Srinish Aravind

Srinish Aravind (born 2 June 1985) is an Indian television actor and model, who works in Tamil and Malayalam films and television series also few Telugu TV serials. He was one of the five finalists in the reality show Bigg Boss Malayalam season 1.^[1]

Srinish Aravind
Born	(1985-06-02) 2 June 1985 (age 39) Palakkad
Alma mater	Guru Nanak College Chennai
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2014–2021
Spouse	Pearle Maaney (m. 2019)
Children	2 (Nila and Nitara)

Early life

Srinish Aravind was born and brought up in Chennai, where his father was employed, but his family comes from the Palakkad district of Kerala. His parents are Aravind Nair and Lakshmi Kumari. He has two elder sisters, and attended J. R. K. Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Chennai, later graduating as a Bachelor of Commerce from Guru Nanak College; he also attended Balu Mahendra Institute of Film Technology, Chennai. Before entering the entertainment industry, he used to work at Kindle Systems as a recruiter and at Vasan Healthcare as an Operations Executive. Srinish had several other jobs, as well as modelling, and appeared in a couple of short films in Tamil before entering the television industry.

Career

Srinish attained public recognition after acting in the mega serial Pranayam on Asianet, in the role of Sharan G. Menon.^[2] It was directed by Sudheesh Shankar and produced by Merryland Murugan. It was a remake of the Hindi serial Ye Hai Mohabbatein telecast on Star TV, based on the novel Custody by Manju Kapur. In Pranayam, his character Saran G Menon was the male lead, the CEO of a multinational company. In 2017, he made his Tamil television debut with the long-running serial Vamsam (TV series) playing a negative role called Raj alongside actress Ramya Krishnan. On 28 April Pranayam ended completing 524 episodes, from the next week he signed into play the lead role in another Malayalam serial Ammuvinte Amma. He did a short stint in a Telugu serial Natachirami in Gemini TV and in Niram Maaratha Pookkal (TV series) in Zee Tamil before entering into Bigg Boss (Malayalam season 1).

In 2018, he contested in the first season of the reality TV show Bigg Boss on Asianet and emerged as the third runner-up of the show completing 100 days.^[3] After Bigg boss he joined in Zee Keralam channel as the lead hero of Sathya Enna Penkutty serial as Sudhip. He also did two webseries ( Pearlish & Avastha) with his wife Pearle Maaney which was aired in her YouTube channel. He also did a Telugu serial called Srimanthudu for a short period in ETV (Telugu) channel. He is joining Sun TV Network Poove Unakkaga (TV series) as the lead role.

Personal life

During the season one of Malayalam Bigg Boss reality show in 2018, Srinish developed a romantic relationship with co-contestant Pearle Maaney and both of them expressed their wish to get married.^[4] On 17 January 2019, Srinish got engaged to Pearle at a private ceremony.^[5] They got married twice. The first one was on 5 May 2019 at a church in Aluva by Christian rituals and the next by Hindu rituals on 8 May 2019 in Palakkad.^[6] They have two daughters, Nila and Nitara, born on March 20, 2021, and 13 January 2024^{[7][8] [9]}

Filmography

Films

• All films are in Tamil, Otherwise noted.

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2014	Uyir Ezhuthu	Un­known	Short Film
2015	Rise up	Suicidal Guy	Short Film
2016	Kuttrame Thandanai	Arun
2016	Kanithan	Un­known
2017	Vaigai Express	Prakash

Television

Year	Program	Channel	Role	language	Notes[10]
2015–2017	Pranayam	Asianet	Sharan G. Menon	Malayalam	Debut Serial
2015–2017	Vamsam	Sun TV	Raj	Tamil	Supporting Role
2017–2018	Comedy Stars	Asianet	Himself	Malayalam	Guest
2017 – 2018	Ammuvinte Amma	Mazhavil Manorama	Manoj	Malayalam
2018	Naticharami	Gemini TV	Anand	Telugu
2018	Bigg Boss (Malayalam season 1)	Asianet	Contestant	Malayalam	Reality show
2018–2019	Pearlish	YouTube	Himself	Malayalam	Web series; Season 1&2
2019- present	Pearle Maaney Show	YouTube	Himself	Malayalam	Web series
2019–2021	Sathya Enna Penkutty	Zee Keralam	Sudheep Chandran	Malayalam	[11]
2020	Plastic & Elastic	YouTube	Kambarkatt	Malayalam	Web series
2020	Avastha	YouTube	Surya	Malayalam	Web series
2020	Funny Nights with Pearle Maaney	Zee Keralam	Himself	Malayalam	Guest
2020	Chellakuttiye	YouTube	Surya	Malayalam Tamil	Music album
2020	Chembarathi	Zee Keralam	Sudhi	Malayalam	Guest appearance
2021	Srimanthudu	ETV	Akhil	Telugu
2021	Poove Unakkaga	Sun TV	Karthick Subramanian	Tamil	Main lead role
2023	The delay	YouTube	Angry man	Malayalam	Short film