Question: Are both director of film Aaranya Kaandam and director of film Dean Spanley from the same country?

He made his feature film debut with the critically acclaimed gangster film" Aaranya Kaandam"( 2011), which earned him the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director at the 59th National Film Awards. Thiagarajan Kumararaja is an Indian film director and screenwriter. <SEP> His first feature film," No. 2", starring Ruby Dee won the Audience Award( World Dramatic) at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. His second," Dean Spanley", starring Sam Neill, Jeremy Northam and Peter O' Toole, premiered in September 2008. His third film" Giselle" was selected to be screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Toa Fraser( born 1975) is a New Zealand born of Fijian heritage playwright and film director. His fourth," The Dead Lands", a Maori action- adventure film, was released in 2014. <SEP> Yasmin Ponnappa is an Indian model from Bangalore. After appearing in print media and television commercials, Yasmin first worked as an actress in Thiagarajan Kumararaja's gangster film" Aaranya Kaandam"( 2011). <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> Aaranya Kaandam ( English title:" Anima and Persona") is a 2011 Indian Tamil- language neo- noir action thriller film written and directed by newcomer Thiagarajan Kumararaja. It is supposedly the first neo- noir film in Tamil cinema. The story takes place in a day in the lives of the six protagonists, played by Jackie Shroff, Ravi Krishna, Sampath Raj and newcomers Yasmin Ponnappa, Guru Somasundaram and Master Vasanth. Produced by S. P. B. Charan's Capital Film Works, the film features musical score by Yuvan Shankar Raja and cinematography by P.S. Vinod and editing handled by the duo Praveen K. L. and N. B. Srikanth. The film was launched on 18 December 2008, with its principal photography being completed by late 2009, which was followed by a lengthy post-production phase. It ran into difficulties as the regional censor board in Chennai raised objection against the film, giving it an adult rating besides demanding 52 cuts. After screening at and becoming approved by the Tribunal in Delhi, the film was released worldwide on 10 June 2011, to high critical acclaim but underperformed at box- office. Despite its failure, it gained recognition over the years and now it is regarded as a cult film in Tamil& Indian cinema. It had its world première on 30 October 2010 at the South Asian International Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Award for Best Film. Subsequently, the film was honoured with two National Film Awards for Best Editing and Best First Film of a Director category respectively. <SEP> Set in Edwardian England, the film is based on an Alan Sharp adaptation of Irish author Lord Dunsany's 1936 novella" My Talks with Dean Spanley". Dean Spanley is a 2008 British comedy drama film, with fantastic elements, from Miramax, Atlantic Film Group( UK) and General Film Corporation( NZ), directed by Fijian New Zealander Toa Fraser. It stars Sam Neill as the Dean, Jeremy Northam and Peter O'Toole as Fisk Junior and Fisk Senior respectively and Bryan Brown as Wrather.