Director Jayaraaj - Adbhutham on Mercy Killings

About Director Jayaraaj
Jayaraaj, a Malayalam director, directed 25 films so far out of which 4 films won National awards. Here is the list of his most acclaimed award winners.

S. No	Film Title	Awards
1	Desadanam	International, national and state awards
2	Kaliyattam	National award for Suresh Gopi and the Best director for Jayaraj
3	Karunam	Golden Peacock award in International Film Festival of India, Film Society Award in Berlin
4	Shantam	National Award for best film and International award in France
5	Daivanamathil	Selected as the inaugural film, Indian Panoraa, International Film Festival of Goa (2005)

Almost all his mainstream films are box office hits like Kudumbasametam, Johnny Walker, Highway and 4 the people (Yuva Sena in Telugu). Both his parallel films like Desadanam and Kaliyattam were big success.

Jayaraaj is currently planning to do a film each for D Rama Naidu (Malayalam) and Bhogavally Prasad (Telugu).

About Adbhutham:
Adbhutham, fourth in Jayaraaj's Navarasa series (other films are Karnam, Shantam and Bheebhatsa) narrates the universally relevant theme of life and death. The etymological meaning of Malayalam word Adbhutham (basically from Sanskrit) is, something never happened in past. The film is about the first ever 'euthanasia' (physician assisted suicide or mercy killing), which is going to happen in Oregon State of America, the first state legalized euthanasia.

The story is about a well known Indian-English dramatist and writer settled in Oregon, now in his deathbed, waiting for the mercy of his doctors. Everything is legally ready to kill him by mercy. Now he has only one and a half hours left in his life.

The making of this film too is a matter of wonder, as in the case of its theme. The complete film will be shot in less than 10 consecutive hours at Ramoji Film City on 13th of December.

The cast list includes National award winner Suresh Gopi, National award winner KPAC Lalitha and new faces from home and abroad. The technicians are Madampu Kunjukuttam (scenario), S Kumar (cinematography) and Ashok (Art).