P. Bharathiraja

P. Bharathiraja

Born	Chinnasaamy Periyamayathevar (1941-07-17) 17 July 1941^[1] Theni Allinagaram, Madura District (now Theni district), Madras Presidency, India
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor
Years active	1977–present
Spouse(s)	Chandraleela
Children	Manoj K bharathi, Janani Raaja Kumar
Parent(s)	Periyamayathevar Meenakshiyammal ^[2]
Awards	Padma Shri (2004)

Periyamayathevar Bharathiraja (born 17 July 1941) is an Indian film director who works mainly in the Tamil film industry. Making his debut in 1977 with 16 Vayathinile, he is known for realistic and sensitive portrayal of rural life in his films. As of 2017, he has won six National Film Awards, four Filmfare Awards South, two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and a Nandi Award. He has also directed films in Telugu and Hindi. The Government of India honoured him with Padma Shri in 2004 for his contribution to the film industry.

Film career

Bharathiraja started his film career as an assistant to Kannada film maker Puttanna Kanagal.^[3] Later, he assisted P. Pullaiah, M. Krishnan Nair,^[4] Avinasi Mani and A. Jagannathan. His first film 16 Vayathinile for which he wrote the script broke the then existing convention to create a new genre of village cinema. The film is now regarded as a milestone in the history of Tamil Cinema. About the film Bharathiraja said, "This movie was meant to be a Black & White art film produced with the help of National Film Development Corporation", but turned out to be a commercially successful color film and a starting point for several important careers.^[5] His next film Kizhake Pogum Rail produced similar results and eventually brought in criticisms that Bharathiraja was capable of catering only to village audiences. This led him to make Sigappu Rojakkal, about a psychopathic woman hater that was totally westernized in terms of both conception and production.^[6]

Bharathiraja confirmed his versatility and refusal to be tied down to one particular genre with an experimental film Nizhalgal (1980) and the action thriller Tik Tik Tik (1981). But, undoubtedly rural themes proved to be his forte as his biggest hits in the 1980s Alaigal Oivathillai (1981), Mann Vasanai (1983) and Muthal Mariyathai (1985) were strong love stories in a village backdrop. Muthal Mariyathai starred Sivaji Ganesan in the lead, playing a middle-aged village head. Radha is a poor young woman who moves into his village for a living. The love that bonds these two humans separated not just by age but also by caste and class, is told by Bharathiraja with poetic touches.^[7]

Vedham Pudhithu dealt with the caste issue in a stronger manner.^[8] The film's narrative was seamless and starred Sathyaraj as Balu Thevar. It contains some of Bharathiraja's trademark touches as well as several ground-breaking scenes. However, it does follow the anti-Brahmin trend common in Tamil films – in this respect it departed from his earlier success, Alaigal Oiyvadhillai, where the caste and religion factor was given a more balanced treatment. Bharathiraja has successfully managed to modernise his film making techniques for the 1990s. The commercial success of Kizhakku Cheemaiyile and the awards Karuththamma garnered stand as testimony for his ability to thrill the younger generation as well. Bharathiraja was on the same stage in 1996 to receive another National Award for Anthimanthaarai.

In late 1996, Bharathiraja was signed on to direct two films, with the Sarathkumar-starrer Vaakkapatta Bhoomi announced in October. The following month, he began work on a film titled Siragugal Murivadhillai with Napolean, Heera Rajgopal and Prakash Raj in the leading roles. Both films were later shelved.^[9]

His 2001 film Kadal Pookal won him that year's National Film Award for Best Screenplay. The well-known Tamil film director Bhagyaraj was one of his assistant directors.

Personal life

Bharathiraja was born as Chinnasamy to Periyamayakallar and Karuthammal. He is married to Chandra Leelavathi and has two children Manoj Bharathiraja and Janani. Manoj is an actor who was introduced in Tajmahal, he is married to actress Nandana.^[10]^[11] Janani is married to Malaysian Rajkumar Thambiraja.^[10] Bharathiraja's brother-in-law Manojkumar has directed films like Mannukkul Vairam, Vandicholai Chinraasu, Vaanavil and Guru Paarvai.^[12] His brother Jayaraj has made his acting debut with Kaththukkutti.^[13] His relative Stalin is a television actor who acted in serials like Saravanan Meenatchi and 7C.^[14]

Awards

Tamil Nadu State Film Awards

1977 – Best Director Award for 16 Vayathinile
1979- Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Film - Second Prize - Puthiya Vaarpugal
1981 – Best Director Award for Alaigal Oivathillai
1994 - Best Film Portraying Woman in Good Light for Karuththamma
2001 - Tamil Nadu State Film Honorary Award- Arignar Anna Award in 2001
2003 – Best Film in First place Eera Nilam

Nandi Awards

1981 – Nandi Award for Best Director for Seethakoka Chiluka

Vijay Awards

2012 - Contribution to Tamil Cinema
2013 - Best Supporting Actor for Pandiya Naadu

Other awards

South Indian Film Technicians : Best Technician Award for Kallukkul Eeram

Controversies

He attended the Heroes Day conference at Jaffna and appreciated its heroism and valour.^[20] Tamil Nadu Congress president Krishnasamy claimed he met the LTTE's leader, Prabhakaran, accused of planning the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and banned in India.
He organised a protest by Tamil Nadu artistes against the Indian state of Karnataka for not releasing Cauvery water at Neyveli. During a SUN TV interview, co-film stars like Sarath Kumar and Radhika who attended the conference accused him of using that opportunity to eulogise current Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalitha and launching attacks on Rajinikanth's homestate's ethnicity.^[21]^[22]
In the month of June 2013, it was claimed that Bharathiraja was responsible for the death of Manivannan. Bharathiraja made harsh comments against Manivannan in a leading Tamil magazine.^[23]

Former assistants who are popular directors

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Language	Credited as			Role	Notes
Year	Title	Language	Director	Writer	Actor	Role	Notes
1977	16 Vayathinile	Tamil	Y	Y			Remade in Telugu as Padaharella Vayasu Remade in Hindi as Solva Sawan Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Director
1978	Kizhake Pogum Rail	Tamil	Y				Remade in Telugu as Toorpu Velle Railu
1978	Sigappu Rojakkal	Tamil	Y	Y			Remade in Hindi as Red Rose Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Director
1979	Solva Sawan	Hindi	Y	Y
1979	Puthiya Vaarpugal	Tamil	Y				Remade in Telugu as Kotha Jeevithalu
1979	Niram Maaratha Pookkal	Tamil	Y
1980	Nizhalgal	Tamil	Y
1980	Kotha Jeevithalu	Telugu	Y	Y
1980	Red Rose	Hindi	Y	Y
1980	Kallukkul Eeram	Tamil			Y
1981	Alaigal Oivathillai	Tamil	Y				Remade in Telugu as Seethakoka Chiluka Remade in Hindi as Lovers Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Director
1981	Tik Tik Tik	Tamil	Y	Y			Remade in Hindi as Karishma
1981	Seethakoka Chiluka	Telugu	Y				National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu
1982	Kaadhal Oviyam	Tamil	Y
1982	Valibamey Vaa Vaa	Tamil	Y
1983	Man Vasanai	Tamil	Y				Remade in Telugu as Mangammagari Manavadu
1983	Lovers	Hindi	Y
1983	Dhavani Kanavugal	Tamil			Y	Guest appearance
1984	Pudhumai Penn	Tamil	Y
1985	Oru Kaidhiyin Diary	Tamil	Y				Remade in Hindi as Aakhree Raasta
1985	Yuvadharam Pilicindi	Telugu	Y
1985	Mudhal Mariyathai	Tamil	Y				National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil
1985	Ee Tharam Illalu	Telugu	Y
1986	Saveray Wali Gaadi	Hindi	Y
1986	Kadalora Kavithaigal	Tamil	Y				Remade in Telugu as Aradhana
1988	Jamadagni	Telugu	Y
1987	Vedham Pudhithu	Tamil	Y				National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues
1987	Aradhana	Telugu	Y
1988	Kodi Parakuthu	Tamil	Y
1990	En Uyir Thozhan	Tamil	Y	Y
1991	Pudhu Nellu Pudhu Naathu	Tamil	Y
1991	Idhayam	Tamil			Y	Guest appearance
1991	Thanthu Vitten Ennai	Tamil			Y	Guest appearance
1992	Nadodi Thendral	Tamil	Y
1993	Captain Magal	Tamil	Y
1993	Kizhakku Cheemayile	Tamil	Y				Remade in Telugu as Palnati Pourusham
1994	Karuthamma	Tamil	Y				National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare
1995	Pasum Ponn	Tamil	Y
1996	Tamizh Selvan	Tamil	Y
1996	Anthimanthaarai	Tamil	Y				National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil
1999	Taj Mahal	Tamil	Y
2001	Kadal Pookkal	Tamil	Y	Y			National Film Award for Best Screenplay
2003	Eera Nilam	Tamil	Y
2004	Kangalal Kaidhu Sei	Tamil	Y
2004	Aayutha Ezhuthu	Tamil			Y	Selvanayagam
2008	Bommalattam	Tamil	Y	Y
2010	Rettaisuzhi	Tamil			Y	Singaravelan
2013	Annakodi	Tamil	Y	Y
2013	Pandianadu	Tamil			Y	Kalyanasundaram	Vijay Award for Best Supporting Actor
2014	Ninaithathu Yaaro	Tamil			Y	Himself	Guest appearance
2017	Padai Veeran	Tamil			Y		Filming
2017	Kurangu Bommai	Tamil			Y		Filming
2017	Om	Tamil			Y		Filming

Television

Thekkathi Ponnu
Appanum Aathaalum
Mudhal Mariyadhai

Dubbing artist

Manivannan (Kodi Parakuthu)

Singer

"Kaadu Pottakaadu" (Karuthamma)

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External links

Nandi Award for Best Director
1981-2000	Bharathiraja (1981) U. Visweswar Rao (1982) Jandhyala (1983) Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao (1984) Singeetam Srinivasa Rao (1985) Kasinathuni Viswanath (1986) Kasinathuni Viswanath (1987) Suresh Krissna (1988) Ram Gopal Varma (1989) Kranthi Kumar (1990) Ram Gopal Varma (1991) C. Umamaheswara Rao (1992) Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao (1993) Singeetam Srinivas Rao (1994) Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao (1995) Gangaraju Gunnam (1996) Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao (1997) Dasari Narayana Rao (1998) Ram Gopal Varma (1999) S. V. Krishna Reddy (2000)
2001-present	Teja (2001) Krishna Vamsi (2002) Gunasekhar (2003) Sekhar Kammula (2004) Krishna Vamsi (2005) Sekhar Kammula (2006) Krishna Vamsi (2007) Radhakrishna Jagarlamudi (2008) S. S. Rajamouli (2009) Sunil Kumar Reddy (2010) N. Shankar (2011)
Category

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 Bahl and Vijay Maurya (2011) Sujoy Ghosh (2012) P. Sheshadri (2013) Srijit Mukherji (2014) Juhi Chaturvedi and Himanshu Sharma (2015) Syam Pushkaran (2016)
Adapted	Gopal Krishan Pai and Girish Kasaravalli (2009) Anant Mahadevan and Sanjay Pawar (2010) Avinash Deshpande Nigdi (2011) Bhavesh Mandalia and Umesh Shukla (2012) Panchakshari (2013) Joshy Mangalath (2014) Vishal Bhardwaj (2015) Sanjay Krishnaji Patil (2016)
Dialogues	Pandiraj (2009) Sanjay Pawar (2010) Girish Kulkarni (2011) Anjali Menon (2012) Sumitra Bhave (2013) Vishal Bhardwaj (2014) Juhi Chaturvedi and Himanshu Sharma (2015) Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam (2016)

Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Director
1972–1990	P. Madhavan (1972) A. C. Tirulokchandar (1973) K. Balachander (1974) K. Balachander (1975) S. P. Muthuraman (1976) S. P. Muthuraman (1977) Bharathiraja (1978) J. Mahendran (1979) K. Balachander (1980) K. Balachander (1981) Balu Mahendra (1982) A. Jagannathan (1983) K. Balachander (1984) Fazil (1985) Mani Ratnam (1986) Bharathiraja (1987) (1988) K. Balachander (1989) Mani Ratnam (1990)
1991–2000	Mani Ratnam (1991) K. Balachander (1992) Shankar (1993) Shankar (1994) Mani Ratnam (1995) Agathiyan (1996) Cheran (1997) Cheran (1998) Bala (1999) Rajiv Menon (2000) Cheran (2001) Mani Ratnam (2002) Bala (2003) Cheran (2004) Shankar (2005) Vasanthabalan (2006) Ameer Sultan (2007) M. Sasikumar (2008) Priyadarshan (2009) Vasanthabalan (2010)
2011–present	Vetrimaaran (2011) Balaji Sakthivel (2012) Bala (2013) AR Murugadoss (2014) Mohan Raja (2015) Sudha Kongara (2016)

Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Director
1967–1980	C. N. Shanmugam (1967) Krishnan-Panju (1968) P. Neelakantan (1969) P. Madhavan (1970) Not awarded (1971) Not awarded (1972) Not awarded (1973) Not awarded (1974) Not awarded (1975) Not awarded (1976) Bharathiraja (1977) Durai (1978) S. P. Muthuraman (1979) K. Balachander (1980)
1981–2000	Bharathiraja (1981) Muktha Srinivasan (1982) Not awarded (1983) Not awarded (1984) Not awarded (1985) Not awarded (1986) Not awarded (1987) P. R. Devaraj (1988) K. Balachander (1989) Vikraman (1990) P. Vasu (1991) Mani Ratnam (1992) Shankar (1993) K. S. Ravikumar (1994) Vasanth (1995) Agathiyan (1996) Vikraman & Cheran (1997) R. Parthiepan (1998) Bala (1999) Vikraman (2000)
2001–present	Susi Ganesan (2001) Mani Ratnam (2002) Karu Pazhaniappan (2003) Cheran (2004) Shankar (2005) Thirumurugan (2006) Thangar Bachan (2007) Radha Mohan (2008) Vasanthabalan (2009) Prabhu Solomon (2010) A. L. Vijay (2011) Balaji Sakthivel (2012) Ram (2013) N. Ragavan (2014)

P. Bharathiraja filmography
Tamil films	16 Vayathinile (1977) Kizhake Pogum Rail (1978) Sigappu Rojakkal (1978) Puthiya Vaarpugal (1979) Niram Maaratha Pookkal (1979) Nizhalgal (1980) Alaigal Oivathillai (1981) Valibamey Vaa Vaa (1981) Tik Tik Tik (1981) Kaadhal Oviyam (1982) Mann Vasanai (1983) Pudhumai Penn (1984) Oru Kaidhiyin Diary (1985) Muthal Mariyathai (1985) Kadalora Kavithaigal (1986) Vedham Pudhithu (1987) Kodi Parakuthu (1988) En Uyir Thozhan (1990) Pudhu Nellu Pudhu Naathu (1991) Nadodi Thendral (1992) Captain Magal (1992) Kizhakku Cheemayile (1993) Karuththamma (1994) Pasumpon (1994) Tamizh Selvan (1995) Anthimanthaarai (1995) Taj Mahal (1999) Kadal Pookkal (2001) Eera Nilam (2003) Kangalal Kaidhu Sei (2004) Bommalattam (2008) Annakodi (2013)
Hindi films	Solva Sawan (1979) Red Rose (1980) Lovers (1983) Saveray Wali Gaadi (1986)
Telugu films	Kotha Jeevithalu (1981) Seethakoka Chiluka (1981) Yuvataram Pilicindi (1985) Ee Tharam Illalu (1985) Jamadagni (1987) Aradhana (1987)

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