Adhik Ravichandran

Adhik Ravichandran is an Indian film director, screenwriter, actor and playback singer who works in Tamil cinema. He made his directorial debut with the successful comedy Trisha Illana Nayanthara (2015). Following a setback with two consecutive failures, his career revitalised with Mark Antony (2023), which grossed inr 1000000000 at the box office.

Early life
Adhik was born on 17 January. He is the son of Ravichandran "Ravi" Kandaswamy, who has worked as an assistant director for nearly two decades, but has yet to make his directorial debut. Because of Ravi's struggles in the film industry, Adhik's mother forbade him from pursuing that as his career, though he still remained passionate. Adhik aspired to study visual communication in college, but instead took engineering to appease his mother, though he began writing scripts from the first semester to the final.

Career
After graduating college, Adhik trained as an assistant director under Major Ravi before making his directorial debut with Trisha Illana Nayanthara (2015). The film was a major success. However, his next film Anbanavan Asaradhavan Adangadhavan (2017) was a box-office bomb, and Adhik accused its lead actor Silambarasan of interfering creatively and causing problems during production. He later wrote the dialogues for the Tamil-dubbed version of the Hindi film Dabangg 3 (2019). Adhik's third film as director, Bagheera (2023) did not succeed, but Mark Antony, released later the same year, revitalised his career. After Mark Antony, Adhik signed on to direct Good Bad Ugly with Ajith Kumar as the lead.

Personal life
In December 2023, Adhik married Aishwarya, daughter of actor Prabhu.

As a playback singer
Adhik sang "I Love You Di" in his own directorial Mark Antony under G. V. Prakash Kumar's composition. He also wrote the lyrics alongside Rokesh.