Jayasurya

Jayasurya won the Best Supporting Actor Award for his performance in Apothecary at the 62nd Filmfare Awards South.

Jayasurya (born 31 August 1978) is an Indian actor, distributor, sponsor, model, film producer, playback singer, and impressionist who works in Malayalam films.

He has appeared in more than 100 films and has won several awards, including a National Film Award, three Kerala State Film Awards, two Filmfare Awards South for acting and Best Actor at the Cincinnati Film Festival held in Cincinnati, US.

Jayasurya has also appeared in a few Tamil films.

Jayasurya began his career as a mimicry artist and hosted a few television shows on Malayalam channels.

Jayasurya was born in 1978 to Mani and Thankam, in Tripunithura, Kochi, Kerala.

He did his schooling at St. George U. P. School, Chambakkara, and at Government Sanskrit High School, Tripunithura.

He pursued a Bachelor of Commerce degree at All Saints College, Ernakulam.

After his studies he joined mimicry troupes like Crown of Cochin and Kottayam Nazeer's Cochin Discovery.

He made his acting debut as a background actor in the 1999 film Pathram.

In the 2000s, Jayasurya was popular for his comic-oriented roles in Swapnakkoodu (2003), Pulival Kalyanam (2003), Chathikkatha Chanthu (2004), Chocolate (2007) and Gulumaal (2009), as well as his villainous in Classmates (2006), Arabikkatha (2007), and Kangaroo (2007).

His break-through was playing a mute in Oomappenninu Uriyadappayyan (2002).

He married his longtime girlfriend, Saritha on 25 January 2004.

The couple has two children.

In 2006, Jayasurya appeared in Kilukkam Kilukilukkam, a sequel to Kilukkam.

Jayasurya appeared in Bus Conductor.

In Classmates, he played the role of Satheesan Kanjikkuzhi, an aspiring student leader, which was considered one of his breakthrough performances.

He was then cast in a negative role in Lal Jose's Arabikkatha.

This followed villain roles in Hareendran Oru Nishkalankan and Kangaroo.

He played a variety of roles in 2007–2008: the romantic lover with a comic touch in Chocolate, the serious police officer in Positive, the humorous drama scriptwriter in Shakespeare M.A. Malayalam, the small-time thief and antagonist in LollyPop, the supporting role in Love in Singapore, and the young politician in Balachandra Menon's De Ingottu Nokkiye.

By the 2010s, Jayasurya had gained critical acclaim for his roles, in films such as Cocktail (2010), Janapriyan (2011), Beautiful (2011), Trivandrum Lodge (2012), Apothecary (2014), Iyobinte Pusthakam (2014), Lukka Chuppi (2015), Su.. Su... Sudhi Vathmeekam (2015), and Captain (2018).

In 2010 he acted in Nallavan directed by debut director Aji John, in which he played three stages of a person born and brought up on the Tamil Nadu-Kerala border.

The film Cocktail in 2010 was what established a new phase to his career as his performance was critically acclaimed.

The film is noted for its earliest development of new generation movies that originated in the 2010s and eventually became known as New Wave Malayalam Cinema.

Janapriyan and Beautiful were his most commercially successful films of the year.

In 2011, he appeared in 20 get-ups in T. V. Chandran's fantasy film Sankaranum Mohananum.

The same year, he played the lead role in Beautiful which went on to become a critical and commercial success.

He played the role of a paraplegic named Stephen and was well received by audiences and critics alike, all saying he has shown the best performance till date and he was one of the main contenders for best actor nominations in several film awards.

In a year-end report on Malayalam cinema, Deepika newspaper applauded Jayasurya for choosing the right roles and chose him as the Star of the Year 2011.

In 2012 he appeared in Trivandrum Lodge and Husbands in Goa which were released on the same day, and were both box office successes.

His role as a shady introverted pervert in Trivandrum Lodge was well received by critics and garnered more recognition for him as an established actor.

He was also popular for comedy films such as Punyalan Agarbattis (2013), Amar Akbar Anthony (2015), Aadu (2015) and Aadu 2 (2017).

Jayasurya made his debut as a producer by co-producing the film Punyalan Agarbattis and he is also credited as a playback singer in a few films.

In 2013 he appeared in a crucial role in one of Roshan Andrews best films Mumbai Police and played the lead role of a don in Hotel California directed by Aji John, in which his role as Airport Jimmy was well favoured by the audience and was recognized as a style statement for the youth of the time.

The same year his performance in Shyamaprasad's English: An Autumn in London as a Kathakali artiste-turned-waiter who is an illegal immigrant in the United Kingdom won immense critical praise.

Jayasurya turned producer in 2013 with Punyalan Agarbattis, which turned out to be a successful film.

In 2014 his first release was the movie Happy Journey which was directed by Bobban Samuel, though an average grosser his performance in the role of a blind cricket player garnered praise from both critics and audiences alike.

In August of the same year Apothecary with the director Madhav Ramadasan was released, in which he played the major role apart from Suresh Gopi's role as Dr. Vijay Nambiar, as Subin Joseph a poverty-driven man who suffers from a neurological disorder.

In 2016, Jayasurya won the Special Jury Award at the 46th Kerala State Film Awards and the Special Mention at the 63rd National Film Awards for his performances in the films Su Su Sudhi Vathmeekam and Lukka Chuppi.

He won two Kerala State Film Awards for Best Actor for Captain and Njan Marykutty in 2018 and for Vellam in 2020.