Yog Japee

Yog Japee is a Tamil film actor who has appeared in character roles. He made his breakthrough playing the supporting role of Ranjith in Billa (2007), before playing a role of a police officer in Soodhu Kavvum (2013) and a negative role in Abrahaminte Santhathikal (2018). He has also acted in a few Telugu and Malayalam films.

Yog Japee
OccupationFilm actor
Years active2003 – present

Career

He has worked often in Gautham Menon's police films, and as Ranjith in the Billa film series. He also won positive reviews for his work in Soodhu Kavvum. He made his first appearance in a Malayalam film in 7th Day (2014).[1]

Japee is the founder of Chennai-based theatre company Theatre Y, and has worked various colleges and schools in India and with international clients such as the British Council and the United Nations His work focuses on theatre training with children and mainstreaming theatre into education, as a tool for social awareness and development. Theatre Y strives towards a larger intervention of arts and culture in the education curriculum. Japee is a recipient of the prestigious international Fellowship on the Chevening-Clore Leadership Programme for Cultural Leaders for 2012-13, one among four scholars selected worldwide for this scholarship.[2]

Filmography
Year Film Role Notes
2003Kaakha KaakhaSethu
2004GharshanaDasTelugu film; remake of Kaakha Kaakha
2005Arinthum AriyamalumMani
2006Vettaiyaadu VilaiyaaduArun
2007BillaRanjith
2009Thiru Thiru Thuru ThuruJohn
Naan Avanillai 2Nisha's customer
2010Aasal
2012Billa IIRanjith
2013Soodhu KavvumBrahmaNominated, Vijay Award for Best Villain
20147th DayCharlieMalayalam film
Arima NambiDGP Arulraj
2015Gaddam GangGabbar SinghTelugu film; remake of Soodhu Kavvum
Kaaki SattaiDr. Devasagayam
Enakkul OruvanGunman
X: Past Is PresentAunty's husbandHindi film
2016Jumbulingam 3D
Inspector Dawood IbrahimDon Akbar AliMalayalam film
Sadhuram 2Vasudevan
2017Ennodu VilayaduSharma
Kanavu VariyamGopi
Adhagappattathu MagajanangalayJanaki Raman
Pannam Pathinonnum Seyum
2018Abrahaminte SanthathikalNarayana SethupathiMalayalam film
PattinapakkamSathya
2019Podhu Nalan KarudhiUthiram
K.D.Eason
2020Thala 60

References
  1. "Yog Japee to play a villain in Seventh Day". The Times of India. 8 April 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  2. "Yog Japee". The Hindu. 26 January 2013. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
    - Krishnamurthy, Akhila (21 July 2013). "Ten minutes of brilliance". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 13 April 2014.


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