Jitin Puthenchery
Jitin Puthenchery (born 24 August 1989) is an Indian film actor and assistant director who work predominantly in the Malayalam film industry. He is the son of popular Malayalam lyricist and poet Girish Puthenchery. Life and career. Jitin was born on 24 August 1989 to the eldest son of Gireesh Puthenchery and Beena in karaparamba near Eranhipalam in Kozhikode district of kerala.  He completed his primary education at St. Joseph's Boys' High School Calicut and graduation at Bangalore University. He is married to Divya Mohanan, a software engineer.  His brother Din Nath is a lyricist and Assistant  director Jitin made his debut in the Malayalam film industry as an assistant director in 2013 through Sudhir Ambalappad's movie "Breaking" "News Live".  He later worked as an assistant director in "Matini", "Koothara" and "Mani Ratnam".in 2016, he joined Farhan Akhtar-Riteish Sidwani team's Excel Entertainment, a Mumbai-based film production company, and later worked as a director's assistant on Farhan's "Rock-On" 2. In 2016 he starred in his friend Dominic Arun's short film "Mrityunjaya".  He later appeared in a small role in Dominic's Tovino movie "Tharangam" ,he also worked as a co -writer and assistant director for "Tharangam" . Later he was auditioned for Shankar Ramakrishnan's debut movie "Pathinettam Padi" in which he played the role of a state school student named giri and he was notable for portraying the character. He later starred in popular Malayalam director Kamal's movie "Pranaya Meenukalude Kadal" Tovino's Edakkad Battalion and the Mohalal-Priyadarshan team's . in 2021 he won critical acclaim for his portrayal of the protagonist in Don Palathara's movie "Santhoshathinte" "Onnam" "Rahasyam" .