Narain is a famous South Indian Actor who hails from Thrissur. His original name is
Sunil Kumar
. He was born to Mr. T.M.Ramakrishnan and Shantha Kumari in Calcutta. He did a cinematography course at Adayar Film Institute and after that, he joined with Rajeev Menon as an Assistant Director. After that, he moved to acting and done his first movie Nizhalkuthu directed by
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
. People identified him through his movie Four the people directed by Jayaraj . He played the role of a police officer and later he acted in the movie Achuvinte Amma directed by Sathyan Anthickad.
Meera Jasmine
did the female lead. He played the same police officer role in the remake version of four the people in Tamil, Bengali and Telugu version.
Classmates one of the biggest hit of Narain made him very popular actor. He played the role of Murali, son of a college professor. The entire story revolves around the friendship of some students. His first movie in Tamil was
Chithiram Pesuthadi
, which was a super hit directed by Mishkin. He changed his name from Sunil to Narain after the success of his first Tamil movie and he got a handful of movies after that. He got some good character roles like collector Vetrivel in the movie Pallikoodam.
In 2012, Narain played a negative role in the movie Mugamoodi starred by Jeeva in the lead role and he acted with Mohanlal in Grandmaster again as a police officer. Narain is now busy with more movies and he will be playing the lead role in Kakki Satta, a remake of Kamal Haasan's movie. Narain is married to Manju and the couple has a daughter Tanmaya.