John Mahendran

John Mahendran
Other names	John Roshan [1]
Occupation	Director
Years active	2002 - present
Parent	Mahendran

John Mahendran, credited as John, 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 Mahendran.^{[ citation needed ]}

Career

Reports in July 1997 suggested that John was set to direct a film under Mani Ratnam's production house with Manoj Bharathiraja in the lead role, though the project failed to materialize. ^[1] John then made his directorial debut with the Telugu romantic drama, Premichedi Endukamma (1999) ^[2] and also directed Neetho (2002) starring newcomers Prakash Kovelamudi and Mahek Chahal, though the film performed poorly at the box office. ^{[3] [4]} He later adapted and remade the latter film in Tamil as Sachein (2005) with Vijay, Genelia D'Souza and Bipasha Basu in the lead roles. ^[5] 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. ^[6] John subsequently began work and finished the first schedule for Urumi, which starred Sibiraj and Aparna Pillai, but the film was later shelved.^{[ citation needed ]} He then began pre-production on a film starring Vishal and also a project titled Saravedi, starring Jeevan but both the projects never materialized. ^[7]

John began work on a political comedy film titled Thallaippu Seidhigal in 2011 with Nakul and Aindrita Ray in the lead, and although the team had a photoshoot and later went through a title change, with a new title of Sadugudu, the project was shelved.^{[ citation needed ]} 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). ^[8] Subsequently he worked as a writer on film including Kaashmora (2016) and Motta Siva Ketta Siva (2017), while working as a screenplay and dialogue writing teacher at the Bofta Film Institute based in Chennai.

In 2022, he wrote for the Tamil movie Visithiran , the official remake of Malayalam movie Joseph directed by M. Padmakumar. ^[9]

Filmography

Director

Year	Film	Language	Notes
1999	Preminchedi Endukamma	Telugu	credited as John
2002	Neetho	Telugu
2005	Sachein	Tamil
2007	Aanivaer	Tamil

Actor

Year	Film	Role
2022	Raangi	Krishnamurthy
2023	Raththam	Inspector Vimal Raj

Writer

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

Year	Film	Screenplay	Dialogues	Notes
2013	Settai	Yes	Yes
2013	Ambikapathy	No	Translated
2013	Athiradi Vettai	No	Translated
2017	Motta Shiva Ketta Shiva	No	Yes
2018	Kashmora	No	Yes
2020	Darbar	No	Yes
2021	Kabadadaari	No	Yes
2022	Visithiran	No	Yes
2022	Vikrant Rona	No	Translated
2023	Kondraal Paavam	No	Yes
2023	Agent	No	Translated

References

1. "GOKUL'S HOME PAGE".
2. jeevi. "Premichedi Endukamma?". Idlebrain.com .
3. "Telugu Cinema roundup in 2002 - list of straight movies released".
4. "Telugu Cinema — Review — Neetho — Surya Prakash, Mehek — Vidya sagar — John — Ramoji Rao".
5. "'Bipasha is not there just for an item number'".
6. "Comedy, creativity mark cultural extravaganza". 8 September 2007 – via The Hindu.
7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 28 September 2015. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
8. IANS. "Dhanush an effortless actor: John Mahendran".
9. "RK Suresh to remake 'Joseph' in Tamil, Bala to produce". Sify . Archived from the original on 6 October 2019.

External links

• John Mahendran at IMDb