Vignesh Shivan is a renowned Indian film director, actor as well as a lyric writer who has a way long experience working in Tamil cinema. He was born on 18th September 1985 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Vignesh Shivan Wiki/Biography
Vignesh is 34 years old. He has been associated regularly with projects which involved Dhanush, Silambarasan, and Anirudh Ravichander. He also helped independent music videos. He studied in Santhome Hr Sec School, Mylapore. He is also a junior at Simbu in his school.
Physical Appearance
| Height (approx) | in centimeters: 175 cm in meters: 1.75 m in feet inches: 5’ 9” |
| Weight (approx) | in kilograms: 72 kg in pounds: 158 lbs |
| Eye Colour | Black |
| Hair Colour | Black |
Vignesh’s height is 5 feet 9 inches / 175 Centimeters. His weight is 72 kg / 158.76 lbs. Arun has a slim body, and his eyes colour is black, face shape is oval, hair colour is black, and the nose type is sharp.
Family
Vignesh Shivan’s parents are police officers. His father was a superintendent by profession, while his mother is an inspector in Vadapalani by profession. He is in a relationship with a famous Indian Actress Nayanthara.
Career
At the starting of his career Vignesh Shivan has directed a short film with Dharan composing music for it. He showed the short film to the producers i.e. Gemini Film Circuit and also to his childhood friend, Silambarasan. Both agreed in collaborating to make it in 2012 as a feature film named Podaa Podi. The film work completed in four years because of some issues, and then get released in October in the year 2012 with mixed movie critic reviews. After that, he began working as a lyricist, also filming his independent music videos and appearing as actor with a role of engineer in a film named Velaiyilla Pattathari in 2014. His second film named Naanum Rowdydhaan released in 2015, like his first film, this film also went through some ups and downs. They had to do some changes related to cast as well as production studios, this film gets starred by Nayantara and Vijay Sethupathi as actors and Produced by Dhanush. The film, for which he drew inspiration from the lives of his parents, opened to positive reviews in October 2015.
Awards
Vignesh won the SIIMA Best Director award for Naanum Rowdydhaan in 2016.
Controversies
- Vignesh Shivan being angry on the altercating speech of Radha Ravi against Superstar actress Nayanthara stirred a lot of controversies. It creates a big buzz in the South Indian Film Industry with a tweeter war by fans.
- When the recent sneak peak of Sivakarthikeyan’s ‘Remo’ got released, the director Vignesh Sivan, also the writer of two songs in it, mentioned in his speech that it was Anirudh who allowed him to write lyrics. This started a huge buzz among the social media fans of Simbu with Vignesh Sivan not mentioning Simbu who gave him his first break in the industry by doing ‘Poda Podi’. The ‘Naanum Rowdy Dhaan’ director then had to give clarification on his statement.
Facts
- Vignesh Shivan is credited sometimes as Vignesh Shivn.
- He made an uncredited appearance as an actor in Sivi (2007).
