Interview | Actor Gibin Gopinath : I crave for good roles

The twelvemonth 2025 has been a splendid 1 for histrion Gibin Gopinath. With 8 releases this year, which see 2 talked-about movies – Diés Iraé and Kalamkaval, Gibin says helium is successful a authorities of utmost happiness.

Currently connected a five-year interruption from his occupation with the Kerala Police, Gibin is relieved to person recovered a abstraction successful Malayalam cinema aft years spent auditioning for roles. “I won’t telephone it a conflict due to the fact that that signifier is portion of this journey. This is the close way towards the destination. I americium arrogant to person been portion of a clump of bully films successful 2025,” says Gibin, a autochthonal of Thiruvananthapuram.

Gibin recalls that helium has been auditioning since helium was successful precocious school, having fallen successful emotion with cinema astatine a young age. “I looked guardant to the weekends erstwhile my begetter utilized to instrumentality america to the metropolis from our location astatine Koliyakode connected the outskirts to ticker a movie. That was my instauration to cinema. Once it became a passionateness determination was nary extremity to the things I imagined I would bash erstwhile I entered movie industry!”

He became a inferior artiste portion studying astatine MG College, Thiruvananthapuram. “Whenever determination was a shooting successful the superior metropolis and assemblage students were needed for the scenes, I would beryllium there. One of the archetypal movies successful which I appeared connected the surface was Thaandavam. The champion portion was that Lalettan (Mohanlal) was successful the aforesaid frame,” helium says.

Even arsenic helium pursued his tinseltown dreams and worked arsenic a inferior artiste, helium got into authorities service, joining the constabulary unit successful 2007. “While posted successful the Commissioner’s office, I got the accidental to interact with movie unit which would travel determination for support for shoots. Those friendships gave maine tiny roles and I was blessed with that.”

A coagulated relation came by in Y (2016) directed by Sunil Ibrahim. “That gave maine the assurance that I tin propulsion disconnected a full-length character.”

Films specified arsenic Padayottam, Great Father, Eby etc came by. The turning constituent was becoming portion of the societal media compartment of the Kerala Police successful 2018. “The compartment went afloat throttle during the pandemic and lockdown. We generated a batch of contented and my enactment got noticed.”

It was those videos that fetched him the accidental to enactment with Dulquer Salmaan and Samantha Ruth Prabhu successful a pan-Indian advertisement. He went connected to bash tiny roles successful large productions specified arsenic Minnal Murali, 2018, and Kishkindha Kaandam.

Among them was Mammootty-starrer Kannur Squad. That paved the mode for the bull relation successful Kalamkaval. Gibin plays the serviceman who accompanies Vinayakan’s quality who is connected the lookout for the serial slayer played by Mammootty. “Mammootty sir suggested my name,” says Gibin. Gushing astir sharing the surface with the legend, Gibin recalls that helium was determination connected the sets adjacent erstwhile helium did not person the shoot. “Initially being astir him was intimidating. But helium spoke to maine and the mode helium treated maine arsenic an artiste enactment maine astatine ease. It was sheer magic to ticker him alteration into the ruthless killer. Like the country wherever helium strangles a cop, chewing the cigaret and past spitting it out. He had not rehearsed that and we were each taken aback. Another mind-blowing changeable was the 1 with Rajisha astatine her home. The look helium (as the character) gave her was scary.”

In the fearfulness thriller Diés Iraé, which released earlier Kalamkaval, Gibin breezed done arsenic Madhusoodanan Potty, the descendant of a household of exorcists. In his interview with The Hindu, the film’s manager Rahul Sadasivan had mentioned that helium chose Gibin without watching immoderate of his work. Apparently helium had seen 1 of Gibin’s interviews and noticed the sadness successful his eyes. “It was (lyricist) Dinnath Puthenchery who had shared the interrogation nexus with Rahul. I was amazed erstwhile I heard astir however and wherefore I got the role. That was erstwhile I realised that thing is insignificant successful this world.”

Rahul wanted him to travel to the acceptable without immoderate preparation. “He asked maine to turn a beard, that’s all. He gave the afloat publication to maine and Pranav [Mohanlal]. The penning was truthful wide that the full movie was close successful beforehand of us. We conscionable had to bash accordingly.”

Gibin has received immense praise for the mode helium portrayed the gentle and calm Madhu, who helps Rohan (Pranav) lick the enigma down the shade successful his house. “While shooting for specified a genre, you person to ideate everything. The fearfulness comes from a batch of factors enactment together. In bid to bring retired the fearfulness successful beforehand of a immense crew, the histrion successful maine has to find the thrill to execute that. That is not an casual job.”

He adds, “Pranav has been similar a person from the opening and determination was large rapport. I was blown distant by the idiosyncratic that helium is successful existent life.”

In 2026, helium volition beryllium seen successful 1 of the much-awaited, star-studded project, Patriot, starring Mammootty, Mohanlal, Kunchacko Boban, Fahadh Faasil, and Nayanthara. He is besides acting successful Thudakkam, the debut enactment of Mohanlal’s daughter, Maya, directed by Jude Anthany Joseph.

“I americium a instrumentality of galore actors. I americium alert of my limitations arsenic an actor, but I don’t enactment immoderate limits connected my dreams. I crave for roles. I americium greedy arsenic an actor. There is thing I privation much than bully roles.”

Diés Iraéis streaming connected JioHotstar. Kalamkaval is moving successful theatres