Life of Josutty

Life of Josutty
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Directed by	Jeethu Joseph
Produced by	Jayalal Menon Anil Biswas Sunil Lulla
Screenplay by	Rajesh Varma
Story by	Jayalal Menon
Starring	Dileep Jyothi Krishna Rachana Renjini Rupesh Pradeep Kottayam Aqsa Bhatt
Narrated by	Dileep
Music by	Anil Johnson
Cinematography	Ravichandran
Edited by	Ayoob Khan
Production company	Eros International Backwater Studios
Distributed by	Eros International Popcorn Entertainments, Tricolor Entertainment
Release date	24 September 2015 (2015-09-24)
Running time	166 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Life of Josutty is a 2015 Malayalam drama film directed by Jeethu Joseph. The film stars Dileep in the title role along with a supporting cast consisting of Jyothi Krishna, Rachana Narayanankutty, Renjini Rupesh, Hareesh Perady and Chempil Asokan. The story is formatted with commentaries from the protagonist. The screenplay and dialogue are written by Rajesh Varma. The film is co-produced and released by Eros International, it is their debut production and distribution in Malayalam cinema.Life of Josutty released on 24 September 2015 and met with generally positive reviews.

Josutty (Dileep) is the son of Joseph and Shoshamma. He belongs to a middle class traditional Christian farmer family in Kattappana, Idukki. As a child he desired to become a priest. But he falls in love with Jessy (Rachana Narayanankutty), his neighbor and childhood friend. Josutty is a sixth standard dropout and from a poor background, the reason why Jessy's dad refuses to marry her off to Josutty. Jessy was ready to go against her father and marry Josutty, but he doesn't want their families to suffer because of them. Later, Jessy married and moved on. Josutty's family was in deep debt and had sister to marry off, yielding to the advice from his friends and relatives he agrees to marry Rose (Jyothi Krishna), a divorcee nurse settled in New Zealand. After the marriage, he travels to Rotorua in New Zealand to join his wife. Upon reaching there, Josutty's life turns upside down. Rose's bipolar character confuses Josutty and later he finds out his wife is pursuing an extramarital life with her former boyfriend. All of a sudden he realizes, he is a "total square" and that everything he believed to be true throughout life was wrong and he vows to make money. His friend Priya and Devassy helps him to run a restaurant and he slowly grows economically. He falls for Priya and works for nine years in New Zealand. After his father's death he goes back to Kattappana facing repressed realities of emptiness in his life from the passing away of his mother, father and close friend. There he meets a door to door sales woman(Nayantara) and marries her and vows to have more children than his first love and neighbor Jessy with the intend to "live life to the fullest".