Gautham Menon
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| Gautham Menon | |
| Born | February 25, 1973 |
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| Occupation | Film Director |
Gautham Menon (born in February 25, 1973) is a Tamil film director in Tamil Nadu, India. He also had huge success with Vettaiyadu Villaiyadu starring Kamal Haasan. He is qualified as a mechanical engineer from Mookambigai College in Keeranoor near Trichy.
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[edit] Film Career
He was an ad film maker, shooting various commercials after a good apprenticeship under noted filmmaker Rajiv Menon. He worked as an assistant director for Minsaara Kanavu. He started his own ad agency "Photon Factory" before moving to cinema which is now recognized as a film production company
His first film was Minnale in Tamil with R. Madhavan, Abbas, and Reema Sen playing the lead roles. The film was a huge hit because of its young and peppy story, brilliant comic timing from the acclaimed comedians Vivek and also because of some new lilting music from debutante music director, Harris Jeyaraj. Gautham immediately received the chance to remake the film in Bollywood. He did so, retaining Madhavan as in the lead role, this time having Diya Mirza playing the female lead role. The film however did not have much success in the Hindi film industry.
Gautham returned to Tamil cinema in 2003 with with Kaaka Kaaka, starring Surya Sivakumar, Jyothika Saravanan, Jeevan. Gautham, himself, appeared in a cameo role as a senior police officer. With R. D. Rajashekar on the camera and Anthony in editing, the film was a box-office record breaker. Gautham again got offers from various quarters to remake the film. This time he remade the film in Telugu with Venkatesh in the lead.
After that, Gautham decided to make another action/adventure thriller film with Kamal Hassan. Thus, he started Vettaiyadu Villaiyadu. The unit faced a lot of problems. However they overcame all that and the film was released in August 2006. He plays a cameo dancing at the back in the song, Manjal Veiyil. The film came to be the biggest grosser of 2006.
Gautham's Pachaikili Muthucharam with Sarath Kumar and Jyothika Saravanan in 2007 was a critical acclaim but a poor grosser. His next release, Vaaranam Aayiram with Surya Sivakumar, Sameera Reddy, and Divya has been under production since April 16, 2007.
[edit] Filmography
- Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikalam (Filming)
- Vaaranam Aayiram (2008) (Post-production)
- Pachaikili Muthucharam (2007)
- Vettaiyadu Villaiyadu (2006)
- Gharshana (2004)
- Kaaka Kaaka (2003)
- Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein (2001)
- Minnale (2001)
