Well, the pilot was Serbian (with British citizenship), Zlatko Glusica - 53 ( here is his facebook profile:
Zlatko Glusica | Facebook ). He was experienced pilot with more than 10.000 flight hours, earned from 1979 (in JAT most probably in B737-300), and from october 2008 in Air India (737-800), and he had experience of Mangalore's airport.
He celebrated his birthday on may 16th. (some cheers and thanks are on his FB profile)