K. Selvaraghavan

Selvaraghavan, man, this guy’s a total wild card in the Tamil film industry. He’s not just a director—he’s dipped his toes in acting, screenwriting, and even runs a production company called White Elephants with Yuvan Shankar Raja and Arvind Krishna. Talk about multitasking, right? His family’s got talent spilling everywhere—Dhanush is his brother (yeah, THE Dhanush), and his sisters went the doctor route. Before Selvaraghavan threw himself into movies, his family made him finish a mechanical engineering degree, just to be safe. Classic desi parents, can’t blame ‘em. Anyway, his debut was Thulluvadho Ilamai in 2002, which starred his brother and honestly was a huge gamble—they put all their money in it. It started slow, but people caught on, and boom, it was a sleeper hit. Then came Kaadhal Konden, which turned Dhanush into a star overnight, and got remade all over the place. Selva just kept cranking out genre-bending stuff—7/G Rainbow Colony, Pudhu Pettai, you name it. He didn’t just stick to Tamil either. He dabbled in Telugu with Aadavari Matalaku Ardhalu Verule, which smashed it at the box office. The guy even writes lyrics sometimes, like for Ayirathil Oruvan. He’s been nominated for a ton of awards, picked up a few, and then decided, why not act too? So he popped up in films like Beast and Saani Kaayidham. Selvaraghavan’s career is basically one wild experiment after another, and honestly, it’s never boring.