Joy Mathew

Joy Mathew is an Indian film director film and theatre actor playwright and political activist He is best known for playing the lead role in John Abrahams 1986 film Amma Ariyan which was voted one of the Top 10 Indian films by British Film Institute In 2012 he made his directorial debut with the film Shutter which portrays unexpected incidents happening in two days and a night in the city of Kozhikode The film had its Indian premiere at the 17th International Film Festival of Kerala and international premiere at the 9th Dubai International Film Festival It won the Silver Crow Pheasant Award for Best Feature Film Audience Prize at the 17th International Film Festival of Kerala He has written more than 20 plays in Malayalam including Athirthikkal 1989 Sankadal 1996 Pretoria 18 Oct 1996 and Chille 73 1997 He was honoured by Kerala Sahitya Academy and kerala Sangeeta Nataka Academy for two of his plays in 1995 and 1996 He won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for the play Madhya Dharanazhi 1996