Basil Joseph

Basil Joseph was born at Sultan Bathery^[2][3] in the Wayanad district of Kerala. He is the son of Fr. Joseph Pallippatt, a Jacobite priest. He studied at St. Joseph's School, Sulthan Bathery, and at SKMJ Higher Secondary School in Kalpetta.^[4] He then did his B.Tech. degree at the College of Engineering, Trivandrum.^[5] He worked at Infosys in Technopark, Trivandrum for two years before starting his career in movies.^[6]

Basil Joseph acted in the short film CET Life whilst attending College of Engineering, Trivandrum. He also scripted and directed the short films, Oru Thundu Padam and Priyamvadha Katharayano during his stint at Infosys as a Systems Engineer in Thiruvananthapuram.^[7]

Basil assisted Vineeth Sreenivasan in his third directional venture, Thira in 2013. He made his directorial debut in 2015 with Kunjiramayanam which featured brothers Vineeth Sreenivasan and Dhyan Sreenivasan. His second directorial venture was the sports comedy Godha starring Tovino Thomas. The film was a commercial success and went on to become the highest-grossing film of Tovino Thomas during that period.^{[citation needed]} His third film Minnal Murali starring Tovino Thomas was released on Netflix in 2021 and had a simultaneous release in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi.^[8]

On 17 August 2017, he married Elizabeth,^[9] with whom he was in a relationship for over seven years.^[10][11] They have one daughter.^[12]

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As director

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Year	Title	Writer	Notes	Ref.
2015	Kunjiramayanam	Deepu Pradeep	Debut film	[13]
2017	Godha	Rakesh Mantodi		[14]
2021	Minnal Murali	Arun Anirudhan, Justin Mathew	Netflix film	[15]

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As assistant director

• Thira (2013)

As actor

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2013	Up & Down: Mukalil Oralundu	Lift Technician
	Silence	John
2014	Homely Meals	Editor Basil
2015	Kunjiramayanam	Vellakkundil Dinesan
2017	Mayanadhi	Director Jinu	Cameo appearance
	Godha	Villager
2018	Rosapoo	Bhanu
	Padayottam	Pinku
	Nithyaharitha Nayakan	Joby
2019	Virus	Dr. Mithun
	Kakshi: Amminippilla	Adv. Pilakul Shamsu		[16]
	Love Action Drama	DJ Brijesh
	Ormayil Oru Shishiram	Sanju
	Manoharam	Prabhu		[17]
	Kettyolannu Ente Malakha	Kunjaambi
	Mariyam Vannu Vilakkoothi	Pizza Delivery Boy
2020	Gauthamante Radham	Venkidi Iyer
	Kilometers and Kilometers	Kuttan
2021	Joji	Fr. Kevin
	Aanum Pennum	Thug Sabu
	Jan.E.Man	Joymon		[18]
	Minnal Murali	Young Politician	Special appearance
2022	Dear Friend	Sajith
	Nna Thaan Case Kodu	Judge	Special appearance
	Palthu Janwar	Prasoon Krishnakumar		[19]
	Jack and Jill	Ravi
	Ullasam	Asi
	Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey	Rajesh		[20]
	No Way Out			[21]
	Mukundan Unni Associates	Himself	Voiceover
2023	Enkilum Chandrike	Kiran		[22]
	Pookkaalam	Advocate Jikkumon		[23]
	Kadina Kadoramee Andakadaham	Bashiruddeen (Bachu)		[24]
	Falimy	Anoop Chandran		[25]
2024	Varshangalkku Shesham	Pradeep		[26]
	Guruvayoor Ambalanadayil	Kaitholapparambil Vinu Ramachandran		[27]
	Nunakkuzhi	Eby Zachariah Poozhikunnel		[28]
	Vaazha – Biopic of a Billion Boys	Police officer	Cameo appearance	[29]
	Ajayante Randam Moshanam	K.P. Suresh		[30]
	Cup	Raneesh		[31]
	Sookshmadarshini	Manuel		[32]
2025	Pravinkoodu Shappu	SI Santhosh C J		[33]
	Ponman	PP Ajesh		[34]
	Maranamass	Luke P P		[35]
	Hridayapoorvam	Dr. Manu Rameshan	Cameo appearance	[36]
	Madhuram Jeevamrutha Bindu	Ilyas	Anthology film	[37]
2026	Parasakthi	Major Oomen Chacko	Tamil film; Cameo appearance	[38]

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Short films

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Year	Title	Role	Language	Director	Notes	Ref.
2012	CET Life	Actor	Malayalam	Arun & Sarath
	Shhh...	Script writer		Basil Joseph
	Priyamvadha Katharayano	Actor
2013	Pakalukalude Rani			Ritwik Baiju
	Oru Thundu Padam	Writer		Basil Joseph
2014	Happy Onam

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