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Jeethu Joseph

ジートゥ・ジョゼフ　/　じーとぅ・じょぜふ

Film director from India

November 10, 1972 (age 53)　・　Elanji Grama Panchayat, Ernakulam district, India

Ernakulam district
film director
screenwriter
actor

My Take

What fascinates me about Jeethu Joseph is how exportable his storytelling is. When your Malayalam thrillers keep getting remade in Tamil, Hindi, and Telugu, sometimes by your own hand, that tells me the architecture of the plot, not star power, is doing the heavy lifting. Since his 2007 debut with Detective, he has built a reputation as a craftsman of suspense, the kind of director who trusts an audience to follow quiet clues rather than bombarding them with spectacle. I admire filmmakers who treat structure as an art form, and Joseph strikes me as one of Indian cinema's finest practitioners of the slow-burn reveal. He earns every twist.

Overview

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, Hindi and Telugu films, a few of which are remade from his own Malayalam films. He made his directional debut with the 2007 suspense thriller Detective.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Jeethu Joseph
Name (Japanese): ジートゥ・ジョゼフ
Reading: じーとぅ・じょぜふ
Born: November 10, 1972 (age 53)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Scorpio / Rat
Origin: Elanji Grama Panchayat, Ernakulam district, India
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: film director / screenwriter / actor

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: St. Berchmans College

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeethu%20Joseph

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