| Jeethu Joseph Quick Info | |
|---|---|
| Height | 5 ft 7 in |
| Weight | 79 kg |
| Date of Birth | November 10, 1972 |
| Zodiac Sign | Scorpio |
| Spouse | Linta Jeethu |
Jeethu Joseph is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer who is best known for having written and directed Malayalam-language films like Detective (2007), Mummy & Me (2010), My Boss (2012), Drishyam (2013), Oozham (2016), Aadhi (2018), and Drishyam 2 (2021). Jeethu has also produced a few Malayalam-language films and written and/or directed a few Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi-language films.
Born Name
Jeethu Joseph
Nick Name
Jeethu
Sun Sign
Scorpio
Born Place
Mutholapuram, Muvattupuzha, Ernakulam, Kerala, India
Residence
Thrippunithura, Kochi, Kerala, India
Nationality
Education
Jeethu had attended the Fathima Matha English Medium School in Piravom, a municipality in his home district of Ernakulam. After his high school graduation, he joined Nirmala College, an arts and science college in his hometown of Muvattupuzha. He graduated from there with a bachelor’s degree in economics.
Occupation
Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer
Family
- Father – V. V. Joseph (Politician, Former member of Kerala’s state legislative assembly from the Muvattupuzha constituency)
- Mother – Leelamma Joseph
Build
Average
Height
5 ft 7 in or 170 cm
Weight
79 kg or 174 lbs
Girlfriend / Spouse
Jeethu has dated –
- Linta Jeethu – Through his long-term marriage to Linta, Jeethu has 2 daughters named Catherine and Katina. Linta has worked as a costume designer in the Malayalam film industry. She later expanded her range by becoming a screenwriter.
Race / Ethnicity
Asian (Indian)
Hair Color
Black
Eye Color
Dark Brown
Sexual Orientation
Straight
Distinctive Features
- Mildly stocky frame
- Short-cropped hair
- Affable smile
- Clean-shaven look
- Puffy face
Jeethu Joseph Facts
- His father had wanted him to become an engineer but Jeethu had a diametrically opposite idea about his career. He wanted to join the film industry and had held ambitions of joining the FTII (Film and Television Institute of India), a renowned film institute located in Pune, Maharashtra, India.
- He began his career as an assistant director in the early 2000s and simultaneously developed the plot for Detective (2007) – his directorial debut, a Malayalam suspense thriller film. He initially struggled to find any producers for the film and the project came to life only after Jeethu’s mother offered to co-produce the film. A month into the film’s shooting, another producer joined the team.
- The film was successful at the box office as were his next 3 directorial ventures – Mummy & Me (2010), My Boss (2012), and Memories (2013).
- As the director and writer of Drishyam, a critically acclaimed and commercially successful 2013 Indian Malayalam-language crime thriller film, Jeethu won the ‘Best Popular Film’ award at the 2013 edition of the Kerala State Film Awards.
- For the same film, he also won the ‘Best Director’ award at the Kerala Film Critics Association Awards as well as the SIIMA (South Indian International Movie Awards). Drishyam holds the record of being the first Malayalam film to have crossed the INR 50 crore mark at the box office. It remained the highest-grossing Malayalam language film until 2016.
- The popular success of the film saw it being remade in 4 other Indian languages – Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi. It has also been remade outside of India – in languages such as Sinhala, Chinese, Indonesian, and Korean. This made it the first Indian film ever to have been remade in Mainland China as well as the first Indian film ever to have been remade in the Indonesian and Korean languages.
Featured Image by Jeethu Joseph / Instagram
