Giju John

Giju John was born in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India on 10 February 1975.^[8][9] Giju completed his secondary level education at St. Mary's Higher Secondary School, Thiruvananthapuram, and graduated from the Thangal Kunju Musaliar College of Engineering. He holds a Masters in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of South Florida.^[10][11][12] The actor currently resides in Austin, Texas.^[13]

Giju John is an accomplished salsa dancer and choreographer who has professionally performed across the USA, India, and UK.^[13] He is the founder of Beyond Dreamz Entertainment, which produces music and dance projects in the Latina-Indian genre.^[14] He received training in carnatic music and bharatanatyam and is a member of the professional dance troupe, Salsamania Dance Company, which is based in San Francisco.^[9]

In 2007, he released his first album as a singer-songwriter "Rang Rangeli Yeh Duniya" which was a Latina-Indian fusion.^[15]

In 2010, he ventured into film production and founded Tiranga Productions. His first production venture was Love, Wrinkle-free which released in 2011.^[6] His second production venture was Hola Venky! in 2014 in which he worked with writer-director Sandeep Mohan. His third production venture titled Shreelancer released in 2017 received critical acclaim from critics and audiences.^[16]

He made his acting debut in the 2018 film Ranam.^[17] He second film as an actor was the Prithviraj Sukumaran directorial, Lucifer in 2019.^[18] The following year, he portrayed the antagonist in the film Forensic.^[5] In 2022, he reunited with director Nirmal Sahadev to produce and act in the film Kumari.^[19] His next film role was in the sequel to Lucifer, L2 Empuraan.^[20]