Basil Joseph (born 28 April 1990) is an Indian film director and actor who works in the

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. He directed three films, ''

Kunjiramayanam ''Kunjiramayanam'' ( The story of Kunjiraman) is a 2015 Indian Malayalam-language comedy film directed by debutant Basil Joseph and scripted by Deepu Pradeep.The film features Vineeth Sreenivasan, Dhyan Sreenivasan and Aju Varghese in the lead ...

'' (2015), ''

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'' (2017) and ''

Minnal Murali ''Minnal Murali'' () is a 2021 Indian Malayalam-language superhero film directed by Basil Joseph and produced by Sophia Paul, under the banner of Weekend Blockbusters. The screenplay has been written by Arun Anirudhan and Justin Mathew. The fil ...

'' (2021). All three films were a huge success both commercially and critically. Besides direction, Basil is also an actor and has acted in numerous films. He started his career as an assistant director of

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in the 2013 film ''

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''. His acting debut was through the 2013 film '' Up & Down: Mukalil Oralundu'' directed by T.K. Rajeev Kumar.

Career

Basil Joseph began his career in 2012 as an actor in the short film ''CET Life'' during his engineering days at

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. He has also scripted and directed the short films, with Albert S ''Oru Thundu Padam'' and ''Priyamvadha Katharayano'' during his stint at

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, Trivandrum. Basil started his career in the

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by assisting

in his third directional venture, ''

'' in 2013. His directorial debut was in 2015 with ''

''which had malayalam film actor brothers

and

Dhyan Sreenivasan Dhyan Sreenivasan (born 20 December 1988) is an Indian actor, and film director who works in Malayalam films. He made his acting debut with ''Thira'' (2013), directed by his elder brother Vineeth Sreenivasan.

acting together for the first time. The movie narrated the tale of people from a quaint imaginary village called 'Desom' where myths, legends and superstitions play a major part in their life. The film became a commercial success at the box office among 2015 Malayalam film

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releases. Basil Joseph's second directorial venture ''Godha'' was a sports comedy movie pivoted around

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got released in 2017 which had Punjabi actress

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acting debut in

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. The movie was a commercial success and went on to become the highest grossing film of

Tovino Thomas Tovino Thomas (born 21 January 1989) is an Indian actor and film producer who prominently works in Malayalam films. He made his debut in 2012 with the film ''Prabhuvinte Makkal''. His breakthrough roles were in the films ''ABCD'' (2013), '' 7t ...

during that period. His third film ''

'' has

plays the role of a homegrown hero with superpowers. The movie, which was announced in 2020 and released on Netflix India on 24 December 2021, and should be noted that it is the first-ever superhero film of the malayalam film industry and had a simultaneous release in

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and

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languages. Basil Joseph made his acting debut in 2013 Malayalam film '' Up & Down: Mukalil Oralundu'' and has played various supporting actor roles around 18 Malayalam movies till date.

Personal life

On 17 August 2017, Basil married Elizabeth Samuel, with whom he was in a relationship for over seven years. He is an alumnus of

Filmography

Feature films

*''All films are in

language unless otherwise noted''.

As director

As assistant director

As actor

Short films

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Joseph, Basil Date of birth unknown Living people People from Wayanad district Film directors from Kerala Indian male film actors Male actors from Kerala Male actors in Malayalam cinema Malayalam film directors Malayalam screenwriters 21st-century Indian male actors Screenwriters from Kerala 1990 births