K. S. Adhiyaman
K. S. Athiyaman | |
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| Occupation | Film Director |
| Years active | 1992–present |
K. S. Athiyaman is an Indian Film Director, who has directed Tamil and Hindi films, familiar as Kollywood and Bollywood respectively. One of the very successful film directors who has made impressions in Bollywood and Kollywood. [1]
Career
Adhiyaman apprenticed under director K. Vijayan for eight films in the late 1980s.[2] After beginning his directorial career with a film in Thoorathu Sondham (1992), He wrote the dialogues for Suresh Menon's well received films Pudhiya Mugam (1993) and Paasamalargal (1994) and subsequently bagged the opportunity to make another blockbuster film. Thotta Chinungi, a relationship drama featuring an ensemble cast of Raghuvaran, Karthik, Revathi, Devayani, Rohini and Nagendra Prasad, won critical acclaim and performed well at the box office. He then featured as an actor in Thalaimurai (1998) directed by Saravana Pandian and won acclaim for his performance, while making another Box Office Hit family drama titled Swarnamukhi which had Parthiban and Prakash Raj in leading roles.[3]
He then chose to direct his first Hindi film and began remaking Thotta Chinungi in Hindi as Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam in early 1998.[4] Notably, the film featured an ensemble cast of several leading actors including Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit and Aishwarya Rai while several music composers also worked on the film.[5][6] He then began making a project titled Mujhse Shaadi Karogi in 2002, a romantic drama featuring Salman Khan and Shilpa Shetty in the lead roles. The project's title was changed to Shaadi Karke Phas Gaya Yaar. Then he chose to remake the film and release it swiftly in Tamil as Priyasakhi (2005) with R. Madhavan and Sadha playing lead roles.
Adhiyaman made another family drama film titled Thoondil starring Shaam, Sandhya and Divya Spandana. Extensively shot in London, Thoondil began shoot in mid 2006.
He then announced that he was set to remake the Malayalam film Chinthamani Kolacase with Sunny Deol in Hindi as Judgement and would incorporate real life events of the death of journalist Shivani Bhatnagar into the script.[7] Neither of the three films eventually materialised. In early 2010, he began a comedy film titled Amali Thumali featuring Nakul, Shanthnu and Swati Reddy in lead roles.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Credited as | Language | Notes | ||
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| Director | Story | Dialogues | ||||
| 1992 | Thoorathu Sondham |  |
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Tamil | |
| 1993 | Pudhiya Mugam |  |
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Tamil | |
| 1994 | Paasamalargal | |
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Tamil | |
| 1995 | Thotta Chinungi | |
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Tamil | Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Dialogue Writer |
| 1998 | Swarnamukhi | |
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Tamil | |
| 1998 | Bobbili Vamsham | |
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Telugu[8] | |
| 2002 | Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam | |
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Hindi | ||
| 2005 | Priyasakhi | |
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Tamil | |
| 2006 | Shaadi Karke Phas Gaya Yaar | |
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Hindi | ||
| 2008 | Thoondil | |
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Tamil | |
References
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Archive News". The Hindu. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ^ http://www.indolink.com/tamil/cinema/Reviews/articles/Thalaimurai_141015.html
- ^ Anupama Chandra (2 March 1998). ", Madhuri Dixit returns to the top : FILMS - India Today 2031998". Indiatoday.intoday.in. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ^ "Films - review - Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam". BBC. 31 May 2002. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ^ "Movies: The Rediff Review: Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam". rediff.com. 24 May 2002. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ^ "Sify Movies | Bollywood, Kollywood, Track Kabali News, Reviews". Sify.com. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1575516/