P T Selvakumar

P.T. Selvakumar serves the Tamil film industry as a director, producer, and a press relation officer.Selvakumar had no ambition of being a film director specifically. Instead, he used to be a journalist before getting in touch with the film directors. In his career in journalism, he got in touch with S. A Chandrasekhar, a famous film director from the Tamil industry. Chandrasekhar entrusted him as the PRO (press relation officer) of his son Vijay Chandrasekhar, an actor in the Tamil industry.

In 2003, Selvakumar got into the production work and produced a Tamil film titled Banda Paramasivam, directed by T.P Gajendran. A remake of this movie was later made in Bollywood, which was titled Housefull 2, starring Akshay Kumar Akshay Kumar was born on 9th September 1967 and hi >> Read More... , Riteish Deshmukh Riteish Deshmukh is the son of a politician, late >> Read More... , Asin Thottumkal Asin Thottumkal more famously known as Asin, is a >> Read More... , and several other stars. The film got unveiled in 2012.

Next, Selvakumar moved to try out film direction and to start with he hired four Tamil actors which included, Nakul, Shiva, Santhanam, and Premji Amaren; he also appointed Priyamani, but till then the film did not gain any official announcement. Later the film was officially announced with entirely a new star cast which had Vinay Rai Vinay Rai is a popular South Indian actor, who is >> Read More... , Aravind Akash Aravind Akash is a wonderful dancer and a good cho >> Read More... , Sathyan as actors in addition to Premji, and Raai Laxmi Raai Laxmi or Lakshmi Rai is a famous South Indian >> Read More... as the female lead, in the list.

Finally after the announcement, the shooting commenced from October 2012. The script was based on the 2009 film, The Hangover Click to look into! >> Read More... , an American black comedy and the Tamil version was titled, Onbadhule Guru. It got released in March 2013. The film was reviewed poorly by the critics, but  then also the film was on the screens of about 200+ cinema houses and made a collection of about 75 lakhs in just five days. Worldwide, the film made a collection of about 1.5 crores. The critics also commented on its story line stating that it had been just a mixing of comic scenes with no proper construction of basic story line.

Till date, Onbadhule Guru, had been the only movie directed by P. T. Selvakumar. But he had produced three films, all in the Tamil industry. He had financed T.P Gajendran’s Banda Paramasivam; he also produced Chimbu Deven’s Puli, which had a star cast composed of Vijay, Sridevi, Shruti Haasan Shruti Hassan is an Indian film actress born on 28 >> Read More... , and Hansika Motwani Hansika Motwani is a young and beautiful actress, >> Read More... , in 2015, and this film received optimistic views from its audience. The latest of the lot which he had produced was Ramprakash Rayappa’s Pokkiri Raja Click to look into! >> Read More... , which got released in 2016.