Hari (director)

Hari (director)

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Hari (director) Profile

  • Name:
  • Hari (director)
  • Other Name:
  • Hari Gopalakrishnan Nadar
  • Father:
  • Gopalakrishnan
  • Mother:
  • Kanniammal
  • Spouse:
  • Preetha Vijayakumar

Hari (director) Biography

Hari is a popular masala film director of Tamil cinema. He has directed many action hit movies with both the leading megastars of the industry – Vikram and Suriya. His successful association with Suriya resulted in megahits like Singam, Singam 2, Vel and Aaru. With Vikram, his hit movies are Saamy and Arul. In 2011, he directed Dhanush for ‘Venghai’ which was an average at box office. He is married to film actress Preetha Vijayakumar, daughter of noted actors Vijayakumar and Manjula. The couple has three kids.



His full name is Hari Gopalakrishnan Nadar and he was born in Nazareth, Tuticorin to a vessel merchant, Gopal Nadar. The family moved to Chennai in his childhood. His school and college education were completed at Chennai. He joined film industry as an assistant director and for the first time, he worked with directors, Nassar and Natraj during 1990’s. He has also assisted Saran and K. Balachander before making his first movie as an independent director in 2002. Thamizh starring Prashanth, Simran and Nassar in lead roles marked his directorial debut. The movie was commented by critics as ‘enjoyable’.



His second release was Saamy, the following year which was a blockbuster hit. It was the highest grosser Tamil movie in 2003 and one of the earliest hits of Vikram. Vikram played the role of a sincere police officer and Trisha was paired opposite to him. This movie was also noticed for its beautiful songs. In 2004, two movies – Kovil and Arul were released. Both received good response from critics as well as audience, thus establishing his career as a successful director. Though his movies belong to commercial masala flavours, they are true entertainers for audience. Now he is busy with an announced project, Poojai which stars Vishal, Shruti Haasan and Sathyaraj in leading roles.

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Updated: July 04, 2018

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