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Anucharan Murugaiyan is an Indian director, writer and editor who works in Tamil cinema. He made his directorial debut in Australia with the short film Infinity[1] (2011) released in Australia and got his breakthrough in feature films withKirumi, which has critically acclaimed and featured in 19th Annual Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival.[2]
He did his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering atCoimbatore Institute of Technology . He is a design engineer by profession and has done a job at TCS Kolkata for about 18 months. Then he travelled to Australia to pursue his master's degree in Animation Technology at Sydney. He joined Animation mentor course in Sydney the masters in the field of animation where he learned from renowned including people from Pixar and ILM.[3]
Anucharan, a director of several short films, 20 music videos and 10 television shows in Australia. He has reached to the semi – finals with his short film "Infinity" at the Trop Fest (World's largest short film festival) in Sydney. He had come to Chennai for his sister's wedding, when M. Manikandan, the director ofKaaka Muttai and a close friend of him, and composerG. V. Prakash Kumar, encouraged him to make a Tamil film, after hearing the script ofKirumi.[4] Manikandan introduced Anucharan to Jayaraman, a former assistant, who had worked with actorRajinikanth for 24 years and who decided to produce the venture along with his friends Prithiviraj and Rajendran as he liked the script since it was "contemporary" and had a message for society.[5]
| Year | Film | Director | Writer | Editor | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Kirumi | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2016 | Kuttrame Thandanai | No | No | Yes | |
| 2016 | Aandavan Kattalai | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2019 | Sigai | No | No | Yes[6] | Released onZEE5[7] |
| 2019 | July Kaatril | No | No | Yes | |
| 2022 | Panni Kutty[8] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Project by Lyca Productions[9] |
Television
| Year | Name | Director | Writer | Editor | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Suzhal: The Vortex | Yes | No | No | Amazon Prime Web Series |
Short films