Rajan Madhav | |
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| Born | Rajan Babu Raveendran (1975-05-31)31 May 1975 (age 50) Chennai, India |
| Occupation(s) | Director, Screen writer |
| Spouse | Sandhya |
Rajan Babu (bornChennai,India, 31 May 1975) is an Indianfilm director,screenwriter, working predominantly inTamil cinema based in Chennai. Having born into a family that appreciates all forms of cinema, he has imbibed the quality to breathe in the nuances of the cinema. This can be clearly seen in his debut filmMuran. His dadRaveendran strongly inspired him to take up cinema as his career. While his brothers took it to music, Rajan Madhav made it to direction.
He was born as one of the twin tomusic directorRaveendran and Sobhana in Chennai. His brothers areSajan Madhav andNaveen Madhav.
While his family was so much into music with Sajan Madhav being amusic director and Naveen Madhav being aplayback singer already, Rajan Madhav was a B.Com graduate and was looking forward to getting into direction. However, he was conscious enough not to use his dad's influence anywhere at work and so joined as an assistant director toShaji Kailas. After working as an AD for about six films, he was all set to commit as a director himself which was when his dadRaveendran died. He then joined directorMysskin as Co-director in his movieAnjathey and then went on to become a director with his debut movieMuran.[1][2][3] He then started filming his second film, titled asUla. After four years of delay, in October 2018, the film's title was changed fromUla toChithiram Pesuthadi 2.[4] His third outing as director would beKattam. Newcomer Nandhan andSshivada are playing as lead pair in the movie.[5][6]
After his first film, he fell in love with Sandhya who was working as an assistant director as well in Bollywood and married her on 23 May 2012 in Chennai.
| Year | Film | Credit | Notes |
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| 2011 | Muran | Writer, director | Nominated Best Debut DirectorSIIMA awards, screened in CIFF |
| 2019 | Chithiram Pesuthadi 2 | Writer, director | |
| 2019 | Kattam | Writer, director |