Education
He studied at the School of Drama, Thrissur, and in Theatre Arts at Madurai Kamaraj University.
He studied at the School of Drama, Thrissur, and in Theatre Arts at Madurai Kamaraj University.
Mohan made his mark in the local television industry as an award-winning script writer for serials. Hailing from Annamanada, Thrissur district, the cultural capital of Kerala, Mohan Raghavan is one among those in the domain of visual arts, for whom quality matters than anything else. Ever since his post-graduate studies in Theatre Arts from the Madurai Kamaraj University, Mohan was drawn to the world of cinema.
He soon realized it as a medium that suited well for his creative pursuits.T
Mohan’s rural upbringing created barriers in the initial days, when he started exploring possibilities in the urban spheres of his home state – Kerala.
By the late 1990s, Mohan made his mark in the local television industry as an award-winning script writer for serials. As a script writer, he grabbed national attention through the short film – Diary of a House Wife.
Since the 1990s, Mohan directed well-known plays that include Antigone, Macbeth, Waiting for Godot and Woyzeck. Opportunities to work as associate director to some of the noted directors in the local film industry, instilled great deal of confidence in Mohan.
Mohan Raghavan’s creative instincts are oriented towards films that can portray human lives and situations that are not usually identified in normal life.
Unfortunately, he could not do any film further, as he met with an untimely death on 25 October 2011, aged just 47.