Jallikattu (2019 film)

Jallikattu
Theatrical release poster
Directed byLijo Jose Pellissery
Written by
Based onMaoist
by S. Hareesh
Produced byO. Thomas Panicker
Starring
CinematographyGirish Gangadharan
Edited byDeepu S. Joseph
Music byPrashant Pillai
Production
company
Opus Penta
Distributed byFriday Film House (India)
XYZ Films (North America)
Release dates
  • 6 September 2019 (2019-09-06) (Toronto)
  • 4 October 2019 (2019-10-04)
Running time
95 minutes[1]
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Jallikattu is a 2019 Indian Malayalam-language independent action thriller survival 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 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]

  1. ^ "Jallikattu". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  2. ^ Ramnath, Nandini (17 August 2019). "In Lijo Jose Pellissery's 'Jallikattu', a buffalo runs amok and brings out the beast in humans". Scroll.in. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Toronto 2019 Review: In JALLIKATTU, The Line Between Man And Beast Dissolves". Screen Anarchy. As much a wild action film as an exploration of rural masculinity run amok, Sallikattu takes its audience on an incredible visceral and emotional journey over the course of 90 blood, sweat, and tear-soaked minutes that will leave viewers gasping for breath by the time it reaches its incredible conclusion.[permanent dead link‍]
  4. ^ "Busan Film Review: 'Jallikattu'". Screendaily. 4 October 2019. While there is a question mark over the appetite in overseas arthouse audiences for Malayalam language action films about a buffalo gone berserk, the picture shares a relentless gung ho energy (if not the technical polish) with martial arts pictures like The Raid. .
  5. ^ Motamayor, Rafael. "10 Horror, Sci-Fi, and Genre Films That Blew Minds at TIFF – And Will Be Coming to You Soon". RottenTomotoes. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  6. ^ Staff, Onmanorama (7 September 2019). "Sallikattu opens at TIFF, Lijo and team get wide applauds". OnManorama. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  7. ^ "A Window on Asian Cinema: Sallikattu". Busan International Film Festival.[permanent dead link‍]
  8. ^ News Network, Times (25 July 2019). "Lijo Jose Pellissery's 'sallikattu' to hit the screens in October?". The Times of India. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
  9. ^ "സെന്‍സര്‍ പൂര്‍ത്തിയായി ജല്ലിക്കട്ട് ഒക്ടോബര്‍ നാലിന്". www.thecue.in. Retrieved 2 October 2019.[permanent dead link‍]
  10. ^ Sangeeta Nair (29 November 2019). "IFFI 2019: Full list of winners; Particles wins Best Film, Lijo Jose Pellissery wins Best Director award". Jagran Prakashan. Jagran Josh. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  11. ^ Pooja Pillai (25 November 2020). "Malayalam film sallikattu is India's entry for Oscars 2021". Indian Express.[permanent dead link‍]
  12. ^ "'Jallikattu', India's official entry for the Oscars, fails to make the cut". The Hindu. 10 February 2021 – via www.thehindu.com.
  13. ^ "Malayalam film sallikattu is India's entry for 2021 Oscars". The Indian Express. 26 November 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2020.[permanent dead link‍]
  14. ^ "The 25 best Malayalam films of the decade". The Hindu. 19 December 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2020.