Samuthirakani : Filmmaker Turned Versatile Actor

Samuthirakani became popular in Tollywood with Ala Vaikunthapurrammulo and became busy with Krack. But, long before that he is a very talented filmmaker turned actor in Tamil. He won National award as best supporting actor for his role in Vetrimaaran's directorial Visaaranai. He made a couple.of Telugu films which were Remakes of his Tamil films, Ravi Teja starrer Sambho Siva Sambho and Pawan Kalyan, Sai Tej starrer Bro.

Samuthirakani was the protege of legendary director K Balachander. He worked for many mega serials for Sun TV under the supervision of Balachander. He shot to fame as director with Nadodigal, which is later made into Telugu as Shambho Shiva Shambho with Ravi Teja and Allari Naresh. He also made Nimirndhu Nil with Jayam Ravi in Tamil / Janda Pai Kapiraju with Nani in Telugu. 

Though he has been doing roles from his initial career days. He turned into full-time actor with Dhanush's Velaiyilla Pattathaari / Raghuvaran Btech. Since then he has become a very busy actor in Tamil. With ALVP and Krack he became busy in Telugu too. He acted in noted role in Oscar winning RRR. He was also seen as Vibhishana in recent blockbuster HanuMan.

Currently he is doing a key role in Indian 2, and Game Changer both are directed by Shankar. Samuthirakani is also a singer, dubbing artist apart from being a screen writer. 

CineJosh wishing the talented Director, Actor Samuthirakani a very Happy Birthday. Wishing him all the success with his upcoming projects.