Vetrimaaran

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Vetrimaaran

Born	Vetrimaaran (1975-09-04) September 4, 1975 Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu
Occupation	Film director, Producer and Writer
Years active	2007 – present

Vetrimaaran (Tamil: வெற்றிமாறன்) is an Indian film director, working in the Tamil film industry. He made his directorial debut with the critically acclaimed Polladhavan (2007). His second feature film Aadukalam (2011) won five National Film Awards, with Vetrimaaran receiving two awards for Best Direction and Best Screenplay.

Personal life

Vetrimaaran's father Dr. V. Chitravel was a veterinary scientist and his mother Megala Chitravel is a noted novelist.^[1]^[2]^[3] He was born in Cuddalore. Then he moved to Ranipet. He studied till his tenth grade in Ranipet, a suburb of Vellore. He then moved to Chennai to do his higher secondary education at YMCA College of Physical Education in the hope of becoming a cricketer. After failing to get through the selection of TN state team, he gave up the idea and enrolled himself in Loyola College, Chennai, to study English literature in 1994, and was in there until 1999 when he discontinued his Masters degree to pursue a career in the film world. After pursuing an elective course called "Television presentation" offered by the Loyola Department of Visual Communication in 1995, Vetrimaaran started to show interest towards film making.

Filmography

Year	Film	Director	Producer	Writer	Notes
2007	Polladhavan	Yes	No	Yes	Vijay Award for Best Director
2011	Aadukalam	Yes	No	Yes	National Film Award for Best Director National Film Award for Best Screenplay SIIMA Award for Best Director Vijay Award for Best Director Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Director^[4]
2013	Udhayam NH4	No	Yes	Yes
2013	Naan Rajavaga Pogiren	No	No	Yes	As dialogue writer
2014	Kaaka Muttai	No	Yes	No	Filming
2014	Poriyaalan	No	Yes	No	Filming
2014	Eetti	No	Yes	No	Pre-production
2014	untitled project	Yes	Yes	Yes	Pre-production

References

↑ "India's Independent Weekly News Magazine". Tehelka. Retrieved 2012-04-17.
↑ George, Liza (2011-07-28). "Journey of the mind". The Hindu (Chennai, India).
↑ "Vetrimaaran's Mother To His Rescue! - Tamil Movie News". IndiaGlitz. 2011-04-27. Retrieved 2012-04-17.
↑ "The 59th Idea Filmfare Awards 2011(South)". The Times Of India. 2012-07-08. Retrieved 08-07-2012.

External links

Vetrimaaran at the Internet Movie Database

v t e National Film Award for Best Direction

1967–1980	Satyajit Ray (1967) Satyajit Ray (1968) Mrinal Sen (1969) Satyajit Ray (1970) Girish Karnad and B. V. Karanth (1971) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1972) Mani Kaul (1973) Satyajit Ray (1974) Satyajit Ray (1975) P. Lankesh (1976) G. Aravindan (1977) G. Aravindan (1978) Mrinal Sen (1979) Mrinal Sen (1980)

1981–2000	Aparna Sen (1981) Utpalendu Chakrabarty (1982) Mrinal Sen (1983) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1984) Shyam Benegal (1985) G. Aravindan (1986) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1987) Shaji N. Karun (1988) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1989) Tapan Sinha (1990) Satyajit Ray (1991) Goutam Ghose (1992) T. V. Chandran (1993) Jahnu Barua (1994) Saeed Akhtar Mirza (1995) Agathiyan (1996) Jayaraj (1997) Rajeevnath (1998) Buddhadeb Dasgupta (1999) Rituparno Ghosh (2000)

2001–present	B. Lenin (2001) Aparna Sen (2002) Goutam Ghose (2003) Buddhadeb Dasgupta (2004) Rahul Dholakia (2005) Madhur Bhandarkar (2006) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (2007) Bala (2008) Rituparno Ghosh (2009) Vetrimaaran (2010) Gurvinder Singh (2011) Shivaji Lotan Patil (2012)

National Film Award for Best Screenplay

1967–1980

S. L. Puram Sadanandan (1967)
Pandit Anand Kumar (1968)
Puttanna Kanagal (1969)
Satyajit Ray (1970)
Tapan Sinha (1971)
Gulzar (1972)
Mrinal Sen and Ashish Burman (1973)
Satyajit Ray (1974)
No Award (1975)
Vijay Tendulkar (1976)
Satyadev Dubey, Shyam Benegal, Girish Karnad (1977)
T. S. Ranga and T. S. Nagabharana (1978)
Sai Paranjpye (1979)
Mrinal Sen (1980)

1981–2000

2001–present

Neelakanta (2001) Aparna Sen (2002) Goutam Ghose (2003) Manoj Tyagi and Nina Arora (2004) Prakash Jha, Manoj Tyagi and Shridhar Raghavan (2005) Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra (2006) Feroz Abbas Khan (2007) Sachin Kundalkar (2008)

Original	P. F. Mathews and Harikrishna (2009) Vetrimaaran (2010) Nitish Tiwary, Vikas Behl and Vijay Maurya (2011) Sujoy Ghosh (2012)

Adapted	Gopal Krishan Pai and Girish Kasaravalli (2009) Anant Mahadevan and Sanjay Pawar (2010) Avinash Deshpande Nigdi (2011) Bhavesh Mandalia and Umesh Shukla (2012)

Dialogues	Pandiraj (2009) Sanjay Pawar (2010) Girish Kulkarni (2011) Anjali Menon (2012)

v t e Filmography of Vetrimaaran

Directed	Polladhavan (2007) Aadukalam (2011)

Other	Naan Rajavaga Pogiren (Dialogues) (2013) Udhayam NH4 (Producer, Story & Screenplay) (2013)

Persondata
Name	Vetrimaaran
Alternative names
Short description	Indian film director
Date of birth	1975-09-04
Place of birth	Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu
Date of death
Place of death

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