Lijo Jose pellissery

Lijo Jose pellissery was born on Sep. 12,1979 in chalakudy in Thrissur District of the South Indian state of kerala to Lilly and Jose pellissery, a known film and theater actor and a winner of a state award for best stage actor. His schooling was at carmel higher secondary school chalakudy and, after graduation from the union Christian college, Aluva, he earned a master’s degree in business administration from the Indian institute of plantation management, Bangalore. His career started as an assistant to Manoj Pillai, an ad filmmaker, and Pellissery soon started making short films of his own. One of his films, 3,was one of three films shortlisted for the best film award at the PIX short film festival 2007. He debuted as a feature film director in 2010 with Nayakan, which narrated the story of a Kathakali artist who joined the underworld to take revenge on those who killed his family. Though the film was critically acclaimed, it failed at the box office. His one of the project is Angamaly Diaries, a black comedy cloaked in a gangster plot that revolves around the locate of Angamaly, was scripted by popular actor, chemban vinod Jose. The film also won him the silver peacock award for the best director at the 49th International film Festival of India, 2018, which was held in Goa in Nov. 2018.Chemban vinod Jose, the protagonist of the film, also received the silver peacock award for the best actor.

A self- proclaimed fan of film makers such as Quentin Tarantino, Francis Ford Coppola, K. G. George, padmarajan and Akira Kurosawa, pellissery often uses non linear style of narrative. His early films had established actors in the lead roles but Angamaly Diaries marked a change where almost the entire cast were newcomers with 86 new actors making their debut. His style of film making has drawn comparisons with that of Quentin Tarantino and has earned him the moniker, the Tarantino of Mollywood.