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Director Pandiraj is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Indian born on 7 june 1976

Director Pandiraj

Director Pandiraj
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Nationality Inde
Birth 7 june 1976 (47 years)

Pandiraj (பாண்டிராஜ் in Tamil) is a Tamil film film director and producer, who predominantly works in South Indian cinema. His debut movie, Pasanga released in 2009, was commercially successful and won several awards, including the National Film Award for Best Screenplay. He has directed 4 films so far and has introduced several actors and technicians in all major departments to the Tamil Film industry which includes Actors Vimal (Pasanga) and Siva Karthikeyan (Marina (film)), Cinematographers Vijay (Marina) and Prem Kumar (Pasanga), Music Directors Girish (Marina) and Taj Noor (Vamsam), Editors Athiyappan Siva (Marina) and Yoga Baskar (Pasanga), Art Directors A.A.Devaraj (Vamsam) and Crawford (Pasanga) and Child Artists Sreeram, Kishore, Pandian, Murugesh, KarthikrajaIn in Pasanga and Gautham Purushoth in Marina.

Usually with

Soori
Soori
(4 films)
Vimal
Vimal
(3 films)
Bindu Madhavi
Bindu Madhavi
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Director Pandiraj (10 films)

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Actor

Kazhugu
Kazhugu (2012)

Genres Thriller, Comedy
Actors Kreshna, Bindu Madhavi, Karunas Sethu, Thambi Ramaiah, V. Jayaprakash, Aarthi
Rating61% 3.096513.096513.096513.096513.09651
Sera (Krishna) is a guy who earns his living by retrieving dead bodies from Kodaikanal's Green Valley View suicide point. Nandu (Karunas), Shanmugam (Thambi Ramaiah) and a mute friend are part of Sera's crew. Chera meets Kavitha (Bindu Madhavi) when he and his crew retrieve her sister's body from a gully, after the sister had committed suicide with her boyfriend. Kavitha gradually falls in love with Sera. A parallel plot is of Iyya (Jayaprakash), who trades in stolen tea, with corrupt officials turning a blind eye to his activities.

Director

Kedi Billa Killadi Ranga, 2h12
Directed by Director Pandiraj
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Vimal, Sivakarthikeyan, Bindu Madhavi, Regina Cassandra, Delhi Ganesh, Soori
Rating56% 2.8043852.8043852.8043852.8043852.804385
The entire film shoot was at Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli. The film opens with two friends "Pattai"Murugan (Sivakarthikeyan) and "Theni"Kesavan (Vimal) who are unemployed and want to become a politician. Meanwile,Murugan meets Paappaa (Regina Cassandra) and falls for her. On the other side Kesavan meets Mithra Meenalochini (Bindu Madhavi) and falls for her. Paappaa and Mithra too fall for them after many confusions . There comes the Councilor Election and Murugan stands for it. Paappaa gives Murugan money to spend for the Election. Eventually Murugan loses in the election. Seeing this, Murugan's father dies by falling off of the train platform. Murugan gets the job of his father. Kesavan marries Mithra. Murugan and Paappaa waits for the acceptation of their parents. As their parents accept for their marriage and they get married . Murugan & Kesavan realise the real value of the life & they decide that life is nothing without doing work so they both go to their respective homes & while seeing their father's photo Murugan & Kesavan write that " DAD IS MY GOD " & " MY FATHER IS HERO " respectively.
Marina
Marina (2012)
, 2h14
Directed by Director Pandiraj
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Oviya, Sivakarthikeyan, V. Jayaprakash, Vikram, Sathish, Prakash Raj
Rating55% 2.758352.758352.758352.758352.75835
Ambikapathy ('Pakoda' Pandian) is an orphan runaway who escapes from his cruel uncle to Chennai and eventually ends up at Marina beach. He earns his livelihood by first hawking drinking-water packets and later poached chickpeas to the public visiting Marina beach. His calm and matured manners win him the admiration and later the friendship of other boys employed at the beach. Ambikapathy has a passion to be educated, so he works in the day to save money for schooling whilst trying to study at night on his own. His ultimate dream is to be enrolled in a proper school. His passion also slowly begins to rubs-off on the other children on the beach.
Pasanga
Pasanga (2009)
, 2h31
Directed by Director Pandiraj
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education
Actors Vimal, Vega Tamotia, V. Jayaprakash, Kishore Kumar, Sree Raam, Sivakumar
Rating76% 3.8386753.8386753.8386753.8386753.838675
The story unfolds in a dry barren village. Anbukkarasu (Kishore), the protagonist who wants to excel in his life as a Collector and is an encouraging child, comes across Jeevanandam (Sree Raam), the son of the school teacher Chokkalingam(JayaPrakash), on the first day of school. Jeeva develops instant dislike for Anbu. The good-hearted Anbu tries to befriend Jeeva. However, Jeeva continues to hate Anbu with a passion. Enter Manonmani (Dharini), Jeeva's cousin, who develops affinity towards Anbu. This only makes Jeeva detest Anbu further. Not only Anbu excels in academics but also in extracurricular activities, contributes to widening the rift between the two.Anbu's parents have diiferent opinions at Life which develops fight between them and also turns out to be a positive for Jeeva to hurt Anbu further.

Scriptwriter

Goli Soda
Goli Soda (2014)
, 1h57
Directed by S. D. Vijay Milton
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Imman Annachi., Sree Raam, Vijaya Thesingu Rajendar, Sam Anderson, Kajal Agarwal, Meenal
Rating76% 3.8379153.8379153.8379153.8379153.837915
Set against the backdrop of most happening the Koyambedu market, the film revolves around the lives of four young boys played by Kishore, Sree Raam, Pandi and Murugesh. They work as coolies, and earn their bread by working as lifters. They lift and transport vegetable stocks to various shops. One such shop is owned by Aachi, who treats the boys like her sons. The boys are carefree and do not worry about their future, and have fun by teasing and looking at schoolgirls who pass by. They befriend a girl named ATM, who assists them in finding a new friend, who turns out to be Aachi's daughter. They all become friends and hang out together. One day Aachi tells the boys that, they do not have an identity and how long will they live like this? She advices them to do something that will give them an identity and let them earn some respect. They decide to start a mess in the market, where so many people will have access. Aachi helps them to get an old godown from Naidu, a rich Dada, who controls the market. Naidu lets them have the place for free for now, and says will collect the rent later. The boys start the mess and it becomes an instant hit, earning them money and respect. The boys feel that they have now got an identity as the owners of Aachi mess.
Jeeva
Jeeva (2014)

Directed by Suseenthiran
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Sports films, Cricket films
Actors Vishnu Vishal, Sri Divya, Surabhi, Soori, Sanyathara, Harish Uthaman
Rating75% 3.7895153.7895153.7895153.7895153.789515
This film is about an young aspiring Cricketer Jeeva, who dreams of playing for the India national cricket team one day. The films begins with Jeeva, sitting in a park bench and starts to narrate his life story. He is a lower middle class boy,who from the very young age is interested in cricket. He sees Sachin Tendulkar as his idol. Though his father initially does not support him, he later starts to do so on the request of his friend. Jeeva grows up and becomes a part of the school team. He excels in his game and turns out to be a star player. Seeing his performances, a local cricket club offers him a chance to join and train with them,for which his father disagrees saying that his academic performance is poor due to cricket and he may not get a job in future. In between Jeeva falls in love with his neighbour girl and they are broken up when their family comes to know about this. Jeeva starts to drink due to this heartbreak. So to make him concentrate on good deeds again, Jeeva's father agrees to let him join the cricket club.
Kedi Billa Killadi Ranga, 2h12
Directed by Director Pandiraj
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Vimal, Sivakarthikeyan, Bindu Madhavi, Regina Cassandra, Delhi Ganesh, Soori
Rating56% 2.8043852.8043852.8043852.8043852.804385
The entire film shoot was at Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli. The film opens with two friends "Pattai"Murugan (Sivakarthikeyan) and "Theni"Kesavan (Vimal) who are unemployed and want to become a politician. Meanwile,Murugan meets Paappaa (Regina Cassandra) and falls for her. On the other side Kesavan meets Mithra Meenalochini (Bindu Madhavi) and falls for her. Paappaa and Mithra too fall for them after many confusions . There comes the Councilor Election and Murugan stands for it. Paappaa gives Murugan money to spend for the Election. Eventually Murugan loses in the election. Seeing this, Murugan's father dies by falling off of the train platform. Murugan gets the job of his father. Kesavan marries Mithra. Murugan and Paappaa waits for the acceptation of their parents. As their parents accept for their marriage and they get married . Murugan & Kesavan realise the real value of the life & they decide that life is nothing without doing work so they both go to their respective homes & while seeing their father's photo Murugan & Kesavan write that " DAD IS MY GOD " & " MY FATHER IS HERO " respectively.
Pasanga
Pasanga (2009)
, 2h31
Directed by Director Pandiraj
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education
Actors Vimal, Vega Tamotia, V. Jayaprakash, Kishore Kumar, Sree Raam, Sivakumar
Rating76% 3.8386753.8386753.8386753.8386753.838675
The story unfolds in a dry barren village. Anbukkarasu (Kishore), the protagonist who wants to excel in his life as a Collector and is an encouraging child, comes across Jeevanandam (Sree Raam), the son of the school teacher Chokkalingam(JayaPrakash), on the first day of school. Jeeva develops instant dislike for Anbu. The good-hearted Anbu tries to befriend Jeeva. However, Jeeva continues to hate Anbu with a passion. Enter Manonmani (Dharini), Jeeva's cousin, who develops affinity towards Anbu. This only makes Jeeva detest Anbu further. Not only Anbu excels in academics but also in extracurricular activities, contributes to widening the rift between the two.Anbu's parents have diiferent opinions at Life which develops fight between them and also turns out to be a positive for Jeeva to hurt Anbu further.

Producer

Kedi Billa Killadi Ranga, 2h12
Directed by Director Pandiraj
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Vimal, Sivakarthikeyan, Bindu Madhavi, Regina Cassandra, Delhi Ganesh, Soori
Roles Producer
Rating56% 2.8043852.8043852.8043852.8043852.804385
The entire film shoot was at Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli. The film opens with two friends "Pattai"Murugan (Sivakarthikeyan) and "Theni"Kesavan (Vimal) who are unemployed and want to become a politician. Meanwile,Murugan meets Paappaa (Regina Cassandra) and falls for her. On the other side Kesavan meets Mithra Meenalochini (Bindu Madhavi) and falls for her. Paappaa and Mithra too fall for them after many confusions . There comes the Councilor Election and Murugan stands for it. Paappaa gives Murugan money to spend for the Election. Eventually Murugan loses in the election. Seeing this, Murugan's father dies by falling off of the train platform. Murugan gets the job of his father. Kesavan marries Mithra. Murugan and Paappaa waits for the acceptation of their parents. As their parents accept for their marriage and they get married . Murugan & Kesavan realise the real value of the life & they decide that life is nothing without doing work so they both go to their respective homes & while seeing their father's photo Murugan & Kesavan write that " DAD IS MY GOD " & " MY FATHER IS HERO " respectively.