Actor

Gautham Vasudev Menon

Directing

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Large and steady acting portfolio.

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1.6

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Movies: 78Series: 6Crew credits: 38

TMDB ID: 120953

IMDb ID: nm1069826

Known for: Directing

Born: February 25, 1973

Age: 53

Place of birth: Ottapalam, Kerala, India

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1997 - 2026

Years active: 30

Average TMDB rating: 6.87

Wikidata: Q3536381

Also known as

Gautham Vasudev Menon • GVM • Gautham Menon • Gowtham Vasudev Menon • Gawtham Vasudev Menon • Gautam Menon • Goutham Vasudev Menon

Other jobs

Director (26)Producer (4)Playback Singer (3)Original Story (2)Co-Producer (1)Thanks (1)Writer (1)

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Biography

Gautham Menon was a student of mechanical engineering at Mookambigai College of Engineering and graduated in the batch of 1993, and his time there inspired him to make his lead characters of Minnale and Vaaranam Aayiram, students of the same course. He claims to have been inspired by films such as Dead Poet's Society and Nayagan and expressed his desire to his parents to change career path and become a filmmaker and consequently wrote his first film at his college hostel. His mother insisted he became an ad film maker by shooting various commercials and took an apprenticeship under filmmaker Rajiv Menon. He went on to work as an assistant director for Minsaara Kanavu in 1997, in which he also appeared in a cameo role.