Rajan Babu (born

Chennai Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...

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, 31 May 1975) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, working predominantly in

Tamil cinema Tamil cinema, also known as Kollywood is a part of Indian Cinema; primarily engaged in production of motion pictures in the Tamil language. Based out of the Kodambakkam neighbourhood in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, it is popularly called ''Kollywo ...

based in Chennai. Having born into a family that appreciates all forms of cinema, he has imbibed the quality to breathe in the nuances of the cinema. This can be clearly seen in his debut film '' Muran''. His dad

Raveendran Madhavan Raveendran ( ml, മാധവൻ രവീന്ദ്രൻ ), (born Kulathupuzha, Kollam, 9 November 1943 – died Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 3 March 2005), fondly known as ''Raveendran Master'', was a popular South Indian music composer a ...

strongly inspired him to take up cinema as his career. While his brothers took it to music, Rajan Madhav made it to direction.

Early life

He was born as one of the twin to music director

and Sobhana in Chennai. His brothers are Sajan Madhav and Naveen Madhav.

Career

While his family was so much into music with Sajan Madhav being a music director and Naveen Madhav being a playback singer already, Rajan Madhav was a B.Com graduate and was looking forward to getting into direction. However, he was conscious enough not to use his dad's influence anywhere at work and so joined as an assistant director to

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. After working as an AD for about six films, he was all set to commit as a director himself which was when his dad

died. He then joined director

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as Co-director in his movie Anjathey and then went on to become a director with his debut movie Muran. He then started filming his second film, titled as ''Ula''. After four years of delay, in October 2018, the film's title was changed from ''Ula'' to '' Chithiram Pesuthadi 2''. His third outing as director would be ''Kattam''. Newcomer Nandhan and

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are playing as lead pair in the movie.

Personal life

After his first film, he fell in love with Sandhya who was working as an assistant director as well in Bollywood and married her on 23 May 2012 in Chennai.

Filmography

References

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