Kani Kusruti

Acting

Kani Kusruti

Born

1985-09-12 (41)

Place of birth

Trivandrum, Kerala, India

Known for

Acting

Credits

53 titles

Kani Kusruti (born 12 September 1985) is an Indian actress and model known primarily for her work in Malayalam films. She first gained recognition in 2009 with the film Kerala Cafe and recently has starred in the independent films All We Imagine as Light and Girls Will Be Girls (both 2024). She completed her theatre education at the L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She has often criticised sexism in the Malayalam film industry and is very involved with feminist movements in India.

Known for

Maharani poster
6.6

A political drama set in Bihar of 1990's, this story shows how an illiterate woman handles the state as Chief Minister. Rani Bharti's life takes an interesting turn when her husband Bheem Singh Bharti, announces her as the next chief minister of Bihar. With casteism and traditional satraps in the background, will Rani survive this turn of events?

Maharani

2021

Eyes poster
10.0

Tina Sebastian, a police officer investigates disturbing cases involving women. As the investigation progresses, mental health professionals join forces with the police to understand the psychology of stalkers, identify warning signs and prevent situations from escalating.

Eyes

2026

All We Imagine as Light poster
6.8

In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.

All We Imagine as Light

2024

Poacher poster
6.0

A group of Indian Forest Service officers, NGO workers, police constables and good samaritans risk their lives trying to track down the biggest elephant ivory poachers in the history of India and bring them to justice.

Poacher

2024

OK Computer poster
7.2

The year is 2031. In a New India - of towering smart holograms and drone superhighways - hard-boiled Cyber Crime detective Saajan Kundu is called out of retirement when a self-driving taxi is hacked and ordered to kill an anonymous human victim. Saajan begrudgingly joins forces with estranged partner Laxmi Suri, a whip-smart AI scientist, to comb the modern backwaters of Goa for the killer.

OK Computer

2021

Girls Will Be Girls poster
7.1

In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance. But her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come of age herself.

Girls Will Be Girls

2024

Film credits

2020s · 15 titles

All We Imagine as Light poster
6.8

In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.

All We Imagine as Light

2024

Girls Will Be Girls poster
7.1

In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance. But her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come of age herself.

Girls Will Be Girls

2024

Super Sharanya poster
6.6

Sharanya, an ordinary small-town girl from Palakkad, who moves to Thrissur for higher studies, finds herself changing as she meets Deepu.

Super Sharanya

2022

Assi poster
6.2

When Parima, a school teacher in Delhi, is gang-raped on her way home late at night after an office party, Raavi, a prosecution lawyer, fights tooth and nail to help her get justice. But when eighty sexual assault cases are reported in India every single day, regardless of age group, ethnicity, time, or place, and only four go to trial, what does justice really mean?

Assi

2026

Eyes poster
NR

A team of mental health professionals joins hands with the police force to tackle the surge in stalker killings. While trying to predict and prevent such incidents, they navigate the complex minds of stalkers and the emotional webs they weave.

Eyes

2026

Biriyaani poster
6.4

The movie chronicles the life of Khadeeja, a married muslim woman confined within the four walls of the household, forced to conceal her desires in the name of religious and societal norms. When fate brings her to an abandoned life, she chooses a different way of financially and sexually liberating herself- to be a sex worker; soon to realize that her soul is still dissatisfied. Finding a new way of hope, she decides to give back to the forces that pushed her to live an orphaned life of humiliation and misery.

Biriyaani

2021

Mura poster
5.8

In Trivandrum, four inseperable friends, from raw, rustic background Anandhu, Saji, Manu, and Manaf plan the ultimate heist, their one shot at turning dreams into reality. But as they dive deeper, shadows from the past surface, unraveling hidden motives and testing loyalties in ways they never saw coming. When friendship clashes with ambition, how far will they go for revenge?

Mura

2024

Pada poster
7.0

Based on a true incident, the film is about four men, who call themselves Ayyankali Pada, holding the Palakkad collector hostage demanding tribal land rights.

Pada

2022

Kirkkan poster
5.0

The death of a village girl in central Kerala sparks suspicion when she is found hanging in a rubber plantation. Led by ASI Kuku, the investigation and interrogations uncover secrets, lies, and a truth far more disturbing than expected.

Kirkkan

2023

Vichithram poster
3.2

Jasmine returns to her childhood home on her brother's death. Is the house now haunted by spirits or by living beings trapped by emotional bonds?

Vichithram

2022

Tryst With Destiny poster
8.0

A billionaire learns there is something money can't buy, a lower-caste couple attempts to build a new life, a corrupt city cop finds himself far outside of the law and a man, who takes law into his own hands as he embarks on revenge in an anthology on class divide in contemporary India.

Tryst With Destiny

2020

Ouseppinte Osiyathu poster
6.6

An unexpected family issue sparks tensions between a father and his sons, compelling them to collectively seek a resolution.

Ouseppinte Osiyathu

2025

The Quarrel poster
4.0

On the day he agreed to sign a mutual divorce in court, Siddharthan, who is also a lawyer, cheats on his wife Lakshmi, and goes on an inland drive. He urges Lakshmi to postpone the divorce, citing their daughter Tara's future, but the attempt fails. On his way back, he meets Sathi and her dumb daughter who are leaving their home due to marital issues. The meeting changes Siddharthan's outlook on life.

The Quarrel

2022

The Discreet Charm of the Savarnas poster
NR

The protagonists, Dilip, Aruna and Swaminathan, a trio of independent filmmakers, look for a last-minute replacement to their nameless “Dalit character”.

The Discreet Charm of the Savarnas

2020

Forbidden poster
4.0

In one of the bustling cities of Kerala, a migrant idol-maker from Bengal, desperately needing help with his uncle's cremation, and a tough Tamil midwife, who moonlights as a funeral priest, forge a fragile bond that is threatened when she is accused of a heinous crime.

Forbidden

2022

2010s · 23 titles

Spyder poster
5.3

A surveillance expert who wants to help people comes across a foe who is the very definition of evil. Can he stop the man before he destroys everything?

Spyder

2017

The Tetrahedron poster
NR

Maya the protagonist, on her way to the college, hears a radio news of a strange geometrical figure with the shape of a ‘tetrahedron’ that appears from nowhere besides the Nazca lines in Peru. In the mean time, Maya’s friend Divya’s father, Neelan, goes missing. Few days later he is found from a distant land with signatures of pre-historic habitats around the place. Maya meets a few people from distant lands, of different races, roaming around a desolated architecture. Are they humanoid creatures? By the end of the film, through a dream passage that connects both Maya and Divya, we get to know about the disappearance of Maya.

The Tetrahedron

2018

Urumi poster
7.0

A young man who discovers his ancestral connection to a 16th century warrior who sought revenge against Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama. Blending history and legend, the story traces a rebellion fueled by betrayal, courage, and the fight against colonial conquest.

Urumi

2011

Hotel California poster
4.8

Hotel California is an 2013 Malayalam action comedy film written by Anoop Menon and directed by Aji John, starring Jayasurya, Anoop Menon, Honey Rose, Maria Roy and Aparna Nair.

Hotel California

2013

Oru Indian Pranayakadha poster
6.8

Oru Indian Pranayakatha is about the life of a young political leader and his association with a woman who comes unexpectedly into his life.

Oru Indian Pranayakadha

2013

Shikkar poster
5.6

Balaraman, a lorry driver, hopes for a peaceful life when he settles down with his daughter in Chittazha. However, his violent past soon catches up with him and forces him to take drastic measures.

Shikkar

2010

North 24 Kaatham poster
7.6

Harikrishnan is a geeky software professional who suffers from an obsessive compulsive disorder. A harthal day sees him travelling to Trivandrum for a conference, and in the midst of the night, he ends up at Paravur railway station with two strangers - Gopalan a veteran politician and Narayani a social worker - for company.

North 24 Kaatham

2013

Pisaasu poster
6.7

A violinist experiences paranormal experience in his flat after a death of a girl who he tries to save due to accident. Later he realises that actually the spirit is helping him and he tries to find out who killed the girl by accident.

Pisaasu

2014

Natholi Oru Cheriya Meenalla poster
5.5

Preman is the caretaker of a flat at Cochin. Everyone in the flat calls him 'Natholi'. He faces some unfortunate events in the flat and begins to write a story with the same characters in his real life and plays with their lives in his story. The film revolves around the story of the conflict between Preman and the character he creates. He has lost his control over the character he creates and the movie plots ahead with the interaction between them.

Natholi Oru Cheriya Meenalla

2013

Cocktail poster
6.7

Ravi Abraham, a successful architect, leads a happy life with his wife Parvathy and daughter Ammu. Their lives go topsy-turvy when a stranger named Venketesh asks for a lift in Ravi's car.

Cocktail

2010

She poster
5.7

Olu is the tale of a girl who gets gang raped and sunk to the bottom of the backwaters where she can mysteriously survive and live for the next nine months -until she delivers her ‘baby from rape’.

She

2019

Masala Republic poster
6.2

Circle Inspector Shambhu's strict actions against law offenders have earned him a lot of enemies. Shambhu is of the opinion that suspension, punishment and transfer are a part of his job. When Shambhu is made the in-charge of a team to eradicate the use of tobacco, he finds himself in a sticky situation. This is because the new law curbs the society, making it difficult for working people from other states to survive. Naturally, many political parties try to take advantage of this situation. What happens next forms the story of Masala Republic.

Masala Republic

2014

Counterfeit Kunkoo poster
7.2

In a city overflowing with buildings and slums, Smita must find herself a house to rent. She is hard-working, honest and respectful - the ideal tenant - except for one glaring flaw. She is a middle-class Indian woman without a husband. An intimate perspective on the identity of the 'Ideal Indian Female' in urban India of today.

Counterfeit Kunkoo

2018

The Forsaken poster
NR

A reverse chronology film about a serial killing taxi driver in Mumbai

The Forsaken

2017

The Dolphins poster
6.0

The Dolphin Bar is a Malayalam drama film directed by Diphan, starring Suresh Gopi and Anoop Menon in the lead role, which is produced by Arun M C and written by Anoop Menon

The Dolphins

2014

No artwork available
3.8

Sampath is an expert in car, seizing, and works for Atul Kulkarni, who is a financier in North Madras. Burma aka Parandhaman works under Sampath for peanuts and the moment he comes to know the true colors of his boss; he makes his crooked intelligence to show the jail for Sampath and eventually gains the trust from Atul after creating his own brand for siezing cars. Sampath comes back from the jail and secretly plans the downfall of Burma. Burma gets an opportunity to seize 28 cars and he has completed 99% of his job without any fuss only to get stuck on the last car. What happens to Burma and to the rest of lead characters forms the rest of the story with parallel stories layered like a double decker sandwich.

Burma

2014

Kalam poster
5.5

An extortionist acquires a mansion and gifts it to his estranged son not realising the gruesome history behind the place.

Kalam

2016

No artwork available
4.5

The film tells the story of Rudran Gurukkal, the lone male descendant of the Chathothu family. The family represents the Yogi community, in which Lord Shiva is believed to have been born. Rudran is haunted by a strange kind of destiny. This forms the crux of the story

Karmayogi

2012

1956, Central Travancore poster
5.3

Kora and his brother Onan gather four men to go on a gaur hunt in order to make some quick money. Their journey progresses through their dreams, desires, fears, fantasies and struggles. Distanced from their families and loved ones, sharing stories help them remember and appreciate their inescapable pasts and make bonds. When the real and imagined nature turn out to be larger than their will and strength could handle, they learn the harsh realities of the endeavor they have taken up.

1956, Central Travancore

2019

The Strange Case of Shiva poster
NR

Shiva, a lonely designer gets obsessed with an image from a random encounter. Caught in a web of imaginary delusions, he awaits release by an arrival, from somewhere

The Strange Case of Shiva

2015

Theekuchiyum Panithulliyum poster
NR

A cop, who is on leave, is asked to re-open an old case that deals with the death of a young boy and girl. As his probe hits a brick wall, he reads his wife’s short story that curiously resembles the lives of those he has been investigating.

Theekuchiyum Panithulliyum

2018

Gi poster
NR

Gi lives with Appachan, her grandfather. She and he are dealing with different realities. Appachan is losing some memories and delving into worlds Gi is unfamiliar with. She on the other hand is trying to come to terms with the world around her, her lover and her work which all seem hostile to her.

Gi

2017

Memories of a Machine poster
NR

Memories of a Machine explores sexuality through human morals and instincts as a woman narrates her early sexual experience as a curious young girl and her quirky struggles of finding "self" amid a traditionally bound system.

Memories of a Machine

2016

2000s · 2 titles

Series credits

Maharani poster
6.6

A political drama set in Bihar of 1990's, this story shows how an illiterate woman handles the state as Chief Minister. Rani Bharti's life takes an interesting turn when her husband Bheem Singh Bharti, announces her as the next chief minister of Bihar. With casteism and traditional satraps in the background, will Rani survive this turn of events?

Maharani

2021

Eyes poster
10.0

Tina Sebastian, a police officer investigates disturbing cases involving women. As the investigation progresses, mental health professionals join forces with the police to understand the psychology of stalkers, identify warning signs and prevent situations from escalating.

Eyes

2026

Poacher poster
6.0

A group of Indian Forest Service officers, NGO workers, police constables and good samaritans risk their lives trying to track down the biggest elephant ivory poachers in the history of India and bring them to justice.

Poacher

2024

OK Computer poster
7.2

The year is 2031. In a New India - of towering smart holograms and drone superhighways - hard-boiled Cyber Crime detective Saajan Kundu is called out of retirement when a self-driving taxi is hacked and ordered to kill an anonymous human victim. Saajan begrudgingly joins forces with estranged partner Laxmi Suri, a whip-smart AI scientist, to comb the modern backwaters of Goa for the killer.

OK Computer

2021

Killer Soup poster
6.6

Swathi dreams of owning a restaurant. But when a murder derails her plan, she and her lover take an outrageous step — to replace him with her husband.

Killer Soup

2024

Nagendran’s Honeymoons poster
5.5

A lazy man named Nagendran, who, with his friend Soman, hatches a plan to marry multiple women to earn money from dowry to escape his village and find a better life abroad.

Nagendran’s Honeymoons

2024

Thalaimai Seyalagam poster
7.0

When the Chief Minister faces the bars of prison, a power struggle brews among the members of the ruling party. Meanwhile, the CBI follows a trail of murders from Jharkhand that might have a connection with another murder case in Tamil Nadu. However, things take an unexpected turn when all the chaos seems linked to each other.

Thalaimai Seyalagam

2024

Tryst With Destiny poster
NR

A billionaire learns there is something money can't buy, a lower-caste couple attempts to build a new life, and a corrupt city cop finds himself far outside of the law in Nair's slyly biting triptych on class in contemporary India.

Tryst With Destiny

2021

Priyapettavan Piyush poster
NR

TV Mini series

Priyapettavan Piyush

2023

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