Pondicherry , India . [1] His father, Nelliyattu C. Shyamalan, a physician , is a Malayalee , and his mother, Jayalakshmi (called Jaya), is a Tamil and an obstetrician and gynecologist by profession. [2] In the 1960s, after medical school (at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research in