Saran (tamil Director)

Saran (tamil Director)

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Saran (tamil Director) Profile

  • Name:
  • Saran (tamil Director)
  • Other Name:
  • K. V. Saravanan
  • Father:
  • T. Kulandaivelayudam

Saran (tamil Director) Biography

Saran is a successful film director associated with Tamil film industry. He has given some of the blockbuster hits to Tamil such as Amarkalam, Kadhal Mannan, Gemini, Vasool Raja MBBS, Attagasam etc for which he is known most. He has delivered many hit films with super star Ajith, and worked with him since 1990s when he was only a budding actor of Tamil cinema. He also played an important role in grooming the career of Ajith giving him initial success through Kaadhal Mannan and Amarkalam in the late 1990s. The composer Bharathwaj regularly scores the music for his films, and remained successful. Aayirathil Iruvar (2017) was his recent release.

 

His full name is K. V. Saravanan. He hails from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Many of his family members and close relatives are academicians and teachers. His father worked with examination board. Saran took a diploma in Visual communications from the College of Arts, and started his professional career an instructor in textile designing. After one year, to pursue a career in films, he joined as assistant director to Tamil’s ace filmmaker K. Balachander in the late 1980s. Unnal Mudiyum Thambi in 1988 was his first film as an assistant director in the industry.

 

During late 1980s, he also worked as a cartoonist for Ananda Viketan. He dabbled between films and cartoons till he turned a full-fledged film director in 1998. He marked his directorial debut with Kadhal Mannan, which also marked the beginning of his association with Ajith. During his second film, Amarkalam, Ajith dated his co-star Shalini and got married one year later. Gemini in 2002 proved to be a landmark movie of his career, and he made its Telugu remake also. He now owns two production houses namely Gemini Productions and Saran movie factory.

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Updated: July 10, 2018

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