Murali Gopy

Murali Gopy writes screenplays, acts, sings, writes lyrics, composes and publishes fiction, and for years he was a working journalist as well. Born Muralikrishnan Gopynathan Nair in Thiruvananthapuram on 4 March 1972, he is the son of actor Bharath Gopy. After a postgraduate course in journalism in Thiruvananthapuram, he worked at The New Indian Express and The Hindu, edited sports magazines in Dubai and in 2008 became chief editor of MSN India Entertainment, leaving in 2012 to concentrate on films. His stories have appeared in a collection from Mathrubhumi Books and a novella from DC Books. Cinema began in 2004 with Lal Jose's Rasikan, which he wrote, and in which he played the villain Kala Bhaskaran and sang. His screenplays since include Ee Adutha Kaalathu (2012), Left Right Left, Tiyaan (2017), Kammara Sambhavam, Theerppu and Lucifer (2019), the Mohanlal film directed by Prithviraj Sukumaran, plus its sequel L2: Empuraan. On screen he has been Ajay Kurien in Ee Adutha Kaalathu, Che Guevara Roy in Left Right Left and Father Michael Plathottathil in Kanyaka Talkies, and he plays IG Thomas Bastin IPS in Drishyam 2: The Resumption (2021) and Drishyam 3 (2026). His honours include Filmfare and SIIMA awards. Ananthan Kaadu, a Tamil-Malayalam bilingual, is written by him and has him in the cast.