Soubin Shahir

Soubin Shahir is a well-known actor and an assistant director in Malayalam films. He assisted many renowned directors in his career before his acting career started. He made his first debut film with Kaiyethum Doorath. He earned wide fame for Alphonse Putharen’s Premam in which he played the role of a P.T Master. Soubin also featured in some of the recent hit movies stealing the hearts of many people. On his foray in direction, he said “I always wanted to be a director.” He believes that director Rajeev Rai brought him in front of arc lights. The actor is still uncomfortable when it comes to facing the camera and says that he becomes a bit nervous when it comes to acting.

Soubin has different styles of working and says if needed, he will continue to assist everyone he has worked with before and says that “Every film is a new experience and it involves  new style of working.” He is to become a director with Parva and Anwar Rasheed would be the producer of the new film. The film has new faces   as its main characters and would reach the screens this Christmas season. The story, screenplay, and dialogues will jointly be written by Soubin Shahir and Muneer Ali. Praveen Prabhakar will be the editor.

There was a controversy going on in one of Abu’s film. Soubin’s character was Crispin, who is a Mohanlal fan. Mohanlal fans trolled Aashiq Abu, and the reason was that the film portrayed the fact that Mammootty can do any kind of role like Tamil person, etc while Mohanlal could do only roles of Nair and Verma. This statement made the Mohanlal fans annoyed, and they began to troll the producer. The controversy ended peacefully. Aashiq Abu’s next film is yet to be named.Soubin is known for Premam, Annayum Rasoolum, and Maheshinte Prathikaaram.His latest movies include Kali and Kammati Padam.