The Magic Pen Of Midhun Manuel Thomas (Facebook image @Midhun Manual Thomas)
The Malayalam film industry is minting money with their marvelous film making. During the first half of the 2024, the industry have proven itself to be legendary in the art of story telling with absolute magnificence. The story lines often left the audience awestruck. Turbo writer Midhun Manuel Thomas can safely be added to the list of magicians behind the strive making the industry magical in whole.
The director-screenwriter prodigy started off his career as a scriptwriter of the ever loving Malayalam movie, Om Shanti Oshana, which was released in 2014. Voice of dissent might be near to nil if one claims Midhun to be a magician for his scriptwriting skills. Out of the 11 movies he has worked with so far, either as director, or scriptwriter, or as both, failure was a seldom visited guest.
Midhun is gearing up for his next work, Turbo, of which he is the scriptwriter. The filmmaker”s last directorial work was Abraham Ozler, which was a commercial success. Turbo can be called as a promising package as it have Mammootty, who never fails to deliver his fullest. And then it have Vyshak as director, and Midhun as the scriptwriter.
Impactful scripts, and gripping story lines are the speciality of Midhun”s films. His Aadu series are a laughing rollercoaster and fans are eagerly waiting for part 3 to come. Om Shanti Oshana, Aadu, Anjaam Pathira, and Abraham Ozler are some his popular movies.
The filmmaker gives extreme importance to the art of moulding up a perfect storyline. He believes that storyline plays a key-role in determining the success of a film. During one of his interviews given to media, Midhun voiced that narrative of a film is the founding stone of a film on which all other elements are built.
Recently, while Turbo is all geared up to rule silver screen, Midhun grabbed headlines with his rather compelling argument on the question of recognition given to the scriptwriters in the film industry. Highlighting the crucial played by the writers in the process of filmmaking, Midhun called for the compensation of writers to be in par with that of the directors.
