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P. Vasu

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P. Vasu
BornVasudevan Peethambaram
15 September 1954 (age 60)[1]
Kerala, India
OccupationDirector, writer, producer, actor
Years active1981 – present
Spouse(s)Shanthi
ChildrenSakthi Vasu, Abhirami Vasu
Websitehttp://www.pvasu.com/
P. Vasu (born Vasudevan Peethambharam) is an Indian director, writer, and actor who works in Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Malayalam films. In a career spanning three decades, Vasu has directed over 50 films.[2]

Personal life[edit]

P.Vsu's father Peethambaram Nair worked as a make-up man for M.G.R. and N.T.R. in their films in older days.[3] He was one of the leading make-up artists during his period and was elected as the president of the make-up union, Tamil Nadu for 30 years. He later went on to become a producer.
He produced about 25 films in Tamil and Telugu and became one of the leading producers in the south. He produced with his brother M.C. Sekhar who was a cinematographer. M.C. Sekhar had worked as a cinematographer for more than 150 films. Peethambharam died on 21 February 2011 at the age of 89.[4]
Vasu is an alumnus of Wesley High School, Chennai. Vasu is married to Shanthi and has a son, Sakthi Vasu, who is an actor and a daughter, Abhirami Vasudevan. His mother is Kamala. Vasu's brothers are Vidyasagar, Vimal and his sisters are Vijaylakshmi,Vasantha and Vanaja.[5]

Career[edit]

Vasu joined director C. V. Sridhar as an assistant. Vasu started his career with Santhana Bharathi as a co-director and made films like Panneer Pushpangal, Mella Pesungal, Sahasame Jeevitham, Neethiyin nizhal, Madhumalar. "We compromised on certain things as we had different approaches to the subject. That's the reason why some of our other movies failed to make a big impression in the box office, prompting us to take our own paths," he says.[6]
He has directed more than 60 movies in several languages which include Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi including Aptha Mitra and Chandra mukhi.
The director went through a career slump in the mid 1990s after a series of failures in 1995, through the Prabhu-starrers Kattumarakaran and Mr. Madras, while his high budget romantic musical Love Birds also received poor reviews and collections.[7][8]
In June 2013, P. Vasu revealed that he was set to direct an English film titled Curry in Love with an apparent star cast of Sonam Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Vijay, Eddie Murphy and Jon Voight. However the supposed cast denied the reports as baseless and P. Vasu postponed the film, citing a delay in production.[9][10] Similarly in early 2014, P. Vasu released an official statement claiming that his next film would be an animatronics venture titled Aishwaryavum Aayiram Kaakkavum and that Aishwarya Rai would feature in the leading role. Aishwarya Rai's team later denied claims citing that such claims of an agreement were premature.[11][12] He is currently directing the Kannada version of the 2013 Malayalam film Drishyam.[13]

Style of Working[edit]

His films are usually made with a commercial format in the masala genre, with action, family sentiment, comedy, betrayal, revenge and redemption, appearing as key themes. Family sentiment i.e. Melodrama is the recurring themes in all of his directorials. Indiaglitz wrote: "Vasu ruled the early 90's with his sentimental tearjerkers, He started using sister-brother- mother- father sentiment".[14] According to Behindwoods, " Vasu’s style of storytelling has pervasive dramatization with a more-than-usual touch of sentiment".[15]
Vasu learnt the finer nuances he learnt on direction from Sridhar, under whom he started off as an assistant director and added that he never followed Sridhar's style of filmmaking and has always tried to be original.[6] Vasu said that durin childhood "I found myself watching films and narrating the stories to my friends in school. If the school would begin at nine I would reach there by eight and narrate the story for an hour".[16]

Accolades[edit]

Vasu has won recognition for his work from the film fraternity and the state government. He won state awards for three years in a row from 1990, for Best Screenplay and Dialogues in Nadigan, in 1991 as Best Director in Chinna Thambi, in 1992 for Best Screenplay and Story in Walter Vetrivel. He was awarded the Filmfare award for Best Direction in the movie Aaptha Mithra. He was awarded the Kalaimaamani Award in 2004, with his father Shri M. Peethambaram who was an awardee for his contribution in the field of make-up.
Vasu is a member of the state award selection committee and jury member of the committee for tax-free movies.

Filmography[edit]

As director[edit]

YearFilmCastLanguageNotes
1981Panneer PushpangalSuresh, Shanthi KrishnaTamilCo-directed with Santhana Bharathi
1982Madhu MalarPratap Pothan, SuhasiniTamilCo-directed with Santhana Bharathi
1983Mella PesungalVasanth, BhanupriyaTamilCo-directed with Santhana Bharathi
1983GuriRajkumar, ArchanaKannadaSuper Hit 100 Days
1984Sahasame JeevithamBalakrishna, LizyTeluguCo-directed with Santhana Bharathi
1985KathanayakaVishnuvardhan, Sumalata AmbarishKannadaSuper Hit 100 Days
Needhiyin NizhalSivaji Ganesan, Prabhu GanesanTamilCo-directed with Santhana Bharathi
1987JayasimhaVishnuvardhan, MahalakshmiKannadaSuper Hit 25 weeks
SamarappanamMalayalam
Jeevana JyothiVishnuvardhan, AmbikaKannadaSuper Hit 100 Days
1988DaadaVishnuvardhan, Sangeeta BijlaniKannadaSuper Hit 100 Days
En Thangachi PadichavaPrabhu Ganesan, RupiniTamilRemade in Hindi as Aaj Ka Arjun
Remade in Telugu as Muddula Mavayya
1989Vaathiyaar Veettu PillaiSathyaraj, ShobhanaTamil100th film of Sathyaraj
Ponmana SelvanVijayakanth, ShobhanaTamil
PillaikkagaPrabhu Ganesan, GowthamiTamil
1990PanakkaranRajinikanth, GowthamiTamilRemake of Hindi film Laawaris
Velai KidaichuduchuSathyaraj, GowthamiTamilRemade in Telugu as Assembly Rowdy
Remade in Hindi as Loafer
NadiganSathyaraj, KushbooTamilRemake of Hindi film Professor
1991Chinna ThambiPrabhu, KushbooTamilRemade in Telugu as Chanti
Remade in Kannada as Ramachari
Remade in Hindi as Anari
Best director Tamil Nadu State Award for 1992 the film
Kizhakku KaraiPrabhu Ganesan, KushbooTamil
AdhikaariArun Pandiyan, GowthamiTamil
1992Rickshaw MamaSathyaraj, Gouthami, KushbooTamil
Senthamizh PaattuPrabhu Ganesan, SukanyaTamil
Idhu Namma BhoomiKarthik Muthuraman, KushbooTamil
Amma VandhachuK. Bhagyaraj, KushbooTamil
MannanRajinikanth, Vijayashanti, KushbooTamilRemake of Anuraga Aralithu
1993Walter VetrivelSathyaraj, SukanyaTamilRemade in Telugu as S. P. Parasuram
Remade in Hindi as Khuddar
UzhaippaliRajinikanth, RojaTamil
Udan PirappuSathyaraj, Rahman, SukanyaTamil
1994Sethupathi IPSVijayakanth, MeenaTamil
SadhuArjun, Raveena TandonTamil
1995KattumarakaranPrabhu Ganesan, AnjaliTamil
CoolieSarath Kumar, MeenaTamil
Mr. MadrasPrabhu Ganesan, SukanyaTamil
1996Love BirdsPrabhu Deva, NagmaTamil
1997PathiniJayaram, KushbooTamilTamil Nadu State Award “Best film” for the year 1998
Vaimaye VellumR. Parthiban, RakshanaTamil
1999SuyamvaramSathyaraj, Prabhu GanesanTamilfirst Indian film made in 24 hours
Malabar PoliceSathyaraj, KushbooTamil
Ponnu VeetukaaranSathyaraj, Preetha VijayakumarTamil
Hogi Pyaar Ki JeetAjay Devgan, NehaHindi
2000SeenuKarthik Muthuraman, MalavikaTamilRemake of Malayalam film Bharatham
Vanna Thamizh PattuPrabhu GanesanTamil
Kakkai SiraginilaeR. Parthiban, Preetha VijayakumarTamil
2001AsathalSathyaraj, Ramya KrishnanTamil[17]
2002Prudhvi NarayanaSrihari, VijayalakshmiTelugu
2003HrudayavanthaVishnuvardhan, NagmaKannadaSuper Hit 100 Days
Kadhal Kisu KisuBala, Charmy KaurTamil[18]
2004ApthamitraVishnuvardhan, Ramesh ArvindKannadaOne Year Kannada Blockbuster Hit
Remake of Malayalam Film Manichitrathazhu
2005ChandramukhiRajinikanth, Prabhu GanesanTamilOne year Tamil Blockbuster Hit
Remake of Malayalam Film Manichitrathazhu
2006ParamasivanAjith Kumar, LailaTamilRemake of Hindi film Kartoos
2007MaharadhiBalakrishna, Meera JasmineTelugu[19]
Thottal Poo MalarumSakthi Vasu, Gowri MunjalTamil[20]
2008KrishnarjunaVishnu Vardhan Babu, Mamta MohandasTelugu[21]
KuselanPasupathy, Rajinikanth, PrabhuTamilRemake of Malayalam film Katha Parayumbol[22]
KathanayakuduJagapathi Babu, RajinikanthTelugu
2010AptharakshakaVishnuvardhan, SandhyaKannada35 Weeks Blockbuster[23]
NagavalliVenkatesh, AnushkaTelugu
Remake of Aptharakshaka Kannada[24]
2011Puli VeshamR. K., Karthik, SadhaTamilRemake of Kannada film Muniya[25]
2012ArakshakaUpendra, Ragini Dwivedi, SadhaKannadaHit 100 days [26]
2014DrishyaV. Ravichandran, Navya NairKannadaRemake of Malayalam film Drishyam
2015ShivaLingaShivaraj KumarKannada

As an actor[edit]

YearFilmRoleLanguageNotes
2000VallarasuKandhasamyTamil
2000SeenuTamil
2001Ee Parakkum ThalikaR. K. SanthanamMalayalam
2001Thenkasi PattanamDevarajTamil
2002Sundara TravelsGayathri's fatherTamil
2003Banda ParamasivamTamil
2003Kadhal Kisu KisuTamil
2004ArasatchiTamil
2004Maha NadiganArivanandanTamil
2005ChandramukhiTamilSpecial appearance in song "Devuda"
2007ManikandaTamil
2008DasavatharamJ. Ragavendra (Jaa Raa)Tamil
2008KuselanTamilSpecial appearance
2010Naane Ennul IllaihimselfTamil
2010AptharakshakaKannadaSpecial appearance in song "Chamundi Thaayiyaane"
2010ThanthonniMalayalam

As a writer[edit]

YearFilmCredited asLanguageNotes
StoryScreenplayDialogue
1986Ee Jeeva NinagagiYesYesKannada
1988En Thangachi PadichavaYesYesYesTamil
1988Nammoora RajaYesKannada
1989Vaathiyaar Veettu PillaiYesYesYesTamil
1989Ponmana SelvanYesYesYesTamil
1990NadiganYesYesYesTamilBest dialogue writer Tamil Nadu State Award for 1990 for the film
1990Velai KidaichuduchuYesYesYesTamil
1990PanakkaranYesYesTamil
1991Assembly RowdyYesTeluguRemake of Velai Kidaichuduchu
1991Chinna ThambiYesYesYesTamil
1991Kizhakku KaraiYesYesYesTamil
1992Gharana MoguduYesTeluguRemake of Anuraga Aralithu
1992ChantiYesTeluguRemake of Chinna Thambi
1992Rickshaw MamaYesYesYesTamil
1992Senthamizh PaattuYesYesYesTamil
1992Idhu Namma BhoomiYesYesYesTamil
1992Amma VanthachuYesYesYesTamil
1992MannanYesYesTamil
1993AnariYesHindiRemake of Chinna Thambi
1993Purusha LakshanamYesTamil
1993Walter VetrivelYesYesYesTamil
1993UzhaippaliYesYesYesTamil
1993Udan PirappuYesYesYesTamil
1994Sethupathi IPSYesYesYesTamil
1994SadhuYesYesYesTamil
1994S. P. ParasuramYesTeluguRemake of Walter Vetrivel
1994Bhale PellamYesTelugu
1994KhuddarYesHindiRemake of Walter Vetrivel
1994LaadlaYesHindiRemake of Mannan
1995Mr. MadrasYesYesYesTamil
1995KattumarakaranYesYesYesTamil
1995CoolieYesYesYesTamil
1995Amma KodukuYesTeluguRemake of Senthamizh Paattu
1996Love BirdsYesYesYesTamil
1996Aaj Ka ArjunYesHindiRemake of En Thangachi Padichava
1996LoaferYesYesHindiRemake of Velai Kidaichuduchu
1997Vaimaye VellumYesYesYesTamil
1998Ayushman BhavaYesMalayalam
1999Malabar PoliceYesYesYesTamil
1999Ponnu VeetukkaranYesYesYesTamil
2000Kakkai SiraginilaeYesYesYesTamil
2000Vanna Thamizh PattuYesYesYesTamil
2001AsathalYesYesYesTamil
2003Kadhal Kisu KisuYesYesYesTamil
2005ChandramukhiYesYesTamilRemake of Manichitrathazhu
2007Thottal Poo MalarumYesYesYesTamil
2007ParamasivanYesYesTamil
2008KuselanYesYesTamil
2010Peddainti AlluduYesTelugu
2011Puli VeshamYesYesTamil

As producer[edit]


YearFilmCastLanguageNotes
1993Walter VetrivelSathyaraj, SukanyaTamilProduced by his wife Shanthi
1994SadhuArjun Sarja, Raveena TandonTamil
1999Malabar PoliceSathyaraj, KushbooTamilProduced by his wife Shanthi
2007Thottal Poo MalarumSakthi Vasu, Gowri MunjalTamil
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