Happy Birthday Lijo Jose Pellissery: Unknown facts about the filmmaker you may not know

Lijo Jose Pellissery has only seven movies to his credit, but he is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers from Indian cinema. The filmmaker began his career with the 2010 release ‘Nayakan’ and has now emerged as one of the promising forces to reckon with. As the filmmaker is celebrating his birthday today, let’s take a look at some of the interesting facts about him you may not know.
He is a huge fan of KG George
Lijo Jose Pellissery is a huge fan of veteran filmmaker KG George.Pellissery has often praised the works of KG George and always admitted that the revered filmmaker has influenced him. Lijo Jose Pellissery is also influenced by the works of legends like P Padmarajan, Stanley Kubrick, and Akira Kurusova among others.
He doesn’t like differentiating a movie as art or commercial type
Lijo Jose Pellissery doesn’t go with the idea of differentiating movies as art or commercial movies. He believes that a movie is a movie and one must not separate it as the one that is for intellectuals and the other is for the box office. He firmly believes that movies are made for entertaining the audience and hence categorizing them isn’t cool.
His father was an actor
Lijo Jose Pellissery is the son of late Mollywood actor Jose Pellissery. His father Jose Pellissery was a prominent Mollywood actor known for his gracefully playing the supporting characters. Jose Pellissery passed away in 2005 and some of his popular movies include 'Harikrishnans', 'Kusruthikaattu', 'Kaliveedu', 'Thilakkam' and 'Kalyanaraman'.
His first movie was a flop in the box office
They say life is all about falling seven times and getting up on the eighth and Lijo Jose Pellissery followed the same. His debut directorial 'Nayakan' was an impressive movie. Featuring Indrajith Sukumaran in the lead, the movie discussed the life of a Kathakali artist and his revenge. Although the movie received positive reviews, it failed in the box office. 10 years later, at this present moment, he is a filmmaker who could equally impress the audience, critics, and the box office numbers!
He is an independent filmmaker
A month ago, Lijo Jose Pellissery declared that he will be an independent filmmaker. He was apparently upset by regulations that prevent filmmakers from creating their content and choosing the platform of release, which was an after effect of the pandemic. Lijo Jose Pellissery clarified that he is a creator and hence can’t stand with restricting one from their work and questioning the integrity.