Santhosh P. Jayakumar

Santhosh P. Jayakumar is an Indian film director and actor who works in Tamil and Telugu-language films. Born in Chennai on 21 November 1988, he was schooled at AV Meiyappan Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Virugambakkam and began his career as an assistant to M. Saravanan. His first film as director was the Telugu Gaddam Gang, a remake of the Tamil film Soodhu Kavvum from 2013. He made his Tamil debut with Hara Hara Mahadevaki in 2017, starring Gautham Karthik, and directed Gautham Karthik again in Iruttu Araiyil Murattu Kuththu in 2018. The success of that film led him to direct its Telugu remake, Chikati Gadilo Chithakotudu, in 2019, and to begin production on a sequel, Irandam Kuththu, in which he stars himself. In 2018 he also wrote and directed the Tamil romantic comedy Ghajinikanth, and he briefly worked on a film titled Theemai Dhaan Vellum before it was dropped.