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Lijo Jose Pellissery
Lijo Jose Pellissery at IFFI 2018
Born (1979-09-12) 12 September 1979 (age 44)
Chalakudy, Kerala, India
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Film director, actor
Years activeSince 2010
Spouse
Jasmine James
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(m. 2016)​
Parent(s)Jose Pellissery
Lilly Jose
Awards

Lijo Jose Pellissery is an Indian film director and actor of Malayalam cinema. Known for his unconventional style of film making which has earned him the moniker, the Tarantino of Mollywood, he is a recipient of the Best Director Award at the 48th Kerala State Film Awards and the Silver Peacock for the best director at the 49th International Film Festival of India, both for his film Ee.Ma.Yau.[1]

Pellissery made his debut in 2010 with the crime film Nayakan and followed it up with the crime-drama City of God (2011) and the black comedy satire Amen (2013), the latter a commercial success at the Kerala box-office. His fourth film, Double Barrel, an experimental film received only mixed reviews. His fifth film was again a crime-gangster film Angamaly Diaries (2017), starring almost 90 new actors, which preceded Ee.Ma.Yau, released in 2018.

Biography

Personal life

Lijo Jose Pellissery was born on September 12, 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.[2][3] 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.[4] He is married to Jasmine, a professional textile designer and an alumnus of National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), New Delhi.[5]

Career

By the time Lijo Pellissery was born, Jose Pellissery who co-owned a theater group by Sarathy Theatres,[3] was active in Malayalam films and this gave the young Lijo an early grounding in films.[6] 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.[7] 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.[8][9][10][11] His next venture, City of God, one of the early New Generation films of Malayalam cinema[12] 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[13] but, again failed miserably at the box office; it was pulled from cinemas just days after its release.[14]

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.[15][16] 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.[17] 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.[18] The film, made on a small budget of ₹30 million,[19] was received well at the box office and drew critical acclaim; Anurag Kashyap opined that Angamaly Diaries was his film of the year.[20] [21] Ee.Ma.Yau, his next film based on a satire written by P. F. Mathews[22] and with his regular composer, Prashant Pillai, scoring the music,[23] was premiered on November 30, 2017[24] but the release was delayed due to undisclosed reasons.[25] 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.[1] 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]

Influences and style of filmmaking

A self-proclaimed fan of film makers such as Quentin Tarantino, Francis Ford Coppola, K. G. George, Padmarajan and Akira Kurosawa,[28][29] Pellissery often uses non-linear style of narrative.[12] His early films had established actors in the lead roles but Angamaly Diaries marked a change where almost the entire cast was new comers with 86 new actors making their debut.[30] His style of filmmaking has drawn comparisons with that of Quentin Tarantino and has earned him the moniker, the Tarantino of Mollywood.[31][32]

Awards

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

Filmography

As director

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
TBA Jallikkattu Vinayakan, Antony Varghese S Hareesh [33]

As actor

Year Title Director Role
2010 Nayakan Lijo Jose Pellissery as a smuggling agent
2014 Sapthamashree Thaskaraha Anil Radhakrishnan Menon as a priest
2016 Aashvani Khais Millen as Thomas
2016 Darvinte Parinamam Jijo Antony as Director Lijo Jose Pellissery
2017 Oru Cinemakkaran Leo Thaddeus as Director Lijo Jose Pellissery
2017 Mayaanadhi Aashiq Abu as a director
2018 Swathanthryam Ardharathriyil Tinu Pappachan as a lawyer
2018 Padayottam (2018 film) Rafeek Ibrahim as Britto

References

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  19. ^ "Small is beautiful: Malayalam cinema's low budget films are scoring big at the box office". The News Minute. 7 September 2017. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
  20. ^ "And...the best film of the year is Angamaly Diaries, says Anurag Kashyap! - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  21. ^ "Angamaly Diaries: Here Is What Anurag Kashyap Has To Say About The Movie!". filmibeat.com. 2 December 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
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  33. ^ "ലിജോ ജോസ് പെല്ലിശ്ശേരിയുടെ പുതിയ ചിത്രം ജെല്ലിക്കെട്ട്". Mathrubhumi. 2 December 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2018.

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Further reading

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