Rajendran Ravikumar (born 13 May 1984) is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works primarily in Tamil films. He is best known for his

science fiction film Science fiction (or sci-fi) is a film genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, interstellar ...

s '' Indru Netru Naalai'' (2015) and ''

Ayalaan ''Ayalaan'' () is an upcoming Indian Tamil-language science fiction film written and directed by R. Ravikumar, and produced by Kotapadi J. Rajesh under KJR Studios. It stars Sivakarthikeyan, Rakul Preet Singh, Sharad Kelkar and Isha Koppikar. ...

'' (2024).

Career

Ravikumar is a native of Tiruppur. He was not initially passionate about cinema until a friend from Dubai gave him an amateur camera in the early 2000s. With that camera, Ravikumar taught himself filmmaking and made several short films from 2004 to the remainder of the decade. Some of his shorts were later shortlisted for the reality show ''Naalaya Iyakunar'', where he finished at third. After his stint at ''Naalaya Iyakunar'', Ravikumar began to take cinema as his career, and became an assistant director under

Nalan Kumarasamy Nalan Kumarasamy is an Indian film director who works in the Tamil film industry. He started his career as a short filmmaker and won the title of the first season of ''Naalaya Iyakunar''. He made his feature film debut with Tamil film, ''Soodhu ...

during ''

Soodhu Kavvum ''Soodhu Kavvum'' () is a 2013 Indian Tamil-language black comedy crime film written and directed by Nalan Kumarasamy. It features Vijay Sethupathi, Bobby Simha, Ashok Selvan, Ramesh Thilak, Karunakaran and Sanchita Shetty in the lead roles. T ...

'' (2013). He later made his feature directorial debut with the science fiction film '' Indru Netru Naalai'' (2015), for which he won the Behindwoods Gold Medal for Best Screenplay Writer. Ravikumar's second directorial feature was announced in 2016. The science fiction film, later titled ''

'', began production in 2018, languished in production hell and was released only in 2024, but was well received. Shortly after the film's success, he was signed on to direct its sequel.

Filmmaking style

An avid reader of

Tamil literature Tamil literature has a rich and long literary tradition spanning more than two thousand years. The oldest extant works show signs of maturity indicating an even longer period of evolution. Contributors to the Tamil literature are mainly from T ...

, Ravikumar noted that such novels influence his thinking style.

Personal life

Ravikumar married Priya Ganesan in 2016. They have a daughter born in 2018, and a son born in 2024. Ravikumar's mother died in March 2021.

Filmography

References

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* {{IMDb name, nm7415469 21st-century Indian people Living people People from Tiruppur Tamil film directors Tamil screenwriters 1984 births