Ilavarasu Odam

Odam Ilavarasu is a talented, hard-working, vibrant Indian Tamil and Malayalam film director, who later worked primarily as an actor in major supporting roles. He is a vivid actor and has been a part of more than 160 films. The particular contributions of the talented director and writer came in the Tamil movies. He is born in the year 1995 in Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka. He is an Indian Film Screen Writer and director. He has worked dominantly in Tamil Film industry and keeps coming up with some gratifying work. He is the father of one of the most famous producers of Tamil and Hindi movies, namely Panchalankurichi in the year 1996 and Periya Thambi in 1997, which is his directorial debut.

He is an Indian film director and actor with more than seven years work experience in film writing, film direction, television fiction writing, event direction, reality show direction, creative management, novel writing, cinematic teaching, film making, and short fiction film making. He is a talented creative producer and still had got a lot in him to justify. Being an Indian Tamil Film Director, his specialities are in action, comedy, and drama. Before doing original movies, he worked in several documentaries and short films. This director and producer were so famous that some major directors worked as an assistant director to him.

He started a career as a cinematographer and worked for several 13 films, winning the prestigious Tamil Nadu State Film Award for one of them. This famous actor has starred and has shown his presence in more than 160 movies. He has directed more than six films in different languages like Tamil and Malayalam. He, however, became better known as an actor, when he debuted and made his appearnace in pivotal roles in Bharathiraja's and Cheran's films. Apart from mainstream Tamil cinema, Srinivasan has been credited for leading for a supporting role in a huge number of movies, with the number more than 126 and counting.

According to T. Saravanan of The Hindu, Ilavarasu's debut film was to have been the unproduced Tamil film Top Tucker and instead became Oru Kaidhiyin Diary (1984). However, Malathi Rangarajan says he first appeared in a minuscule role in an movie namely Bharathiraja's 1987 film Vedham Pudhidhu. After this many years of struggle, he is finally supposed to be acting in a lead role for his upcoming movies in the forthcoming years.