[Music] M the Knight shyamalan's daughters are entertainers in their own right the critically acclaimed filmmaker and his wife bavna vaswani are parents to three daughters celika isana and Shivani his family has supported him throughout his career and his work has clearly inspired them in their own professional Pursuits as his daughters have gotten older Shyamalan has made his business a family one enlisting them to work on his projects in the film making and music Arenas his middle daughter isana is a filmmaker like her dad who made her directorial debut with the horror film The Watchers meanwhile his eldest daughter celika is a musician who has provided music for her dad's films recently starring in his horror film trap additionally being a father has heavily influenced Shyamalan scripts I'm a girl dad with three girls and it's just the way I see things he told old Screen Rant while promoting trap I see the world through their eyes my fear of the world is for them protecting them or overprotecting them and then wanting them to look up to me and be proud of the things that I say and do here's everything to know about m n shyamalan's Daughters and how he's worked with them through the years salika Shyamalan 28 salika Shyamalan known professionally as salika is shyamalan's oldest child whom he welcomed in August 1996 while celika watched many horror movies with her father growing up she she ended up developing a passion for music at a young age I studied classical piano very seriously and was prepping to be a concert pianist and study at a conservatory she told The Hollywood Reporter of her early career as a musician but then when I was 16 I started feeling a desire to write and compose for myself and to use a different type of creativity so I shifted my path after releasing her first single Clarity in September 2020 she released her debut album Seance in 2022 additionally her music has been featured in several of her father's projects including servant and old speaking with PS in 2021 she talked about writing remain for old at her father's request he gave me the script to read and told me that one of the characters in it sings a song and he wanted me to write it she said the script was such a masterpiece suspenseful emotional chilling there was so much to draw from artistically this was one of my favorite songs to write because the script of old was the most inspiring prompt I could ever ask for she continued we talk about film music and art a lot in my family and often help each other with ideas for projects we are working on so collaboration with my dad actually felt very natural in August 2024 celika made her acting debut in her father's film trap in which she plays a pop star named lady Raven additionally she wrote 14 songs for the film which are featured on lady Raven original music from the motion picture trap including one track with kid cuy for the role celika told people she channeled Taylor Swift noting how she's such a global icon she's not just a singer and an Entertainer you see on stage she's a boss she explained so I think we thought a lot about that isan Shyamalan 24 isan Shyamalan known professionally as ishan Night Shyamalan is shyamalan's second child born in November 1999 speaking with people about the 25th anniversary of The Sixth Sense Shyamalan noted that the film is dear to his heart as it was released right before he welcomed isan I was close to her age when I wrote Sixth Sense he said of isana she noted that her mother was pregnant with her when she attended the red carpet Premiere in August 1999 isana has directly followed in her Father's Footsteps becoming a filmmaker in her own right speaking with Variety in 2021 she noted that she developed a passion for horror movies early on at the movie Nights her dad hosted from the time I was able to watch a movie we were watching horror movies she told the publication I remember in my elementary school in the library I would come in every time and they would say we have a new scary story for you I formed a sense of identity based on that when I was pretty young during a joint interview with the New York Times Shyamalan recalled witnessing isana's passion for movies early on though he let her find her own way in the movie industry I knew she would be a filmmaker but I never pushed her into it he told the publication we'd watch a movie and she would really connect with what we were watching she was able to discern what was exceptional about what we had watched in in addition to directing a handful of her sister sika's music videos she has regularly teamed up with her father on projects notably she served as the second unit director for his films old and knock at the cabin and wrote and directed several episodes of his series servant