Screenwriters from Tamil Nadu

Indian actor, activist and joker (born 1954 )

Indian film director

Indian politician, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, India (1924–2018)

Indian director, producer, writer, actor, playwright, stage conductor, and comedian (1930–2014)

Indian filmmaker

Indian actor and film director

Silambarasan Tesingu Rajendar (born 3 February 1983), popularly known as Simbu or by his initials as STR, is an Indian actor, producer,director and playback singer who primarily works in Tamil cinema. He is a recipient of two Edison Awards and three SIIMA Awards.

D. Jayakanthan (24 April 1934 – 8 April 2015), popularly known as JK, was an Indian writer, journalist, orator, filmmaker, critic and activist. Born in Cuddalore, he dropped out of school at the age of 9 and went to Madras, where he joined the Communist Party of India. In a career spanning six decades, he authored around 40 novels, 200 short stories, apart from two autobiographies. Outside literature, he made two films. In addition, four of his other novels were adapted into films by others.

Indian film director

Indian film director (1933-2008)

Bharathiraja ( born 17 July 1941) is a multiple-award-winning Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor who works mainly in the Tamil film industry. Making his debut in 1977 with 16 Vayathinile, he is known for realistic and sensitive portrayals of rural life in his films and popularly referred to as Iyakkunar Imayam. Also, in the 1980s-90s, the '''''Bharathiraja (Direction)+Ilaiyaraaja (Music)+Vairamuthu (Lyric's)''''' Best Combination was very popular among Tamil film fans. As of 2017, he has won six National Film Awards, four Filmfare Awards South, six Tamil Nadu State Film Aw

Indian film director (1966-)

Indian (Tamil) film director and actor

Indian film director

Indian actor

Indian film director

Poomani (born 1947) is an Indian writer and novelist. He won the Sahitya Akademi award in 2014 in the Tamil language category for his novel Agnaadi.

Indian film director, writer, actor, producer (born 1968)

Indian actor (1952–2019)

Indian film director

Indian writer and producer

Indian filmmaker (1939-2019)

Indian film editor and film director

Indian actor

Indian film director (1959-2021)

Indian film director

Indian film director (1894–1942)

Indian film director

Indian author (born 1962)

Indian film director (born 1964)

Indian film director duo

Indian film director

Indian film director

Indian actor

Kathir is an Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter who works predominantly in Tamil cinema.

Indian film director, screenwriter and author

Indian filmmaker

Tamil actor, script writer and director (1945–2017)

Film director and producer

Indian film director

actor

film director

Indian film director

Indian director and screenwriter

film director

Indian writer (1921-1987)

Balakumaran (5 July 1946 – 15 May 2018) was an Indian Tamil writer and author of over 200 novels, 100 short stories, and dialogue/screenplay writer for 23 films. He also contributed to Tamil periodicals such as Kalki, Ananda Vikatan and Kumudam. His notable works as a dialogue writer in Tamil Cinema include Nayakan, Guna, Baashha and Pudhupettai.

Meenakshisundaram Ramasamy Viswanathan (1 July 1945 – 22 March 2020), best known by his stage name Visu, was an Indian screenwriter, film director, stage, film and television actor and talk-show host known for his work in Tamil theatre and film. Visu initially worked as an assistant to director K. Balachander until becoming a director himself. He later began acting, with his first notable film being Kudumbam Oru Kadambam (1981), directed by S. P. Muthuraman.

Indian scriptwriter, director

Indian film director (1928–1977)

Indian actor and writer