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Agathiyan (Tamil: அகத்தியன்) is an acclaimed Tamil film director.^[1] He has won National Film Award for Best Direction as well as 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).

Contents

1 Filmography
- 1.1 As director
- 1.2 As actor
2 Awards
3 References
4 External links

Filmography

As director

Year	Film	Language	Notes
1991	Mangalyam Thanthuna Nae	Tamil
1993	Madhumathi	Tamil
1996	Vaanmathi	Tamil
1996	Kaadhal Kottai	Tamil	National awards for Best direction & Best Screenplay
1996	Gokulathil Seethai	Tamil
1996	Premalekha	Telugu
1997	Vidukathai	Tamil
1998	Kaadhal Kavithai	Tamil
1999	Sirf Tum	Hindi
2001	Hum Ho Gaye Aapke	Hindi
2004	Ramakrishna	Tamil
2004	Ee Abbai Chala Manchodu	Telugu
2005	Selvam	Tamil
2008	Nenjathai Killadhe	Tamil
2011	Kadhal Samrajyam	Tamil	Delayed since 2002

As actor

Poovellam Kettuppar
Vinnukkum Mannukkum
Agaram
Avargalum Ivargalum
Maithaanam

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

^ http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/34799.html

External links

Agathiyan at the Internet Movie Database

v t e National Film Award for Best Direction

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

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

2001–present	Rituparno Ghosh (2001) B. Lenin (2002) Aparna Sen (2003) Gautam Ghose (2004) Buddhadeb Dasgupta (2005) Rahul Dholakia (2006) Madhur Bhandarkar (2007) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (2008) Bala (2009) Rituparno Ghosh (2010) Vetrimaaran (2011) Gurvinder Singh (2012)

v t e National Film Award for Best Screenplay

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

1981–2000	Mrinal Sen (1981) K. Balachander (1982) Mrinal Sen (1983) G V Iyer (1984) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1985) Bhabendra Nath Saikia (1986) Budhdhadeb Dasgupta (1987) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1988) Arundhati Roy (1989) M. T. Vasudevan Nair (1990) K. S. Sethumadhavan (1991) M. T. Vasudevan Nair (1992) M. T. Vasudevan Nair (1993) Satyajit Ray (1994) M. T. Vasudevan Nair (1995) Saeed Akhtar Mirza and Ashok Mishra (1996) Agathiyan (1997) Rituparno Ghosh (1998) Ashok Mishra (1999) Madampu Kunjukuttan (2000)

2001–2009	Bharathiraja (2001) Neelakanta (2002) Aparna Sen (2003) Gautam Ghose (2004) Manoj Tyagi and Nina Arora (2005) Prakash Jha, Manoj Tyagi and Shridhar Raghavan (2006) Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra (2007) Feroz Abbas Khan (2008) Sachin Kundalkar (2009)

2010–present	P. F. Mathews and Harikrishna (Original Screenplay); Gopal Krishan Pai and Girish Kasaravalli (Adapted Screenplay); Pandiraj (Dialogues) (2010) Vetrimaaran (Original Screenplay); Anant Mahadevan and Sanjay Pawar (Adapted Screenplay); Sanjay Pawar (Dialogues) (2011) Nitish Tiwary and Vikas Behl (Original Screenplay); Avinash Deshpande Nigdi (Adapted Screenplay); Girish Kulkarni (Dialogues) (2012)

v t e Tamil cinema

Directors Screenwriters Actors Composers Cinematographers Production companies Playback singers Songs

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Persondata
Name	Agathiyan
Alternative names	அகத்தியன் (Tamil)
Short description	Tamil film director
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death
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