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Jayalakshmi Shyamalan. Jump to Edit. Mini Bio. Jayalakshmi Shyamalan is known for Praying with Anger (1992). Jayalakshmi is married to Nelliate C. Shyamalan. Family. Spouse. Nelliate C. Shyamalan (? - present) Children. M. Night Shyamalan. Relatives. Saleka Shyamalan (Grandchild) Ishana Shyamalan (Grandchild) Trivia.
99+ Photos. Born in Puducherry, India, and raised in the posh suburban Penn Valley area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, M. Night Shyamalan is a film director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor, known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots. He is the son of Jayalakshmi, a Tamil obstetrician and gynecologist, and ...
- January 1, 1
- 1.78 m
- Mahé, Pondicherry, India
His father, Dr. Nelliyattu C. Shyamalan, is a Malayali neurologist from Mahé and a JIPMER graduate; [citation needed] his mother, Dr. Jayalakshmi, a Tamil from Chennai, is an OB-GYN. Shyamalan's parents immigrated to the United States when he was six weeks old. Shyamalan was raised in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania.
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- M. Night Shyamalan Almost Directed A Harry Potter Movie.
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- Audiences Once Developed A “Shyamalan Groan.”
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Born in Pondicherry, India, to obstetrician Dr. Jayalakshmi Shyamalan and cardiologist Dr. Nelliate Shyamalan, Manoj Nelliate (which he later shortened to M. Night) Shyamalan was expected to have a future in medicine. But at the age of 8, Shyamalan got his hands on an 8-millimeter movie camera and never looked back. The budding director—whose famil...
In 1992, while still a student at New York University, Shyamalan made Praying With Anger, a film about an Indian-American struggling with his identity. Shyamalan starred in the film; his family financed the $775,000 budget. It won the American Film Institute’s 1993 prize for a debut film and also got Shyamalan his first agent, yet Praying With Ange...
Following The Sixth Sense, Shyamalan had his pick of projects in Hollywood. One tempting offer came from childhood hero Steven Spielberg to write and direct a fourth Indiana Jones film. Shyamalan clearly enjoyed the series, having played the character in one of his short films, but turned it down owing to other commitments. There is some indication...
Shyamalan followed The Sixth Sense with Unbreakable, a 2000 film starring Bruce Willis as David Dunn, a man who survives a train crash and discovers he has superhuman abilities. Shyamalan made a comic book movie and wanted to market it as such. But Disney, the film's distributor, persuaded him not to, believing a comic book moviewouldn’t sell. It w...
When Warner Bros. was making the sprawling film series based on J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books in the early 2000s, Shyamalan was one of the directors earmarked to direct at least one installment. It got far enough along that he met with Rupert Grint, who played Ron Weasley in the series, but ultimately Shyamalan decided not to move forward. He a...
In the spirit of Orson Welles’s infamous 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast, in which Welles delivered a seemingly legitimate report of alien invaders, Shyamalan decided to try and trick audiences, too. In 2004, he conspired with Syfy (then known as Sci-Fi) to present a fake documentary, The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan, that posited a boy who...
After the success of films like The Sixth Sense and 2002’s Signs, Shyamalan’s career entered a lull. Films like 2006’s Lady in the Water and 2008’s The Happening—where Mark Wahlberg plays a science teacher facing off against malevolent plants—were misses. By the time 2010’s Devil, which Shyamalan produced, was released, audiences in theaters could ...
Most film productions are transient affairs, shooting where it’s most affordable and sending cast and crew to various locations. But Shyamalan has been able to set the majority of his films in and around his native Philadelphia, allowing him to remain close to home and family. (A fear of flying mightalso play some part.) “We’ve had a very normal li...
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Dr. Jayalakshmi Shyamalan, MD is an obstetrics & gynecology specialist in Wynnewood, PA and has over 61 years of experience in the medical field. She graduated from UNIVERSITY OF EXETER / SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES in 1962.
Jayalakshmi Shyamalan, MD is a OB-GYN in Malvern, PA. Jayalakshmi Shyamalan was board certified by American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology Certification in Obstetrics & Gynecology. Their office is located in 25 Laurel Cir Malvern, PA.
biography. Shyamalan was born in a Hindu household in Puducherry, India. His father, Nelliyattu C. Shyamalan, is an Indian Malayali physician belonging to a famous "Thiyya" tharavad from Mahe, Kerala. His mother, Jayalakshmi, is a Tamil Indian and an obstetrician and gynecologist by profession.
