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Jithu Joseph
Jeethu Joseph (born 10 November 1972) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema. He has also worked in a few Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films. Jeethu made his directional debut with the 2007 police procedural, ''Detective''. He is best known for the crime thrillers, '' Drishyam'' and ''Drishyam 2''. ''Drishyam'' became the highest-grossing Malayalam film ever, at its time of release. It was the first Malayalam film to cross the 50 crore mark, at the box office. ''Drishyam 2'' was released directly through Amazon Prime Video, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Like the prequel, it was highly acclaimed and appreciated, worldwide. His other works include '' Mummy & Me'' (2010), ''My Boss'' (2012), ''Life of Josutty'' (2015), '' Memories'' (2013), '' Oozham'' (2016), '' Aadhi'' (2018). Jeethu made his Tamil debut with ''Papanasam'' (2015) which is a remake of his 2014 film '' Drishyam'', Hindi debut with ''The Body'' (2019), and T ...
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Mutholapuram
Mutholapuram is a village in Ernakulam district Muvattupuzha Taluk in the Indian state of Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ....Mutholapuram is a small Village/hamlet in Muvattupuzha Taluk in Ernakulam District of Kerala State, India. It comes under Elanji Panchayath. It belongs to Central Kerala Division . It is located 42 km towards East from District headquarters Kakkanad. 8 km from Pampakuda. 182 km from State capital Thiruvananthapuram. Mutholapuram Pin code is 686665 and postal head office is Elanji . Thirumarady ( 6 km ), Palakuzha ( 7 km ), Piravom ( 10 km ), Arakuzha ( 12 km ), Pampakuda ( 12 km ) are the nearby Villages to Mutholapuram. Mutholapuram is surrounded. by Uzhavoor Taluk tow ...
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COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease quickly spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 are variable but often include fever, cough, headache, fatigue, breathing difficulties, Anosmia, loss of smell, and Ageusia, loss of taste. Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days incubation period, after exposure to the virus. At least a third of people who are infected Asymptomatic, do not develop noticeable symptoms. Of those who develop symptoms noticeable enough to be classified as patients, most (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while 14% develop severe symptoms (dyspnea, Hypoxia (medical), hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on imaging), and 5% develop critical symptoms (respiratory failure ...
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The Body (2019 Film)
''The Body'' is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language mystery-thriller film written and directed by Jeethu Joseph, produced by Viacom18 Studios and Sunir Kheterpal. The film starring Rishi Kapoor, Emraan Hashmi, Vedhika and Sobhita Dhulipala. It is the official remake of a 2012 Spanish film '' The Body'', which was already remade unofficially as bilingual films in Kannada and Tamil languages as ''Game'' in Kannada and ''Oru Melliya Kodu'' in Tamil (2016 film). The film was released on 13 December 2019. This marked the final film appearance of Kapoor before his death on 30 April 2020. Plot The dead body of a powerful businesswoman named Maya Verma, who died because of having a heart attack, disappeared from the morgue before the autopsy. SP Jairaj Rawal calls in Maya's husband, Ajay Puri, for investigation. Ajay Puri, who is the owner of a lab and worked under Maya's company seemed to have committed something wrong along with his girlfriend Ritu. Jairaj suspects Ajay and makes him sta ...
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Hindi Film
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (former name of Mumbai) and " Hollywood". The industry is a part of the larger Indian cinema, which also includes South Cinema and other smaller film industries. In 2017, Indian cinema produced 1,986 feature films, of which the largest number, 364 have been from Hindi. , Hindi cinema represented 43 percent of Indian net box-office revenue; Tamil and Telugu cinema represented 36 percent, and the remaining regional cinema constituted 21 percent. Hindi cinema has overtaken the U.S. film industry to become the largest centre for film production in the world. In 2001 ticket sales, Indian cinema (including Hindi films) reportedly sold an estimated 3.6 billion tickets worldwide, compared to Hollywood's 2.6 billion tickets sold. Earlier Hindi film ...
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Sify
Sify Technologies Limited (formerly Satyam Infoway) is an Indian information and communications technology company providing end-to-end ICT solutions including telecom services, data center services, cloud & managed services, transformation integration services and application integration services. Sify Technologies Limited played an important role during the early spread of Internet and e-commerce in India. It has been listed on NASDAQ as SIFY since October, 1999. Merill Lynch was the underwriter for Sify's IPO on the NASDAQ. Sify was founded and led to IPO by R. Ramaraj. History In November 1999, Sify paid crore for a 24.5% stake in IndiaWorld Communications. It acquired the remaining shares for crore on 30 June 2000. In 2000, Sify sponsored the India Olympics team. In March 2002, Sify made an agreement with Makemytrip to run Sify's travel portal. In January 2002, Sify announced prizes for most emails sent under a 6-week contest called "Sify Greenmail", promoting emails ...
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The New Indian Express
''The New Indian Express'' is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper published by the Chennai-based Express Publications. It was founded in 1932 as ''The Indian Express'', under the ownership of Chennai-based P. Varadarajulu Naidu. In 1991, following the death of owner Ramnath Goenka, his family split the group into two companies. Initially, the two groups shared the ''Indian Express'' title, as well as editorial and other resources. But on 13 August 1999, the northern editions, headquartered in Mumbai, retained the ''Indian Express'' moniker, while the southern editions became ''The New Indian Express''. Santwana Bhattacharya was appointed Editor-in-Chief on July 1st, 2022, replacing G.S. Vasu. History ''Indian Express'' was first published on September 5, 1932, in Madras (now Chennai) by an Ayurvedic doctor and Indian National Congress member P Varadarajulu Naidu, publishing from the same press where he ran the ''Tamil Nadu'' Tamil weekly. But soon, on accoun ...
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Papanasam (film)
''Papanasam'' () is a 2015 Indian Tamil-language crime thriller film directed by Jeethu Joseph, a remake of his 2013 Malayalam film ''Drishyam'', which starred Mohanlal. The film was jointly produced by Suresh Balaje and Rajkumar Sethupathi. It stars Kamal Haasan and Gautami, with Esther Anil, Asha Sarath and Roshan Basheer reprising their roles from the original film. Kalabhavan Mani, Nivetha Thomas and M. S. Bhaskar appear in supporting roles. The film tells the story of Suyambu, a middle-class cable TV operator, and his family. They come under suspicion when Varun, the son of the Inspector-general of police (IG), goes missing soon after sexually harassing Suyambu's elder daughter. The rest of the film reveals how Varun disappeared and what Suyambu does to keep his family from going to prison. The production work of ''Papanasam'' was undertaken by Suresh Balaje and George Pious. Music for the film was composed by Ghibran. The cinematography was led by Sujith Vaassudev and ...
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Tamil Film
Tamil cinema, also known as Kollywood is a part of Indian Cinema; primarily engaged in production of motion pictures in the Tamil language. Based out of the Kodambakkam neighbourhood in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, it is popularly called ''Kollywood'' - a portmanteau of the words Kodambakkam and Hollywood. The first Tamil silent film, ''Keechaka Vadham'', was directed by R. Nataraja Mudaliar in 1918. The first Tamil talking feature film, ''Kalidas'', a multilingual directed by H M Reddy was released on 31 October 1931, less than seven months after India's first talking motion picture ''Alam Ara''. By the end of the 1930s, the legislature of the State of Madras passed the Entertainment Tax Act of 1939. Tamil film industry established in Madras (now Chennai), then became a secondary hub for Hindi cinema, other South Indian film industries, as well as for Sri Lankan cinema. Over the last quarter of the 20th century, Tamil films from India established a global presence through distri ...
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Aadhi
''Aadhi'' is a 2018 Indian Malayalam-language action thriller film written and directed by Jeethu Joseph. The film stars Pranav Mohanlal in the title role (in his debut adult role) and features Jagapathi Babu, Siddique, Lena, Aditi Ravi, Anusree, Sharaf U Dheen, Siju Wilson, Meghanathan, Sijoy Varghese, Tony Luke, and Krishna Shankar in supporting roles. It was produced by Antony Perumbavoor through Aashirvad Cinemas. The original soundtrack for the film was composed by Anil Johnson. ''Aadhi'' also mark Pranav's debut as a singer-songwriter with the song "Gypsy Women" he wrote, sung, and performed. The principal photography took place between August and November 2017 in Kochi, Bangalore, and Hyderabad. ''Aadhi'' was released in India on 26 January 2018 and met with positive critical response. The film was a major commercial success, becoming one of the highest-grossing Malayalam films of the year and ran over 100 days in theatres. Plot Aadhi aspires to become a music director ...
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Oozham (2016 Film)
''Oozham : It's Just A Matter Of Time'' () is a 2016 Indian action thriller film written and directed by Jeethu Joseph. The film stars Prithviraj Sukumaran, Anson Paul, Neeraj Madhav, Jayaprakash, Divya Pillai, Balachandra Menon and debutant Rasna Pavithran. Shamdat Sainudheen handled the cinematography. The film was shot simultaneously in Malayalam and Tamil''. Oozham'' revolves around a demolition expert who teams up with his fiancée and adopted brother to avenge the deaths of their family members from the corrupt scientist who got them killed. The film released on 8 September 2016. This film was remade in Marathi as ''Grey'' starring Vaibhav Tattvawadi in the lead role. Plot Kovai Krishnamoorthy is a 24×7 health inspector in Kerala, whose son Surya works in US as a demolition expert. While video chatting with his sister Aishwarya, Surya witness some goons murdering his whole family and is left devastated. On the same day, Surya's girlfriend Gayathri's brother SP Par ...
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Memories (Malayalam Film)
''Memories'' is a 2013 Indian Malayalam-language slasher crime thriller film written and directed by Jeethu Joseph, starring Prithviraj Sukumaran, S. P. Sreekumar, Vijayaraghavan, Meghana Raj, Miya George, Suresh Krishna and Rahul Madhav. The film is produced by P. K. Muralidharan and Santha Murali under the banner of Anantha Visions. The film follows Sam Alex (Prithviraj), a drunkard cop, who is forced to investigate a series of murders. The film was released on 9th August 2013 and was critically acclaimed by the critics and was a commercial success at the box office. The film received cult status and regarded as one of the best crime thrillers in Mollywood, where it was remade in Tamil in 2016 as '' Aarathu Sinam''. Plot Sam Alex is a SP of Kerala Police, who is heavily dependent on alcoholism to ease the pain of his family loss. Sam was a peaceful family guy, leading a good life with his family. His loving wife Teena and beloved daughter were murdered by his enemy right ...
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Life Of Josutty
''Life of Josutty'' is a 2015 Malayalam-language family drama film directed by Jeethu Joseph. The film stars Dileep in the title role along with a supporting cast consisting of Jyothi Krishna, Rachana Narayanankutty, Renjini Rupesh, Hareesh Perady and Chempil Asokan. Nayanthara made a special appearance as 'Swapna' to whom Josutty finally marries in the climax portion of the movie. The story is formatted with commentaries from the protagonist. The screenplay and dialogue are written by Rajesh Varma. The film is co-produced and released by Eros International, it is their debut production and distribution in Malayalam cinema. ''Life of Josutty'' released on 24 September 2015 and met with generally positive reviews. Plot Josutty (Dileep) is the son of Joseph and Shoshamma. He belongs to a middle class traditional Christian farmer family in Kattappana, Idukki. As a child he desired to become a priest. But he falls in love with Jessy (Rachana Narayanankutty), his neighbor and childh ...
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