Hari Viswanath (born on 18 December) is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is an engineer-turned-filmmaker from

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. He was the jury member of Indian Panorama section of International Film Festival of India 2017 in

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. His passion for film stems from accompanying his father to his theatre performances. Being closely associated with theatre crystallized his vision and path for himself. Inspired by real life incidents, he wrote and directed his debut

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"Idukkan" ("Sufferings") which won the "Best Short Film" award in the Norway Tamil Film Festival 2013. Ever since, he has been actively directing films and writing stories close to his heart. He made his feature film debut with '' Radiopetti'' ("Radio Set") in 2015, which became the first Tamil film to win the "Audience Award Best Film" in the official competition in the

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in 2015, and has been officially selected as the only Tamil film for Indian Panorama for the 46th International Film Festival of India, to be held in

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. It also won the second "Best Film" award and a special jury award for "Best Acting" at the

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in 2015. The film also won the "Best Music" award at the 2016 ImagineIndia film festival in

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. It was officially selected in the 2016

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and in the eighth Panorama of Contemporary Indian Cinema, Auroville. His debut

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film '' Bansuri: The Flute'', starring Anurag Kashyap and

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was released on 16 April 2021.

Filmography

Awards

* Best Film (Audience Award)

2015 '''' * Best Film (second place)

2015 * Best Film - Government of Puducherry State Award

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Viswanath, Hari Film directors from Chennai Tamil film directors Tamil screenwriters Screenwriters from Tamil Nadu Living people Year of birth missing (living people)