The venture, produced by his home production, also marked the first collaboration of Selvaraghavan with cinematographer Arvind Krishna, whom he would later associate with regularly. įollowing the success of the previous film, the team chose to collaborate again with the psychotic romantic thriller Kaadhal Kondein (2003), credited as Selvaraghavan's first film. After release, Selvaraghavan stated that he had also directed the film, but was forced to credit his more established film-maker father Kasthuri Raja as the sole director, in order to help the project find a distributor. It subsequently went on to become a sleeper hit and won positive reviews from critics for breaking the stereotypes of Tamil films. After taking a small opening, the film began to get teen audiences to cinema halls for its adolescent themes, while also being publicised in quarters as a "soft porn" film. Featuring his brother Dhanush in his first role, alongside Sherin and Abhinay, the film told the coming-of-age story of six high school students and featured a hit soundtrack by Yuvan Shankar Raja. His family faced financial pressures in the early 2000s with his father being out of work, and subsequently they decided to put their remaining earnings into a venture titled Thulluvadho Ilamai (2002), which Selvaraghavan had written. After he graduated in 1997, he approached producers to fund his screenplay writing, but was unsuccessful and often remained at home as an unemployed graduate.
During his studies, he engaged part-time in different career paths in a process he describes as "soul-searching", before finding satisfaction as a writer. in Mechanical Engineering, though his exam performances were unremarkable and he acknowledges he was "never going to become one of the best". He subsequently went on to attain a BEng. The couple were blessed with their third child, a baby boy on 7 January 2021 who they named Rishikesh Career 2002–2004 ĭespite coming from a family from the film industry, Selvaraghavan and his sisters were persuaded by their parents to seek a career with an academic background. The couple have a daughter named Leelavathi born on 20 January 2012, and a son born on 7 October 2013 named Omkar.
Gitanjali had worked as his assistant director in Mayakkam Enna. Selvaraghavan married Gitanjali Raman on 19 June 2011, daughter of former Advocate General of Tamil Nadu P. After their two-year marriage, Sonia Agarwal and Selvaraghavan filed for divorce with mutual consent in a Chennai family court on 9 August 2009. On 15 December 2006, he married actress Sonia Agarwal, with whom he had previously worked with on three films. In his youth, one of his eyes was removed after he developed retinal cancer. He has a brother, Dhanush, who is an actor, and two sisters, who are both doctors. Selvaraghavan was born to film director Kasthuri Raja and Vijayalakshmi.
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