Jallikattu (2019 film)
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Jallikattu is a 2019 Indian Malayalam-language independent action thriller film directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery with a screenplay by S. Hareesh and R. Jayakumar, based on the short story Maoist by Hareesh.[2] The film stars Antony Varghese, Chemban Vinod Jose, Sabumon Abdusamad and Santhy Balachandran. In the film, a bull escapes from a slaughterhouse in a hilly remote village and the villagers sets out to hunt it down.[3][4]
Jallikattu | |
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Directed by | Lijo Jose Pellissery |
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Based on | Maoist by S. Hareesh |
Produced by | O. Thomas Panicker |
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Cinematography | Girish Gangadharan |
Edited by | Deepu S. Joseph |
Music by | Prashant Pillai |
Production company | Opus Penta |
Distributed by | Friday Film House (India) XYZ Films (North America) |
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Running time | 95 minutes[1] |
Country | India |
Language | Malayalam |
Jallikattu was premiered on 6 September 2019 at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and received widespread critical acclaim.[5][6] The film was showcased at the 24th Busan International Film Festival under the section 'A Window on Asian Cinema'.[7] It was released in the home state Kerala on 4 October 2019.[8][9] Lijo Jose Pellissery received the Silver Peacock-Best Director trophy at the 50th International Film Festival of India.[10] It was selected as the Indian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.[11][12] It was third Malayalam film after Guru and Adaminte Makan Abu to be chosen as India's official entry to the Oscars.[13] It was included in The Hindu's top 25 Malayalam films of the decade and is widely regarded as one of the defining movies of the New Wave Movement.[14]