Michael Muthu | |
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| Born | 1968 Chennai, India |
| Occupation(s) | Director, writer |
Michael Muthu is an Indian director, writer and actor who has worked on theatre productions and films. He is based inChennai.[1][2][3]
Michael Muthu started his career in theatre after finishing his schooling, and was a member of the Loyola Theatre Society during his first two years of college. In 1991, he became the founder of the Chennai-based theatre group, Boardwalkers. He has since worked on productions including God, Biloxi Blues, The Hairy Ape, Sleuth, The Pied Piper of Hamlin, and Jesus Christ Superstar.[4][5] In the early 1990s, he starred alongsideM. Night Shyamalan in the director's English filmPraying with Anger (1992), while he also played supporting roles in French and Italian productions based in India in the late 1990s.[6]
In 2002, Michael began working on directing an English film titledThe Girl, and despite it completing production, it was previewed to audiences but not released theatrically as he could not find distributors.[7] In January 2017, he announced plans to make a bilingual film titledThe Way Things Are in English andTheeviram in Tamil, produced by Sameer Bharat Ram. StarringGokul Anand,Amzath Khan andArjun Chidambaram in the lead roles, the film was shot in 2017 and the Tamil version had a delayedOTT release on the Simply South platform in November 2020.[8][9]
In a rare Indian film appearance, he starred inShankar's2.0 (2018) as a police officer, working alongsideRajinikanth.[10] He also portrayed the role ofSushant Singh Rajput's father in his final film,Dil Bechara (2020).
| Year | Film | Role | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Praying with Anger | Sanjay | English | |
| 1999 | Les Montagnes Bleues | Srinivas | French | |
| Branchie | Sarwar | Italian | ||
| 2006 | That Four-Letter Word | Theatre director | English | |
| 2018 | 2.0 | Police officer | Tamil | |
| 2020 | Dil Bechara | Immanuel Rajkumar Sr | Hindi |
| Year | Film | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Theeviram | Tamil |