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R. K. Vijaymurugan is an Indian Film Art Director, Production Designer and Actor. He has won Vijay Awards & Ananda Vikatan Cinema Awards for Best Art Director in Aravaan 2012, most known for his work in films like Goli Soda, Aravaan, VIP, Maari, Thangamagan, NGK.

Early life and education
Vijaymurugan is an art director in Tamil industry. Born on 30 July, 1975. He did his secondary schooling at Government Higher Secondary School, Vettavalam, TamilNadu. Currently, he lives in Chennai. The art director is married. He hails from Vettavalam. He started working in the industry from 1997. He is an Art director and turned to an actor. The actor cum director debuted with Charlie Chaplin. His uncle, who was senior to him in College of Arts, influenced him a lot. His uncle introduced him to Art director Mohan Mahendran. He worked under him for a long time.

Career
Vijaimurugan debuted as an individual  art director from Prabhu Deva’s Charlie Chaplin, which came in 2002. After debuting, he has worked in more than 40 films till now. He gained popularity with his 2004 released Kudaikul Mazhai. Parthiban directed the film. Kudaikul Mazhai created a base for Aravaan, a Tamil historical drama. This movie garnered him the award for the best  art director. At first, he thought that director Vasantha had made a mistake by calling him because he has never worked in such kind of film. The director was very much interested in working with him. R.K. is the art director of Engitta Modhathey, which released 24 March of this year. The movie is depicting the life of fan club of Rajanikanth and Kamal Hassan in the 90s.

And he has worked with SriKanth in Pambra Kannale, with Bharath in Koodal Nagar with Vijay in Sura, with Dhanush in Devathai Kanden, with Suriya in Maayavi, with Ajith in Paramasivam, with Lawrence in Rajathi Raja, with Sarath Kumar in Chankaya and with Parthiban in Vithagan.

Vijay Murugan with very humble beginnings got noticed for his impeccable hard-work in Aravaan. The intricacies on bringing out the real setting of a period film took the technician to the top spot by storm. He has also been awarded the Vijay Award for Best Art director in the year 2012 for the film Aravaan and winning Ananda Vikatan Cinema Awards for Best Art director Aravaan.

He has also worked in romantic comedy 4G. Venkat Pakkar directed this venture. He is also working on an upcoming Tamil action, Sathriyan. The direction is done by S.R. Prabhakaran. Sathya Jyothi Films became the producers for this movie. The film is a depiction of a real life event. The same year, he did Koditta Idangalai Nirrapuya. The Tamil feature, directed by R. Parthiban, released on 14 January, 2017.In Interview R. Parthiban once said that Vijaimurugan’s work is commendable and worth a praise.

In 2014, he did art direction for Karthik Subbaraj, in Jigarthanda. The flick is a Tamil black comedy. In 2016, he acted as an evil producer in Iraivi. He was also the production designer for the same. The movie got 8.3 IMDB and good reviews too. He was the actor and  art director of 2017 film Vallavanukkum Vallavan. Apart from that, he has also acted and done the art direction of Goli Soda. R.K. played an antagonist “Mayilu” in the feature. And he has a crucial role to play in Ra Ra Rajasekhar film directed by Balaji Sakthivel. R. Parthiban. RKVijay Murugan is known for, Sangathalaivan released in 2020, Charlie Chaplin 2 released in 2019 and upcoming movie Naane Varuven, releasing Soon.

Filmography
Charlie Chaplin (2002)

Inithu Inthu Kathal Inithu (2003)

anbe un vasam (2003)

kathal Kirukan (2003)

kudaikul Malai (2004)

Thevathai Kanden (2004)

Jana (2004)

MahaNadigan (2004)

Mayavi (2005)

Guru Deva (2005)

PambaraKannale (2005)

Chanakya (2005)

paramasivan (2006)

Kodambakkam (2006)

Ninaithale (2007)

KoodalNagar (2007)

Sanda (2008)

SingaKutty (2008)

RajathiRaja (2009)

naaalai namathey (2009)

sura (2010)

vithagan (2011)

Aravaan (2012)

Naiyandi (2013)

Thillumullu (2013)

Jigarthanda (2014)

Kathai Thiraikathai (2014)

VIP (2014)

GoliSoda (2014)

Maari (2014)

Poriyalan (2014)

Thilagar (2015)

Thangamagan (2015)

CC 2

Iraivi (2016)

KIN

amma kanakku (2016)

sathriyan (2017)

vallavanukum vallavan (2018)

NGK (2019)

Sangathalaivan (2021)

Iravin nizhal (2022)

4G (2022)

Santhanathevan (2022)

Naane Varuven (2022)

Awards
Vijay Award for Best Art director - Aravaan 2012

Ananda Vikatan Cinema Awards - Aravaan 2012