Career
He made his directional debut with the 2007 film Detective and later went on to direct four successful films Mummy & Maine (2010), My Boss (2012), Memories (2013)Drishyam (2013) and Life of Josutty (2015) Jeethu gained popularity after the release of Drishyam, produced by Aashirvad Cinemas, which is currently the highest-grossing Malayalam film of all time. Jeethu Joseph started as an assistant director to Jayaraj in the film Bheebhatsam. After that, he got a chance to direct a film starring Dileep but it did not materialized and he was back where he started.
Meanwhile, Jeethu developed the one-line plot of Detective.
But after failing to find any producers, his mother Leelamma Josesh offered to co-produce the film, which became his debut directorial. A month into the project, a producer evinced interest and took on the production.
Detective was released in 2007. The film fared well at the box-office.
His next film Mummy & Maine was a success at the box-office.
Mummy and Maine, although it took close to three years in the making, marked a turning point in his career as director "My first film was easy compared to the struggle I had to go through for my second, Mummy and Maine." There were offers to make films like Detective, but Jeethu declined. "I wanted to do a different film" lieutenant was for this reason that, though he had one line scripts of Mummy and Maine and Memories ready in 2008, he chose to make Mummy and Maine.
His third film My Boss was also a success in theatres.
This film was criticised for being a copy of the Hollywood film The Proposal (2009).
Jeethu"s fourth movie Memories, a suspense thriller, was released in 2013 which did well in box office. Post-Drishyam (2013–present)
Later in 2013, drama-thriller Drishyam starring Mohanlal was released which was highly successful commercially and critically.
Drishyam was remade in Tamil by Jeethu with Kamal Haasan enacting Mohanlal"s role. lieutenant was also remade to Telugu, Kannada and Hindi by other directors.
Jeethu then directed Dileep-starrer Life of Josutty.
Jeethu has announced films with Prithviraj and Meera Jasmine. Jeethu was born to V. V. Joseph, former Muvattupuzha Modern Language Association and Leelamma. His childhood was spent in Mutholapuram in Elanji panchayat, 10 kilometres from Piravom.
Jeethu wanted to attend Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) although his father wanted him to become an engineer
He later graduated in economics from Nirmala College, Muvattupuzha.
