
Acting
Gopi Krishna Varma
Born 1998-07-14 · Kozhikode, Calicut, Kerala
Gopi Krishna Varma is an Indian actor who's best known for his works in Thirike (2021) and Sitaare Zameen Par (2025). He etched his name in the India Book of Records for being the first lead actor with Down Syndrome in Indian Cinema.
Acting credits
6.9A disgraced basketball coach is given the chance to coach a team of players who are intellectually disabled as part of community services. Gulshan has apprehensions at first and feels out of place but soon realizes they just might have what it takes to make it to the national championships.
Sitaare Zameen Par
2025
6.7A young crafty man kidnaps his own brother, who has Down Syndrome, from his adoptive parents in an attempt to reclaim his past.
Thirike
2021
1.0A few people who arrive at a buzzing city unexpectedly and the events that happen, which leave their lives upended
Thrayam
2024
NRSitaaron ke Sitaare follows the extraordinary journeys of parents raising children on the spectrum. The film traces the parents' lives from the earliest days, marriage, pregnancy, childbirth, the first signs that something was different, years of struggle, living in a system that failed them, to an unimaginable instance of seeing their children being auditioned for a film and being embraced by the mainstream.
Sitaaron Ke Sitaare
2025