Question: Are both director of film Kudiyirundha Koyil and director of film Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters from the same country?

Pulavar Pulamaipithan is a profound Tamil scholar, poet and lyricist who got recognition through the song" Naan yaar nee yaar" which was featured in the Tamil film" Kudiyirundha Koyil" in 1968. <SEP> The dual role by MGR and the Bhangra dance sequence in Sardharji role with L. Vijayalakshmi were a major hits. All songs were popular and it became the box office hit of the year 1968 and crossed more than 100 days in Chennai and other major cities. The movie is the Tamil remake of the 1962 Hindi movie "China Town". Kudiyirundha Koyil , is a 1968 Indian Tamil-language spy film directed by K. Shankar, starring M. G. Ramachandran, Jayalalithaa, Rajasree, M. N. Nambiar, Pandari Bai, Nagesh and L. Vijayalakshmi. <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> Wirkola's first film was 2007's" Kill Buljo", which he co-wrote with Stig Frode Henriksen. They later made the 2009 horror comedy" Dead Snow". In 2010 they again collaborated on the film" Kurt Josef Wagle and the Legend of the Fjord Witch." Tommy Wirkola( born December 6, 1979) is a Norwegian film director, producer, and screenwriter of Finnish heritage. In 2012 a television series directed& produced by Wirkola called" Hellfjord" premiered, consisting of seven 30- minute episodes. His first English- language film, which was also his first large- budget film, was, which was co-written by Dante Harper and released in 2013. In 2014 a sequel to" Dead Snow", named, was released. Wirkola's most recent film," What Happened to Monday", a science fiction film starring Noomi Rapace& Willem Dafoe, was released in 2017. <SEP> K. Shankar was a veteran film editor and director, born on 17 March 1926 in Malabar (now Kerala, in India). He directed more than 80 films in South Indian languages including Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada as well as in Hindi. <SEP> Hansel& Gretel: It is a continuation to the German folklore fairy tale" Hansel and Gretel", in which the titular siblings are now grown up and working as a duo of witch exterminators for hire. The film stars Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton in the title roles with Famke Janssen, Peter Stormare, Thomas Mann, Pihla Viitala and Derek Mears as the supporting cast. In 2010, after being approached by Gary Sanchez Productions, Wirkola pitched the film to Paramount Pictures. Renner was cast as Hansel in September 2010 whilst the role of Gretel was planned for Noomi Rapace before Arterton's casting in January 2011. Principal photography began in March 2011, taking place at Babelsberg Studio in Germany. Filming concluded in June that year. Originally scheduled for release in March 2012, the film was delayed for ten months to accommodate Renner's appearances in" The Avengers" and" The Bourne Legacy" and to allow additional time to shoot a post-credits scene. " Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters" was theatrically released in the United States on January 25, 2013, in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D, as well in D- Box motion theaters and select international 4 DX theaters. Witch Hunters is a 2013 dark fantasy action horror film written and directed by Tommy Wirkola. The film was panned by mainstream critics, particularly for what they saw as its weak script and gratuitous violence. However, many horror genre critics were more positive, viewing the film as unpretentiously entertaining. The film topped the domestic box office on its opening weekend and was a major hit internationally. Its worldwide theatrical run gross exceeded$ 226 million for the production cost of$ 50 million.