K. P. Sasi was a film and documentary director, writer and cartoonist who primarily worked in Malayalam and Hindi movie industries. He was also a human rights activist who started his filmmaking career by directing the documentary Science to People in 1984. His notable films have been the award-winning Ilayum Mullum (1994) for which he won the national award for best director that was followed by the Hindi film Ek Alag Mausam (2003), and Malayalam films like Silence Please (2008) and Voices from the Ruins (2016), etc. He passed away at the age of 64 at Thrissur, Kerala on 25 December 2022.