Mohan Raj Height, Age, Death, Wife, Children, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known About Mohan Raj

• Mohan Raj was interested in sports growing up and was a national-level athlete.

• He started his career at age 20 in the Indian Army which he left after five years when he suffered a leg injury.

• As part of his military service, he was trained in martial arts, such as kung fu, karate, and boxing.

• Though he came second in the Kerala state sub-inspector selection examination and passed several other competitive examinations, he chose to work with the customs department.

• After working in the customs department for two years, he joined the Enforcement Directorate (ED) as an Assistant Enforcement Officer (AEO).

• In 1989, he appeared as Keerikkadan Jose, a negative character in the Malayalam film Kireedam. The role was a milestone in his acting career.

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• He was suspended from government service for not obtaining official permission to act in the film Kireedam. He then entered a legal battle that lasted over twenty years. He was reinstated in the service in 2010 but opted for a voluntary retirement in 2015.

• Some of the other Malayalam films he appeared in were as a police inspector in Aye Auto (1990), Uppukandam Paulachan in UppukandamBrothers (1993), Keerikkadan Jose in Chenkol (1993), Chandan Bhai in Pathram (1999), and driver Jose in Chirakodinja Kinavukal (2015).
  

  Mohan Raj on the poster of the film Uppukandam Brothers

• He acted in over 300 films including Tamil films such as Kalingarayan in Ezhumalai (2002) and Telugu films such as Gajendra in Adhipathi (2001).

• He played negative roles in two Japanese language films.

• After 2015, he rarely acted as he suffered from some ailments such as pain due to varicose veins in his legs.

• He returned to Thiruvananthapuram in 2023 for further treatments for Parkinson’s disease and passed away at his residence on 3 October 2024.