Nijo Jonson
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| Born | 10 October 1985 Delhi, India |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Indian |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Delhi University, Dyal Singh College |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 📆 Years active | 2010–present |
| 🏢 Organization | Purani Dili Talikes |
| Notable work | The Last Act Kamera[1] |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Gurpreet Kaur |
| 👶 Children | Youvaan Nijo |
| 🏅 Awards | National Short film festival of Nagpur 2011,Talent Track Awards 2017 |
Nijo Jonson (born 10 October 1985) is a Motivation speaker, filmmaker, and film director. His mission is to spread positivity among people by his short films on Nijo Jonson YouTube[2] channel. He has worked with Anurag Kashyap for The Last Act[3][4][5] film and many more. He has won National Award for his film Kamera[6] (film) in 2011. He has been featured in Hindustan Times,[7] Zee News for His Bewadey Web Series,[8] Newsx,[9] India Times, AajTak, Telangana Today[10] and many leading media publishers for his notable work to help the people.
Career[edit]
Jonson, is a storyteller and a former corporate employee who gave up his job in a UK-based travelling agency to pursue his dreams of filmmaking. It took him five years until he realized that he was meant to do more, than just sit in a corner in the office and high-rise glass buildings. Without wasting any more time Jonson took a leap of faith and crossed over to a whole new world of cinema; and since then there has been no looking back. After 10 years of film-making, with over 1 million followers on Facebook,[11] Instagram[12] and YouTube,[2] Jonson is now on a mission to save relationships in the contemporary times.
During his early career stages, when Jonson got a chance to work with Anurag Kashyap, he took it with his friend Rohit Gaba. The Last Act[13][14][15] had 12 directors and Jonson was one of them.
Nijo and his team did the complete prodcution in "If You Love Your Children"[16]F in Hollywood. This film also won many awards. After some time he decided to start a production house with the name of Purani Dili Talkies.[17]
"An anthem by the youth[18]" - Two crowdsourced films, made by six youngsters, were unveiled, and together, the two films comprise My Nation My Anthem (MNMA). The project has been crowdsourced on the TalentHouse India website in association with HT. Director Shoojit Sircar of Rising Sun Films supervised the project. The anthem will now be played at PVR Cinemas. The young winners are Devansh Bhatia (musician), Saurabh Shetye (singer), Aashini Shah and Vishwesh Kolvalkar (filmmakers of the first film). This one shows youngsters getting inspired to stand up for and be proud of the country. The second team included Nijo Johnson and Rohit Gaba, and they show patriotism through the eyes of children.
Nijo Jonson is one of the fastest growing internet sensations. Within a span of 10 years he single handedly have been able to garner a community of supporters. Nijo has transformed his facebook page into a platform to tell stories which are fictional, and which always ends with a positive message. Positivity runs as a theme through all of Nijo’s films because he recognizes the significance of a positive attitude. According to Nijo, a positive mindset doesn't mean that we keep our head in the sand while ignoring life's less pleasant situations. Positive thinking just means that we approach unpleasantness in a more positive and productive way. Nijo Jonson believes that our mind space is divided into three fundamental scapes- positive, negative and neutral scape.
Awards[edit]
Kamera Short Film[19] - National Short film festival of Nagpur 2011, Official Selection- International Film Festival of Ahmedabad 2012. It also got featured on India Times. [20]
Proud Rapist[21] - Won Talent Track Awards 2017
Purani Dili Talkies[edit]
Jonson founded PDT with his collegemates. Purani Dili Talkies[17] has done many projects with Bollywood, Brands and companies. PDT started the First Webseries during their time. Bewadey[8] was the first webseries in India to entertain the people and Jonson directed it with Rohit Gaba, Anuj Ramatri and many more.
"Waat The Fart"[22] [23] [24]was officially selected by people of India as the best short comedy short film just after the PDT was made. During an Interview with Businessalligators,[25] Jonson said: “Create a piece which you yourself will want to share,” which means a lot to a real filmmaker.
"Proud Rapist",[26] this short film was also loved by many people, One of a kind meeting between a lady doctor & a proud rapist. Featured on BuzzFeed.
In an interview Nijo Jonson said, “We are too quick to judge ourselves as a failure or as a successful person but what we do not realize is that life is a journey and not the final destination. It is filled with momentary failures and successes. It is very important to maintain a neutral mental state through these phases because when our emotions are neither too high or too low, only then can we really live in the present. Living at the moment is the truest form of being alive!”
Production / direction[edit]
Nijo Jonson is a digital filmmaker[27] with more than 1 million following on various social media platforms. He is rightly called an internet sensation by many and enjoys a celebrity status. That is not all, since the last few years Nijo has embarked on a new journey to make people ‘life ready’ through his social media platform called Nijo+. We live our entire lives wildly guessing and hoping that we do the right thing. No schools ever prepared us to manage our emotions when faced with, personal failures, break ups, office politics, along with many other important but unacknowledged issues. So, rather than just being ‘book ready’, Nijo believes that we must be ‘life ready’ too.
In 2019, Jonson started his short film series and Positive community of people to motivate people. He started releasing his short films on Facebook, Instagram and Youtube. The response is good from people and around 2 million people support him regularly. His community offers advice on reducing stress and improving focus based on Jonson's life experiences.
Personal life[edit]
Jonson, an Indian, grew up in North India with his parents and younger sister. He attended Dyal Singh College, Delhi in India. He lives the life of a family man with his wife Gurpreet Kaur and a 4-year old son.
Life lesson[edit]
According to Jonson,[28] just like a coin, every life situation has two sides too, one which is negatively charged and the other which is positively charged. Whatever you decide in life should be positively driven, for example, you may choose to stay or move out of a relationship but whatever you decide should be positively driven. When you are scrolling through Facebook or Instagram you are bound to come across Nijo Jonson’s videos and you can’t scroll down without taking a look at them, that is because Nijo handpicks stories from real life instances, carefully curates it and produces thought provoking yet subtle films.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Kamera". India Times.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Nijo Jonson - The StoryTeller - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
- ↑ Anurag, Goswami; Bhardwaj, Nitin; Krishnan, Jagannathan; Rohit, Nijo; Singha, Tathagata; Sood, Nitye; Tyagi, Himanshu; Chowdhry, Kabir Singh; Venkatesan, Rohin (2012-12-12), The Last Act (Thriller), Sunder Pal, Akash Sinha, Large Short Films, retrieved 2021-02-05
- ↑ The Last Act Movie Review {3.5/5}: Critic Review of The Last Act by Times of India, retrieved 2021-02-05
- ↑ "Movie Review: Kashyap's 'The Last Act' tries to be more than some of its parts - Entertainment News , Firstpost". Firstpost. 2012-12-15. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
- ↑ "Kamera - Oscars Award Winning Indian Short Film". IndiaTimes. 2016-10-27. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
- ↑ "Nijo Jonson: A storyteller on a mission to spread positivity". Hindustan Times. 2020-12-04. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "'Bewadey' series, episode 1: This is how drunkards deal with Johnny's 'break-up'!". Zee News. 2016-10-24. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
- ↑ "From broken in love to fixing relationships; Nijo Johnson, the new age Love Guru". NewsX. 2020-12-04. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
- ↑ Kumar, Author TelanganaToday B. Maria. "Churn positivity from social media". Telangana Today. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
- ↑ "Nijo Jonson". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
- ↑ "Nijo on Insta". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2021-01-31. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "The Last Act (2012) - Review, Star Cast, News, Photos". Cinestaan. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
- ↑ Dundoo, Sangeetha Devi (2012-12-11). "12 short films, 12 clues, 12 cities, one story". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
- ↑ "फिल्म से ज्यादा रोचक है 'द लास्ट एक्ट' के बनने की कहानी". Amar Ujala (in हिन्दी). Retrieved 2021-02-05.
- ↑ Patel, Sanjay (2014-08-19), If You Love Your Children (Short, Drama), Steve Dhillon, Katy Doucette, Leon Gower, Christopher Heatherington, retrieved 2021-02-05
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Talkies, Purani Dili; Talkies, Purani Dili. "Purani Dili Talkies". www.puranidilitalkies.com. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
- ↑ "An anthem by the youth". Hindustan Times. 2013-06-02. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
- ↑ "PDT Shorts - Kamera : Award winning Indian Short Film : PDT - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
- ↑ "Kamera - Oscars Award Winning Indian Short Film". IndiaTimes. 2016-10-27. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
- ↑ "talentrack awards 2020 - Digital Content Awards". www.talentrackawards.in. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
- ↑ "WTF - Waat The Fart.MOST VIRAL/COMEDY/SHORT FILM/CREDIT/HOSTING/DONATE/TRANSFER/INSURANCE". IndiaTimes. 2014-12-10. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
- ↑ "What the fart: Watch this arrange marriage date gone wrong". Deccan Chronicle. 2014-12-10. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
- ↑ "मैट्रिमोनिअल डेट पर लड़की ने लड़के से कहा, 'मुझे पादना बहुत पसंद है'". आज तक (in हिन्दी). Retrieved 2021-01-31.
- ↑ "Journey of PDT (Purani Dili Talkies) – A Youtube Channel by Nijo & Rohit". Business Alligators. 2020-07-01. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
- ↑ Rizwan, Sahil. "This Short Film About A Rapist Proud Of His Actions Is Going Viral". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
- ↑ "Films directed by Nijo Jonson". letterboxd.com. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
- ↑ Postman, Team (2020-04-16). "Storyteller? Guide? Friend? What makes half a million people connect with Nijo Jonson online? – Postman News". Retrieved 2021-02-05.
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