According to the reports coming in from the industry sources very soon the Mollywood movie lovers will see Jomon T John, one of the favorite cinematographers in Malayalam, wearing the cap of a director. News coming in says that Jomon will make his directorial debut with a film in which young star Dulquer Salmaan will play the male lead and sources says that Dulquer had committed to the project after the discussion with Jomon. The news we heard materialize into a real project , Jomon T John will be one among the cinematographers who become directors like, Amal Neerad, Vipin Mohan, Shyju Khalid , Sameer Thahir and Jibu Jacob who had made the latest entry to this list with his film Vellimoonga last year.
The cinematography career of Jomon T John had started with Cinematographer Sameer Thahir’s debut directorial movie ‘Chappa Kurishu’ and Jomon’s work was highly applauded by the critics as well as by the common audience. Then he worked with V K P in the highly celebrated movie ‘Beautiful’ and the visual in that film too got him much applause. The real turning point was come then in his life and the real break for Jomon T John was the release of the film named ‘Thattathin Marayathu’ helmed by Vineeth Sreenivasan.
The film was a blockbuster and his work for that film as a cinematographer is accepted by the audience with both hands and from then on he become a favourite of Malayalam film viewers and it was a real turning point for him in his small career. Later he did camera work for some notable films like ABCD, Ayalum Njanum Thammil and Thira etc. He had associated with Vineeth Sreenivasan from Thattathin Marayathu and then he done Thira with him and his latest is Oru Vadakkan Selfi for which Vineeth Sreenivasan had done the script.
As of now there is not much has been revealed about the upcoming movie which will be conceived by him. Currently he is working as a cinematographer of films like Ennu Ninte Moideen, Neena and interestingly in Neena directed by Lal Jose he is working with his wife Ann Augustine, which is her comeback film after her marriage with our hot topic Jomon.
