Jishnu Raghavan

Jishnu was the son of Malayalam film Actor and Director Raghavan and Shobha. He has a sister named Jyolsana. He did his schooling in Chennai and later on Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Trivandrum and had a BTECH Mechanical engineering degree from National Institute of Technology in Kozhikode.

He was married to Dhanya Rajan, an Architect who was a junior of Jishnu in their NIT Days.

Jishnu Raghavan had a promising career, first appearing as a child artist in the movie Kilippattu in 1987.[3] Then, he made his film debut in a leading role along with Sidharth in the movie Nammal directed by Kamal in 2002.[4][5] His performance in the film earned him Mathrubhumi Award and Kerala Film Critics Award for the Best Male Debut. He followed it with leading roles in Choonda, Freedom, Parayam and supporting part in Nerariyan CBI, Pauran and negative role in Chakkara Muthu.

Following through with some unnoticed movies, he took a break from the film industry to work for developing Information Technology in the rural areas. Then he returned to film with the film Ordinary[1] following which he did Nidra, Ustad Hotel, Banking Hours 10 to 4. Then, again he did lead roles in Annum Innum Ennum and Rebecca Uthup Kizhakkemala.[6]

He also did Theatre Experiments of actor studios in Mumbai. He made his Bollywood debut in Traffic which was released in 2016 and it marks his last film. He also acted in short films notably Karma Games along with Aadarsh Balakrishna which was shot in 2013 and released in 2017 and it marks his debut Direction and Cinematography.

At the same year, He signed for his Upcoming movies Misfit along with Sidhartha Siva and Iphone along with Vineeth and Indian Coffee House but these movies were not released in theaters. Also, he signed for the film Veerappa but at that time he was diagnosed with cancer in 2014.

Before his treatment continuation he completed his Tamil debut movie Kallappadam successfully along with Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli which was released in 2015 and it received positive reviews.

He made his Bollywood debut in Traffic which was released in 2016 and it marks his last film. He also acted in short films, notably Karma Games along with Aadarsh Balakrishna, which was shot in 2013 and released in 2017. It marks his debut Direction and Cinematography. Aadarsh Balakrishna had expressed his tribute to Jishnu by releasing this short film. Finally, Jishnu had acted in 21 films by 11 years of experience.

Jishnu is also responsible for developing IT in rural India through education and creating business opportunities there. Could establish 3100 Cyber Centers across India and had the wonderful opportunity to work in almost all the states of the country.

He is also a Member of Rotoract Club in Trivandrum till Jan 1994 - Aug 2001. He is founder member of JJMAN on Mar 2003 it is like a Social Services was started by a group of five film personalities to help and support various social service organisations across Kerala.

Jishnu was diagnosed with throat and lung cancer in 2014 and believed that he has been completely cured of it. But his cancer returned in 2015.

He was undergoing treatment with alternative medicines with herbs such as Lakshmitharu and Mullatha, but his condition worsened. He died at the age of 36 after a prolonged battle with cancer on Friday morning at 8.15 AM at Amrita Hospital in Kochi.

Before his death, he did a final Facebook post to inspire everyone. He said that "Being positive and always smiling makes a lot of difference.. " In his post he described how everything becomes better just by smiling and calling the ICU his second home, he said:

I started smiling at every situation now especially the nurses who take care of me .. trust me it made a lot of difference... they do a tough job of treating pain and in ICU things are worse but by smiling and being jovial creates such a good atmosphere that everything just gets better ... it's magic ... smile is magic

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