Roshan Basheer

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Roshan Basheer
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Born(1991-06-28)June 28, 1991
OccupationActor
Years active2010–present
Spouse
Furzana Anub
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(m. 2020)​
[1]
Children1

Roshan Basheer (born 28 June 1991) is an Indian actor, [2] who appears in Malayalam, Telugu, and Tamil language films. He is best known for his role as Varun Prabhakar in the 2013 drama-thriller film Drishyam .

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Career

Roshan made his acting debut by playing one of the lead roles in the Malayalam coming-of-age film, Plus Two (2010). [3] Later, he did films such as Banking Hours (2012), [4] Tourist Home (2013) [5] and Red Wine (2013). [6] Roshan Basheer then portrayed the pivotal villainous character in Jeethu Joseph's successful Drishyam (2013), [7] [8] before being selected to reprise his role in the film's Telugu version Drushyam (2014) [9] and then the Tamil version, Papanasam (2015) featuring Kamal Haasan. [10] [11]

Post the success of both films, Roshan Basheer appeared in further lead role in films including Kubera Rashi [12] [13] and Moondru Rasigargal. He is still pursuing mobies in the Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam movie industries. [14]

Filmography

YearFilmRoleLanguageNotes
2010 Plus Two PrinceMalayalam [3]
2011 Innanu Aa Kalyanam KunjumonMalayalam [15]
2012 Banking Hours Malayalam[ citation needed ]
2013 Tourist Home SajanMalayalam [5]
Red Wine AlfyMalayalam [8]
Drishyam Varun PrabhakarMalayalam [7]
2014 Drushyam Varun PrabhakarTeluguRemake of Drishyam [9]
2015 Papanasam Varun PrabhakarTamilRemake of Drishyam [10] [11]
Columbus VamshiTelugu[ citation needed ]
Kubera RashiMuruganTamil [12] [13]
2017 Bairavaa CharanTamil [16]
Moondru RasigargalTamil[ citation needed ]
2020 Dirty Hari AkashTelugu [17]
2021KamithamMalayalamMusic album[ citation needed ]
KannadiMalayalam[ citation needed ]
Vincent and the popeVincentMalayalam[ citation needed ]
2022FourMalayalam [18]
2023 Malli Pelli young PhaneendraTelugu
Saandrithazh Tamil
2024RakshanaTelugu [19]
7/G RajivTamil [20]
TBARachelNicholasMalayalamPost-production [21]

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