SAB JOHN EDATHATTIL

Screenwriter & Story Coach

Sab John Edathattil, is one of the leading screenwriting and storytelling voices of South India, especially in Malayalam and Tamil film industry. He is Chief Mentor at ScreenWrite.In, India’s only Screenwriting Studio he founded in 2009; Visiting Professor & Head of Screenwriting at L V Prasad Film and Television Academy (2009-2018), L V Prasad College of Media Studies (2021 – Present), and Loyola LIVE, Chennai (2018-2019). Also, John is a jury at FICCI Frames Awards, Mumbai since 2008.

Though graduated in Commerce and later majored in professional accounting, Sab John Edathattil aligned himself with screenwriting at an early stage of his career. His screenwriting took off after scripting a remarkable Malayalam super-hit film named ‘Chanakyan’ starring Padmashri Kamal Hassan and Urmila Matondkar, triggering John as a screenwriter with unique narrative style into the South Indian film industry.

During his 34 years of screenwriting career of about 32 filmed screenplays, many teleplays and brand campaign scripts, Sab John Edathattil could weave exhilaratingly complex, emotional and provocative tapestries of human lives under intense pressure. His films traverse a dazzling range of subject matters, characters and moods, yet share in common a visceral, often luminous, portrait of cinematic entertainment.

Some of the major projects of his career include Guna, Jillunu Oru Kadhal, Kuruthippunal, Vyooham, Gandhari, Suryamanasam, Highway, Mayilpeelikkavu, Priyam, and Chanakyan. Guna, starring Kamal Hassan was a milestone project for John, an excellent blend of Kamal Hassan’s acting, maestro Ilayaraja’s music and John’s screenplay.

John has also donned other roles in the film industry as actor, director and producer. His commendable role in “Kuruthippunal” as Narasimhan has won him laurels for his outstanding delivery of acting performance. Currently he is engaged in two acting assignments under production in the South Indian mainstream cinema.

Sab John Edathattil prefers to spend his spare time working with young aspiring writers in India and propagates professional screenwriting through his much acclaimed workshops and online master classes over Film Academies and Universities in India. In his Master-Workshops, John presents the unique ways of creating the strong-walls of a captivating screenplay and how he resolves screenwriting problems, citing his own varying films starring leading actors in the industry.

John is currently involved in three mainstream-movie-screenplays and two web-series content of four different Indian regional languages. His Tamil-Telugu movie he currently scripted starring Aditi Rao Hydari, directed by Rajesh Selva, and produced by Aha/Golden One is at principal cinematography stage.

He also conducts training for corporate executives, university professors and students of professional courses on story-based-learning-teaching techniques and scenario-planning practices.

You can find more about us at www.jemstudio.in or visit John’s LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-edathattil.

Explore his writing portfolio at www.screenwrite.in.