In a career spanning a decade and 30 films, except for Priyan Ottathilanu, he has mostly fallen back on interesting sub-characters that explored his relatability factor. Once seated, the character’s roving eye keeps resurfacing as he tries lamely to flirt with the attendant. Take the superb scene at a cafe where he comes on a horse and looks around for valet parking. And he repeated the hilarious charade in other places in the film too. It was such a brilliantly improvised comic set piece that it instantly catapulted Sharaf into the spotlight. He strikes a pose and proceeds to impress Mary harping about his lonely childhood in Ras Al Khaimah with “a business-minded dad and a mom who loves dancing and partying”. When Girirajan Kozhi appears out of nowhere in a canary yellow shirt and goggles with some Arabic mumbo-jumbo in Alphonse Puthren’s Premam, we are as unprepared as Mary at the diaphanous spontaneity of the character. That along with his appealing boy-next-door charm makes him an easy sell on screen. The actor easily establishes that empathy and an uncontrollable urge to help others seems embedded in him. ![]() But unlike Satheeshan who has shades of grey, Priyan is a genuinely kind soul who finds it difficult to look away when he sees people in distress. Earlier this year, the actor played another ordinary man in Priyan Ottathilanu.
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