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Executive Summary about M Night Shyamalan by wikipedia.org

M NIGHT SHYAMALAN – Shyamalan released his first film, Praying with Anger, in 1992 while he was a New York University student. Shyamalan was born in Mahé, Pondicherry, India. His father, Nelliyattu C. Shyamalan, is a physician  & a Malayali Indian belonging to a famous “Thiyya” tharavad  from Mahe, Kerala. Shyamalan’s mother returned to India to spend the last five months of her pregnancy with Shyamalan at her parents’ home in Chennai (Madras).

Shyamalan made his first film, the semiautobiographical drama Praying with Anger, while still an NYU student, using money borrowed from family and friends. It was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 1992, and played commercially at one theater for one week. When the film debuted at the Toronto Film Festival, Shyamalan was introduced by David Overbey who predicted that the world would see more of Shyamalan in the years to come. Filmed in Chennai, it is his only film to be shot outside of Pennsylvania.

Shyamalan wrote and directed his second movie, Wide Awake, in 1995, though it was not released until 1998. His parents were the film’s associate producers. Wide Awake was filmed in a school Shyamalan attended as a child and earned 1999 Young Artist Award nominations for Best Drama, and, for Cross, Best Performance. Only in limited release, the film grossed $305,704 in theaters.

Shyamalan was a winner of Padma Shri Award in 2008.

As of early-2008, the family resides in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, near Shyamalan’s usual shooting site of Philadelphia.

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