Yog Japee
Occupationactor
Years active2003 – present

Yog Japee is an Indian actor who has appeared in character roles. He made his breakthrough playing the supporting role of Ranjith in Billa (2007), before playing a role of a police officer in Soodhu Kavvum (2013) and a negative role in Abrahaminte Santhathikal (2018). He has also acted in a few Telugu and Malayalam films.

Career

He has worked often in Gautham Vasudev Menon's police films, and as Ranjith in the Billa film series. He also won positive reviews for his work in Soodhu Kavvum. He made his first appearance in a Malayalam film in 7th Day (2014).[1]

Japee is the founder of Chennai-based theatre company Theatre Y, and has worked various colleges and schools in India and with international clients such as the British Council and the United Nations His work focuses on theatre training with children and mainstreaming theatre into education, as a tool for social awareness and development. Theatre Y strives towards a larger intervention of arts and culture in the education curriculum. Japee is a recipient of the international Fellowship on the Chevening-Clore Leadership Programme for Cultural Leaders for 2012–13, one among four scholars selected worldwide for this scholarship.[2]

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
2003Kaakha KaakhaSethu
2004GharshanaDasTelugu film; remake of Kaakha Kaakha
2005Arinthum AriyamalumMani
2006Vettaiyaadu VilaiyaaduArun
2007BillaRanjith
2009Thiru Thiru Thuru ThuruJohn
Naan Avanillai 2Nisha's customer
2010AasalAdvocate
2012Billa IIRanjith
2013Soodhu KavvumBrahmaNominated, Vijay Award for Best Villain
20147th DayCharlieMalayalam film
Arima NambiDGP Arulraj
2015Gaddam GangGabbar SinghTelugu film; remake of Soodhu Kavvum
Kaaki SattaiDr. Devasagayam
DynamitePolice Commissioner ArunrajTelugu film; remake of Arima Nambi
Enakkul OruvanGunman
X: Past Is PresentAunty's husbandHindi film
2016Jumbulingam 3D
Inspector Dawood IbrahimDon Akbar AliMalayalam film
Sadhuram 2Vasudevan
2017Ennodu VilayaduSharma
Kanavu VariyamGopi
Adhagappattathu MagajanangalayJanaki Raman
Pannam Pathinonnum SeyumGajapathy
2018Abrahaminte SanthathikalCommissioner Narayana Sethupathi IPSMalayalam film
PattinapakkamSathya
2019Podhu Nalan KarudhiUthiram
K.D.Easan
2020Dhowalath
2021NaduvanPolice inspector
2022Battery Rathnam
Oke Oka Jeevitham / Kanam Michael Roysimultaneously shot in Telugu
Ponniyin Selvan: IKaruthiruman
SardarChandramohan
Yuddha KaandamInspector
2023Ponniyin Selvan: IIKaruthiruman
NeymarGabriMalayalam film[3]
800Chandra Schaffter

References

  1. ↑ "Yog Japee to play a villain in Seventh Day". The Times of India. 8 April 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "Yog Japee". The Hindu. 26 January 2013. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
    - Krishnamurthy, Akhila (21 July 2013). "Ten minutes of brilliance". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  3. ↑ "Hit duo Mathew Thomas and Naslen K Gafoor set to return with Neymar". The Indian Express. 4 May 2023. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
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