John Mahendran is an

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film director and screenwriter who has worked on Tamil and Telugu and language films. John is the son of noted Tamil film maker Mahendran.

Career

John Mahendran directed two low-key Telugu films: ''Preminchedi Endukamma'' and '' Neetho''. He remade ''Neetho'' in Tamil as ''

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'' (2005) with Vijay, Genelia D'Souza and

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in the lead roles. John later worked on the independent Tamil film ''

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'' (2006), which told the story of a doctor caught up in the Sri Lankan civil war. The film won positive reviews and had a limited release across regions with Tamil diaspora. In the early 2010s, John has worked on the script of '' Settai'' (2013) by helping director Kannan re-work the script of Hindi film '' Delhi Belly'' and on writing dialogues for ''Ambikapathy'', the dubbed Tamil version of '' Raanjhanaa'' (2013) starring Dhanush and Sonam kapoor Directed by Anand.L.Rai . Subsequently, he worked as a writer on film including '' Kaashmora'' (2016) starring

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and Nayanthara Directed by

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and ''

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'' (2017), while working as a screenplay and dialogue writing teacher at the Bofta Film Institute based in Chennai. Currently he is writing for the Tamil movie Visithiran, official remake of Malayalam movie

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, Directed by M.Padmakumar.

Filmography

Director

Writer

*''All films are in Tamil including dubs. He has translated other language films into Tamil''.

References

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