Agathiyan

Agathiyan (Tamil: அகத்தியன்) is an acclaimed Tamil film director.^[1] He has won the National Film Award for Best Direction as well as the National Film Award for Best Screenplay in 1996 for the Tamil film Kaadhal Kottai. His daughter Vijayalakshmi Agathiyan made her acting debut in the Tamil film Chennai 600028 (2007). His elder daughter Karthika, host of Makkal TV is married to Thiru, director of Theeratha Vilaiyattu Pillai and Samar.^[2]

Career

Ahahtian a director in his late forties entered films a decade back and struggled as an assistant to various directors. Hailing from an agriculturist family he spent a happy go lucky time in college, and when he decided to pack his bags and come to Chennai to try his luck in films as a director, he lost his family's support. Struggling with no money he did odd jobs in film companies and became an assistant to anyone who offered him food and shelter.^[3]

Anbalaya Prabhakaran who produces small budgeted films with new directors gave Ahahtian his first break as a director with 'Madhumathi', a teenage love story with new faces. The film bombed and Ahatian was back to where he started but again fate had bigger things in store for him. Sivasakti films Pandian, a film distributor turned producer, produced Vanmathi with Ajith and Swathi. The film was a modest hit. Next came 'Kadhal Kottai' from the same banner and Ahahtian became the toast of the industry. Offers poured in for films.^[4]

Filmography

Year	Film	Language	Credited as				Role	Notes
Year	Film	Language	Director	Writer	Producer	Actor	Role	Notes
1991	Mangalyam Thanthuna Nae	Tamil	Y	Y
1992	Pondatti Rajyam	Tamil	N	Y	N	N
1993	Madhumathi	Tamil	Y	Y
1996	Vaanmathi	Tamil	Y	Y	N	N
1996	Kaadhal Kottai	Tamil	Y	Y	N	N		National Film Award for Best Direction National Film Award for Best Screenplay Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Director Remade in Kannada as Yaare Neenu Cheluve Remade in Hindi as Sirf Tum Dubbed in Telugu as Premalekha
1996	Gokulathil Seethai	Tamil	Y	Y	N	N		Remade in Hindi as Hum Ho Gaye Aapke Remade in Kannada as Krishna Leele
1997	Vidukathai	Tamil	Y	Y
1998	Santhosham	Tamil		Y	N	N
1999	Kaadhal Kavithai	Tamil	Y	Y	N	N
1999	Sirf Tum	Hindi	Y	Y	N	N
1999	Hum Ho Gaye Aapke	Hindi	Y	Y	N	N
1999	Poovellam Kettuppar	Tamil	N	N	N	Y	Himself
2001	Vinnukkum Mannukkum	Tamil	N	N	N	Y	Cameo
2002	Kadhal Samrajyam	Tamil	Y	Y	N	N		Unreleased film
2004	Ramakrishna	Tamil	Y	Y	N	N
2004	Ee Abbai Chala Manchodu	Telugu	Y	Y	N	N
2005	Selvam	Tamil	Y	Y	Y	N
2007	Agaram	Tamil	N	N	N	Y	Thiru's father
2008	Nenjathai Killadhe	Tamil	Y	Y	N	N
2011	Avargalum Ivargalum	Tamil	N	N	N	Y
2011	Maithanam	Tamil	N	N	N	Y

Awards

National Film Awards

1997 – National Film Award for Best Direction for Kaadhal Kottai
1997 – National Film Award for Best Screenplay for Kaadhal Kottai
1997 – National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil for Kaadhal Kottai

Filmfare Awards South

1997 – Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Director for Kaadhal Kottai

References

External links

Agathiyan at the Internet Movie Database

Agathiyan

Mangalyam Thanthuna Nae (1991) Madhumathi (1993) Vaanmathi (1996) Kadhal Kottai (1996) Gokulathil Seethai (1996) Vidukathai (1997) Kaadhal Kavithai (1998) Sirf Tum (1999) (Hindi) Hum Ho Gaye Aapke (2001) (Hindi) Ramakrishna (2004) Ee Abbai Chala Manchodu (2004) (Telugu) Selvam (2005) Nenjathai Killadhe (2008) Kadhal Samrajyam (unreleased)

National Film Award for Best Direction

1967–1980	Satyajit Ray (1967) Satyajit Ray (1968) Mrinal Sen (1969) Satyajit Ray (1970) Girish Karnad and B. V. Karanth (1971) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1972) Mani Kaul (1973) Satyajit Ray (1974) Satyajit Ray (1975) P. Lankesh (1976) G. Aravindan (1977) G. Aravindan (1978) Mrinal Sen (1979) Mrinal Sen (1980)

1981–2000	Aparna Sen (1981) Utpalendu Chakrabarty (1982) Mrinal Sen (1983) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1984) Shyam Benegal (1985) G. Aravindan (1986) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1987) Shaji N. Karun (1988) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1989) Tapan Sinha (1990) Satyajit Ray (1991) Goutam Ghose (1992) T. V. Chandran (1993) Jahnu Barua (1994) Saeed Akhtar Mirza (1995) Agathiyan (1996) Jayaraj (1997) Rajeevnath (1998) Buddhadeb Dasgupta (1999) Rituparno Ghosh (2000)

2001–present	B. Lenin (2001) Aparna Sen (2002) Goutam Ghose (2003) Buddhadeb Dasgupta (2004) Rahul Dholakia (2005) Madhur Bhandarkar (2006) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (2007) Bala (2008) Rituparno Ghosh (2009) Vetrimaaran (2010) Gurvinder Singh (2011) Shivaji Lotan Patil (2012) Hansal Mehta (2013) Srijit Mukherji (2014) Sanjay Leela Bhansali (2015)

National Film Award for Best Screenplay

1967–1980

S. L. Puram Sadanandan (1967)
Pandit Anand Kumar (1968)
Puttanna Kanagal (1969)
Satyajit Ray (1970)
Tapan Sinha (1971)
Gulzar (1972)
Mrinal Sen and Ashish Burman (1973)
Satyajit Ray (1974)
No Award (1975)
Vijay Tendulkar (1976)
Satyadev Dubey, Shyam Benegal, Girish Karnad (1977)
T. S. Ranga and T. S. Nagabharana (1978)
Sai Paranjpye (1979)
Mrinal Sen (1980)

1981–2000

2001–present

Neelakanta (2001) Aparna Sen (2002) Goutam Ghose (2003) Manoj Tyagi and Nina Arora (2004) Prakash Jha, Manoj Tyagi and Shridhar Raghavan (2005) Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra (2006) Feroz Abbas Khan (2007) Sachin Kundalkar (2008)

Original	P. F. Mathews and Harikrishna (2009) Vetrimaaran (2010) Nitish Tiwary, Vikas Bahl and Vijay Maurya (2011) Sujoy Ghosh (2012) P. Sheshadri (2013) Srijit Mukherji (2014) Juhi Chaturvedi and Himanshu Sharma (2015)

Adapted	Gopal Krishan Pai and Girish Kasaravalli (2009) Anant Mahadevan and Sanjay Pawar (2010) Avinash Deshpande Nigdi (2011) Bhavesh Mandalia and Umesh Shukla (2012) Panchakshari (2013) Joshy Mangalath (2014) Vishal Bhardwaj (2015)

Dialogues	Pandiraj (2009) Sanjay Pawar (2010) Girish Kulkarni (2011) Anjali Menon (2012) Sumitra Bhave (2013) Vishal Bhardwaj (2014) Juhi Chaturvedi and Himanshu Sharma (2015)

Filmfare Award for Best Tamil Director

1972–1990	P. Madhavan (1972) A. C. Tirulokchandar (1973) K. Balachander (1974) K. Balachander (1975) S. P. Muthuraman (1976) S. P. Muthuraman (1977) Bharathiraja (1978) J. Mahendran (1979) K. Balachander (1980) K. Balachander (1981) Balu Mahendra (1982) A. Jagannathan (1983) K. Balachander (1984) Fazil (1985) Mani Ratnam (1986) (1987) (1988) K. Balachander (1989) (1990)

1991–2000	Mani Ratnam (1991) K. Balachander (1992) Shankar (1993) Shankar (1994) Mani Ratnam (1995) Agathiyan (1996) Cheran (1997) Cheran (1998) Bala (1999) Rajiv Menon (2000) Cheran (2001) Mani Ratnam (2002) Bala (2003) Cheran (2004) Shankar (2005) Vasanthabalan (2006) Ameer Sultan (2007) M. Sasikumar (2008) Priyadarshan (2009) Vasanthabalan (2010)

2011–present	Vetrimaaran (2011) Balaji Sakthivel (2012) Bala (2013) AR Murugadoss (2014)

Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Director

1967–1980	C. N. Shanmugam (1967) Krishnan-Panju (1968) P. Neelakantan (1969) P. Madhavan (1970) Not awarded (1971) Not awarded (1972) Not awarded (1973) Not awarded (1974) Not awarded (1975) Not awarded (1976) Bharathiraja (1977) Durai (1978) S. P. Muthuraman (1979) K. Balachander (1980)

1981–2000	Bharathiraja (1981) Muktha Srinivasan (1982) Not awarded (1983) Not awarded (1984) Not awarded (1985) Not awarded (1986) Not awarded (1987) P. R. Devaraj (1988) K. Balachander (1989) Vikraman (1990) P. Vasu (1991) Mani Ratnam (1992) Shankar (1993) K. S. Ravikumar (1994) Vasanth (1995) Agathiyan (1996) Vikraman & Cheran (1997) R. Parthiepan (1998) Bala (1999) Vikraman (2000)

2001–present	Susi Ganesan (2001) Mani Ratnam (2002) Karu Pazhaniappan (2003) Cheran (2004) Shankar (2005) Thirumurugan (2006) Thangar Bachan (2007) Radha Mohan (2008)

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