John Mahendran

John Mahendran is an Indian film director and screenwriter who has worked on Tamil and Telugu and language films. John is the son of noted Tamil film maker J. Mahendran.[1]

John Mahendran
Other namesJohn Roshan
OccupationDirector
Years active2002 - present
Parent(s)J. Mahendran

Career

John Mahendran made the film in Tamil as Sachein (2005) with Vijay, Genelia D'Souza and Bipasha Basu in the lead roles.[2] John later worked on the independent Tamil film Aanivaer (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.[3]

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 .[4] Subsequently he worked as a writer on film including Kaashmora (2016) starring Karthi and Nayanthara Directed by Gokul and Motta Siva Ketta Siva (2017), while working as a screenplay and dialogue writing teacher at the Bofta Film Institute based in Chennai.[5] Currently he is writing for the Tamil movie Visithiran, official remake of Malayalam movie Joseph, Directed by M.Padmakumar.[6]


Filmography

Director
Year Film Language Notes
1999Preminchedi EndukammaTelugu
2002NeethoTelugu
2005SacheinTamil
2007AanivaerTamil

Writer
Year Film Screenplay Dialogues Notes
2013SettaiYY
2013AmbikapathyNYDubbed version of Hindi film Raanjhanaa. Dialogues translated.
2013Athiradi VettaiNYDubbed version of Telugu film Dookudu. Dialogues translated.
2018KashmoraNY

References
  1. "John Roshan on director Mahendran's next".
  2. "Bipasha is not there just for an item number".
  3. "Comedy, creativity mark cultural extravaganza". 8 September 2007 – via The Hindu.
  4. IANS. "Dhanush an effortless actor: John Mahendran".
  5. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5980232/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. https://www.sify.com/movies/rk-suresh-to-remake-joseph-in-tamil-bala-to-produce-news-malayalam-tjsqHjidedaga.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)

https://g.co/kgs/VFikG3 http://www.tamilsydney.com/content/view/44/37/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2007/08/17/stories/2007081751390300.htm

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