Knocked Up

Knocked Up is a 2007 American romantic comedy film co-produced, written, and directed by Judd Apatow. The films stars Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, and Leslie Mann. It follows the repercussions of a drunken one-night stand between a slacker and a just-promoted media personality that results in an unintended pregnancy. A spin-off sequel, This Is 40, was released in 2012.

Plot

Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl) is a career-minded woman who has just been given an on-air role with E! and is living in the pool house with her sister Debbie's (Leslie Mann) family. Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) is laid-back and sardonic. He lives off funds received in compensation for an injury and sporadically works on a celebrity porn website with his roommates (Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, Jason Segel and Martin Starr), in between smoking marijuana or going off with them at theme parks such as Knott's Berry Farm. While celebrating her promotion, Alison meets Ben at a local nightclub. After a night of drinking, they end up having sex. Due to a misunderstanding, they don't use protection: Alison uses the phrase "Just do it already" to encourage Ben to put the condom on, but he misinterprets this to mean to dispense with using one. The following morning, they quickly learn over breakfast that they have little in common and go their separate ways, which leaves Ben visibly upset.

Shaiju Mathew

Shaiju Mathew (born 1980) is an Indian author, screenplay writer, movie reviewer and director, known for his 2010 book Knocked Up.Knocked Up is set to become a feature film in Hindi, with Mathew co-producing. A Marathi movie Timepass loosely based on Knocked Up released in February 2014. The film was the highest grossing Marathi film until the release of Lai Bhaari in the same year, which broke its record.

Personal life

Shaiju Mathew born in Anchal a small town in Kollam district was brought up in Pune. Like actor Kay Kay Menon and hockey legend Dhanraj Pillai, Mathew is also an alumini of St. Josephs Boys' High School Khadki, Pune. He studied human resource management at Pune University.

Career

After working as a singer and a screenwriter Mathew, who moved to Bangalore after university, wrote Knocked Up, a coming of age novel. The book took Mathew 20 days to write and the author drew inspiration from his childhood experiences with his friends. The author also heavily utilized social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter to design the book's artwork as well as publicize and market the book. In an interview to a popular news paper Mathew said that he is influenced by the works of RK Narayan, Enid Blyton and Ruskin Bond. He prefers to write simpler stories that common man can identify with. Mathew's next novel is a period drama titled A Pocketful Of Sunshine. Mathew is also associated with Citadel Cinemas a Bangalore based production house that produced Bangles a malayalam feature film and a short film Oru Thundu Padam starring Aju Varghese. Mathew is also a well known movie critic and writes extensively for various newspapers and magazines apart from his blog www.chaiwithshai.com.