Manoj Shyamalan was born on August 6th 1970. His professional name is M. Night Shyamalan. He is an American-Indian film actor, director, screen writer, producer. He is known as an occasional actor who takes supernatural contemporary plots and makes movie. Near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he settles his films, a place where he had grown up. He was known for including plots twist in his film. Hollywood film imprints Co and Walt Disney Studios' Touchstone produced and released most of his commercially successful films.
From the Indian Government, he was awarded Padma Shri. In Mahe a place in Pondicherry, Southwestern India he was born to a South Indian parent. Nelliate C. Shyamalan was his father who was from Mahé and was a Malayali and he completed his graduation with a degree of medical from Jimper. Jayalaxmi is his mother who is a Tamil and a gynecologist by profession. Veena is her first child and after her birth, they went to the United States of America. After three months of the second pregnancy, his mother returned to India. He had grown in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania, after spending his six weeks in Pondicherry.
At the young age he got the Camera Super 8 and after this, he had a desire of filmmaking. Continuing and following the family business of medicine by him was his father’s wish. Drama Praying with Anger, a semi-autobiography was his first film that he made while he was a student and borrowed money from his family as well as from his friends for his first movie. Wild Awake was his second movie. In 1999 he earned a Young Artist Award for their film Wild Awake which he attended when he was a child in school. He got nominated for Cross, Best Performance, and Best Drama.
He wrote the Stuart Little’s screenplay along Greg Brooker in the same year. He met a fellow student in New York University names Bhavna Vaswani whom he married. In Berwyn, Pennsylvania, his production company, Blinding Edge Pictures is located. He iss a director, executive producer, writer as well as an actor in the films like Unbreakable (2000(, Praying with Anger (1992). Signs (2002), The Village Story soon >> Read More... (2004), Lady in the Water (2006), The Happening (2008), The Last Airbender(2010). Wide Awake, The Sixth Sense, Stuart little, Devil, After Earth Click to look into! >> Read More... , Wayward Pines, The Visit Click to look into! >> Read More... , Split are some films in which he was either a director, executive producer, writer or an actor.
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