Sharafudheen

Girirajan Kozhi, the flirtatious character he played in Alphonse Puthren's romantic comedy Premam (2015), was the breakthrough for Sharafudheen, credited on screen as Sharaf U Dheen. By then he had already debuted in Puthren's Neram (2013) and followed it with Jude Anthany Joseph's Ohm Shanthi Oshaana (2014). Born on 25 October 1984, he comes from Perumbavoor in Ernakulam district. Before films he worked in several fields and set up a tourism business, Seasonz India, in his hometown. Today he acts in and produces Malayalam films. After Premam he shared the screen with Prithviraj Sukumaran in Pavada (2016) and appeared in Pretham, Carbon (2018) and Thobama (2018), the last of them produced by Puthren. His first leading role came with Neeyum Njanum (2019). It's a Medical Miracle (2026) had him in its cast, and in the upcoming Bachelor Party D'eux he plays Pappan, a character revealed in the film's third character poster.