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 Mahendran.[1]

John Mahendran
Other namesJohn Roshan
OccupationDirector
Years active2002 - present
ParentMahendran

Career

John Mahendran directed two low-key Telugu films: Preminchedi Endukamma and Neetho.[2] He remade Neetho in Tamil as Sachein (2005) with Vijay, Genelia D'Souza and Bipasha Basu in the lead roles.[3][4] 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.[5]

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 .[6] 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.[7] Currently he is writing for the Tamil movie Visithiran, official remake of Malayalam movie Joseph, Directed by M.Padmakumar.[8]

Filmography

Director

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



2023 R I P Telugu

Actor

Year Film Language Notes
2022RaangiTamil
2023 Ratham Tamil
2023 Redrum Tamil
2023 Goli Soda Tamil
2023 Casino Tamil

Writer

  • All films are in Tamil including dubs. He has translated other language films into Tamil.
Year Film Screenplay Dialogues Notes
2013SettaiYesYes
2013AmbikapathyNoTranslated
2013Athiradi VettaiNoTranslated
2017Motta Shiva Ketta ShivaNoYes
2018KashmoraNoYes
2020DarbarNoYes
2021KabadadaariNoYes
2022VisithiranNoYes
2022Vikrant RonaNoTranslated
2023 Kondraal Paavam No Yes
2023 Agent NoTranslated
2023 RIP Yes
2023 Haridas - 2 Yes Yes

References

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23710126/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13540288/

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt10805970/characters/nm1892316?ref_=tt_cl_c_4

https://g.co/kgs/VFikG3 http://www.tamilsydney.com/content/view/44/37/ Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine

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