had his secondary school education at SRV High School, Ernakulam (1963-66), He graduated in Applied History from Maharajah's College, Ernakulam in 1972 and joined the Madras Film Institute, Chennai.

 

Ever since he passed out from the Film Institute in 1975, he had been working in the film industry as Associate director and in very few films as actor. When Doordarshan was first established in Kerala, he switched over to Television in 1985.

 

He is a good writer. He does several jobs in the media. He writes articles in English and Malayalam, and teaches cinema and television subjects like script writing, direction, television production etc. at various Media Institutes. He is also an actor and screenplay writer. He directs documentaries, serials and spots. He translates Films and serials from different languages into Malayalam, and vice versa. From April 2011 to September 2014 he was associated with the Media One TV, Kozhikode as its Creative Head (Fiction) with responsibilities for creating concepts for fiction programmes, preparing programme design and budget, assigning and supervising production from scripting to screening. From September 2014 to January 2015 he was the Chief Executive Officer at Guru TV and Trivandrum Media School.

He says he is not a psychologist, but according to him, teaching is a psychological process , particularly acting, screenplay writing and direction, where you have no prescribed textbooks to follow. It is a sort of a psychological treatment, teaching the art and craft of film making. Now he is back to his life time cine field.

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