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Lijo Jose Pellissery
 
Lijo Jose Pellissery at IFFI 2018
Born (1979-09-18) 18 September 1979 (age 44)
Chalakudy, Kerala, India
Other namesLijo Jose
LJP
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Film director, actor
Years activeSince 2010
Parent(s)Jose Pellissery
Lilly Jose
Awards

Biography

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Personal life

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Lijo Jose Pellissery (LJP) was born on September 18, 1979 in Chalakudy in Thrissur district of the south Indian state of Kerala to Lilly and Jose Pellissery, a known film and theater actor and a winner of a state award for best stage actor.[1][2] His schooling was at Carmel Higher Secondary School, Chalakudy and, after graduating from the Union Christian College, Aluva, he earned a master's degree in business administration from the Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bangalore.[3][4]

Career

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By the time Lijo Pellissery was born, Jose Pellissery who co-owned a theater group by Sarathy Theatres,[2] was active in Malayalam films and this gave the young Lijo an early grounding in films.[5] His career started as an assistant to Manoj Pillai, an ad filmmaker, and Pellissery soon started making short films of his own. One of his films, 3, was one of three films shortlisted for the best film award at the PIX Short Film Festival 2007.[6] He debuted as a feature film director in 2010 with Nayakan, which narrated the story of a Kathakali artist who joined the underworld to take revenge on those who killed his family. Though the film was critically acclaimed, it failed at the box office.[7][8][9][10] His next venture, City of God, one of the early New Generation films of Malayalam cinema[11] and a multi-starrer featuring Indrajith Sukumaran, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Parvathy, Swetha Menon and Rima Kallingal used hyperlink cinema as its narrative structure and was a critical success[12] but, again failed miserably at the box office; it was pulled from cinemas just days after its release.[13]

It took another two years before he came up with his third movie, Amen, in 2013, which had Indrajith Sukumaran, Fahad Fasil, Swathi Reddy and Kalabhavan Mani in the lead roles and the movie succeeded at the box office while drawing good critical response.[14][15] After a gap of almost two years, Pellissery released his fourth film, Double Barrel, a comic thriller, with Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indrajith Sukumaran, Arya, Sunny Wayne and Asif Ali in the lead roles. However, the film did not succeed critically or commercially.[16] The next project, Angamaly Diaries, a black comedy cloaked in a gangster plot that revolves around the locale of Angamaly, was scripted by popular actor, Chemban Vinod Jose.[17] The film, made on a small budget of ₹30 million,[18] was received well at the box office and drew critical acclaim; Anurag Kashyap opined that Angamaly Diaries was his film of the year.[19][20] Ee.Ma.Yau, his next film based on a satire written by P. F. Mathews[21] and with his regular composer, Prashant Pillai, scoring the music,[22] was premiered on November 30, 2017[23] but the release was delayed due to undisclosed reasons.[24] Before it was released on May 4, 2018, the film received the Kerala State Film Award for Best Director at the 48th Kerala State Film Awards.[25] The film also won him the Silver Peacock Award for the best director at the 49th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), 2018, which was held in Goa in November 2018[26] (Chemban Vinod Jose, the protagonist of the film, also received the Silver Peacock Award for the best actor.[27]) followed by the Sinema Zetu International Film Festival Award for Best Direction.[28]

Influences and style of film making

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A fan of film makers such as K. G. George, Padmarajan, Akira Kurosawa, Quentin Tarantino and Francis Ford Coppola,[29][30] Pellissery often uses non-linear style of narrative.[11] His early films had established actors in the lead roles but Angamaly Diaries marked a change where almost the entire cast were newcomers with 86 new actors making their debut, and subsequently accomplishing a triumph in the form of a 11-minute uninterrupted long take in the climax.[31][32]

Awards

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Year Award Category Film
2013 Asianet Film Award Best Director Amen
2013 Atlas Film Critics Award Best popular movie Amen
2014 Royal Reel Award-Canada Film Festival Best film Amen
2017 Cinema Paradiso Club Award Best Director Angamaly Diaries
2017 Kerala State Film Award Best Director Ee.Ma.Yau
2018 Silver Peacock IFFI 2018 Best Director Ee.Ma.Yau
2018 Golden Crow Pheasant IFFK 2018 Best Director Ee.Ma.Yau
2019 Sinema Zetu International Film Festival Award SZIFF 2019 Best Director Ee.Ma.Yau
2019 Film Critics Circle of India Best Film Ee.Ma.Yau
Silver Peacock IFFI 2019 Best Director Jallikattu

Filmography

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As director

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Year Title Cast Screenwriter Notes
2010 Nayakan Indrajith, Siddique, Thilakan P. S. Rafeeq
2011 City of God Prithviraj, Rima Kallingal, Indrajith, Parvathy Babu Janardhanan
2013 Amen Fahadh Faasil, Swati Reddy, Indrajith P. S. Rafeeq
2015 Double Barrel Prithviraj, Indrajith, Asif Ali, Arya Lijo Jose Pellissery
2017 Angamaly Diaries Antony Varghese, Anna Rajan Chemban Vinod Jose
2018 Ee.Ma.Yau Vinayakan, Chemban Vinod Jose, Dileesh Pothan P. F. Mathews
2019 Jallikkattu Chemban Vinod Jose, Antony Varghese S Hareesh, R. Jayakumar

As producer

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Year Title Director
2015 Double Barrel Himself
2018 Swathanthryam Ardharathriyil Tinu Pappachan
2019 Thamaasha Ashraf Hamza
2019 Jallikkattu Himself

As actor

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Year Title Director Role
2010 Nayakan (2010 film) Lijo Jose Pellissery A smuggling agent
2011 Bombay March 12 Babu Janardhanan Terrorist
2014 Sapthamashree Thaskaraha Anil Radhakrishnan Menon Priest
2016 Aakashavani Khais Millen Thomas
2016 Darvinte Parinamam Jijo Antony Himself
2017 Oru Cinemakkaran Leo Thaddeus Himself
2017 Mayaanadhi Aashiq Abu Director Len Prasad
2018 Swathanthryam Ardharathriyil Tinu Pappachan Lawyer
2018 Padayottam Rafeek Ibrahim Britto

References

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  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-04-04. Retrieved 2013-12-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ a b "The Hindu : Kerala News : Actor Jose Pellissery dead". www.thehindu.com. December 6, 2004. Retrieved 2018-12-01.
  3. ^ "Lijo Jose Pellissery biography". veethi.com. 2018-12-01. Retrieved 2018-12-01.
  4. ^ "Lijo Jose Pellissery to get engaged – Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2018-05-11.
  5. ^ "Lijo Jose Pellissery IDSFFK". IDSFFK. 1 December 2018. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
  6. ^ "PIX declares winners of its short film fest - Businessofcinema.com". Businessofcinema.com. 2007-12-25. Retrieved 2018-12-01.
  7. ^ "Nayakan Review – Malayalam Movie Review by VN". Nowrunning.com. 2010-03-22. Retrieved 2012-08-22.
  8. ^ "Review: Nayakan is interesting – Rediff.com Movies". Rediff.com. 2010-03-22. Retrieved 2012-08-22.
  9. ^ "Movie Review:Nayakan". Sify. Retrieved 2012-08-22.
  10. ^ Gayathry, By (2010-03-22). "Nayakan – Review | – Oneindia Entertainment". Entertainment.oneindia.in. Retrieved 2012-08-22.
  11. ^ a b "Malayalam movies: Non-linear narratives are making the box-office ring louder". economictimes. 21 May 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-18.
  12. ^ Veeyen (24 April 2011). "City Of God Review". nowrunning.com – "don't miss the show!". INFOCON LLC. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
  13. ^ "Review: City Of God is worth a watch". Rediff. April 25, 2011. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  14. ^ "Fahadh Faasil's Amen turns four! – Times of India". The Times of India. March 22, 2017. Retrieved 2018-12-01.
  15. ^ "Review: Amen is brilliant". Rediff. December 1, 2018. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
  16. ^ "Double Barrel Movie Review {2.5/5}: Critic Review of Double Barrel by Times of India". Times of India. April 6, 2016. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  17. ^ James, Anu (2018-12-02). "Angamaly Diaries review: Here's what celebs have to say about Lijo Jose Pellissery's movie". International Business Times, India Edition. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  18. ^ "Small is beautiful: Malayalam cinema's low budget films are scoring big at the box office". The News Minute. 2017-09-07. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  19. ^ "And...the best film of the year is Angamaly Diaries, says Anurag Kashyap! – Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2018-05-11.
  20. ^ "Angamaly Diaries: Here Is What Anurag Kashyap Has To Say About The Movie!". filmibeat.com. 2018-12-02. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  21. ^ "Angamaly Storyteller, Lijo Jose Pellissery Has taken Contemporary Malayalam Cinema By Storm". Man's World India. 2018-04-17. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  22. ^ "French Viplavam to be released in September". Cinema Express. 23 July 2018. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  23. ^ M, Athira (2017-11-30). "'Ee.Ma.Yau' preview: A death and the events that follow". The Hindu. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  24. ^ "Release of Lijo Jose's 'Ee Ma Yau' postponed to 2018". The News Minute. 2017-12-20. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  25. ^ "മരണത്തോളം സത്യസന്ധം ഈ ചിത്രം; റിവ്യു". ManoramaOnline. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  26. ^ "IFFI: Chemban Vinod and Lijo Jose Pellissery bag big wins at the film fest – Times of India". The Times of India. 2018-12-01. Retrieved 2018-12-01.
  27. ^ "The unpredictable mind behind 'Ee.Ma Yau': Lijo Jose Pellissery interview". The News Minute. 2018-12-01. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  28. ^ "SZIFF – International Film Festival Tanzania". sziff.co.tz. 2019-03-05. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  29. ^ [I Personally – Lijo Jose Pellissery – Part 03 Kappa TV (YouTube Video) YouTube Channel]
  30. ^ "Welcome to Gateway". Rediff.com. 2018-12-02. Retrieved 2012-08-22.
  31. ^ "Angamaly Diaries: Meet the director whose Malayalam film is probably the best this year". hindustantimes.com. 2017-04-30. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  32. ^ "EE. Ma. Yau: Five reasons to watch Lijo Jose Pellissery – Times of India". The Times of India. 2018-12-02. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
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