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GN Krishnakumar (born 01 May 1978), professionally credited as Jiyen Krishnakumar  , is a south Indian film maker and writer. Jiyen only directed four movies that includes three Malayalam films and one Tamil film, which are College days (Malayalam, 2011), Kaanchi (Malayalam, 2013), Tiyaan (Malayalam, 2017 and Paramaguru (Tamil, 2020). All three of his Malayalam movies have been commercial and critical successes and the Tamil movie is expecting to hit on the screens very shortly.

Biography
Jiyen was born on 01 May 1978 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala state. His ancestors originally belong to Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala state, his father K. Gopinathan Nair was a builder in Oman and his mother T.Nalinakumari is a house maker at his Tharavadu “Gopinalinam”. Jiyen Krishnakumar studied at St. Xaviers High School, Thiruvananthapuram. In his school and college days he was involved with several theatre works and achieved several district and state level prizes. After his college education from Christian College, Thiruvananthapuram., he joined National Institute of Film Technology in Kerala, for the Direction & Script writing course. During his training days he earned scholarships & finally achieved centre top award.

Early life
He started his film career as Assistant Director in 1998. After 3-4 years of experiences with Malayalam’s top film makers, he started directing serials and telefilms for Kerala’s top rated channels like, Doordarshan, Soorya TV, Asianet and Kairali TV which earned him a huge fan base, especially among women. He was doing fairly well in TV serial industry, but he wanted to make movies, so he took a break from serial industry and started the pre-production woks for his debut film “College Days”.

TV Soap Operas
He directed morethan 10 TV programs including Serials and Telefilms, and his most famous serials are Manaswani, Babajan, Aval Raktharakshas, Dooram and Police.

Directorial debut
In 2010, Jiyen made his directorial debut with the suspense thriller film “College Days” starring Indrajith Sukumaran, Biju Menon, Jagathy Sreekumar, and Kathal Sandhya.

Marriage and children
In 2011, Jiyen married Priyanka OK, who is from a taditional Nair family at Pattampi, Palakkad district, Kerala, South India and they have a son.
 * Dhanwanth krishnan (Birth date: 2012 October 2), studying at 1st std.

College Days
In 2010, Jiyen made his directorial debut with the suspense thriller film “College Days  ” starring Indrajith Sukumaran, Biju Menon, Jagathy Sreekumar, and Kathal Sandhya.

Kaanchi
In 2013, Jiyen came with another drama thriller movie “Kaanchi  ” starring Indrajith Sukumaran, Murali Gopy, Shine Tom Chacko and Archana Guptha.

Tiyaan
In 2017, Jiyen directed TIYAAN. It received generally positive reviews, with praise for the performances, particularly by Prithviraj Sukumaran, and its portrayal of social issues. TIYAAN is 2017’s Big budget Malayalam movie starring Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indrajith Sukumaran, Suraj Venjarmoodu, Padmapriya, Ananya and Murali Gopy. Indrajith's daughter, Nakshathra, made her debut film in Tiyan.

Paramaguru
In 2019, Jiyen made his directorial debut in Tamil with the crime investigation film “Paramaguru ” starring Sasikumar and Guru Soma Sundaram.