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My Take
Asif Ali strikes me as a barometer for modern Malayalam cinema. Discovered by Shyamaprasad for Ritu in 2009, he arrived just as the industry's new wave was forming, and his filmography — Traffic, Salt N' Pepper, Apoorvaragam — reads like a map of that movement's best instincts. He isn't the loudest star of his generation, and that is precisely his appeal to me: he picks ensemble pieces and character-driven scripts over vanity vehicles, and now produces films himself. Coming from Thodupuzha in hill-country Idukki, he carries an unforced everyman quality that Malayalam audiences prize. His is a career built on taste rather than noise.
Overview
Asif Ali (born 4 February 1986) is an Indian actor and producer, who works in the Malayalam film industry. He started his film career with Shyamaprasad's 2009 film, Ritu. During the subsequent years Asif went on to act in critically and commercially successful films including the romantic thriller, Apoorvaragam, the road thriller film Traffic, the romantic comedy film Salt N' Pepper and the period drama movie Ozhimur…
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Asif Ali
- Name (Japanese)
- アシフ・アリ
- Reading
- あしふ・あり
- Born
- February 4, 1986 (age 40)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Tiger
- Origin
- Thodupuzha, Idukki district, India
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / film actor / film producer / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Marian College Kuttikkanam
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Xhttps://x.com/actorasifali
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asif%20Ali%20(actor)
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-10
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.