Rafi–Mecartin

Rafi and Mecartin are a screenwriter and director duo best known for comedy films in Malayalam cinema. Raffi's late younger brother Shafi was also a well-known film director. Raffi is also the nephew of director Siddique from the Siddique–Lal duo. He has scripted and directed successful films such as Puthukkottayile Puthumanavalan (1995), Superman (1997), Punjabi House (1998), Thenkasipattanam (2000), Chathikkatha Chanthu (2004), Pandippada (2005), and Hallo (2007). The duo has also written the scripts for Aniyan Bava Chetan Bava (1995), Aadyathe Kanmani (1995), Dilliwala Rajakumaran (1996), Kusruthi Kuruppu (1998), One Man Show (2001), Thilakkam (2003), and Mayavi (2007) among others, for other directors.^[1]

Rafi and Mecartin
Nationality	Indian
Occupations	Screenwriter Film Director Actor
Years active	1992 – present
Relatives	Shafi (brother of Rafi)

Filmography

Director

Year	Title	Cast
1995	Puthukkottayile Puthumanavalan	Jayaram, Prem Kumar, Annie, Captain Raju, Innocent
1997	Superman	Jayaram, Shobhana, Jagadheesh
1998	Punjabi House	Dileep, Mohini, Cochin Haneefa, Harisree Asokan, Lal
2000	Sathyam Sivam Sundaram	Kunchacko Boban, Ashwathi Menon, Balachandra Menon, Nassar
	Thenkasipattanam	Suresh Gopi, Lal, Dileep, Samyuktha Varma, Geethu Mohandas, Kavya Madhavan
2002	Thenkasi Pattanam (Tamil)	R. Sarathkumar, Napolean, Samyuktha Varma, Devayani, Ashwathi Menon
2004	Chathikkatha Chanthu	Jayasurya, Navya Nair, Vineeth, Lal, Salim Kumar, Bhavana
2005	Pandippada	Dileep, Navya Nair, Prakash Raj, Rajan P.Dev
2007	Hallo	Mohanlal, Parvati Melton, Jagathy Sreekumar, Siddique,Madhu, K. B. Ganesh Kumar
2009	Love In Singapore	Mammootty, Jayasurya, Nedumudi Venu, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Navaneet Kaur
2011	China Town	Mohanlal, Jayaram, Dileep, Kavya Madhavan, Pradeep Rawat
2014	Ring Master⊥[2][3]	Dileep, Keerthy Suresh, Honey Rose, Kalabhavan Shajohn,Vijayaraghavan,Suraj Venjaramoodu,Guinness Pakru,Aju Varghese,Abu Salim
2017	Role Models⊥	Fahadh Faasil, Namitha Pramod, Vinayakan, Vinay Forrt
2023	Voice Of Sathyanathan⊥	Dileep, Joju George, Veena Nandakumar,Jagapathi Babu,Anupam Kher

^⊥ Rafi Alone

Screenwriter only

• Ellarum Chollanu (1992) (writer)
• Mr & Mrs (1992) (writer)
• Aniyan Bava Chetan Bava (1995) (writer)
• Aadyathe Kanmani (1995) (screenplay and dialogue)
• Dilliwala Rajakumaran (1996) (writer)
• The Car (1997) (story)
• Kusruthi Kuruppu (1998) (Story, Screenplay,Dialogues)
• One Man Show (2001) (writer)
• Thilakkam (2003) (writer)
• Romeo (2007) (Story, Screenplay,Dialogues)
• Mayavi (2007) (writer)
• Two Countries (2015) (Rafi alone)
• Children's Park (2019)^[4]
• Once Upon Time In Kochi (2024)
• Thaanara (2024)

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Assistant director

• Godfather (1991)
• Vietnam Colony (1993)
• Customs Diary (1993)

Acting credits of Rafi

• Puthukkottayile Puthumanavalan (1995) (guest appearance)
• Ring Master (2014) as Director Ravishankar
• Villali Veeran (2015) as Aiswarya's uncle
• Two Countries (2015) as Daniel
• Shajahanum Pareekuttiyum (2016) as Joseph
• Role Models (2017) as Dr Krishnadev
• Sherlock Toms (2017) as Saghav Lazar
• Vikadakumaran(2018) as Magistrate Solomon Mathew Puthanpallil
• Sakalakalasala (2018)
• Children's Park (2019) as Adv. Thomas Augustine
• Ganagandharvan (2019) as Samson
• Shylock (2020) as Director & Film Producer Chacko
• Naaradan (2022) as Pillachettan
• Thundu (2024) as CPO Raghavan
• Adios Amigo (2024) as Paul Kurian
• Extra Decent (2024) as Dr Ajmal^[6]
• Rifle Club (2024) as Adv. Koshi^[7]

Mecartin as an Actor

• Sathyam Sivam Sundaram (2000)