Last year Manoj Night Shyamalan, the Hollywood director with Indian roots, shocked the world with his much-raved-about eerie flick The Sixth Sense. The film became the 15th highest grosser of all times in the US and garnered six academy award nominations.
The prodigious filmmaker has now unleashed his latest celluloid offering Unbreakable, another thriller with supernatural overtones starring Manoj's favorite Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson.
Once again Shyamalan is on familiar grounds and has spun a gripping spooky yarn to keep the audience on the edge of their seats. The film centres on a middle-aged man David Dunn (Bruce Willis) who miraculously survives a tragic train accident in which all 130 people on board die. Dunn, the only survivor, however, walks away unscathed without getting as much as a scratch on his body, a fact that leaves medical fraternity, besides Dunn himself, incredulously amazed.
A plethora of questions arise in Dunn's mind and he finds himself at loss for answers until he meets an unusual stranger Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson). Price helps Dunn on his quest to penetrate the reality and understand the supernatural powers that govern life of ordinary men.
The idea for the film sprung in Manoj's mind while he was nursing an injury he got during a basketball game. With this film Shyamalan has become the highest-paid scriptwriter (he received a record-busting sum of 5 million dollars from Disney Productions for the film's script) and one of the best-paid directors in Hollywood.
With the critics hailing him as 'one of the most polished writer-filmmaker in the US' Shyamalan seems to be riding the crest of his career.
Last year Manoj Night Shyamalan, the Hollywood director with Indian roots, shocked the world with his much-raved-about eerie flick The Sixth Sense. The film became the 15th highest grosser of all times in the US and garnered six academy award nominations. 