Chandra Suresh

Chandra Suresh
Portrayed by	Erick Avari
In-story stats
Known ability	None
Gender
Age	Unknown
Residence	Chandra Suresh's apartment
Occupation	Genetics professor; taxi cab driver
Child	Mohinder Suresh

Chandra Suresh is Mohinder's late father.

Chandra Suresh was the author of "Activating Evolution", a book which appears to explain the reason so many people with powers are suddenly appearing. He found a means of tracking and locating potential powered people. He was also connected with Sylar, whom he referred to as "Patient Zero". On a taped telephone coversation, however, he wanted nothing more to do with Sylar and insisted the strange man stop calling him. Before his death, Suresh kept a male lizard named after his son. Eden McCain, a friend Chandra made while living in New York called him "Papa Suresh" because she had difficulty pronouncing his first name.

Notes

• Chandra has yet to appear, other than in photographs.
• There was initially some confusion about the casting of Chandra Suresh. In all aired episodes, the jacket photo showed Erick Avari. However, the recap before Collision showed the scene with Peter giving the book to Nathan, and a different photograph of a man in a turban was used. When earlier episodes were rebroadcast, the Erick Avari cover was again used. A closer analysis indicates that it is the other photograph of the man wearing a turban that is obsolete: in the scene with Peter and Nathan, the book shows the Erick Avari photo. Then as the book is put down, the other photo appears briefly in a wide shot, and finally in the next scene it's the Erick Avari cover again. It would have been difficult to cover, alter, or refilm the wide shot, so what probably happened was that the turbaned photo was used as a stand-in until Erick Avari was cast, and then the close-ups of the cover were re-filmed before the episode was broadcast. Somehow, the original shot was inadvertantly used for the recap before "Collision", leading to all the confusion.