S. Jayachandran Nair was born in 1939 at Sreevaraham, a residential area in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of the south Indian state of Kerala.
[2] He has written a number of books, covering the genres of biography, literary criticism, cinema, prose and literature.
[8] He was closely associated with the new wave Malayalam cinema and he entered the field in 1989, by producing the debut film of Shaji N. Karun, Piravi for which he also wrote the story.
[11][12] He published a work on the filmmaker G. Aravindan under the title, Mounaprararthana Pole in 2018 which won the National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema in 2018.
[13] His career came to an end in 2012, following a controversy involving his decision to stop publishing a poem written by Prabha Varma in his weekly.