Asif Ali

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Sarat Varma (Nishan) returns to India after a 3-year stint in the US to reunite with his childhood friends Varsha John (Rima Kallingal) & Sunny Immatty (Asif Ali) & together they join a start-up IT company. Sarat still reminisced their adolescent dreams & wanted to follow through with them, but gradually realizes that his friends have changed over the years, like seasons change & no longer cherished the same memories he did.
Vidyalakshmi (Mamtha Mohandas), a Hindu, marries a Muslim, Shanavas Ahmed (Asif Ali), against the wishes of both families & start a family. However, when Shanavas is killed in a mishap, Vidyalakshmi has to struggle to make ends meet & finally ends up on the streets. Preman (Jayaram), an auto rickshaw driver comes to Vidyalakshmi's aid & take her & her daughter to his colony. With the help & encouragement of Preman & the colony dwellers, Vidyalakshmi gets a second chance at life.
When Roopesh (Nishan) falls hard for his collegemate Nancy (Nithya Menon), his best friend Tommy (Asif Ali) helps him out & brings the two together. However, when Nancy's millionaire dad Philipose Melipra arranges her marriage with someone else, Tommy coaxes them to get married without daddy's consent. However, after the marriage, Nancy learns to her utter dismay that Roopesh & Tommy are not the poor souls she thought them to be.
A traffic accident strings together the life of a group of people from differing backgrounds. In Kochi, rookie journalist Reihan (Vineeth Sreenivasan), on the deathbed after an accident, is taken off life support to remove his heart, to be rushed to Palakkad to be transplanted into the body of movie star Siddarth's sick daughter (Namitha Pramod). With 150 kms to cover in 2 hours with crowded roads & towns along the way, the arduous task is taken up by disgraced traffic cop Sudevan (Sreenivasan).
Middle aged Kalidasan (Lal), an archaeologist & a foodie, lives a bachelor life with his companion & cook Babu (Baburaj). His nephew Manu Raghav (Asif Ali) comes to his place in search of a job. Kalidasan's boring life gets a new twist when a wrong call from Maya (Shweta Menon), a spinster, develops into a deep bond. However, when it was time for a meeting, Kalidasan & Maya both develop cold feet. Kalidasan sends Manu, pretending to be him & Maya sends her much younger pal Meenakshi (Mythili).
Angel (Nithya Menon) lives with her two unmarried aunts Annie (Lakshmi Ramakrishnan) & Mercy (Reena Bashir) in Fort Kochi, in a house called "Rosevilla", shielding themselves from the world around, as they find that men are treacherous. Abey (Asif Ali), a young man, arrives in the city in search of a job, & becomes a tenant in the outbuilding of "Rosevilla". After some initial spats, Abey & Angel fall in love, but circumstances become the villain in their lives.
7 young men - Shyam (Kunchako Boban), Sooraj (Asif Ali), Arun (Aju Varghese), Shaukath (Nivin Pauly), Sarath (Ranjith Menon), Linto (Ameer Niyas), & Satheesh (Vijeesh Vijayan) - crazy about soccer, gets drawn into a world of crime after they get strapped for cash to save the life of a young man, Aravind (Vineeth Kumar) whom they injured in a soccer match. Blamed for a murder they didn't commit, they get arrested by the cops, with the goons of a crime boss also after them.
Three friends - Vinod Kumar (Asif Ali), Santosh George (Nishan) & Kochumon (Abhishek Raveendran) - go through a lot of personal sacrifices to unite their friend Mahesh (Vineeth Kumar) & his lover Aishwarya (Amala Paul), but after learning that the couple separated just after a few days of fun & frolic, they decide to take their anger out by killing them.
In the cutthroat real estate market of Kozhikode, two small-time brokers & pals, Jayaprakash aka J.P. (Prithviraj) & C. Hameed aka C.H. (Tini Tom), battle it out with the big fish. In a bid to close a real estate deal, make a fortune overnight & to win his lady love Beena (Rima Kallingal), J.P. tries to raise Rs. 1 crore at short notice, for which he resorts to counterfeit money. Giving sage advice to him was Achutha Menon (Thilakan), a derelict old man whom J.P. had taken under his wing.
Eravi Kuttan Pillai (Kunchako Boban) gets a job as a bus conductor on a daily service bus to the remote village of Gavi. Staying there overnight everyday, Eravi forms a bond with the villagers & with his bus driver Suku (Biju Menon). But Eravi's irenic life is derailed when he drives the bus once & mistakenly hits a passerby who turns out to be Devan (Hemanth Menon), the son of villager Venu (Lalu Alex). Eravi & Suku send Devan off to the hospital with a stranger, but later Devan is found dead.
5 friends, ex-gangster Kalappurackal Sunny (Lal), failed gambler Murugan (Nedumudi Venu), hotelier Tomy (Prashant Narayanan), club singer Aloshy (Asif Ali) & smuggler Basheer, pool in 50 lakhs each towards a drug deal to make a combined profit of at least 2.5 crores, but everything goes awry when one of them decides to double-cross the rest & get away with all of the money. The failure to recognize the traitor in their midst starts to cost each of them their life.
Mobsters Ayyappan (Kalabhavan Mani) & Fakir (Vinayakan) come in search of their childhood pal & ex-mobster Tony (Asif Ali), who was now living with his wife (Nithya Menon) & kid, to take him back to their boss Prakash Kamath (John Vijay), whom Tony & their 2 other pals - Geevarghese (Indrajith) & Benny (Rahman) - had tried to kill. However, they find Geevarghese & Benny there, holding them off. Tony convinces them all to pull off a final job to secure his family's future before going to Kamath.
Two young couples, Surya (Kailash) & Neethu (Archana Kavi), & Manu (Asif Ali) & Dia (Rima Kallingal), who were also best pals, try to make it big by making a movie by directing & producing it. The only problem? Cash. Although Surya was the love child of the late multimillionaire Vinayaka Naicker (Prabhu), Naicker's elder son Vinayakan (Prabhu) had a tight grip on Surya's purse strings. The foursome dream up a scheme to finagle money from Vinayakan by pretending that Surya & Neethu got married.
Husbands in Goa is a story of three friends - Jerry Thomas (Advocate), Murali Govind (Chartered Accountant) and Arjun (Interior Designer). The three of them are faced with a common dilemma, as they are all harassed by certain behavioral traits of their wives. To get away from them, the three friends plan a pleasure trip to Goa. On their journey to Goa they meet Sunny who they befriend but fail to realize the trouble that he attracts due to his usual drunkenness.
'Ozhimuri', based on the book 'Uravidangal', is about the transition from a matrilineal system that prevailed in the Nair community in the old southern Travancore to a patrilineal one. By the end of this system, in the 1940s, women lost their power & became slaves in a male-dominated society. The movie lays open the ego clashes & complexities of a period through the eyes of its lead character Thanupillai (Lal), who witnesses the lives of 3 women - his mother, wife & son's girlfriend.
Gopikrishnan (Mammootty), a guard at the Vellimala dam, claims to be a war veteran, but is the subject of ridicule in Vellimala because of him being scared of night shifts & because of his claims of seeing ghosts. Varghese (Sreenivasan), the incorruptible new dam engineer stumbles onto a plot by the high & powerful to cast the dam as unsafe thereby evacuating the surrounding village so that they could illegally mine the sand from the dam. Then Varghese goes missing & Gopi swears to find him.
Ram Mohan (Anoop Menon), a high profile businessman based in Bangkok, brings two criminals - Xavi (Unni Mukundan) & Prem (Asif Ali) - from Kochi to Bangkok to kill a person, so that he can save his sinking business empire. The situation gets complicated when Samantha (Isha Talwar), Ram's assistant & with whom Xavi & Prem bonded, reveals that she too has been forced by Ram into an agreement to kill someone.
ACP Ratheesh Vasudevan (Mohanlal) investigates the murder of young social worker & political activist Anoop (Fahadh Faasil), & uncovers the tentacles of a private bank behind it.
Chacko (Asif Ali) & Hari (Aju Varghese), two Bangalore-based ad professionals, get fed up with their boss Radhika (Sandra Thomas) & her tantrums, decide to take a break & head to Goa, where Chacko meets a foreigner, Rachel (Sabreen Baker). After coming back to Bangalore, they realize that Rachel's bag was left in their car by mistake. The bag contained cocaine & after some initial tries to get rid of the bag fails, they decide to sell it. Meanwhile, the bag's real owners were looking for them.
Two childhood friends Sebastian (Asif Ali) & Angel (Bhavana) suddenly discover their love for each other on the eve of Angel's arranged marriage, & they elope together with the help of 3 friends - Ferno (Baburaj), Abu (Sreenath Bhasi) & Ambrose (Balu Varghese). This enrages Angel's elder brothers, the local dons - Michael (Lal), Collin (Suresh Krishna), Antony (Hasim) & Martin (Amith Chakalakkal). They chase Sebastian, Angel & friends around Kochi as they try to get out of town.
A portmanteau movie comprising of 3 shorts. In 'Oru Bolivian Diary 1995', Chinnan (Asif Ali), an aborigine, protects a communist revolutionary, Chaukidaar (Samuthirakani), from the cops at the risk of his own life. In 'Gangs of Vadakkumnathan', a shrewd Bangalore-based cop comes to Trichur to find the killer of a beer magnate & his 750 crores of missing illegal money. In 'Day of Judgement', the cops play mind games with Dr. Sunil Mathew (Fahad Fazil) to make him confess to his wife's murder.
Kunchacko (Asif Ali), who grew up stealing bicycles along with his friends Ramesh (Saiju Kurup) & Rahim (Bineesh Kodiyeri) & mentor Bose Prakash (Salim Kumar), falls out with them after a heist goes wrong & Ramesh runs off with 3 crores. 5 years later, Kunchacko is in another city working as a driver for lawyer Kasinath (Vijay Nath) & running con jobs in his spare time. He meets bank employee Meera (Aparna Gopinath) & weaves plans to rob the bank where Meera works.
Aadhi (Asif Ali), a freewheeling youngster, is forced to chauffeur a enigmatic stranger, George Koshy Anthraper (Biju Menon), across state lines to various places, in return for cash to help save his friend Rafeeq (Vishnu Raghav), who was hospitalized after a fall. At Madurai, Koshy reveals his true intentions - to save Kani (Malavika Nair), a young girl forced into prostitution & to kill Stephen (Hasim), a serial rapist & sex trafficker based in Madurai, who had raped & killed his daughter.
Puthenpurakkal Alex Kurian (Asif Ali), a rich spoiled brat, ends up in jail for counterfeiting, but breaks out of prison with Akbar Ali (Sunny Wayne), a young man from Lakshadweep. Given an offer to not press charges & an early release by Alex's uncle & jailor Mathew (Joju George), provided Alex & Akbar were to return to prison by next day 7 PM, Alex chases Akbar down to Lakshadweep to bring him back. There, Alex learns of Akbar's love story with Isa (Swati Reddy) & the reason he went to prison.
A rich girl (Sanusha) hires Beeran (Vijayaraghavan), whom she thinks is a contract killer, to murder herself & thus implicate her two-timing boyfriend for it. Beeran, who was a novice, gives the contract to Freddy (Baburaj), a juice stall owner, who owes Beeran money. As the girl waits for the killer to come, a thief (Asif Ali) breaks into her apartment. A series of incidents start between Freddy, the thief & the rich girl.
7 prison inmates - Shabab (Asif Ali), Noble (Nedumudi Venu), Salaam (Salaam Bukhari), Narayankutty (Neeraj Madhav), Marty (Vinod Chemban), Vasu (Sudheer Karamana) & Krishnanunni (Prithviraj) - plot to rob the illicit wealth accumulated by Municipal Councillor Payas (Joy Mathew) & his brothers (Mukundan & Irshad), as revenge for Payas bankrupting & jailing Noble, & for causing the death of Krishnanunni's wife Sarah (Reenu Mathews) & his unborn child.
Mamachan (Biju Menon),a small-town politician, uses his ingenuity & shrewdness to get the girl of his dreams, Lisa (Nikki Galrani), & win an election to become the M.L.A.
A good-hearted doctor, Vijay Nambiar (Suresh Gopi), a practicing physician at the Apothecary Hospital, is forced to go along with the hospital management in the unscrupulous practices of the hospital, including submitting patients to an experimental drug with disastrous side-effects.
The happiness of the Parankiyath family is shattered when Kasim's (Siddique) eldest daughter Wahida (Kanika) elopes with her lover Madhavankutty (Jayaram), before her wedding. In the resulting clash, Kasim kills his best pal's son Ramesh (Irshad) & goes to jail for 7 years. Once out of jail, Kasim is paralyzed in a murder attempt & Madhavankutty comes disguised as Dr. Mammootty to treat Kasim. Wahida also returns to the house, but no one knows of their relation & they are forced to play along.
Interwoven stories of a few individuals & their relationships - a middle-aged painter (Sreenivasan) who loves the dance teacher (Muktha George) next door, a personal trainer (Tovino Thomas) who is a playboy, the meek village-raised guy who feels like a loser (Sudhi Koppa), the music studio owner (Asif Ali) who has an extramarital affair with a wannabe singer (Honey Rose), & Vicky (Anu Mohan), who gets dumped by his live-in girlfriend Tina (Delna Davis) for a better guy.
Ajay (Asif Ali) drops out of the National Defense Academy & decides to visit his estranged father, lawyer Sidharth Shankar (Prem Prakash), who was weakened after getting cancer. There, Ajay joins his father's fight - to obtain justice for Venukuttan Nair (Nedumudi Venu), a retired grandfather who was unable to get his grandchild Arya (Sanusha) to the hospital after an accident, because of the political rally of a major political party snarling up the traffic.
Haider (Indrajith) recruits a couple of petty thieves - Nicholas (Vinod Chemban) & Freddy (Vinay Forrt) - to rob a clothing store called 'Kohinoor Textiles', which was used as a front for diamond smuggling by stitching diamonds onto dresses, which were then shipped overseas. Freddy in turn sub-contracts the task of opening the store's safe, to Andikunju (Aju Varghese), a seasoned lock-picker. Andikunju meanwhile colludes with his childhood pal Louis (Asif Ali) to steal the diamonds.
3 friends - Amar (Prithviraj), Akbar (Jayasurya) & Anthony (Indrajith) - from poor families living in Fort Kochi, go about their daily lives goofing off, getting drunk & chasing girls, especially the neighborhood girl Jenny (Namitha Pramod). However, their lives take a serious turn when a young girl known to them, Pathumma (Meenakshi), goes missing & later turns up dead after being sexually molested.
Wrecked (2016) - TV Series
After a plane crashes on a remote island, two best friends, and a diverse group of survivors cope with dangerous threats (many of which they cause). The two best friends, Danny and Owen, have a chance to redeem their mediocre lives by becoming leaders of this new society. (imdb)
Raghu (Biju Menon), a married middle-aged cop, still pines for his childhood flame Anuradha, & is gruff towards his son Abhi (Asif Ali) & wife Suma (Asha Sharath). Abhi meanwhile, dumps his girlfriend Elizabeth aka Eli (Rajisha Vijayan), but watches with jealousy as his friend dates Eli. Raghu then starts talking to Eli on the phone mistaking her for Anuradha, but the relationship softens Raghu's behavior at home. Finally, on the day of Eli's wedding, Abhi decides he wants her back.
In 2014, a group of Malayali nurses was captured when terrorists took over the city of Tikrit in Iraq. This movie recounts the ordeal suffered by the nurses following their capture. (imdb)
In the village of Allimoola, Kavalam Jimmy (Asif Ali) & Vattathil Bosco (Narain) are rivals who & their circle of friends often try to one-up each other. Their rivalry comes to head when they challenge each other for a volleyball tournament. With the stakes high with Jimmy & Bosco both staking their love lives on the game, the rich Bosco ropes in Minnal Simon (Biju Menon), a small-time coach to pretend to be Jimmy's team's coach, but in reality, Simon's mission was to ensure their defeat.
Omanakuttan (Asif Ali), the customer service rep of a fraudulent hair-oil company, falls victim to a robbery, gets hit on the head & loses his memory, including his own name. He befriends Pallavi (Bhavana), a young girl trying to trick her rich family into paying for her higher studies in Spain by telling them that she is married. Omanakuttan seeks Pallavi's help in finding out his identity, while Pallavi seeks his help to pretend he is her husband.
A college lecturer, Unni Mukundan (Sreenivasan), finally gets a chance to pitch his movie idea to a successful film director, David Paul (Lal Jose) who is hospitalized and bored.
Ani, searching for his cousin Hari who disappeared seven years ago, ends up in Punjab where he confronts with Hareendar Singh, a.k.a Mallu Singh. Admist comical situations, Ani tries to prove Mallu Singh is Hari himself. (imdb)
The lives of three men sharing the same name 'Shaji' intertwine, leading to a series of hilarious incidents. (imdb)
A real life account of the deadly Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, and the courageous fight put on by several individuals which helped to contain the epidemic. (imdb)
An aspiring pilot fights for her future and justice after surviving an acid attack from her abusive boyfriend.
The film narrates the events that occur when a unit of policemen from Kerala reach the Naxalite prone areas in North India for election duty. (imdb)
Sleevachan is a farmer and the breadwinner of his family. After getting his sisters married, he decides to marry and accepts the first proposal that comes his way. As the wedding approaches, Sleevachan gets worried about how his married life will go as he lacks the ability to relate to women who are not his mother or sisters. How Sleevachan copes with the situation forms the rest of the story. (amazon.com)
WandaVision (2021) - TV Mini-Series
- Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience (2021)
- Don't Touch That Dial (2021)
- The Series Finale (2021)
As if their pre-arranged date, organized by their traditional Indian parents, wasn't uncomfortable enough, Ravi and Rita are forced to shelter in place together as COVID-19's reach intensifies.
A young engineering student dreams of becoming a chef, much to the dismay of his family. (imdb)
A 1950s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding disturbing secrets. (imdb)
Focuses on time travel, fantasy and court proceedings intertwined with emotional and funny moments. (imdb)
The Movie is about Luke Anthony who has a mysterious past and is out on a mission to seek revenge from someone who has destroyed him deeply
In order to lighten up her uptight family, the free-spirited daughter of a conservative politician brings weed-infused salad dressing to their Christmas Eve dinner. Chaos ensues when everyone gets unknowingly high, revealing the family's innermost secrets.
Two best friends who break up with their girlfriends at the same time, subsequently deciding to move in with each other.
The story takes place in a hilly village on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border. The story is about a strict police officer who relocates there and the subsequent events that turn his and many others' lives upside down associated with that police station. The film gears up to a gripping thriller as the secrets slowly start unfolding. (Amazon.com)
Real-life adaptation of the jewellery robbery that occurred in Kasargod. The case took a 5 member team from the Kerala Police to a dreaded village in Uttar Pradesh where they risked their lives to nab the culprits. (imdb)
In the dark underbelly of Thiruvananthapuram, rival goons clash in cold-blooded gang wars to gain dominion over the city's suburbs and slums.
A disaster film set during the 2018 Kerala Floods where people from all walks of life faced catastrophic consequences and put in collective efforts to survive the calamity. (imdb)
It takes you on a roller coaster ride of events that happen in Ranjith's life and how it affects the people around him, forcing him to resolve the matter before he looses control. (imdb)
Verified Stand-Up (2023) - TV Series
Ten comics. Ten sets. Two episodes. Discover new stand-up acts as top performers take the stage at Webster Hall in New York City. (netflix)
A man with financial troubles finds himself on a boozy road trip with a wealthy stranger.
Deli Boys (2025) - TV Series
A pair of pampered Pakistani-American brothers lose everything when their convenience store magnate father suddenly dies. They are forced to reckon with their Baba's secret life of crime. (imdb)