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John Abraham (I) More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

1937, Changanacherry, Kuttanad Dist., Kerala, India

Date of Death

31 May 1987, Kozhikode (Calicut), Kerala, India (injuries from a fall)

Mini Biography

Malayalam director who studied economics at a college near Kottayam. His grandfather educated him and gave him his first camera. He worked as an insurance salesman in Bellary. Then he went to FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) and studied under Bengali director Ritwik Kumar Ghatak. He started with a documentary. His first film was Vidyarthikale Ithile Ithile (1971) made in Tamil. He alwso wrote his own films. He later lived a nomadic lifestyle in the 70s and depended on support from his friends and colleagues. He suffered from alcoholism and died an accidental death.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Sujit R. Varma

Trivia

Pupil of Ritwik Ghatak at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII).

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