Saiju Kurup

Some Lesser Known Facts About Saiju Kurup

• Saiju Kurup was raised by his parents in a middle-class South-Indian family.

  

• Saiju Kurup moved to Nagpur for his higher education.

• In 1989, Saiju Kurup got a television at his home but before that, he and his sister would collect and save money to rent a videocassette recorder and go watch Malayalam films at a family friend’s house who had a television.

• Before entering the South-Indian film industry, Saiju Kurup used to work at Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance Company Limited and he also worked as a sales official at the Telecom company Airtel.

• When Saiju Kurup was working as a sales official with Airtel company, that is when he met singer MG Sreekumar for some official work. When Sreekumar asked Saiju whether he would like to act, Saiju said yes and that’s how he entered the film industry.

• Initially, Saiju Kurup was not passionate about acting but as and when he moved forward with it, he started finding deeper interest in the same.

• In 2006, Saiju Kurup was cast in the Malayalam action thriller film titled ‘Baba Kalyani’ in which he played the character of the terrorist Tahir Mohammad.

• In 2012, he was cast in the Tamil romantic film titled ‘Marupadiyum Oru Kadhal’ in which he played the character of Jeeva.

  

• In 2013, he was cast in the Malayalam political drama film titled ‘Left Right Left.’

• In the same year, Saiju played the dual role of Tarun Singh Deol and Rafeeq Kunjahammed in the Malayalam comedy caper film titled ‘Hotel California.’

  

• In 2014, Saiju Kurup lent his voice to the character of Rajan Pillai in the Malayalam drama thriller film titled ‘@Andheri.’

• In the same year, he lent his voice to the character of Nikhil Adharva in the Malayalam heist action thriller film titled ‘Mr. Fraud.’

• In 2015, Saiju Kurup was cast in the Malayalam comedy short film titled ‘Night Muller’ in which he played the character of the Husband.

  

• In 2016, he was cast in the Malayalam drama TV series titled ‘6 Piece Pizza’ which was telecast on the Asianet TV channel.

  

• In 2020, he was cast in the short film titled ‘Kaazhchakkappuram’ which was a Kerala Police Awareness film in which he played the character of Circle Inspector.

• He was inspired by Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in the Hindi web series titled ‘Sacred Games’ and that is how he decided to try his hand at web series.

• In 2021, Saiju Kurup was cast in the Malayalam TV soap opera titled ‘Swantham Sujatha’ in which he played the character of himself.

• In 2023, he was cast in the Tamil thriller film titled ‘Aval Peyar Rajni.’

  

• In the same year, Saiju Kurup founded his film production company named ‘Saiju Kurup Entertainments’ with its headquarters in Ernakulam, Kerala.

• In 2024, he produced and was cast in the Malayalam comedy-drama film titled ‘Bharathanatyam.’

  

• In the same year, Saiju Kurup was cast in the Malayalam drama television series titled ‘Jai Mahendran’ in which he played the character of Deputy Tahasildar Mahendran. The web series was telecast on SonyLIV and it was SonyLIV’s first Malayalam web series.

  

• According to Saiju Kurup, he has watched his web series titled ‘Jai Mahendran’ more than 50 times.

• Initially, he had to struggle with the Malayalam dialect and vocabulary because he spent most of his growing years in Nagpur.

• Saiju Kurup considers actors like Mohanlal, Mammootty, Shah Rukh Khan, and Mithun Chakraborty his biggest inspirations in the field of acting.

• Saiju Kurup has been cast in many Malayalam films and some of them are ‘Valleem Thetti Pulleem Thetti’ (2016), ‘1971: Beyond Borders’ (2017), ‘Kodathi Samaksham Balan Vakeel’ (2019), ‘Upacharapoorvam Gunda Jayan’ (2022), and ‘Pallotty 90’s Kids’ (2024).

  

• Saiju Kurup has been part of many Tamil films and some of them include ‘Siddhu +2’ (2010), ‘Aadhi Bhagavan’ (2013), and ‘Thani Oruvan’ (2015).

• He has been part of many Malayalam short films and some of them include ‘Purakathumbol’ (2016), ‘Invisible Actor’ (2017), and ‘Sunnath Kalyanam’ (2018).