Rajesh Touchriver

Some Lesser Known Facts About Rajesh Touchriver

• Does Rajesh Touchriver drink alcohol?: Yes

  

• Rajesh Touchriver is a National award-winning film director. He has won several awards at the state, national, and international levels for his feature films, documentaries, and short films.

• He was trained in Kathakali the classical dance-drama of Kerala from veteran Kathakali dancer ‘M R Sreedharan Nair,’ his paternal uncle. He also got trained in Kalaripayattu (martial art form).

• When a reporter asked about his unique surname he said-

It was because of the distributors that I changed my name. If I were a known director in India, the problem would not have arisen. This is my first film and it is a British production. Distributors are not very interested in a British film directed by an unknown Asian. So, they asked me to change my surname to something that is easier to pronounce! Finally, it was the producer who came with Touchriver, the English translation of Thodupuzha (a place in Kerala)!” ^[2]Rediff

• In 1995, he worked with the National School of Drama, New Delhi. By the year 1998, he had directed more than 30 Malayalam, Telugu, and English plays.

• He got a scholarship from Charles Wallace India Trust to study in London, and he moved to the west to learn more about film direction.

• He has directed many feature films some of which includes- 10-The Strangers (2005), Alex-The Blue Fox (2005), Naa Bangaaru Talli (2013), and Patnagarh (2019).

• He has also directed short films, documentaries, music videos, and TV commercials, based on social issues prevailing in the society.

• He has directed a few documentaries for his wife Sunitha Krishnan‘s non-profit organisation ‘Prajwala.’ The couple appeared on the Karmaveer episode (18 October 2019) of Kaun Banega Crorepati 11 (2019).