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Parthan Mohan

Malayalam film director

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Source revisionMay 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ55629125
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Parthan Mohan (born 27 July 1986) is a Malayalam film director and producer. He made his directorial debut with the film ONE in 2013, starring Jagadish. He went on to serve as executive producer for John Paul Vaathil Thurakkunnu (2014) and to co-produce Olappeeppi (2016) and Crossroad (2017).

Early life

Parthan was born into a family of teachers on July 27, 1986, in Trivandrum, Kerala, India. He finished his schooling at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pattom in 2004. He went on to study at Mar Ivanios College, from where he graduated in Visual and Mass Communication. He earned his bachelor's degree in Video Production & Mass Communication at the University of Kerala with top honours in 2007.

He wrote and directed his first short film, Memoirs, during his campus days at Mar Ivanios. The film was shown at a number of campus short film festivals around South India.

Parthan continued his film studies at the L V Prasad Film & TV Academy in Chennai, where he completed a postgraduate diploma course in Film Direction.

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