Mohan Raj

Some Lesser Known About Mohan Raj

• Mohan Raj was a national-level athlete who was interested in sports from a very young age.

• He started his career at age 20 in the Indian Army which he left after five years when he suffered a leg injury.

• As part of his military service, he was trained in martial arts, such as kung fu, karate, and boxing.

• Though he came second in the Kerala state sub-inspector selection examination and passed several other competitive examinations, he chose to work with the customs department.

• After working in the customs department for two years, he joined the Enforcement Directorate (ED) as an Assistant Enforcement Officer (AEO).

• In 1989, he appeared as Keerikkadan Jose, a negative character in the Malayalam film Kireedam. The role was a milestone in his acting career.

• He was suspended from government service for not obtaining official permission to act in the film Kireedam. He then entered a legal battle that lasted over twenty years. He was reinstated in the service in 2010 but opted for a voluntary retirement in 2015.

• Some of the other Malayalam films he appeared in were as a police inspector in Aye Auto (1990), Uppukandam Paulachan in UppukandamBrothers (1993), Keerikkadan Jose in Chenkol (1993), Chandan Bhai in Pathram (1999), and driver Jose in Chirakodinja Kinavukal (2015).

  

• He acted in over 300 films including Tamil films such as Kalingarayan in Ezhumalai (2002) and Telugu films such as Gajendra in Adhipathi (2001).

• He played negative roles in two Japanese language films.

• After 2015, he rarely acted as he suffered from some ailments such as pain due to varicose veins in his legs.

• He returned to Thiruvananthapuram in 2023 for further treatments for Parkinson’s disease and passed away at his residence on 3 October 2024.