P. Neelakantan
Palaniyaandi Neelakantan (2 October 1916 Villupuram – 3 September 1992 Chennai) was a Tamil film director, who was active for nearly four decades.
He was born at Villupuram, Tamil Nadu.
He graduated to movies from stage play.
His play "Naam Iruvar" was brought by movie mogul Avichi Meiyappa Chettiar and made into a film in 1947.
Then he wrote the dialogues for films like "Vedala Ulagam" in 1948.
His directorial debut was with "Oru Iravu" in (1951), the dialogue for which was written by C. N. Annadurai.
Two films that made him well-known are ALS productions "Ambikapadi" (1957) and "Thirudadhe" (1961).
He also has directed movies in Kannada and Sinhalese "Suneetha" and "Sujage Rahase".
Neelakantan was mainly associated with creating M. G. Ramachandran's (MGR) movie persona.
Between "Chakravarthi Thirumagal" in 1957 and "Needhikku Thalaivanangu" in 1976, Neelakantan directed altogether 17 of MGR's movies.
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Chakravarthi Thirumagal is a 1957 Indian Tamil language folklore film starring M. G. Ramachandran, Anjali Devi and S. Varalakshmi in the lead roles.
The film, directed by P. Neelakantan, had musical score by G. Ramanathan and was released on 18 January 1957.
It was the box office hit of the year and crossed 100 days in 8 centres.

Question: Which film has the director who died earlier, Sunset Serenade or Chakravarthi Thirumagal?
Answer: Sunset Serenade