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Birthday
05 December
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Kerala, India
Edit pageAnand Neelakantan
Biography
Anand Neelakantan is an Indian novelist, columnist, screenwriter, and public speaker. One of India's best-selling authors, He is known for writing mythological fiction and has authored 15 books in English and one in Malayalam. He has been writing a column in The New Indian Express since 2017.
He follows the style of telling stories based on the perspective of the antagonists or supporting characters. His debut work Asura: Tale of the Vanquished (2012) was based on the Indian epic Ramayana, told from the perspective of Ravana—the first book in his Ramayana series. It was followed by a series of books based on characters from Mahabharata and Baahubali.
His books have been translated into different languages such as Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Assamese, English, Sinhalese, Burmese, Japanese, and Indonesian.
Anand has written screenplays for Hindi television serials, such as Siya Ke Ram on Star TV, Mahabali Hanuman on Sony TV, Chakravarthy Ashoka on Colors TV, Sarfarosh on Netflix, Swaraj on DD National, Srimad Ramayan on Sony TV, among others.
He has written the story for the OTT series TAJ on Zee5. Anand has acted in two advertisement films and has also played the role of Ettappa Naicker in the TV show Swaraj on Doordarshan.
