Anucharan Murugaiyan

Anucharan Murugaiyan is an Indian director, writer and editor who works in Tamil cinema. He made his directorial debut in Australia with the short film Infinity^[1] (2011) released in Australia and got his breakthrough in feature films with Kirumi, which has critically acclaimed and featured in 19th Annual Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival.^[2]

Early life

He did his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering at Coimbatore Institute of Technology . He is a design engineer by profession and has done a job at TCS Kolkata for about 18 months. Then he travelled to Australia to pursue his master's degree in Animation Technology at Sydney. He joined Animation mentor course in Sydney the masters in the field of animation where he learned from renowned including people from Pixar and ILM.^[3]

Film career

Anucharan, a director of several short films, 20 music videos and 10 television shows in Australia. He has reached to the semi – finals with his short film "Infinity" at the Trop Fest (World's largest short film festival) in Sydney. He had come to Chennai for his sister's wedding, when M. Manikandan, the director of Kaaka Muttai and a close friend of him, and composer G. V. Prakash Kumar, encouraged him to make a Tamil film, after hearing the script of Kirumi.^[4] Manikandan introduced Anucharan to Jayaraman, a former assistant, who had worked with actor Rajinikanth for 24 years and who decided to produce the venture along with his friends Prithiviraj and Rajendran as he liked the script since it was "contemporary" and had a message for society.^[5]

Filmography

Year	Film	Director	Writer	Editor	Notes
2015	Kirumi	Yes	Yes	Yes
2016	Kuttrame Thandanai	No	No	Yes
2016	Aandavan Kattalai	No	Yes	Yes
2019	Sigai	No	No	Yes[6]	Released on ZEE5[7]
2019	July Kaatril	No	No	Yes
2022	Panni Kutty[8]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Project by Lyca Productions [9]

Television

Year	Name	Director	Writer	Editor	Notes
2022	Suzhal: The Vortex	Yes	No	No	Amazon Prime Web Series

Short films

• Infinity - It reached semi-finals at TropFest, Sydney
• Watch Dog

Awards

• His debut movie "Kirumi" won the Best Film award in 13th Chennai International Film Festival
• Behindwoods Gold Medals (2017) - "Best Screenplay Writer" for the movie Aandavan Kattalai^[10]