Krishna Kumar (actor)

Krishna Kumar (born 12 June 1968) is an Indian actor and politician who appears in Malayalam-language films and television, in addition to a few Tamil-language films.

Krishna Kumar
Born	Krishna Kumar (1968-06-12) 12 June 1968 (age 56) Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation(s)	Film actor, TV actor, politician, news reader (All India Radio)
Years active	1994 – present
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse	Sindhu Krishna ​ (m. 1994)​
Children	Ahaana Krishna Diya Krishna Ishaani Krishna Hansika Krishna
Parents	Gopalakrishnan Nair Retnamma

Early life

Krishna Kumar was born on 12 June 1968 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. He is the youngest son of Gopalakrishnan Nair and Retnamma. He came from a family who had served in the Indian military. Kumar was also preparing to join the military before he got an offer to work as a news presenter for Doordarshan.^[1]

Career

Kumar had received his first acting offer whilst working as a television news presenter in Doordarshan. Kumar played a role in a 13-episode serial produced for DD Malayalam. He portrayed actor Nedumudi Venu's son, in his acting debut. DD Malayalam was the only Malayalam channel at that time. When Asianet was launched, Kumar starred in a TV soap opera titled Sthree (1998–2000) starring Siddique and Vinaya Prasad, Kumar became the serial's lead actors after Siddique shifted to films and left the show. The show was a major succes and was a breakthrough for him.^[2]

He was supposed to make his film debut in 1993 with the Joshiy-directorial Sainyam, in which he was to play a naval officer, but his scenes were deleted from the film. To make up for it, Joshiy offered him the chance to dub for Vikram's character in the film. However, he was ousted from the dubbing studio after not possessing a dubbing artists' card from their guild.^[3] He eventually debuted with the 1994 Malayalam film Kashmeeram. In the coming years, he acted in several Malayalam films and TV serials. He would later go onto to act in Tamil films such as Billa II, Deivathirumagal, and Mugamoodi among others.^[4][5]

Politics

Krishna Kumar officially joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in February 2021^[6] and was the party's candidate from Thiruvananthapuram constituency for the 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election.^[7] He lost along with his other counterparts. On 5 October 2021 he was elected as a member to the BJP national council from Kerala.

Personal life

Krishna Kumar met his future wife Sindhu during his time presenting for Doordarshan. They married on 12 December 1994 at the Trivandrum Club in Thiruvananthapuram.

They have four daughters including Ahaana Krishna, Ishaani Krishna^[8] (both actresses), Diya Krishna and Hansika Krishna. Sindhu is an entrepreneur and runs an advertisement agency.^[9][10][11]

Filmography

Malayalam films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Kashmeeram	Unni
	Sukrutham	Babu Prasad
	Pakshe	Rajan
1995	Alancheri Thamprakkal	Mahesh
	Boxer	TV Reporter
	Maanthrikam	Douglas
	Puthukkottayile Puthumanavalan	Anandhan/John Sacaria
1996	Aakaashathekkoru Kilivaathil
1996	Mahathma	Rajeev
1996	Mayoora Nritham	actor
1997	Irattakuttikalude Achan	Robert
	Superman	Himself
	Masmaram	A.S.P. Vishnu IPS
	Gangothri	Sarath's assistant
1998	Aaghosham	Unnikrishnan
1999	Agnisakshi
	Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njaanum
	Veendum Chila Veettukaryangal	Businessman Anil Kurup
	Pranayamazha	Louis
2000	Arayannangalude Veedu	Hareendranath Menon
	Summer Palace	Rajmohan
	Manassil Oru Manjuthulli	Mohandas
2001	Kattu Vannu Vilichappol	Unni
	Sathyameva Jayathe	Reji Mathan
2002	Swapnahalliyil Orunaal
	Punyam
	Aabharanacharthu
2004	Chathikkatha Chanthu	Aravindan
2008	Sound of Boot	Circle Inspector Aravind
2009	Thirunakkara Perumal	Satheeshan
2010	Paattinte Palazhy
2011	Melvilasam	B. D. Kapoor
	Makeup Man	Advocate Krishna Prasad
	Collector	Chandran
2012	Run Baby Run	Vijaya Kumar
	Molly Aunty Rocks!	Ravi
2013	Lokpal	Ramesh
	Ladies & Gentleman	Sibi Zakkariah
	3 Dots	Mathew Paul
	Vishudhan	Cleetus
	Good Bad & Ugly	Murthy Raj
2014	Salaam Kashmier	Captain Satheesh
	Gamer	Zakeer Ali
2016	Marupadi
2017	1971: Beyond Borders	Sudharshan
	Careful
	Velipadinte Pusthakam	Cameramen
2018	Shikkari Shambhu	Ranger Vasu
	Parole
	Orayiram Kinakkalal	Stephen
	Mohanlal	Meenukutti's father
	Theekuchiyum Panithulliyum	Hari
	A for Apple	Advocate Ram Mohan
	Moonnara	CI Velraj
2019	Rameshan Oru Peralla	Public Prosecutor
2021	One	Alex Thomas IPS, Vigilance Director
2022	Shefeekkinte Santhosham	Shefeek's father	[12]
2023	Thrishanku	Robin	[13]

Tamil films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	Sathyam	Mohammed (Police)	Simultaneously shot in Telugu as Salute
2012	Billa II	Raghubir Sinha
	Mugamoodi	Commissioner
	Mazhaikkalam	Suresh
2011	Kaavalan	Karthik
	Deiva Thirumagal	Victor
2016	Manithan	Vijay Nair
	Zero	Koran
2017	Laali

Television

Year	Film	Role	Role	Language	Notes
1998–2000	Sthree	Vijayan	Asianet	Malayalam
1999–2000	Sindhoorakkuruvi		Surya TV	Malayalam
2000	Charulatha		Surya TV	Malayalam
2000–2001	Sreeraman Sreedevi		Asianet	Malayalam
2001–2003	Manasaputhri		Surya TV	Malayalam
2001–2003	Vasundara Medicals		Asianet	Malayalam
2003	Seethalakshmi		Asianet	Malayalam
2003–2004	Swantham		Asianet	Malayalam
2002	Vivahita		Asianet	Malayalam
2004	Kadamattathu Kathanaar	Nicholas	Asianet	Malayalam
2006	Malayogam	Anand	Asianet	Malayalam
	Miss Mary Theresa Paul		Doordarshan	Malayalam	Telefilm
	Pravachanam		Doordarshan	Malayalam	Telefilm
	Panthalayaniyilekku Oru Yathra		Doordarshan	Malayalam	Telefilm
2009–2010	Thangam	Selvakannan	Sun TV	Tamil
2010	Abirami	Abhirami's husband	Kalaignar TV	Tamil
2021	Koodevide	Prof. Adhi	Asianet	Malayalam