KARTHIK SUBBARAJ - Tamil Director - PIZZA - JIGARTHANDA - IRAIVI - Movies Director - A Software Engineer to Change into Director through the KALAIGNAR TV Programme for new comers in NAALAIYA IYAKKUNAR - Now his 3rd film IRAIVI is ongoing pro - Anikartick

Karthik Subbaraj – started his career working as a software engineer in Bangalore working for Infosys. During this period he got interested in film making. He learnt the basics of film making, during a one-day workshop run by Sanjay Nambiar.

In the course of his work as a software engineer, he was deputed to U.S. A where he further enhanced his film making skills by making a number of short films and assisting other Indie film makers.

Once he was back in India, he made a short film "Kaatchipizhai" in Madurai, which was selected for "Naalaya Iyakunar". He went on to make his directorial debut with the 2012 thriller film Pizza which was a low budget film, but earned huge profits.

His latest venture Jigarthanda which deals with the Madurai underworld was released in september 2014 and received critical acclaims. The film stars Siddharth, Lakshmi Menon, Bobby Simha and Karuna.

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Personal life

Karthik Subbaraj attended Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai-15. He specialized in mechatronics. He attendedSBOA Matriculation and Higher Secondary School, Madurai ".[3]

Filmography

As director

2012 Pizza

2014 Jigarthanda

2015 Iraivi

As actor

2013 Soodhu Kavvum as Jaguar car owner

Short films

Raavanam

Thuru

Petti Case

We

Broken Gods

Buoyants

Kaatchipizhai - Parallax

Cause & Effect

React

Last Train

Who's the Indian

Outpourings

Dark Game

Black & White

Neer

Done