Rafi–Mecartin


Rafi and Mecartin are a screenwriter and director duo best known for comedy films in Malayalam cinema. Rafi's late younger brother Shafi was also a well-known film director. Rafi is also the nephew of director Siddique from the Siddique–Lal duo. He has scripted and directed successful films such as Puthukkottayile Puthumanavalan, Superman, Punjabi House, Thenkasipattanam, Chathikkatha Chanthu, Pandippada, and Hallo. The duo has also written the scripts for Aniyan Bava [Chetan Bava], Aadyathe Kanmani, Dilliwala Rajakumaran, Kusruthi Kuruppu, One [Man Show (film)|One Man Show], Thilakkam, and Mayavi among others, for other directors.

Filmography

Director

YearTitleCast
1995Puthukkottayile PuthumanavalanJayaram, Prem Kumar, Annie, Captain Raju, Innocent
1997SupermanJayaram, Shobhana, Jagadheesh
1998Punjabi HouseDileep, Mohini, Cochin Haneefa, Harisree Asokan, Lal
2000Sathyam [Sivam Sundaram (2000 film)|Sathyam Sivam Sundaram]Kunchacko Boban, Ashwathi Menon, Balachandra Menon, Nassar
2000ThenkasipattanamSuresh Gopi, Lal, Dileep, Samyuktha Varma, Geethu Mohandas, Kavya Madhavan
2002Thenkasi Pattanam R. Sarathkumar, Napolean, Samyuktha Varma, Devayani, Ashwathi Menon
2004Chathikkatha ChanthuJayasurya, Navya Nair, Vineeth, Lal, Salim Kumar, Bhavana
2005PandippadaDileep, Navya Nair, Prakash Raj, Rajan P.Dev, Harisree Ashokan
2007HalloMohanlal, Parvati Melton, Jagathy Sreekumar, Siddique,Madhu, K. B. Ganesh Kumar
2009Love In SingaporeMammootty, Jayasurya, Nedumudi Venu, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Navaneet Kaur
2011China TownMohanlal, Jayaram, Dileep, Kavya Madhavan, Suraj Venjaramoodu,Pradeep Rawat
2014Ring Master⊥Dileep, Keerthy Suresh, Honey Rose, Kalabhavan Shajohn,Vijayaraghavan,Suraj Venjaramoodu,Guinness Pakru,Aju Varghese,Abu Salim
2017Role Models⊥Fahadh Faasil, Namitha Pramod, Vinayakan, Vinay Forrt, Renji Panicker
2023Voice Of Sathyanathan⊥Dileep, Joju George, Veena Nandakumar,Jagapathi Babu,Anupam Kher, Siddique, Johny Antony

⊥ Rafi alone

Screenwriter only

Ellarum Chollanu

Assistant director

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Acting credits of Rafi

Puthukkottayile Puthumanavalan Ring Master as Director RavishankarVillali Veeran as Aiswarya's uncleTwo Countries as DanielShajahanum Pareekuttiyum as JosephRole Models as Dr KrishnadevSherlock Toms as Saghav LazarVikadakumaran as Magistrate Solomon Mathew PuthanpallilSakalakalasala Children's Park as Adv. Thomas AugustineGanagandharvan as SamsonShylock as Director & Film Producer ChackoNaaradan as PillachettanThundu as CPO Raghavan Adios Amigo as Paul KurianExtra Decent as Dr Ajmal KhanRifle [Club (film)|Rifle Club] as Adv. KoshiOdum Kuthira Chaadum Kuthira as Dr. Rafi Kuttikattil

Mecartin as an Actor