A. K. Sajan

A. K. Sajan is a successful writer turned director in the Malayalam Film Circuit. He is one of those directors who work portraying maximum realistic aspects in their movies. He entered the film industry as a story writer for some flicks in and around 1980's. After a very brief period, he made it to the mainstream film industry. For his very first work, he got an extremely positive feedback.

He started working on an idea in 1990. It came out as the movie ‘Dhruvam’ in 1993. A. K. Sajan worked as the story writer, dialogue writer and gave the screenplay for this movie. This movie was a blockbuster, one of the highest grossing movies and was acclaimed one of the best movies of 1993. Mammootty played the lead role in the film.

In the same year, he wrote the romantic comedy ‘Butterflies’. It was directed by Rajiv Anchal and starred Mohan Lal, Jagadish and Aishwarya in the lead roles. This movie also turned out to be a reasonable hit. In 1994, his next project ‘Kashmeeram’ got major accolades. This film turned the actor Suresh Gopi, into a star and helped him earn great fame in the film industry.

Though he became a director, he worked as a writer for some very successful movies. The duo Suresh Gopi and A. K. Sajan, went on to work together, in notable films like ‘Crime File’ in 1997, ‘Nadiya Kollappetta Rathri’ in 2007 etc.

A. K. Sajan entered the directorial sphere in 2002 with his movie ‘Stop Violence’. This film starred Pruthvi Raj Sukumaran, Vijaya Raghavan. This film is always noted for the courageous scenes that portrayed the underworld atmosphere and activities. In yet another movie ‘Lanka’, which released in 2006, he portrayed the fight going on in Sri Lanka with LTTE, and therefore he garnered accolades from the political sphere too. He also tried to display some psychological problem the protagonist suffers.

The 2011 release ‘Asuravithu’ is often termed as the sequel for his 2002 movie ‘Stop Violence’. This film includes comic elements with a serious plot line. The drawback for this movie was that A.K. Sajan did a fruitful job by creating some dynamic characters with Asif Ali and Samvritha Sunil, but couldn't make it a serious film. Though he penned some touching dialogues and wanted it to be a decent movie, people watched it as a comedy thriller. Nevertheless, the message managed to reach the audience well.

Later, as he mentioned in an interview to a private news channel, he felt a bit nervous about taking the script of his next project, Puthiya Niyamam Click to look into! >> Read More... to Mammootty. But the story impressed Mammootty, and he fixed the dates soon. Nayanatara is the heroine for the movie. The movie released in Feburary of 2016 and was well received by the audience.