
Selvaraghavan
Directing
🎂 1977-03-05
Selvaraghavan is an Indian film director, screenwriter and actor based primarily in Tamil cinema. Known for idiosyncratic genre films that subvert conventional character tropes and deal with dark themes, he is considered an important and influential figure in modern Tamil cinema. The elder brother of actor Dhanush, the two are frequent collaborators as he is credited with helping the actor to break into the industry in the early 2000s with the films Thulluvadho Ilamai (2002) and Kadhal Konden (2003). Selvaraghavan's early works largely dealt with themes of romance, sexuality, religion and youth culture; Pudhupettai (2006) was a stylistic departure into the gangster epic genre, and he later experimented with historical fiction and fantasy with the films Aayirathil Oruvan (2010) and Irandam Ulagam (2013), as well as horror with Nenjam Marappathillai (2021). Selvaraghavan's filmmaking style has been called "audacious" and "operatic", with an emphasis on breadth of detail, moral ambiguity, and recurring usage of dark humor.
Cast credits(11)
Directing (14)
Writing (40)

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2022

Story
2003

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2003

Dialogue
2003

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2006

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2006

Writer
2008

Screenplay
2010

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2010

Lyricist
2021

Story
2021

Screenplay
2021

Story
2004

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2004

Story
2011

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2011

Screenplay
2019

Dialogue
2019

Story
2019

Lyricist
2019

Story
2009

Story
2007

Screenplay
2007

Writer
2025

Screenplay
2016

Dialogue
2016

Story
2016

Screenplay
2002

Dialogue
2002

Lyricist
2002

Writer
2025

Story
2013

Writer
2012

Lyricist
2010

Original Story
2019

Writer

Story
2010

Original Story
2009

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Screenplay