Personalities # 27 - Manoj Night Shyamalan

Manoj Night Shyamalan, alias Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan, director, screenwriter and actor was born on 6th August 1970 in Pondicherry. He had his early education at a Catholic Private School and Philadelphia's Episcopal Academy. Shyamalan had a very early passion for filmmaking and as a child, he revelled in making up stories. At the age of 10, inspired primarily by Steven Spielberg's films, he began making film with his father's 8mm camera and by age 16, he had made over 45 short films. Shyamalan's major directorial films include 'The Sixth Sense', 'Unbreakable', 'Signs' and the more recent one 'The Last Airbender'.