathe Bhishaguaranmaar	as Sathish	Biju Majeed
2018	Choice (Short)	as Dad	Yadhu Krishnan
2018	Oru Pazhaya Bomb Kadha	Comrade	Shafi
2018	Sreehalli		Sachin Raj
2018	Puzha		Cochin Sithara
2018	Mazhayathu	as Venugopal's Friend	Suveeran
2018	Aravindante Athidhikal	as Raghavan	M. Mohanan
2018	Kala Viplavam Pranayam	as Ravi	Jithin Jithu
2018	Bonsai (2018 film)		Santhosh Peringeth
2018	Captain (2018 film)	as Sathyan's elder brother	Prajesh Sen
2018	Kadha Paranja Kadha		Siju Jawahar
2018	Kharam		Dr.PV Jose
2018	Queen (2018 film)	Bride's father	Dijo Jose Antony
2019	Soothrakkaran		Anil Rraj
2019	Madhura Raja	Police Constable Poulo	Vysakh
2019	Lessons
2019	Vari the Sentence (2019)		Sreejith Poyilkavu
2019	Makkana		Raheem Khadar
2019	Edakkad Battalion 06	as Ummer	Swapnesh K. Nair
2019	Fancy Dress (2019 film)	Martin	Ranjith Saccariya
2019	Ebnodu Para I Love You		Nikhil
2019	Gramavasees		B.N. Shajeer Sha
2019	A for Apple		Sub Inspector Jayasankar
2019	And the Oscar Goes To...	as Basheer	Salim Ahamed
2019	Kuttymama		V. M. Vinu
2019	Oru Nakshathramulla Aakasham		Suneesh Babu, Ajith Pulleri
2019	British Bungalow		Subair Hameed
2019	Soothrakkaran	as Balachandran	Anil Rraj
2019	Theerumanam	Adv. K.R. Ishwar	P.K. Radhakrishnan
2019	Odunnon
2019	Moppala[12]	Ambhu Panikkar	Santhosh Puthukkunnu
2020	2 States
2020	Bhoomiyile Manohara Swakaryam		Shyju Anthikkad
2020	Thakkol Pazhuthu		Hafiz M. Ismail
2020	Maniyarayile Ashokan	Shyama's father	Shamzu Zayba
2020	Shyamaragam	Krishnamoorthy Senior	Sethu Eyyal
2021	Ole kanda naal		Jefry
2021	Nalekkay		V K Ajith Kumar
2021	Orma Peythu		Biju M Raj
2021	Anuradha		Shan thulashidharan
2021	Pada		Kamal KM
2021	Escape	Mathew	Sarshick Roshan
2022	Kallan D`Souza		Jithu K Jayan
2022	Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham	Kokkattu Panicker	Priyadarshan
2022	Thuramukham	N.P.Ravichandran IAS	Rajeev Ravi

Television

Short films

Theatre

Awards

References

External links

• Santhosh Keezhattoor at IMDb