Sreejith Mullappilly
Actor Fahadh Faasil is known for his versatility and ability to play a diverse range of characters. Roles with psychopathic tendencies form a good part of his body of work. The actor’s latest film Aavesham sees him play a ruffian, with echoes of some of his other more recent work. While Aavesham’s Ranga is not a full-blown psycho, the actor has been down this path in the recent past. Here is a look at some of the most memorable characters that constitute Fahadh Faasil’s psychopath universe.
Shammi in Kumbalangi Nights
Fahadh plays a creep in writer Syam Pushkaran and director Madhu C Narayanan's film set in Kumbalangi, which revolves around two families. Shammi thinks of himself as a protector for his wife and her younger sibling, but he is only a control freak who wants to keep them under his feet. From the first scene where he looks at a mirror and says, "the complete man," to the one where he exalts, "Shammi hero aada," this is a character full of Fahadh fascisms.
Panachel Joji in Joji
In Dileesh Pothan’s Macbeth adaptation Joji, Fahadh plays the potential heir, who has an all-consuming desire for power and wealth, to the owner of an expansive rubber plantation. While Joji is not as outwardly violent as Shammi, the character's ambition curdles into madness of a different sort, making him another memorable character in the Fahadh psychoverse.
Viju Prasad in Trance
Fahadh plays a motivational speaker with a cynical outlook towards life and a troubled past in Anwar Rasheed’s Trance. When Viju turns himself into a pseudo pastor who deceives blind believers in a financial scam, he starts to take his powers seriously. The actor's unhinged portrayal of the character adds to Rasheed’s world-building, which blurs the lines between performance and reality.
Srini in Akam
In Shalini Usha Nair’s Akam, Fahadh Faasil plays a man who starts to suspect whether his wife Ragini is a yakshi. His suspicion distorts his perception of what constitutes reality. While Akam hardly explores the violent zone that FaFa occupies in some of his other roles, Srini's slow descent into paranoia served as an early sign that the actor was only warming up for characters with more negative shades.