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Gautham Menon
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Gautham Vasudev Menon (Malayalam: Gautham Vasudev Menon
; Tamil: ெகௗத
வா ேத ேமன ) is an Indian film director
and producer. Mainly working in Tamil cinema, he
has also directed Hindi and Telugu films which are
remakes of his Tamil films. Many of his films have
been critically acclaimed, most notably his semi-
autobiographical Vaaranam Aayiram (2008),
romantic classic Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (2010),
his action-thrillers Kaakha Kaakha (2003) and
Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu (2006). Vaaranam Gautham speaking at a college in Trichy
Aayiram won the National Film Award for Best
Born February 25, 1973
Feature Film in Tamil.
Ottapalam, Kerala, India
Nationality Indian
Contents Occupation Film director
Film writer
■ 1 Early life and education Film producer
■ 2 Directorial career
■ 2.1 Early work and Years active 2001–present
Minnale, 2001 Spouse Preethi
■ 2.2 Police duology, 2003-
2006
■ 2.3 Experimentation and
success, 2007-2011
■ 2.4 Future ventures, 2011-
present
■ 3 Filmography
■ 3.1 As a director
■ 4 References
■ 5 External links
Early life and education
Gautham was born to a Malayali father and Tamil mother on 25 February 1973 in Kerala. Although,
born in Kerala he grew up in Trichy.[1][2] He did his schooling in Vailankanni Raj Mat. Hr., Sec
School at K.K Nagar, Trichy and did his Mechanical Engineering in Mookambigai College of
Engineering, Trichy, Tamil Nadu .[3][4]
Directorial career
Early work and Minnale, 2001
Gautham Menon was a student of mechanical engineering at Mookambikai college of engineering in
the batch of 1993, and his time there inspired him to make his lead characters of Minnale and
Vaaranam Aayiram, students of the same course.[5] He claims to have been inspired by films such as
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Dead Poet's Society and Nayagan and expressed his desire to his parents to change career path and
become a filmmaker and consequently wrote his first film at his college hostel. His mother insisted he
became an ad film maker by shooting various commercials and took an apprenticeship under
filmmaker Rajiv Menon. He went on to work as an assistant director for Minsaara Kanavu in 1997, in
which he also appeared in a cameo role.[6]
Gautham Menon launched a Tamil romantic film O Lala in 2000 with the project eventually changing
producers and title into Minnale with Madhavan, who was at the beginning of his career, being signed
on to portray the lead role.[7] About the making of the film, Menon revealed that he found it difficult
as the team was new to the industry with only the editor of the film, Suresh Urs, being a prominent
technician in the industry.[8] Menon had come under further pressure when Madhavan had insisted
that Menon narrated the story to his mentor, Mani Ratnam, to identify if the film was a positive career
move after the success of his Alaipayuthey. Despite initial reservations, Menon did so and Ratnam
was unimpressed; however Menon has cited that he thought that Madhavan "felt sorry" and later
agreed to continue with the project.[8] The film also featured Abbas and newcomer Reemma Sen in
significant roles, whilst Menon introduced Harris Jayaraj as music composer with the film.[7] The film
was advertised as a Valentine's Day release in 2001 and told the tale of a young man who falls in love
with the girl engaged to his ex-college rival and how he manages to get married to her. Upon release
it went on to become a large success commercially and won positive reviews from critics with claims
that the film had a lot of " lot of verve and vigour" and that it was "technically excellent".[9]
The success of the film led to producer Vashu Bhagnani signing him on to direct the Hindi language
remake of the film, Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein, which also featured Madhavan with Diya Mirza and
Saif Ali Khan added to the film. Menon was initially apprehensive but said it took "half an hour" to
agree and against his intentions, the producer opted against retaining the technical crew of the
original.[6] He changed a few elements, deleted certain scenes and added some more for the version.
However in comparison, the film gained poor reviews with a critic citing that "the presentation is not
absorbing" though stating that he " handled certain sequences with aplomb"; the film subsequently
went on to become a below average grosser at the box office.[10] The failure of the film left him
disappointed, with Menon claiming in hindsight that the film lacked the simplicity of the original with
the producer's intervention affecting proceedings.[11] In 2011, the producer of the film approached him
to remake the film with the producer's son Jackky Bhagnani in the lead role, but Menon was
uninterested with the offer.[12]
Police duology, 2003-2006
Menon returned in 2003 by directing the realistic police
thriller Kaakha Kaakha featuring Suriya, Jyothika and Jeevan
in the lead roles. The film portrayed the personal life of a
police officer and how his life is affected by gangsters,
showing a different perspective of police in comparison to
other Tamil films of the time.[11] Menon revealed that he was
inspired to make the film after reading of articles on how
encounter specialists shoot gangsters and how their families
get threatening calls in return, and initially approached
Madhavan, Ajith Kumar and then Vikram for the role without Gautham Menon and Suriya on the
success, with all three actors citing that they did not want to sets of Kaakha Kaakha in Sri Lanka
play a police officer. The lead actress Jyothika asked Menon
to consider Suriya for the role, and he was subsequently
selected after Menon saw his portrayal in Nandha.[13] He did a rehearsal of the script with the actors, a
costume trial with Jyothika and then enrolled Suriya in a commando training school before beginning
production, which he described as a "very planned shoot".[13] The film consequently opened to very
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positive reviews from critics on the way to becoming another success for Menon, with critics labeling
it as a "career high film".[14] Furthermore, the film was described as for "action lovers who believe in
logical storylines and deft treatment" with Menon being praised for his linear narrative screenplay.[15]
Gautham Menon subsequently remade the film in the Telugu language for producer Venkata Raju and
went on to claimi that the new version was better than the previous version and that his new lead actor
Venkatesh was more convincing that Surya in the role.[16] The film also featured actress Asin and
Saleem Baig in prominent roles and went on to earn commercial and critical acclaim with reviewers
citing that "film redeems itself due to the technical excellence and masterful craft of Gautham",
drawing comparisons of Menon with noted film makers Mani Ratnam and Ram Gopal Varma.[17] In
July 2004, Menon also agreed terms to direct and produce another version of Kaakha Kaakha in
Hindi with Sunny Deol in the lead role and revealed that the script was written five years ago with
Deol in mind, but the film eventually failed to take off.[18] Producer Vipul Shah approached him to
direct the Hindi version of the film in 2010 as Force with John Abraham and Genelia D'Souza, and
Menon initially agreed before pulling out again.[19] Menon and the original producer, Dhanu, also
floated an idea of an English version with a Chechnyan backdrop, though talks with a potential
collaboration with Ashok Amritraj collapsed.[13]
Gautham Menon was then signed on to direct a venture starring Kamal Haasan and produced by Kaja
Mohideen, and initially suggested a one-line story which went on to become Pachaikili Muthucharam
for the collaboration.[13] Kamal Haasan wanted a different story and thus the investigative thriller
film, Vettaiyadu Villaiyadu, was written with Jyothika, Kamalinee Mukerji, Prakash Raj, Daniel
Balaji and Saleem Baig added to the cast. The film told another episode from a police officer's life,
with an Indian cop moved to America to investigate the case of psychotic serial killers before
returning to pursue the chase in India. During the shooting, the unit ran into problems after the
producer had attempted suicide and as a result, Kamal Haasan wanted to quit the project.[13] Menon
subsequently convinced him to stay on as they had taken advance payments. He has since revealed
that unlike Kamal Haasan's other films, he did not take particular control of the script or production of
the film. The film however had gone through change from the original script with less emphasis on
the antagonists than Menon had hoped and he also revealed that scenes for songs were forced him and
shot without him.[13] The film released in August 2006 and went on to become his third successive hit
film in Tamil and once again, he won rave reviews for his direction.[20][21] Menon later expressed
interest in remaking the film in Hindi with Amitabh Bachchan in the lead role without the love angle,
though the project fell through after discussions. He has stated his intent on making a trilogy of police
episode films, with a possible third featuring Vikram in the lead role.[13]
Experimentation and success, 2007-2011
His next project, Pachaikili Muthucharam, based on the novel Derailed by James Siegel, featured
Sarath Kumar and Jyothika in the lead roles and was released in February 2007. Initially the lead role
was offered to Kamal Haasan who passed the opportunity, while actors Cheran and Madhavan
declined citing date and image problems respectively.[22] Menon met Sarath Kumar at an event where
he cited he was looking to change his 'action' image and Menon subsequently cast him in the lead
role.[22] During production, the film ran into further casting trouble with Simran dropping out her
assigned role and was replaced by Shobana after another actress, Tabu, also rejected the role.[23]
Shobana was also duly replaced by a newcomer, Andrea Jeremiah to portray the character of Kalyani
in the film. The film was under production for over a year and coincided with the making of his
previous film which was largely delayed. The film initially opened to positive reviews with a critic
citing that Menon is "growing with each passing film. His style is distinctive, his vision clear, his
team rallies around him and he manages to pull it off each time he attempts".[24][25] However the film
became a financial failure for the producer, Venu Ravichandran and in regard to the failure of the
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film, Menon went on to claim that Sarath Kumar was "wrong for the film" and that he tweaked the
story to fit his image; he also claimed that his father's ailing health and consequent death a week
before the release had left him mentally affected.[22]
His next release, Vaaranam Aayiram, saw him re-collaborate with Suriya, who played dual roles in
the film. The film illustrates the theme of how a father often came across in his son's life as a hero and
inspiration, and Menon dedicated the film to his late father who had died in 2007.[26] The pre-
production of the film, then titled Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikaalam began in 2003, with Menon
planning his a romantic film with Suriya as a follow up to their successful previous collaboration,
Kaakha Kaakha.[27] Abhirami was signed and then dropped due to her height before a relatively new
actress at the time Asin was selected to make her debut in Tamil films with the project. The first
schedule of the film began in January 2004 in Visakhapatanam and consequently romantic scenes
with Suriya and Asin were shot for ten days and then a photo shoot with the pair.[27] The film was
subsequently stalled and was eventually relaunched with a new cast including Divya Spandana,
Simran and Sameera Reddy in 2006 with Oscar Ravichandran stepping in as producer, who opted for
a change of title. Menon has described the film as "autobiographical and a very personal story and if
people didn’t know, that 70% of this [the film] is from my life".[22] The film's production process
became noted for the strain and the hard work that Suriya had gone through to portray the different
roles with production taking close to two years.[26] The film released to a positive response, with
critics heaping praise on Suriya's performance while claiming that the film was "just a feather in
Gautam's hat" and that it was "hardly a classic".[28] The film was made at a budget of 15 crore rupees
and became a commercial success, bringing in almost 22 crore rupees worldwide.[26] It went on to
become Menon's most appreciated work till date winning five Filmfare Awards, nine Vijay Awards
and the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil for 2008 amongst other accolades.
In 2010, Menon made a return to romantic genre after nine years with the Tamil romantic film
Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa, starring Silambarasan and Trisha Krishnan.[29] The film explored the
complicated relationship between a Hindu Tamil assistant director, Karthik, and a Syrian Christian
Malayali girl, Jessie and their resultant emotional conflicts. The film featured music by A. R. Rahman
in his first collaboration with Menon whilst cinematographer Manoj Paramahamsa was also selected
to be a part of the technical crew. Menon cited that he was "a week away from starting the film with a
newcomer" before his producer insisted they looked at Silambarasan, with Menon revealing that he
was unimpressed with the actor's previous work.[8] The film was in production for close to a year and
throughout the opening week of filming, promotional posters from classic Indian romantic films were
released featuring the lead pair.[30] Prior to release, the film became the first Tamil project to have a
music soundtrack premiere outside of India, with a successful launch at the BAFTA in London.[31]
Upon release, the film achieved positive reviews, with several critics giving the film "classic" status,
whilst also become a commercially successful venture.[32][33] Reviewers praised Menon citing that
"credit for their perfect portrayal, of course, goes to Gautam Menon. This is one director who's got the
pulse of today's urban youth perfectly" and that "crafted a movie that will stay in our hearts for a long,
long time."[33] The film was simultaneously released with a Telugu version, titled Ye Maaya Chesave
featuring a fresh cast of Naga Chaitanya and debutante Samantha in the lead roles. Like the Tamil
version, the film won critical acclaim and being given "classic" status from critics.[33][33][34] Both films
also went on to become large commercial successes, and the films have received awards from award
committees.
Menon had also made progress over the previous two years directing the psychological thriller
Nadunisi Naaygal featuring his assistant and debutant Veera Bahu and Sameera Reddy in the lead
roles. Menon claimed that the film was inspired by a true event from the USA, while also claiming
that a novel also helped form the story of the film.[8] During the making, he explicitly revealed that
the film was for "the multiplex audience" and would face a limited release, citing that "it will not cater
to all sections of the audience".[8] He promoted the film by presenting a chat show dubbed as Koffee
with Gautham where he intereviewed Bharathiraja and Silambarasan, both of whom had previously
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worked in such psychological thriller films with Sigappu Rojakkal and Manmadhan. The film, which
was his first home production under Photon Kathaas and did not have a background score, told the
story of a victim of child abuse and the havoc he causes to women, narrating the events of a particular
day. The film opened to mixed reviews with one critic citing it as "above average" but warning that
"don’t go expecting a typical Gautham romantic film" and that it "is definitely not for the family
audiences", while criticizing that "there are too many loopholes in the story, raising doubts about
logic".[35] In contrast another critic dubbed it as an "unimpressive show by star director Menon, as it is
neither convincing nor appealing, despite having some engrossing moments".[36]
Future ventures, 2011-present
Since July 2010, Menon has been involved in pre-production work on the Hindi language remake of
his film, Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa, with delays still forcing the film to postpone its first schedule.
Workshops and rehearsals for the film were held in early 2011 with Prateik Babbar and Amy Jackson
playing the lead roles in the version given the working title of Prem Katha.[37] Furthermore, he will
kick start his new Tamil film produced by R. S. Infotainment with Jeeva and Samantha in the lead
roles which is likely to be dubbed in Telugu also after Ko's success. Gautham has also revealed that
he has agreed to direct Yohan, a detective story set in New York, with Vijay in the lead role.
Meanwhile Menon has gone on to confirm that he will direct a television weekly serial featuring
Parthiban in the lead role as a police officer in 2011. A.R.Rahman is said to be composing for both
the projects.
Filmography
As a director
Year Title Language Notes
Minnale Tamil
2001
Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein Hindi
Nominated, Filmfare Award for Best Director
2003 Kaakha Kaakha Tamil
(Tamil)
2004 Gharshana Telugu
2006 Vettaiyadu Villaiyadu Tamil
2007 Pachaikili Muthucharam Tamil
Winner, Vijay Award for Favourite Director
2008 Vaaranam Aayiram Tamil Nominated, Filmfare Award for Best Director -
Tamil
Vinnaithaandi Nominated, Vijay Award for Best Director
Tamil
Varuvaayaa Nominated, Vijay Award for Favourite Director
2010 Winner, Nandi Award for Best Screenplay Writer
Ye Maaya Chesave Telugu Nominated, Filmfare Award for Best Director –
Telugu
Nadunisi Naaygal Tamil
2011 Prem Katha Hindi Post production
Nithya Tamil Pre-production
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