Ashokan

Ashokan was still in his first year of pre-degree studies when he was offered his first part, in Padmarajan's Peruvazhiyambalam (1979). He played a 15-year-old who goes on the run after killing a bully, and the film received that year's National Film Award for Best Feature Film. Born on 23 May 1961 at Chingoli in Haripad, the youngest of four siblings, he later completed an arts degree at T. K. Madhava Memorial College, Nangiarkulangara. His career has been in Malayalam cinema. He kept working with Padmarajan in Arappatta Kettiya Gramathil (1986), Thoovanathumbikal (1987) and Moonnam Pakkam (1988), and played the lead in Adoor Gopalakrishnan's Anantaram. Audiences also remember him for Yavanika (1982), Yuvajanotsavam (1986) and Amaram (1991), and for the In Harihar Nagar series, from the 1990 original to 2 Harihar Nagar (2009) and In Ghost House Inn (2010). More recently he played DGP Thomas Koshi IPS in Oru Anweshanathinte Thudakkam (2024) and the principal's husband in Adinaasam Vellapokkam (2025), and he appears in Udumbanchola Vision (2026). Neekkam and NP 51 are among his upcoming Malayalam projects.