Vasanthabalan

Vasanthabalan Biography

Vasanthabalan is a promising director of Tamil cinema, best known for highly praised movies - Veyil and Angadi Theru. The director shot to fame after his movie ‘Veyil’ released in 2006. The movie bagged numerous awards including National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil and Filmfare Award for Best Director – Tamil, and the movie represented Indian cinema at 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the first Tamil movie to be screened at this prestigious international film festival. The movie starring Pasupathy, Bharath, Ravi Mariya, Bhavana, Sriya Reddy and Vijayachander was a huge blockbuster also.

In 2010, he came with his next surprise - Angaadi Theru which bagged him both Filmfare and Vijay awards for best director. Made his debut with romantic film ‘Album’ in 2002, he has also given two more movies to Tamil cinema – Aravaan in 2012 and Kaaviya Thalaivan in 2014. Aravaan – was a period film. Though received mixed reviews, the movie was a hit at box office. Kaaviya Thalaivan in 2014 is his last release. It was a historical fiction film with Rahman’s music. It received good response from critics and audience alike.

Vasanthabalan is a native of Virudhunagar. He started off as an assistant director of Shankar. When Kadal became a huge hit, he wrote the script of Veyil and thought it as an experimental film, similar to Kadal. Though he decided to cast Kadal Sandhya for the role of innocent girl, later Bhavana was roped for that role. He showed the script to Shankar while he was busy with Anniyan in 2005. Yet Shankar assured that he will listen to the story if it has something different and should not be a typical commercial movie. Shankar heard the story, got impressed by it and then financed the movie – Veyil.

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Updated: December 06, 2015