Ace scriptwriter Dennis Joseph, who wrotes for a number of superhit movies within the eighties and nineties that made actors Mammootty and Mohanlal superstars, handed away after struggling a cardiac arrest on Monday night time, trade sources stated.
Joseph, who started his profession within the early eighties as a journalist with a movie journal, later began writing scripts. He penned scripts for 45 movies apart from directing 5 motion pictures, of which ‘Manu Uncle’ fetched him the nationwide award for finest youngsters’s movie in 1988.
Joseph’s final wrote the script for ace director Priyadarshan’s movie ‘Geethanjali’ in 2013. He was planning one other scriot, which was within the pipeline.
On Monday night time, Joseph collapsed at his home in Kottayam and was rushed to a hospital, the place he was declared lifeless on arrival.
Among the all-time Malayalam hits, Joseph had written the script for the blockbuster ‘New Delhi’, a movie which gave a brand new lease of life to Mammootty’s profession in 1987.
Whenever Joseph and director Joshy obtained collectively, they scripted a few of the largest success tales within the Malayalam movie trade.
Mohanlal’s profession took an upward surge following the 1986 hit film ‘Rajavinte Makhan’, which was scripted by Joseph and directed by Thampi Kannanthanam.
When he wrote ‘No. 20 Madras Mail’, it noticed each Mammootty and Mohanlal appearing collectively within the Joshy directorial.
Reacting to the demise of Joseph, Mohanlal stated that “no doubt it was he who made me”.
“Take any character that I played, I owe it to him. And the big films of yesteryears were also made in other languages just because of the power of his script. The dialogues of ‘Rajavinte Makhan’ continue to reverberate even now and that says everything. Never felt he would go this fast,” stated Mohanlal.
Another famous person Suresh Gopi, presently a member of the Rajya Sabha whose function in ‘New Delhi’ additionally catapulted his movie profession, stated that he was shocked to listen to this extraordinarily unhappy information.
