Noble Babu Thomas – Malayalam film actor, screenwriter and producer of ‘Helen’ fame

Noble Babu Thomas is a film producer, screenwriter and writer of Malayalam cinema, who came to limelight after he made an impressive screen debut through 2019 survival thriller, Helen. He played the role of Azhar, Helen Paul’s boyfriend (played by Anna Ben) in the film. Along with Vineeth Srinivasan he has also produced this movie, which opened to positive reviews and was a commercial success. He has earlier produced the films, Jacabinte Swargarajyam (directed by Vineeth Srinivasan) and Aravindante Athidhikal (Vineeth Srinivasan played lead role). Noble also co-scripted Helen, aside Alfred Kurian Joseph and its director Mathukutty Xavier, who marks his directorial debut with this thriller.

A screenshot from ‘Helen’ movie

Vineeth Sreenivasan and Aju Varghese were his batch mates during his engineering days in Chennai

Noble Babu Thomas was born on 30 May 1984 in Thiruvalla, Kerala. Babu Thomas and Suma Babu are his parents. Since college days he was interested in acting and got into modelling field. He completed Electrical and Electronics Engineering from KCG College of Technology, Chennai. In those days Vineeth Sreenivasan and Aju Varghese were his batch mates. Later the trio collaborated for many projects. As he was interested in acting and modelling he also graduated from Vogue Institute of Fashion Technology, Bangalore after his engineering studies.

He dreamt to become an actor, but joined film industry as a producer

He joined film industry as a producer. He started his own production house, Big Bang Entertainments in 2015. Jacabinte Swargarajyam starring Nivin Pauley was his debut film, which was a commercial success. His batch mate Vineeth Sreenivasan directed the film, and also played a brief role. His second venture, Aravindante Athidhikal, with Vineeth once again was also a commercial hit.

He made a late entry to Mollywood as an actor at the age of 35 and left a mark

In 2019, he co-scripted and co-produced Helen. The movie also marked his acting debut, and his role was appreciated. In the role of Azhar, it never shown on screen that he was a newcomer. After the film’s success, he has a promising career ahead as an actor too. Thus finally his wish to become an actor has fulfilled. Hridayam – starring Pranav Mohanlal and Kalyani Priyadarshan is his next project as a film producer. The movie is helmed once again by his friend, Vineeth Sreenivasan.

Noble Babu Thomas – Some interesting and less-known facts

A screenshot from ‘Helen’ movie

1. Helen – marked his debut as an actor and screenwriter in 2019 at the age of 35.

2. Noble and his batch mates – Vineeth Sreenivasan and Aju Varghese joined hands for the first time for 2019 movie, Helen. While Aju played a rare serious and grey shaded role of his career, Vineeth played the cameo role of a convict. The trio had some combination scenes, filmed in the police station too.

3. Noble, Vineeth Sreenivasan and Aju Varghese knew each other for around 17-18 years, right from engineering days. They met for the first time in 2002 at KCG College of Technology in Chennai. They were batch mates and lived in the same hostel.

4. Helen – The movie was distributed by Aju Varghese’s Funtastic Films. Noble is a co-producer of the film.

5. Though he has not been a part of Malarvadi Arts Club and Thattathin Marayath, he was closely associated with Vineeth Sreenivasan, right from those days, though in background. He slowly learnt the different processes associated with filmmaking, and became a part of film industry. Thus he launched his own film production company.

6. Helen was his first work as a screenwriter. He, along with its scriptwriters had written a couple of scripts. But only Helen materialized. He doesn’t have any writing experience prior to it.

7. The filmmakers casted Anna Ben in the titular role of ‘Helen’ in the film only after complete scripting. It was actor Lal who suggested Anna’s name.