Michael Muthu is an Indian director, writer and actor who has worked on theatre productions and films. He is based in

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Career

Michael Muthu started his career in theatre after finishing his schooling, and was a member of the Loyola Theatre Society during his first two years of college. In 1991, he became the founder of the Chennai-based theatre group, Boardwalkers. He has since worked on productions including God, Biloxi Blues, The Hairy Ape, Sleuth, The Pied Piper of Hamlin, and Jesus Christ Superstar. In the early 1990s, he starred alongside

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in the director's English film ''

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'' (1992), while he also played supporting roles in French and Italian productions based in India in the late 1990s. In 2002, Michael began working on directing an English film titled ''The Girl'', and despite it completing production, it was previewed to audiences but not released theatrically as he could not find distributors. In January 2017, he announced plans to make a bilingual film titled ''The Way Things Are'' in English and ''Theeviram'' in Tamil, produced by Sameer Bharat Ram. Starring

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and

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in the lead roles, the film was shot in 2017 and the Tamil version had a delayed OTT release on the Simply South platform in November 2020. In a rare Indian film appearance, he starred in

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's '' 2.0'' (2018) as a police officer, working alongside

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. He also portrayed the role of

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's father in his final film, ''

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'' (2020).

Partial filmography

As actor

As director

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