Sundar C.

Sundar C. is an Indian film director, producer and actor. He has directed over 25 films in Tamil and Telugu languages. Initially, he worked as an assistant director to Manivannan and became a director with the family drama Murai Maman. His notable films include Ullathai Allitha, Arunachalam and Anbe Sivam. He made his acting debut in 2006 with the film Thalai Nagaram. He made his directorial debut in Telugu with the film Something Something.

Sundar started his career assisting director Manivannan and made his directorial debut with Murai Maman (1996). Sundar revealed that he initially wanted a leading action hero to play the lead role in his film and approached Sarathkumar, but the producer was unavailable to sign the actor. Subsequently the director chose Jayaram to play the lead role in the film and also said that he tapped into his innate sense of humour, as Jayaram was very famous for his humour in Malayalam. Murai Maaman did well at the box-office and Sundar went on to direct many humour themed films like Ullathai Allithaa (1996), Mettukudi (1996) and Unakkaga Ellam Unakkaga (1999). In 1997, he directed his high-profile project till date, Arunachalam with Rajinikanth. He also occasionally directed action and thriller films like Unnai Kann Theduthe (2000), Rishi (2001) and Chinna (2005).

In 2003, he directed two films Winner and Anbe Sivam. The former was successful and the comedy scenes from that film became hugely popular. However the latter despite being critically acclaimed, the film was under performed but became a cult classic. After directing Rendu (2006), Sundar took a break from directing in order to concentrate on acting career. He made his acting debut as lead actor with Thalainagaram (2006) which was well received. Except Thalainagaram, his other films as lead actor received negative reviews and performed poorly at box-office. He then made a comeback as a director with Nagaram Marupakkam (2010).

Actor

Director and writer

Year	Film	Credited as		Language	Notes
		Director	Writer
1995	Murai Maman	Y	Y	Tamil
1995	Murai Mappillai	Y	Y	Tamil
1996	Ullathai Allitha	Y	Y	Tamil
1996	Mettukudi	Y	Y	Tamil
1997	Arunachalam	Y	N	Tamil	Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Film
1997	Janakiraman	Y	Y	Tamil
1998	Naam Iruvar Namakku Iruvar	Y	Y	Tamil
1999	Unnaithedi	Y	Y	Tamil
1999	Suyamvaram	Y	N	Tamil	Directed by ten directors
1999	Unakkaga Ellam Unakkaga	Y	Y	Tamil
2000	Azhagarsamy	Y	N	Tamil
2000	Kannan Varuvaan	Y	Y	Tamil
2000	Unnai Kann Theduthey	Y	Y	Tamil
2001	Ullam Kollai Poguthae	Y	Y	Tamil
2001	Rishi	Y	N	Tamil
2001	Azhagana Naatkal	Y	Y	Tamil
2003	Anbe Sivam	Y	N	Tamil
2003	Winner	Y	Y	Tamil
2004	Giri	Y	Y	Tamil
2005	London	Y	N	Tamil
2005	Thaka Thimi Tha	Y	N	Tamil
2005	Chinna	Y	N	Tamil
2006	Rendu	Y	Y	Tamil
2010	Nagaram Marupakkam	Y	Y	Tamil
2012	Kalakalappu	Y	Y	Tamil
2013	Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru	Y	Y	Tamil	Simultaneously made in Telugu as Something Something
2013	Something Something	Y	Y	Telugu	Simultaneously made in Tamil as Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru
2014	Aranmanai	Y	Y	Tamil	Nominated, Vijay Award for Favourite Director
2015	Aambala	Y	Y	Tamil
2016	Aranmanai 2	Y	Y	Tamil
2017	Madha Gaja Raja	Y	Y	Tamil	Delayed
2018	Sangamithra	Y	Y	Tamil/Telugu/Hindi	Pre Production

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