Ajith Kumar Haridas hailed from
Kottayam,
Kerala. He was one of six children born to Haridasan and Devakiamma in 1962. His father was a railway officer and mother was a house wife. He completed his primary education at Krist Raj High School, Kollam and Bachelors in Arts Degree from Sree Narayana College, Kollam. Since his father was a Railway Station Master who was working at
Kollam, he was brought up at
Kadappakada in Kollam and adopted
Kollam as the suffix for his name. He went to the director
Padmarajan to become an assistant director but, seeing his talent, Padmarajan cast him in his movie
Parannu Parannu Parannu, and thus made his debut in a Malayalam movie in 1984. After that, he was a permanent actor in all Padmarajan movies. He turned director and scriptwriter in the Malayalam movie
Calling Bell. ==Family==