Subramaniam Siva

Subramaniyan Siva is an Indian film director and actor who works in the Tamil film industry. He was an assistant to director V. Z. Durai before making his debut in 2003 with the successful Thiruda Thirudi. He has since gone on to other ventures including Yogi and Seedan.^[1]

Career[]

Subramaniam Siva made his debut with the romantic comedy Thiruda Thirudi in 2003, featuring Dhanush and Chaya Singh. The success of the film meant that he later remade it in Telugu as Donga Dongadi (2004) with a new cast. He subsequently went on to make Pori (2007) featuring Jiiva, and then took the opportunity of directing Ameer in his pet project Yogi (2009), which took two years to make.^[2]

His fifth directorial movie was Seedan (2011), a remake of the 2002 Malayalam film Nandanam, and the film featured Unni Mukundan, Ananya and Dhanush in a guest appearance. During the making of the film, there was a conflict of opinions between the director and the lead actress.^[3] In 2012, he announced plans of becoming an actor in a film written by novelist Jayamohan; however, the project failed to materialize.^[4][5] He went on to help with post-production of Velaiilla Pattadhari (2014) and also went on to write dialogues for Amma Kanakku (2016).^[6][7]

Subramaniam Siva started his acting career with the 2018 film Vada Chennai and later acted in the 2019 film Asuran. Both films were directed by Vetrimaaran and starred Dhanush in the lead role.

He made his comeback to directing with the 2021 film Vellai Yaanai, a film starring Samuthirakani, Athmiya Rajan, and Yogi Babu. The film released live on Sun TV.

Filmography[]

• All films are in Tamil, except where noted.

Director

Actor

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