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name: "Mahesh Pillai"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mahesh-pillai"
fi1m_id: "mahesh-pillai"
tmdb_id: 2553441
roles: []
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T01:52:02.841161+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Mahesh Pillai

## Identity

Mahesh Pillai

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mahesh-pillai
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mahesh-pillai
- **TMDB ID:** 2553441
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2553441

Actor.

## Details

- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2553441

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The White Tiger*](https://film.one/film/the-white-tiger.md) (78)

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## Biography

Mahesh Pillai is an Indian actor who has appeared in a number of Hindi-language films and television series. His credited roles include the School Inspector in *The White Tiger* (2021), Ganapathy in *Meenakshi Sundareshwar* (2021), a doctor in *Rocketry: The Nambi Effect* (2022), and a military officer in *War 2* (2025). He has also played supporting parts such as school principals in *Tumhari Sulu* (2017) and *Shakuntala Devi* (2020), and Dr. Makwana in the series *Breathe: Into the Shadows* (2022).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.kinorium.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The White Tiger* (2021), Fi1m 78, as School Inspector — [page](https://film.one/film/the-white-tiger.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *War 2* (2025), as Military Officer
- *Selfiee* (2023), as Film Director
- *Guilty Minds* (2022), series, as Vinit Goel
- *Meenakshi Sundareshwar* (2021), as Ganapathy
- *The White Tiger* (2021), as School Inspector — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-white-tiger.md)

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