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{{short description|Indian film director}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2016}}
{{Infobox person
| name = John Mahendran
| image =
| imagesize = 46
| birth_date =
| birth_place =
| occupation = Director
| othername = John Roshan<ref name="G"/>
| yearsactive = 2002 - present
| spouse =
| parents = [[Mahendran (filmmaker)|Mahendran]]
}}

'''John Mahendran''', credited as '''John''', is an [[Indian people|Indian]] film director and screenwriter who has worked on Tamil and Telugu and language films. John is the son of noted Tamil film maker [[Mahendran (filmmaker)|Mahendran]].{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}

==Career==
Reports in July 1997 suggested that John was set to direct a film under [[Mani Ratnam]]'s production house with [[Manoj Bharathiraja]] in the lead role, though the project failed to materialize.<ref name="G">{{cite web|url=http://www.oocities.org/hollywood/lot/2330/gcnjul.html|title=GOKUL'S HOME PAGE|publisher=}}</ref> John then made his directorial debut with the Telugu romantic drama, ''Premichedi Endukamma'' (1999)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-preminchedi.html|title=Premichedi Endukamma?|work=[[Idlebrain.com]]|last=jeevi}}</ref> and also directed ''[[Neetho (2002 film)|Neetho]]'' (2002) starring newcomers [[Prakash Kovelamudi]] and [[Mahek Chahal]], though the film performed poorly at the box office.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/2002special/movielist.html|title=Telugu Cinema roundup in 2002 - list of straight movies released|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-neetho.html|title=Telugu Cinema — Review — Neetho — Surya Prakash, Mehek — Vidya sagar — John — Ramoji Rao|publisher=}}</ref> He later adapted and remade the latter film in Tamil as ''[[Sachein]]'' (2005) with [[Vijay (actor)|Vijay]], [[Genelia D'Souza]] and [[Bipasha Basu]] in the lead roles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/2005/apr/13john.htm|title='Bipasha is not there just for an item number'|publisher=}}</ref> John later worked on the independent Tamil film ''[[Aanivaer]]'' (2006), which told the story of a doctor caught up in the [[Sri Lankan civil war]]. The film won positive reviews and had a limited release across regions with Tamil diaspora.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/comedy-creativity-mark-cultural-extravaganza/article1907383.ece|title=Comedy, creativity mark cultural extravaganza|date=8 September 2007|publisher=|via=The Hindu}}</ref> John subsequently began work and finished the first schedule for ''Urumi'', which starred [[Sibiraj]] and [[Aparna Pillai]], but the film was later shelved.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} He then began pre-production on a film starring [[Vishal (actor)|Vishal]] and also a project titled ''Saravedi'', starring [[Jeevan (Tamil actor)|Jeevan]] but both the projects never materialized.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mytamilmovie.com/descriphead.asp?idno%3D10235 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-09-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928022909/http://www.mytamilmovie.com/descriphead.asp?idno=10235 |archivedate=28 September 2015 }}</ref>

John began work on a political comedy film titled ''Thallaippu Seidhigal'' in 2011 with [[Nakul (actor)|Nakul]] and [[Aindrita Ray]] in the lead, and although the team had a photoshoot and later went through a title change, with a new title of ''Sadugudu'', the project was shelved.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} In the early 2010s, John has worked on the script of ''[[Settai (film)|Settai]]'' (2013) by helping director [[R. Kannan|Kannan]] re-work the script of Hindi film ''[[Delhi Belly (film)|Delhi Belly]]'' and on writing dialogues for ''Ambikapathy'', the dubbed Tamil version of ''[[Raanjhanaa]]'' (2013).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/dhanush-an-effortless-actor-john-mahendran-113062100314_1.html|title=Dhanush an effortless actor: John Mahendran|first=|last=IANS|publisher=}}</ref> Subsequently he worked as a writer on film including ''[[Kaashmora]]'' (2016) and ''[[Motta Siva Ketta Siva]]'' (2017), while working as a screenplay and dialogue writing teacher at the Bofta Film Institute based in Chennai.

In 2022, he wrote for the Tamil movie ''[[Visithiran]]'', the official remake of Malayalam movie ''[[Joseph (2018 film)|Joseph]]'' directed by [[M. Padmakumar]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sify.com/movies/rk-suresh-to-remake-joseph-in-tamil-bala-to-produce-news-malayalam-tjsqHjidedaga.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191006045303/https://www.sify.com/movies/rk-suresh-to-remake-joseph-in-tamil-bala-to-produce-news-malayalam-tjsqHjidedaga.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 October 2019|title=RK Suresh to remake 'Joseph' in Tamil, Bala to produce|website=[[Sify]] }}</ref>

==Filmography==

===Director===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="background:#f5f5f5;"
|- style="background:#B0C4DE;"
! Year
! Film
! Language
!class=unsortable| Notes
|-
| 1999 || ''Preminchedi Endukamma'' || Telugu || rowspan="4"|credited as John
|-
| 2002 || ''[[Neetho (2002 film)|Neetho]]'' || Telugu
|-
| 2005 || ''[[Sachein]]'' || Tamil
|-
| 2007 || ''[[Aanivaer]]'' || Tamil
|}

===Actor===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="background:#f5f5f5;"
|- style="background:#B0C4DE;"
! Year
! Film
!class=unsortable| Role
|-
|2022 || ''[[Raangi]]'' || Krishnamurthy
|-
|2023 ||''[[Raththam]]'' || Inspector Vimal Raj
|}

===Writer===
*''All films are in Tamil including dubs. He has translated other language films into Tamil''.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;font-size:100%;" Nee-Na
|-
! width=35 | Year
! width=200 | Film
! width=50 | Screenplay
! width=50 | Dialogues
! width=50 | Notes
|-align="center"
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2013 ||''[[Settai (2013 film)|Settai]]'' || {{yes}} || {{yes}} ||
|-
|''[[Raanjhanaa|Ambikapathy]]'' || {{no}} || {{partial|Translated}} ||
|-
|''[[Dookudu|Athiradi Vettai]]'' || {{no}} || {{partial|Translated}} ||
|-
| 2017 ||''[[Motta Shiva Ketta Shiva]]'' || {{no}} || {{yes}} ||
|-
| 2018 ||''[[Kashmora]]'' || {{no}}|| {{yes}} ||
|-
| 2020 ||''[[Darbar (film)|Darbar]]'' || {{no}} || {{yes}} ||
|-
| 2021 ||''[[Kabadadaari]]'' || {{no}} || {{yes}} ||
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2022 ||''[[Visithiran]]'' || {{no}}|| {{yes}} ||
|-
|''[[Vikrant Rona]]'' || {{no}} ||{{partial|Translated}} ||
|-
| rowspan="2" |2023
|''[[Kondraal Paavam]]''
|{{No}}
|{{Yes}}
|
|-
|''[[Agent (film)|Agent]]''
| {{no}} || {{partial|Translated}} ||
|-
| 2025 || ''[[Baby and Baby]]'' || {{no}} || {{no}} || Story discussion
|}

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb name|1892316}}

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Effossy at 04:59, 16 March 2026