Director

Vignesh Shivan

Directing

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Directed movies: 4Directed series: 1All crew credits: 34

TMDB ID: 1118774

IMDb ID: nm4174626

Known for: Directing

Born: September 18, 1984

Age: 41

Place of birth: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2007 - 2025

Years active: 19

Average TMDB rating: 6.33

Wikidata: Q18210252

Also known as

Vignesh Shivn

Frequent jobs

Director (4)Assistant Director (1)Lyricist (19)Producer (6)Presenter (2)Co-Producer (1)Screenplay (1)

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Biography

Vignesh Shivan is an Indian film director, actor and lyric writer who works in Tamil cinema. He has been regularly associated in projects involving Silambarasan, Dhanush and Anirudh Ravichander, as well as helming independent music videos. Vignesh Shivan made a short film and after getting Dharan to compose music for it; showed the film to producers, Gemini Film Circuit, and then to his childhood friend, Silambarasan and both parties agreed to collaborate to make it a feature film titled Podaa Podi (2012). His second film, Naanum Rowdydhaan (2015), like his first film, went through several changes of cast and production studios, before finalising on Vijay Sethupathi and Nayantara as actors and Dhanush as producer. The film, for which he drew inspiration from the lives of his parents, opened to highly positive reviews in October 2015.

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