1. Chitravel Vetrimaaran was born on 4 September 1975 and is an Indian film director, film producer and screenwriter who primarily works in Tamil cinema.
23 Facts About Vetrimaaran
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Vetrimaaran is known for his unique filmography with major commercial success and highly critically acclaimed body of work.
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Vetrimaaran has won five National Film Awards, three Filmfare South Awards and one Tamil Nadu State Film Award.
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Vetrimaaran produces films under his production company, Grass Root Film Company.
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Vetrimaaran is the founder of International Institute of Film and Culture.
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Vetrimaaran's father Dr V Chitravel was a veterinary scientist, and his mother Megala Chitravel is a noted novelist.
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Vetrimaaran is married to Aarthi whom he met at Loyola College where he was studying.
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Vetrimaaran opted for the latter, which meant he had to opt out of his course at Loyola.
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Vetrimaaran has since credited Mahendra as his mentor and the one who encouraged him to follow his dream of becoming a director.
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Vetrimaaran acted in a brief role as Richard Rishi's assistant in Kadhir's Kadhal Virus.
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Vetrimaaran prepared a script for Dhanush, who immediately accepted the offer after hearing the story.
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Vetrimaaran has since described that he had "ample time" for the production works of Polladhavan as "Dhanush had confidence in him".
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Vetrimaaran revealed that when he wrote the script, he made many changes to suit the visual medium and for Dhanush on his physical attributes while playing an action hero.
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Aadukalam was the first film of Vetrimaaran to have a production office set up outside of Chennai.
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Vetrimaaran took a year to complete the screenplay, script, and dialogues for Aadukalam and held a bounded script for the venture, which is considered rare in Tamil films.
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Vetrimaaran narrated only half of the film's script to Dhanush before the latter was impressed with it and agreed to act in the film.
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The film was initially titled Seval, but since the rights to the title were already taken by director Hari for his project with Bharath, Vetrimaaran decided to rename his film as Aadukalam.
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In 2012, Vetrimaaran launched his own production house called the Grass Root Film Company and launched his maiden project, Udhayam NH4 with Siddharth in the lead role and his associate Manimaran as director.
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Vetrimaaran wrote the dialogues of Naan Rajavaga Pogiren, directed by newcomer Prithvi Rajkumar.
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Vetrimaaran chose to begin the film before the schedule for his other venture Vada Chennai and reunited with actors Dinesh, Murugadoss, and Kishore, where the first two play the main Tamil laborers, while the latter plays an auditor.
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Vetrimaaran produced three films in a row: Kodi, Lens and Annanukku Jai.
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Vetrimaaran wrote and directed a segment, Oor Iravu, for the anthology, Paava Kadhaigal, starring Sai Pallavi and Prakash Raj.
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In 2023, Vetrimaaran directed Viduthalai Part 1, based on the Vachathi case.