Dennis Joseph scripted a new chapter in Malayalam cinema
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May 14, 2021 16:04 IST
Writer-director Dennis Joseph, who passed away on May 10, created a wide range of characters and stories that have stood the test of time
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Writer-director Dennis Joseph, who passed away on May 10, created a wide range of characters and stories that have stood the test of time
If scenarist-director Dennis Joseph’s scripts crowned Mohanlal and Mammootty as superstars of Malayalam film industry, the writer’s iconic characters will always give him a place of pride in the pantheon of Malayalam cinema. His scripts in the mid-eighties and nineties were blockbusters that have gone to attain cult status in Mollywood.
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KOCHI: Dennis Joseph, whose movie scripts produced box office hits one after the other in the 1980s and 1990s in the Malayalam film industry, passed away in Kottayam following a heart attack on Monday. He was 64.
For Malayalam cinema, Dennis Joseph was simply a synonym for box-office success during those times. Period.
The genial writer literally kept the cash register ringing during the 1980s and 90s at a seemingly improbable rate.
No less than the two reigning superstars of Mollywood, Mammootty and Mohanlal, owed their careers to his Midas touch. While he saved the sagging career of Mammootty with the smashing blockbuster New Delhi (1987), he firmly put Mohanlal on the perch as a superstar with the runaway hit Rajavinte Makan (1986). And both the films and their protagonists - G Krishnamoorthy and Vincent Gomez have aged perfectly like wine and enjoyed by the audience from all generations even now whenever they are telecast by television channels.