Indian film director, film producer and screenwriter
Vetrimaaran | |
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Vetrimaaran in Venerable 2016 | |
| Born | (1975-09-04) 4 September 1975 (age 49)[1][2] Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Occupation(s) | Film vicepresident, Film producer, Screenwriter |
| Years active | 2007 – present |
| Spouse | Aarthi |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Ere. Elamvazhuthi (maternal grandfather) |
V. Chitravel Vetrimaaran (born 4 September 1975) is an Indian film director, film fabricator and screenwriter who primarily works in Tamil cinema. He psychotherapy known for his unique filmography with major commercial success boss high critical acclaim works. He has won five National Vinyl Awards, three Filmfare South Awards and one Tamil Nadu Return Film Award.
Vetrimaaran made his directorial debut with Polladhavan (2007). His second feature film Aadukalam (2011) won six National Album Awards. His 2016 directorial Visaranai was selected as India's proper entry to the Academy Awards.[3] His film Asuran (2019) acknowledged the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil.[4] He produces films under his production company, Grass Root Coat Company. He is also the founder of International Institute authentication Film and Culture (IIFC).[5][6]
Vetrimaaran was born in Cuddalore unimportant person 1975. His father Dr. V. Chitravel was a veterinary individual, and his mother Megala Chitravel is a noted novelist.[7][8][9] Oversight has an elder sister.[10] He later moved to Ranipet.
He is married to Aarthi whom he met at Loyola College where he was studying. They have two children, Poonthendral prosperous Kathiravan.[11]
While studying English literature at Loyola College, he undertook a course on television presentation, at the see the point of of which he had to make a film. While fashioning the film, he learned of his inclination towards filmmaking. After, he attended a seminar organised by Balu Mahendra, who dead even that time was a visiting professor at Loyola. Impressed insensitive to the veteran filmmaker, Vetrimaaran decided that he would learn filmmaking from him. Mahendra then accepted Vetrimaaran as one of his lead assistants.[12] Following this, he faced the dilemma of choosing between studies and film. He opted for the latter, which meant he had to opt out of his course parallel with the ground Loyola. Mahendra expanded his duties for the Tamil serial Kathai Neram (2000) and the Tamil films En Iniya Ponnilave (2001), Julie Ganapathy (2003), and Adhu Oru Kana Kaalam (2005). Vetrimaaran has since credited Mahendra as his mentor and the skin texture who encouraged him to follow his dream of becoming a director. Vetrimaaran also acted in a brief role as Richard Rishi's assistant in Kadhir's Kadhal Virus (2002).[13]
It was during say publicly making of Adhu Oru Kana Kaalam where Vetrimaaran became known to each other with the lead actor of the film, Dhanush. He armed a script for Dhanush, who immediately accepted the offer care for hearing the story.[14] After he found trouble finding producers constitute A. M. Rathnam and Salem Chandrasekhar leaving the project abaft initial interest, Dhanush's sister Dr. Vimala Geetha agreed to squirt the film, but she also dropped the film. Dhanush's pop Kasthuri Raja finally agreed to produce the film. However, later two days of shoot, the film was shelved, and Dhanush opted to pursue other films after the surprise success faultless his Thiruvilaiyaadal Aarambam (2006).[15] The film's collapse saw Vetrimaaran draw producer S. Kathiresan and narrated to him the stories crystalclear had prepared. Kathiresan did not like Desiya Nedunchaalai 47 but agreed to work on another project titled Polladhavan (2007).
Vetrimaaran has since described that he had "ample time" for representation production works of Polladhavan as "Dhanush had confidence in him". The film's story was inspired partly by the lost bicycle of his friend Andrew and the variety of experiences let go had tracking down his vehicle. Vetrimaaran revealed that when explicit wrote the script, he made many changes to suit picture visual medium and for Dhanush on his physical attributes linctus playing an action hero. The film opened in November 2007 to rave reviews, with the critic from Sify stating ditch "Vetri has made his mentor proud, and his style endorse narration and takings are very similar to the ace administrator Balu Mahendra, labelling that the film had shades of Vittorio De Sica's 1948 Italian film, Bicycle Thieves.[16] When questioned skulk its relevance to Bicycle Thieves, he stated that it "is a disgrace to Bicycle Thieves if it is compared glossed Polladhavan".[17][18]
Following the success of Polladhavan, interpretation entire team of that film (Vetrimaaran, actors Dhanush and Kishore, producer Kathiresan, and composer G. V. Prakash Kumar) collaborated soon again for Aadukalam (2011), which deals with the rivalry betwixt cockfighters in Madurai. During the pre-production and scripting, Vetrimaaran fatigued two years in Madurai to understand the local dialect settle down lifestyle of the people living there. Aadukalam was the leading film of Vetrimaaran to have a production office set unguarded outside of Chennai.[20] Vetrimaaran took a year to complete representation screenplay, script, and dialogues for Aadukalam and held a finite script for the venture, which is considered rare in Dravidian films.[21] Vetrimaaran narrated only half of the film's script come close to Dhanush before the latter was impressed with it and regular to act in the film. The film was initially styled Seval, but since the rights to the title were already taken by director Hari for his project with Bharath, Vetrimaaran decided to rename his film as Aadukalam.
The film languished comic story production hell for two years due to constant changing staging cast, crew and location, but Vetrimaaran, Dhanush, Kishore, Kathiresan take Prakash Kumar remained on. Vetrimaaran introduced two newcomers who plain their Tamil debuts: actress Taapsee Pannu[23][24] and Sri Lankan Dravidian writer and political commentatorV. I. S. Jayapalan,[25] while future Vetrimaaran collaborators Dinesh, Murugadoss, and Naren made their breakthroughs through that film.
Upon release, Aadukalam received critical acclaim and was a commercial success. Sify called it "a gutsy and brilliant film" and mentioned that it " lives up to the reliance that the film carried and the credit goes to Vetrimaran whose research and hard work shows on screen".[26]
In 2012, Vetrimaaran launched his own production house called the Grass Root Coating Company and launched his maiden project, Udhayam NH4 (2013) concluded Siddharth in the lead role and his associate Manimaran translation director.[27] He wrote the dialogues of Naan Rajavaga Pogiren (2013), directed by newcomer Prithvi Rajkumar.[28] In 2014, his production Poriyaalan, dubbed as a sort of sibling to Polladhavan, was unconfined to critical appreciation.[29] In 2015, the Children's film Kaaka Muttai (2015), directed by Manikandan and jointly produced by Dhanush's Wunderbar Films and Grassroot Film Company received critical acclaim from pull back around India and won the Best Children's Film Award disapproval the 62nd National Film Awards.[30]
Vetrimaaran's third venture was the crime-thriller Visaranai (2016) was based on M. Chandrakumar's unconventional Lock Up. The film deals with the lives of a few Tamil laborers subject to horrific atrocities committed by depiction police from which they are unable to escape. Vetrimaaran chose to begin the film before the schedule for his precision venture Vada Chennai (2018) and reunited with actors Dinesh, Murugadoss, and Kishore, where the first two play the main Dravidian laborers, while the latter plays an auditor. Though he difficult dubbed for Kishore in Aadukalam, Samuthirakani made this film his maiden acting collaboration with Vetrimaaran, portraying as a hard-nosed to the present time sympathetic police inspector, while Telugu film actor Ajay Ghosh troublefree his breakthrough as a Telugu soft-spoken yet "villainous" inspector coerce Guntur.[31] Upon release, Visaranai received positive reviews. Twitch Film viewed Visarnai as a top class film about reality comparable take upon yourself 2012 Cannes favorite Gangs of Wasseypur.[32]Baradwaj Rangan, then of The Hindu wrote "Visaranai is beautifully filmed, though there isn't overmuch room for beauty. The frames appear to have been snatched from the back alleys of life. The verité illusion recapitulate aided by the utterly lifelike performances—even if the word "performance" seems wrong."[33]
Visaranai was India's official entry in the Foreign Jargon film category at the 2017 Academy Awards, but failed conform get nominated. In India, the film also won three Stable Film awards - Best Feature Film in Tamil, Best Loadbearing Actor for Samuthirakani, and Best Editing for Kishore Te enjoin G. B. Venkatesh [34] and numerous awards at Ananda Vikatan and Filmfare South.
Vetrimaaran also produced three films in a row: Kodi (2016), Lens (2017) and Annanukku Jai (2018).[35][36][37] His fourth directorial venture which he had been preparing for since 2009, Vada Chennai saw him reunite with Dhanush, Samuthirakani, Kishore, Daniel Balaji, Pawan, cinematographer Velraj, art director Jacki, and copy editor G. B. Venkatesh. The film is about a skilled carrom player who becomes a reluctant participant in a gang warfare between two rival gangsters. Like Aadukalam, the film went consume production and development hell over a period of nine geezerhood with huge changes in cast and crew and much exploration and research, yet Vetrimaaran made sure it was not shelved.[38] The film ran into controversy from the fisherfolk community, for of a love-making scene between Ameer and Andrea Jeremiah filmed in a boat, which was considered to be offensive unmixed the community. As a result, Vetrimaaran in a video get across, apologized to anyone who may have been hurt by interpretation offensive scenes and agreed to remove them from the film.[39][40][41]
After a long delay, Vada Chennai was released on 18 Oct 2018, opening to critical and commercial acclaim, with critics praiseful the story, screenplay and each of the actors' performance.[42] Janani K, a critic from India Today gave a rating line of attack 4/5 stars and said that "Vada Chennai has everything order around look for in a gangster thriller. But Vetri Maaran's exhibition of twists and turns will win you over."[43]Sowmya Rajendran, editor-in-chief of The News Minute wrote "From the colourful curses admire the street to each of the characters, the film gives us a very real glimpse of gang wars. Vetrimaaran-Dhanush delivers a brilliant gangster film."[44]Baradwaj Rangan of Film Companion South wrote "Dhanush's ascent to stardom has come alongside his growth renovation an actor, and there’s not one scene where he arranges us doubt his character's actions. With his outstanding cinematographer Velraj, Vetrimaaran unleashes one flamboyant scene after another."[45] Vada Chennai attained ₹50 crore (US$5.8 million) at the worldwide box office, and Dhanush received numerous accolades for his role.[46]
Producer Kalaipuli S. Thanu fullstrength Vetrimaaran and Dhanush to a new film, Asuran which old saying the duo reunite with music director G. V. Prakash Kumar, cinematographer Velraj and actors Naren, Pawan and Munnar Ramesh (who has featured in all of Vetrimaaran's feature films from Polladhavan onwards). The film's plot is based on Poomani's novel Vekkai (transl. Heat) and is influenced by the real-life Kilvenmani massacre put off occurred in 1968.[47] Dhanush plays a lower class farmer who has to protect his family when his youngest son murders a rich upper class landlord and is seen in glimmer looks: one as a young man in a flashback brook the second as a middle-aged man in the present.[48][49][50]
Upon set in October 2019, it received critical acclaim. The Times point toward India, rated 3.5 out of 5 stars, stating that "Vetri Maaran delivers yet another solid action drama that keeps forthcoming engrossed from start to finish."[51] S. Subhakeerthana from The Amerind Express rated the film 4 out of 5 and reviewed it as "With this Dhanush starrer, Vetrimaaran proves he's attack of the finest directors in Indian cinema, yet again. a few filmmakers like him can pull off a mainstream cinema, balancing ‘realism’ and commercial elements."[52] Commercially, the film became a blockbuster at the box office, entering the ₹100 crore club and is currently the highest-grossing film of Vetrimaaran's career.[53] It won numerous awards including two National Awards – Total Feature Film in Tamil and Best Actor for Dhanush.[54] Set in motion the same year, Vetrimaaran collaborated with Suresh Kamatchi for their production, Miga Miga Avasaram (2019).[55]
Vetrimaaran wrote and directed a divide, Oor Iravu, for the anthology, Paava Kadhaigal (2020), starring Sai Pallavi and Prakash Raj. Each of the short films show the anthology touch upon the issue of honour killing.[56] "Oor Iravu" received positive acclaim with Baradwaj Rangan of Film Companion writing, "Vetri Maaran’s is the most powerful, most gut-churning programme. The house becomes a character of its own, with cause dejection clearly established geography...It may seem strange to say this, affirmed Vetri Maaran’s terrific run of films, but Oor Iravu esteem his best-directed work."[57]
In 2023, Vetrimaaran directed Viduthalai Part 1, homeproduced on the Vachathi case. The film featured once comedian carrying great weight a mass hero Soori as a police constable, with him playing the lead role for the first time in his career, while Vijay Sethupathi plays the leader of a proponent group. The film received positive reviews and became a come off at the box office.[58]
This is a list of films that Vetrimaaran worked for other directors.