AC Mugil Chellappan is a writer cum director in the Indian film industry. He was born and brought up in Salem. His father, Chellappan, was a sound system provider who worked for MGR’s meetings. He completed his schooling at CSI High School for International Studies. Mugil is married and has a son, Kabilsamy Mugil.
He joined the film industry as a writer. Mugil started his career under the mentorship of director cum actor K Bhagyaraj and R “
Pandiarajan
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.”
Mugil graduated from Salem Government Arts College and then from Pachayappa’s College, Chennai. In 1994, Mugil worked as an assistant director in the movie Subramayaswamy, directed by Pandiarajan. The film featured “
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as the female leads, alongside Pandiarajan. Besides working as an assistant director, Mugil performed a small role in this film. Mugil also worked as an assistant director to SR Dasarathan.

In 1996, Mugil worked in the team of Pandiarajan’s GopalaGopala. In 2001, Mugil penned the story and dialogue for the Sundar C movie Ullam Kollaipogudhe, featuring
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,
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, and
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. In 2007, he worked in Pokkiri as a co-director and also played a small role with
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. In 2009, Mugil co-penned the story and screenplay for the “Vijay” starrer with Rebel Ravi, directed by Prabhu Deva. In 2011, Mugil directed “Kandaen” with
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, and “
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.” The same year, he co-scripted the story of
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, featuring
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and
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. In 2012, Mugil penned the story and screenplay for the film
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, featuring
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, directed by Prabhu Deva. The same year, he was in the writers’ team for the film
Rowdy Rathore
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, featuring
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. In 2013, Mugil was in the writing team of
Ramaiya Vastavaiya
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featuring
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and Girish Kumar.
In 2021, Mugil directed
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with Prabhu Deva and
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. This film marked the last appearance of the veteran director “
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.” The same year, he co-scripted the film “Radhe,” featuring
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, directed by Prabhu Deva.
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