Vignesh Shivan

Vignesh Shivan is an Indian film director actor and lyric writer who works in Tamil cinema He has been regularly associated in projects involving Silambarasan Dhanush and Anirudh Ravichander as well as helming independent music videos Vignesh Shivan made a short film and after getting Dharan to compose music for it showed the film to producers Gemini Film Circuit and then to his childhood friend Silambarasan and both parties agreed to collaborate to make it a feature film titled Podaa Podi 2012 His second film Naanum Rowdydhaan 2015 like his first film went through several changes of cast and production studios before finalising on Vijay Sethupathi and Nayantara as actors and Dhanush as producer The film for which he drew inspiration from the lives of his parents opened to highly positive reviews in October 2015