Mohan Raja

Mohan Raja, also known and credited as M. Raja until 2011, is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works mainly in the Tamil and Telugu film industries. He is the son of the film editor Mohan and the elder brother of the actor Ravi Mohan. He made his directorial debut with the Telugu film Hanuman Junction (2001), a remake of the Malayalam film Thenkasipattanam, and then turned to remaking successful Telugu films in Tamil, beginning with Jayam (2003), which launched his brother as a leading man. He went on to direct M. Kumaran S/O Mahalakshmi (2004), Something Something... Unakkum Enakkum (2006) and Santosh Subramaniam (2008), all remakes of Telugu films. After a period of mixed success he returned with his first original script, Thani Oruvan (2015), which became one of the most profitable Tamil films of that year.