Rupesh Paul

Rupesh Paul
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Born	Rupesh Paul (1979-04-25)April 25, 1979 Cherthala, Kerala
Occupation	Poet, Film maker
Notable awards	Mahakavi Vallathol Award – Premji Award Kuttamath Award Mathrubhumi Award – Changampuzha Award

Rupesh Paul (born April 25, 1979) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and poet, hailing from Kerala, India. Rupesh distinguishes himself a Poet, Journalist, Novelist, Writer, Film Director, Magazine Columnist and Critic. He lays bare a controversial stature in the cultural milieu of Kerala.

Life and Career

Early years and Education

Rupesh paul was born on April 25, 1979, at Cherthala in Alappuzha district, Kerala, to M.C Paul, a Chemical Engineer with UB group and Rita Paul, a Physics Lecturer. He was christened "Jacob", his late grand-father’s name. He completed his high school (1995) and junior college (1997) from St. Joseph’s model boys’ school and St. Thomas college, Trichur, respectively. He graduated from the University of Madras in Computer Engineering in the year 2001.

Writings

He started composing poems at a young age of ten. His poems were published since 1990, in "Mathrubhumi balapankthi” (then editor being Kunhunni Mash), a recurrent column for children in the well-known Malayalam weekly---Mathrubhumi.

In 1998, he won the prestigious Mathrubhumi award for the best young poet in Malayalam. This served as a turning point, as we see a more somber, matured poet post this. He won the second accolade for the Malayala Manorama story writing contest.

The poem 'Mayiru' written by Rupesh Paul, published in the much-read Malayalam magazine 'Vayana'. evoked a good deal of censure and controversy among the young poets and literary critics.'Mayiru' is a colloquial swear word which signifies ‘pubic hair'.

Rupesh Paul published his first anthology of poems in Malayalam- “Penkutti Oru Raashtramaanu” (“A Girl, a nation it is”)in 1988 (published by DC Books. It became an unprecedented success that the second edition was brought out in 30 days.It bagged the Changampuzha Award for the Best Young Poet.

"...Only a mosquito can die for an idea.
Each mosquito is killed
For a charming idea
Like,
An uninterrupted sleep,
An Unmediated fuck
Or
A sleep that leaves no marks behind

Only a hideous creature can die for an idea."

From "Poetry", “Penkutti Oru Raashtramaanu” (“A Girl, a nation it is”) (1998)

His poems gained significant acclamation from among the poetry critics of Kerala. “For poetry, the era walks with Rupesh. His poems with the corrosive strength of their visions and utterances of love astound every reader, sows anxiety in every homophile. This poetic diction of modern times reflects the dilapidation of our culture. This poetry, even as it fosters a trifling contempt towards the ultra seriousness of modernity, camouflages an intrinsic sense of tragedy all set against post modernism.” Balachandran Chullikkadu"

“Rupesh Paul holds Romanticism upside down to create a new poetic sensibility. Rupesh’s excellent and mighty poems are wrought by politicizing the poetic sensibility. Clear political wisdom with an undercurrent of humour is here dipped in the acid of poetry."

Raghunathan Parali, India Today, November 10, 2004

"The most admirable contribution from this poet, who is romantic, post modernist and existentialist at one time, is his intense love poems. Experience tells me that being a poet, a journalist and an engineer at the same time is a combination which the society is not comfortable with. We are in times when untalented people lament the extinction of multitalented geniuses. I have just one advice of love to offer Rupesh: Don’t ever exhibit your plume before the jealous folk. The very Sree Krishna was darted at because he had revealed his plume."

Punathil Kunjabdulla, Samakaalika Malayalam Weekly, November 2004

"The poems of Rupesh Paul address not those who read poetry for pastime. This is reason enough to believe that this poet will be crucified. If Malayalam has a young soul with fire after the times of Balachandran Chullikaad, it is here in Rupesh Paul."

Charu Niveditha, Kalakaumudi, January 9, 2005 He is also credited with the first cyber venture in Malayalam with his short story titled “Drakulayude Ezhaamathe Vadhu” (Seventh Bride of Dracula).

An English novel titled “The Girls of Our Times” is on the anvil.

Filmography

Film	Year	Production	Screenwriter	Cast	Language	Lyrics	Music	Notes
My Mother's Laptop	2008	E A Jose Prakash	Indu V Menon	Suresh Gopi, Padmapriya,Urmila Unni,Shweta Menon	Malayalam	Rafeeq Ahmad, Rita Paul	Sreevalsan J Menon	Debut movie as Director.
The Temptation Between My Legs }	2008	Rupesh Paul	Rupesh Paul	Amesh	English			Movie in monologues.
You can't step twice into the same river }	2008	E A Jose Prakash	Rupesh Paul	Vijayakumar	Malayalam			An ambitious killer gets his first assignement. He aims the target. Target aims him back. Who will be real target?
Mrigam }	2010	Cinema Verite	Indu V Menon	Jijoy P R, Gopalji, Megha Rajan, Praveen M U, Sudhi Balussery, Shashi Kalinga	Malayalam		Sandeep Jayaraj, Gaddika Team	A movie with the "Muthanga" } tribal-land struggle as the focal point.
Pithavum Kanyakayum }	2010	N K Sajiv Menon	Indu V Menon	M G Shashi, Krupa, Shashi Kalinga	Malayalam		Sandeep Jayaraj	Featured at Cannes Film Festival } in 2010.
The Secret Diaries of Monalisa }	2011		Rupesh Paul	Andrew Harwood Mills, G W Faith, Martina Scarpelli, Paul Sean Finnan, Suzanne Roche, Nichola Markham, Paul Shawney Ross, Alexander William Bollands, Kerrie Jane Mclaughlin, Corrina Luce, Eugenio Di Folco, Dale Havers	English, Italian, French			Under Post Production.
Saint Dracula 3D }	2011	Biz TV Networks	Rupesh Paul	Mitch Powell, Patricia Duarte, Daniel Shayler, Faith Watkins, Suzanne Roche, Anna Passey	English	Sherin Catherine	Sreevalsan J Menon	Featured at American Film Market } in November 2011.

External links

• [/http://www.rupeshpaul.com/]