Karthik Subbaraj

Karthik Subbaraj
Born Madurai, India
Nationality Indian
Occupation Film director , Screenwriter , Actor
Years active 2012–present

Karthik Subbaraj – started his career working as a software engineer in Bangalore working for Silver Soft. During this period he got interested in film making. He learnt the basics of film making, during a one-day workshop run by Sanjay Nambiar.

In the course of his work as a software engineer, he was deputed to U.K where he further enhanced his film making skills by making a number of short films and assisting other Indie film makers.

Once he was back in India, he made a short film "Kaatchipizhai" in Madurai, which was selected for "Naalaya Iyakunar". He went on to make his directorial debut with the 2012 thriller film Pizza which was a low budget film, but earned huge profits.

His latest venture Jigarthanda which deals with the Madurai underworld was released in september 2014 and received critical acclaims. The film stars Siddharth, Lakshmi Menon, Bobby Simha and Karuna.

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Personal life

Karthik Subbaraj studied Mechatronics at Thiagarajar College of Engineering. He attended SBOA Matriculation and Higher Secondary School, Madurai.[3] During his college days he used to perform lot of stage shows with different theme of Skits. He is a die hard fan of Rajnikanth

Filmography

As director
As actor
Short films
  • Raavanam
  • Thuru
  • Petti Case
  • We
  • Broken Gods
  • Buoyants
  • Kaatchipizhai - Parallax
  • Cause & Effect
  • React
  • Last Train
  • Who's the Indian
  • Outpourings
  • Dark Game
  • Black & White
  • Neer

References

  1. ↑ Parthasarathy, Anusha (June 2, 2011). "The ‘reel' life". The Hindu. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
  2. ↑ "Karthik Subburaj". The Hindu. 6 September 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "'SBOA' alumni". SBOA School. Retrieved 24 October 2014.