Hari (director)

Hari (born 26 December 1968) is an Indian movie director, best known for his action-masala in Tamil cinema. He made his directional debut in the movie Thamizh (2002).After this breakthrough, he gave many commercial success movies such as Saamy (2003), Kovil (2004), Ayya (2005), Thaamirabharani (2007), Vel (2007) and Singam (2010) movie. He has directed 15 movies.

Background
Hari was born in the Thoothukudi District of Tamil Nadu, India. His father, Gopal, is a vessels merchant. Later, his family moved to Chennai, where Hari graduated with a degree in Commerce.

Career
Hari first joined as an assistant, gaining experience by working with various directors; K. Natraj in  Valli, Nassar in Avatharam and Alex Pandian. Later, he assisted K. Balachander in his film Kalki and worked as an associate director with Saran in the films Amarkalam, Parthen Rasithen and Alli Arjuna.   

His first film, in 2002, was Thamizh, with Prashanth and Simran. Film critic Balaji commented that it was "one of the few movies in recent times where a lot of importance seems to have been attached to the script. In spite of the flimsy story and routine screenplay where a youth grows to be a "dada", the dialogs elevate the quality of the movie and make it very enjoyable". His second film Saamy, under the Kavithaalaya banner, starred Vikram. It was named the year's biggest hit, grossing 160 million. Its success led to remakes; in Telugu (Lakshmi Narasimha), Kannada (Ayya) and Hindi languages (Policegiri). His next two films Kovil, with Silambarasan and Arul also starred Vikram. In 2005, he made Ayya, starring Sarathkumar, which introduced Nayantara to Tamil cinema. His next film was Aaru, with Suriya in 2005. In 2007, he directed two films, Thaamirabharani with Vishal and Vel, with Suriya. In 2008, he directed Seval, with Bharath. Ayyappa Prasad from Nowrunning.com stated that Hari "panders to the taste of his rural audience all the way, but the movie is bound to disappoint city-dwellers, since neither the story nor its treatment appeal to anyone with high IQ .

In 2010 Hari directed his tenth film Singam, with Suriya, marking their third collaboration. although reviewers identified it as a standard masala entertainer.

Filmography
 Year Film Cast  Notes 2002  Thamizh  Prashanth, Simran  2003  Saamy  Vikram, Trisha  2004  Kovil  Silambarasan, Sonia Agarwal  2004  Arul  Vikram, Jyothika  2005  Ayya  R. Sarathkumar, Napoleon, Nayanthara  2005  Aaru  Suriya, Trisha  2007  Thaamirabharani  Vishal, Bhanu  2007  Vel  Suriya, Asin  2008  Seval  Bharath, Simran, Poonam Bajwa  2010  Singam  Suriya, Anushka Shetty, Prakash Raj  2011  Venghai  Dhanush, Rajkiran, Tamannaah  2013  Singam II  Suriya, Anushka Shetty, Hansika Motwani  2014  Poojai  Vishal, Shruthi Haasan, Sathyaraj  2017  Singam III  Suriya, Anushka Shetty, Shruthi Haasan  2018  Saamy 2  Vikram, Keerthy Suresh, Bobby Simha  2019  Arun Vijay  Arun Vijay,   Priya Anand, Sameera Reddy  Pre-Production

Lyricist

 2004  Kovil
 2005 Aaru
 2007 Thaamirabharani
 2007 Vel
 2008 Seval
 2010 Singam
 2011 Venghai
 2017 Singam III
 2018 Saamy 2
 2024 Radan

References

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Category:Tamil directors
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