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Kamalakannan (born 22 September 1982) is an Indian Film Director, Actor, and Producer. Madhubana Kadai is his debut directorial movie (2012). He then debuted as lead actor in TNT Thelivu Pathaiyin Nesathuram (2017).

Career
Kamalakannan had his education in Coimbatore, studied Visual Communication from Hindustan College of Arts and Science. His passion for Cinema led him to start the Cinema Club of Coimbatore. He is the President of the Club. The Hindu article sites “For those in Tamil Nadu, living outside Chennai, the only source of parallel cinema were the films on Doordarshan on Sunday at 12 noon,” says S. Kamala Kannan, President of the Cinema Club of Coimbatore (CCC). This made him start CCC when he came back to Coimbatore in 2005. “We screen middle cinema to bridge the gap between commercial and art films,” explains Kannan.”

The club activities gave him opportunities to explore filmmaking. He produced and directed his first Movie Madhubana Kadai and released in 2012. The movie was critically acclaimed and he received Aravindan Puraskaram Award – Best Debutant Director - Special Mention. Times of India review stated, “Now, here’s the first truly avant-garde Tamil film of the year. Madhubaanakadai is that rarest of rare films that you come across in Tamil cinema”. “The film features a lineup of interesting characters — the regulars for whom the bar is a second home, the bar’s workers who manage to co-exist despite their tiffs, the bar owner who isn’t beyond stacking up supplies of unbranded liquor, his daughter who is in love with one of the workers, the policeman who maintains the peace in the place for a ‘fee’ and so on — and Kamalakannan uses them effectively to add pep to the proceedings.”

The leading Tamil weekly magazine Vikatan well appreciated the movie and rated it with 45/100 rating. He did a Lead role in a movie TNT(Thelivu pathaiyin Neesathuram) (2017) a movie based on Coimbatore Riots directed by Aravind.

Presently, his second movie Vattam with Sibiraj playing the lead role and produced by Dream Warrior Pictures is under post-production.

Filmography

 * All films are in Tamil, unless otherwise noted.