M Night Shyamalan has made it to be among the best Hollywood directors. An Indian origin filmmaker, Manoj Nelliattu Shyamalan is popularly known in the Hollywood as M Night Shyamalan. An important facet of Shyamalan's personality is that he also writes the story and screenplay of many of his films. Another of the noticeable aspects is that Shyamalan himself had performed in some of his films. Shyamalan further has a fascination for the locales of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania where most of his films have been shot.
M Night Shyamalan is best known for his thriller movies. The most interesting thing about the theme of films by M Night Shyamalan is that the plots usually have a supernatural backdrop. What is even more extraordinary is that such plots have a contemporary flair in spite of having supernatural elements that are far from the world of reality. The main charm of the films of M Night Shyamalan lay in the twist that takes place at the end of the films.
M Night Shyamalan was born on 6th August in the year of 1970 at Pondicherry in India. M Night Shyamalan's father, Nelliattu C. Shyamalan is a Malayalee while Night's mother, Jaya or Jayalakshmi is a Tamil. Shyamalan's father is a physician while his mother is a gynecologist as well as an obstetrician by profession. The parents of M Night Shyamalan moved to the US in the 1960s. But they returned to Chennai when Shyamalan's mother was five months' pregnant.
M Night Shyamalan spent the immediate post- natal period in Pondicherry for a few weeks. He spent his early childhood in Penn Valley in Pennsylvania. The area where he lived can be described as an affluent mainstream suburb of Philadelphia. |
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He received his early schooling in institutions like Catholic Grammar School Waldron Mercy Academy and The Episcopal Academy in Lower Merion.
M Night Shyamalan got admitted to the Tisch School of the Arts of the New York University in Manhattan. It was in the year of 1992 that M. Night Shyamalan finished his graduation. It is during this phase of his life that Shyamalan started using Night as his middle name. Some of his remarkable and critically acclaimed films are Wide Awake, Playing With Anger, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, Lady in the Water, The Happening and Avatar: The Last Airbender.
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