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Dennis Joseph is a Director and Scriptwriter Indian born on 20 october 1957
Dennis Joseph is a Malayalam scriptwriter and director. Born in Ettumanoor, Kottayam in Kerala, India, Dennis Joseph has been a popular name in the late 80's and early nineties. Though has associated with several top directors, his best films had been with Joshi and Thambi Kannanthanam. Dennis Joseph also has directed five films.
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Thudar Katha (1991)
Directed by Dennis Joseph
Genres Drama
Actors Saikumar, Rajan P. Dev, Devan, Sreenivasan, Jagathy Sreekumar, Vijayaraghavan
Appu (1990)
Directed by Dennis Joseph
Genres Drama
Actors Mohanlal, Murali, Rajan P. Dev, K. R. Vijaya, Sunitha Shivaramakrishnan, Vijayaraghavan
Rating61%
Appukuttan is a poor orphan and honest young man who falls in love with Sarojini. One day Sugandhi, a dancer in Alamelu's troop, was found raped and murdered. Appu became a suspect of this murder. With the help of his friends Chandikunju and lawyer Prabhakaran, Appu tries to find the culprits.
Adharvam (1989)
Directed by Dennis Joseph
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Horror, Crime, Politic
Actors Mammootty, Charuhasan, Silk Smitha, Thilakan, Jose Prakash, Parvathy
Rating68%
The movie is a portrait of the life of Anantha Padmanabhan (Mammootty), born to an aristocratic Namboothiri father (Charuhasan) and a low caste mother (Jayabharathi), who quickly learns and masters all 3 Vedas and allied arts of it. Ananthan and his family go through a lot of trouble, as the narrow-minded Brahmin community finds out that he is in love with an aristocratic girl, which ends in tragedy upon his family. To seek revenge for his mother's death, he learns ancient mystic tantric rituals and the 4th Veda, Atharvaveda, which is generally related to sorcery. He puts a menace on the whole society, using his powers that he gained over the years. His dad's second son (Ganesh Kumar) is sent to save the society and the village from the clutches of this austere man inflicted with vengeance.
Manu Uncle (1988)
Directed by Dennis Joseph
Genres Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Mammootty, M. G. Soman, Prathapachandran Nair, Suresh Gopi, Mohanlal, K. P. A. C. Lalitha
Rating72%
Mammootty plays the lead role Manu, M.A., L.L.B., BTech Electronics who is researching in astronomy. Manu's father (M. G. Soman) is a police officer. Lisi plays the role of Manu's sister Uma. Prathapachandran plays Ravunni, a family friend. Antony (Azeez) and Mary (K. P. A. C. Lalitha) are neighbours of Manu. Their children are Dany aka Lother and Ikru. Manu's elder sister (Jalaja)'s children comes from Delhi for their vacation. They with Dany and Ikru make up a four member team headed by Dany.
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Peruchazhi (2014)
, 2h34Directed by Arun Vaidyanathan, Priyadarshan
Genres Comedy
Actors Mohanlal, Nishan, Madhu, Mukesh, Pooja Kumar, Innocent
Rating39%
In California, the Republican party governor candidate John Kory (Sean James Sutton) is striving to raise his dismal ratings. Sunny Kurishingal (Vijay Babu), the chief campaign officer of John Kory, is failing with his campaign strategies and runs out of ideas to ensure Kory's victory. Sunny is forced to consult a third person's advise and calls Francis Kunjappan (Mukesh), a PWD minister and his native friend in Kerala, for hiring any good political consultant for devising campaign strategies. Kunjappan, initially reluctant, later recommends his friend and political competitor Jagannathan (Mohanlal), thus also hoping to get rid of him as he is a political threat to his ministerial position. Jagannathan, a young politician and a sports enthusiastic, is illiterate in English but has an inborn talent to solve the gravest of issues in the most prudent manner. Even Francis had consulted him for solving his toughest problems. But Francis thinks that Jaganathan’s unorthodox ideas will fail miserably in the US. Kunjappan meets Jagannathan and offers him the job and a remuneration of ₹30 crores which is sufficient to raise Jagannathan's dream project, a sports academy in Kerala. Jagannathan takes up the assignment and flies to the US, together with his assistants Pottakuzhi Jabbar (Baburaj) and Vayalar Varkey (Aju Varghese).
Geethanjali (2013)
, 2h30Directed by Priyadarshan
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Mohanlal, Nishan, Suresh Gopi, Nassar, Keerthy Suresh, Siddique
Roles Dialogue
Rating39%
Anjali (Keerthi Suresh), has a recent shocking history of her twin sister Geetha (Keerthi Suresh) committing suicide. She is already betrothed to Anoop (Nishan) from a prominent family. But when her mother suddenly falls down from the staircase ending up in paralysis, Anjali and Anoop proceed to her Arackal house. Once they reach there, they are into more mysteries as the spirit of Geetha starts to haunt Anjali, which even physically disturbs her. Within days from a series of horrifying incidents arrives Dr. Sunny Joseph (Mohanlal) with his style of wit and wisdom, to treat Anjali and to help her out of the crisis that she is in. He finds the shocking truth that Anjali is actually Geetha. Geetha had a criminal nature by birth. She accidentally killed Anjali during an argument,to not loose Anoop from her. Geetha tries to kill Anoop when he rejected her upon knowing the truth. However , in the end, Anjali's spirit prevent Geetha from shooting Anoop. Geetha is killed by the fire in the house. The film shows Anjali's spirit over Geetha while she is dying.
Kanyakumari Express (2010)
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Suresh Gopi, Lena, Sonia Agarwal, Babu Antony, Sarayu Mohan, Bheeman Reghu
Rating48%
Kanyakumari Express is about an Assistant police commissioner Mohan Sanker (Suresh Gopi). He lost his wife and children in an accident and shifted his job to Crime Branch. He did this only to lead a calm life. Change in his duty was welcomed by some politicians. But he was carrying his duty secretly that too without uniform. He even did research on temples of Kerala and Nanchinad. It was during this period his enemies began to die one by one. The Chief Minister (Jagathy Sreekumar) too misunderstood Mohan Sanker for the death of his enemies. There he started to investigate those murders.
Kadha, Samvidhanam Kunchacko (2009)
Genres Drama
Actors Sreenivasan, Meena, Shivaji Guruvayoor, Augustine, Janardhanan, Sona Nair
Roles Writer
Rating36%
Sreenivasan plays Kunchacko, a no-holds-barred money minter who has chopped off heads and hearts on his way to the top of the world. Getting married to Ann Mary (Meena) prompts him to turn a few new green leaves, though he soon figures out that making amends is not as easy as it seems.
Patham Nilayile Theevandi (2009)
Directed by Joshy Mathew
Genres Drama
Actors Jayasurya, Meera Nandan, Innocent, Vijayaraghavan, Anoop Menon, Jagannathan
Roles Writer
Rating66%
The film tells the story of Sankara Narayanan, a 55-year-old gangman from the Indian Railways. From his teenage days onward he was afraid of the strange voices that talked to him incessantly. To escape the fear, he seeks refuge in alcohol, alienating himself from his family and ending up in an asylum. His son Ramu could never sympathise with a father who had shirked his responsibility as a husband and a father. But Narayanan starts writing letters from the asylum, to which Ramu doesn’t even bother to reply. A young doctor tries to help Sankara Narayanan, for he knows that he can be cured. The doctor not only intends to reunite Narayanan with his family but also has something very important to reveal to Ramu.
Abraham And Lincoln (2007)
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Kalabhavan Mani, Salim Kumar, Rashin Rahman, Rajan P. Dev, Anoop Menon, Shweta Menon
Rating26%
Ayur Rekha (2007)
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Mukesh, Indrajith Sukumaran, Sreenivasan, Salim Kumar, Saikumar, Jyothirmayi
Rating44%
Ayur Rekha (2007)
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors P. Sreekumar, Indrajith Sukumaran, Mukesh, Sreenivasan, Salim Kumar, Saikumar
Rating44%
Thaskara Veeran (2005)
Genres Comedy
Themes Heist films
Actors Mammootty, Nayantara, Sheela, Innocent, Siddique, Rajan P. Dev
Roles Writer
Rating31%
Vajram (2004)
Genres Drama
Actors Mammootty, Kausalya, Babu Antony, Vasundhara Das, Mithun Murali, Rajan P. Dev
Roles Writer
Rating34%
Vajram movie is about Devarajan (Mammootty), a Mafioso turned crane operator. Circumstances and the shenanigans of one of his relatives (Kalasala Babu) see to that Devarajan is separated from his rich wife Nanda (Nandini). In the event, he is also separated from his son Appu (Master Mithun).
