Biju Menon

Biju Menon (born 9 September 1970) is an Indian actor who predominantly appears in Malayalam films, and also has a few Tamil, Telugu and Kannada film credits. He made his debut in the 1995 Malayalam film Puthran. In a career spanning over three decades, he has appeared in more than 150 films, and has won one National film award for Best Supporting Actor, three Kerala State Film Awards including one best actor, two Filmfare Awards South and nine Asianet Film Awards. He got the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor in 2021 for the film Aarkkariyam.

Biju Menon's popular characters were in films such as Mannar Mathai Speaking (1995), Azhakiya Ravanan (1996), Krishnagudiyil Oru Pranayakalathu (1997), Pathram (1999), Kannezhuthi Pottum Thottu (1999), Madhuranombarakattu (2000), Meghamalhar (2001), Shivam (2002), and T. D. Dasan Std. VI B (2010).

He shifted to comedic from serious roles, beginning from 2010 and played several notable roles in films such as Marykkundoru Kunjaadu (2010), Seniors (2011), Ordinary (2012), Run Baby Run (2012), Romans (2013), Vellimoonga (2014), Anarkali (2015), Leela (2016),Rakshadhikari Baiju Oppu (2017), Sherlock Toms (2017), Adhyarathri (2019), and Ayyappanum Koshiyum (2020).

Early life Biju Menon was born on 9th September 1970 to Madathiparambil P. N. Balakrishna Pillai and Malathiyamma Menon. His father was a police officer. He has four brothers: Soman, Suresh, Rajendran, and Sreekumar.

Menon did his schooling at J.T.S. Technical High School in Thrissur. He then pursued a degree in Commerce from St. Thomas College, Thrissur. He also holds a master's in Social Work (MSW).

Acting career

Biju Menon started his acting career through Malayalam television serials such as Ningalude Swantham Chanthu, Parudeesayilekulla Patha and Mikhayelinte Santhathikal. He made his debut in films with Puthran, the debut film of Jude Attipetty and the sequel of Mikhayelinte Santhathikal. He acted in a number of movies as the villain or the secondary hero. During the late 1990s, he was considered to be a superstar in making. But most of the films with Biju Menon as the hero failed at the box office, in spite of his good performance, though his roles as second hero were popular. He acted with Suresh Gopi in hit movies like Pathram, F. I. R. and Chinthamani Kolacase. During the later 1990s and early 2000s he appeared in a few offbeat movies with directors like T. V. Chandran, Lenin Rajendran and Kamal in the films Mazha, Madhuranombarakkattu, Anyar and Meghamalhar.

He has appeared in the majority of the films made by director Lal Jose, including Oru Maravathoor Kanavu, Chandranudikkunna Dikhil, Randaam Bhavam, Pattalam, Rasikan, Chanthupottu, Mulla and Spanish Masala. He won the Kerala State Film Award for Second Best Actor twice in his acting career for his roles as Akhilachandran in Krishnagudiyil Oru Pranayakalathu (1997) and Nanda Kumar in T. D. Dasan Std. VI B(2010). He has also acted as antagonist in Tamil films and has been successful in films like Majaa and Thambi. In May 2018, he proved his versatility as a stage artist and singer in Madhuram 18 Mega Stage Show performing in 15 stages in U.S.A and Canada.

Personal life

Menon is married to the former Malayalam actress Samyuktha Varma, on 21 November 2002, who co-starred with him in Mazha, Madhuranombarakkattu and Meghamalhar. The couple has a son, Daksh Dharmik, born on 14 September 2006.

Filmography

As actor

Malayalam

Year Title Role Notes 1995 Puthran Alosys Samudayam Highway Pavitran Mannar Mathai Speaking Mahendra VarmaAadyathe Kanmani Padmarajan Karma Sreekuttan 1996 Mahathma Mustafa Azhakiya Ravanan Sharath Dilliwala Rajakumaran Veerendran Kanjirappally KuriachanRoy Manthrika Kuthira Malayala Masam Chingam Onnu Dr.PrasadMan of the Match Rajendran Sathyabhamakkoru Premalekhanam SethumadhavanUdhyanapalakan Mohan Ee Puzhayum Kadannu Gopi's friend 1997 Kudamattom Pankajakshan Manasam Jayadevan / Sudhakaran (Dual Role) Krishnagudiyil Oru Pranayakalathu Akhilachandran Kerala State Film Award for Second Best ActorAsuravamsam Jayamohan Innalekalillaathe Tony Kaliyattam Kanthan 1998 Mangalya PallakkuDinesh PranayavarnangalVictor Sidhartha Sethu Pathram Firoz MohammedAsianet Film Award for Best Supporting ActorOru Maravathoor Kanavu Michael Oro Viliyum Kathorthu Kesavan Kutty Chitrashalabham Dr.Sandeep Kannezhuthi Pottum Thottu Uthaman Asianet Film Award for Best Supporting ActorOrmacheppu Mohan Sneham Sasidharan Nair 1999 Chandranudikkunna DikhilRadha's husband F.I.R Gregory 2000 Millennium Stars Shivan Asianet Film Award for Best Supporting ActorMazha Sastrigal Madhuranombarakattu Vishnu Cover Story ACP Anand S. Nair Asianet Film Award for Best Supporting ActorKarunam 2001 DubaiKiran Pothan Cherian Randaam BhavamJeevan AchaneyanenikkishtamAnand MeghamalharRajeeev Menon Asianet Film Award for Best Star PairPraja Arjun 2002 OnnamanACP Vishnu S. Pillai ShivamBhadran K. Menon Sesham Shyam Sundar IAS 2003 Relax Sankarapandi Chronic Bachelor Hareendran AnyarSuraj Nambiar PattalamBenny Ivar Pambu Jose 2004 Agninakshathram AniyanSoumyam Perumazhakkalam John Kuruvila Rasikan Kapil Dev 2005 Chanthupottu Freddy Anandabhadram Siva Ram 2006 Chinthamani Kolacase Jagannivasan VadakkumnadhanPrabhakara Pisharadi KisanDevendra Varma Ammathottil Keerthi ChakraGopinath Photographer Forest MinisterBaba Kalyani CI Thomas 2007 Bharathan EffectBharathanHeart BeatsPolice Commissioner Nagaram Dr Raveendran Kichamani MBADevanarayanan Nasrani Xavier Paul 2008 Mulla Ambi Nominated – Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – MalayalamKurukshetra Major Rajesh Twenty:20 ASP Jacob EralyCrazy Gopalan Police Commissioner 2009 Red Chillies Stalin Vilapangalkkappuram Dr. Gopinath Daddy Cool Roy Alex Kaana Kanmani Rajeevan RobinhoodNandakumara Menon Parayan Marannathu Chandrasekharan 2010 AagathanDr. Sudhi April FoolSharath Janakan Monayi T. D. Dasan Std. VI B Nandakumar Pothuval Kerala State Film Award for Second Best ActorRaama Raavanan SP Surya Narayanan Pranchiyettan and the Saint Joppan Kaaryasthan Jayashankar College Days Sudeep Hariharan Marykkundoru Kunjaadu Jose Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Malayalam 2011 Arjunan Saakshi Aby Abraham Khaddama Radhakrishnan Christian Brothers Hariharan Thampy Seniors Philip Idikulla Asianet Film Award for Best Character ActorUlakam Chuttum Valiban Saajan Joseph Snehaveedu Balachandran Asianet Film Award for Best Character ActorVenicile VyapariAjayan Electra Peter 2012 Spanish Masala Menon OrangeBaboottan Masters Sethu Ordinary Suku Asianet Film Award for Best Character Actor Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Malayalam Nominated—SIIMA Award for Best ComedianMayamohini Balakrishnan Mallu Singh Karthi Mr. Marumakan Babu Raj Run Baby Run Rishikesh Asianet Film Award for Best Character ActorIthra Mathram Vasudevan 101 Weddings Aantappan Chettayees Kichu 2013 Romans Shibu / Fr. 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Other languages Year Title Role Language Notes 2005 Majaa Rajavelu Tamil 2006 June R Arun Thambi Sankarapandian Ranam Bhagavathi Telugu Khatarnak Lawyer 2007 Agaram Varma Tamil 2008 Pazhani Jeevanandham Arasangam Manoj/Martin Jayapal Alibhabha Police Commissioner 2010 Porkkalam Inspector Rangasamy 2017 Aadu Aata Aadu Kannada 2025 MadharaasiNIA Team Head Premnath Tamil 2027 Jaleel Rahman Telugu Filming

As dubbing artist Makaramanju – Voice for Santhosh Shivan Vismayam (Malayalam dubbed version of Manamantha) – Voice for P. Ravi Shankar

Television Ningalude Swantham Chanthu (Doordarshan) Mikhayelinte Santhathikal (Doordarshan) Parudeesayilekulla Patha (Doordarshan) Niramala (Doordarshan)

Awards and nominations