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Roshan Basheer Durantham | |
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| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2010–present |
Roshan Basheer is an Indian actor, who appears in Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil language films.He is best known for his role as Varun Prabhakar in the 2013 drama-thriller film Drishyam .
Roshan made his acting debut by playing one of the lead roles in the Malayalam coming-of-age film, Plus Two (2010). [1] The relative commercial failure of the film saw Roshan play supporting roles in the coming years, including appearances in Banking Hours (2012),[ citation needed ] Tourist Home (2013) [2] and Red Wine (2013). Roshan Basheer then portrayed the pivotal villainous character in Jeethu Joseph's successful Drishyam (2013), [3] [4] before being selected to reprise his role in the film's Telugu version Drushyam (2014) [5] and then the Tamil version, Papanasam (2015) featuring Kamal Haasan. [6] [7]
Post the success of both film, Roshan Basheer appeared in further lead role in small-budget films including Kubera Rashi [8] [9] and Moondru Rasigargal.[ citation needed ]
| Year | Film | Role | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Plus Two | Prince | Malayalam | [1] |
| 2011 | Innanu Aa Kalyanam | Kunjumon | Malayalam | [10] |
| 2012 | Banking Hours | Malayalam | [ citation needed ] | |
| 2013 | Tourist Home | Sajan | Malayalam | [2] |
| Red Wine | Alfy | Malayalam | [4] | |
| Drishyam | Varun Prabhakar | Malayalam | [3] | |
| 2014 | Drushyam | Varun Prabhakar | Telugu | Remake of Drishyam [5] |
| 2015 | Papanasam | Varun Prabhakar | Tamil | Remake of Drishyam [6] [7] |
| Columbus | Vamshi | Telugu | [ citation needed ] | |
| Kubera Rashi | Murugan | Tamil | [8] [9] | |
| 2017 | Bairavaa | Charan | Tamil | [11] |
| Moondru Rasigargal | Tamil | [ citation needed ] | ||
| 2020 | Dirty Hari | Akash | Telugu | [12] |
| 2021 | Kamitham | Malayalam | Music album[ citation needed ] | |
| Vincent and the pope | Vincent | Malayalam | Post Production[ citation needed ] | |
| 2022 | Kannadi | Malayalam | [ citation needed ] | |
| 2023 | Malli Pelli | young Phaneendra | Telugu | |
| Saandrithazh | Tamil |
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