Drishyam is an Indian crime thriller film series, written and directed by Jeethu Joseph, produced by Antony Perumbavoor under Aashirvad Cinemas.
The film series follows the struggle of Georgekutty and his family who come under suspicion when Varun Prabhakar, the son of the inspector-general of police, goes missing.
The first installment to the film series, Drishyam, was released on 19 December 2013 met with widespread critical acclaim and was a major box office success.
The film, Drishyam 2, was shot completely in the Covid-19 pandemic and was released through Amazon Prime Video on 19 February 2021.
[5][6] In July 2013, it was reported that Jeethu Joseph will be directing a film titled My Family with Mohanlal in the lead.
Jeethu said that it is a direct continuation of the last film and for that he has retained the principal characters along with some new additions in the secondary cast.
[20][21] The film was remade in Kannada as Drishya (2014), in Telugu as Drushyam (2014), in Tamil as Papanasam (2015) by Joseph himself, in Hindi as Drishyam (2015), in Sinhala as Dharmayuddhaya (2017)[22] and in Mandarin Chinese as Sheep Without a Shepherd (2019) with a different ending.
[23] The film was remade in Kannada as Drishya 2 (2021) directed by P. Vasu[24] and in Telugu as Drushyam 2 (2021) by Jeethu Joseph himself.