{"id":7837,"date":"2019-03-30T05:20:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T05:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesica.in\/?p=7837"},"modified":"2022-03-30T05:21:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T05:21:20","slug":"vel-rajan-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/vel-rajan-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Vel rajan. R"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Early in his career, he was associated with cinematographer\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tirru\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tirru<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and worked as an assistant cinematographer in several Tamil films, for example\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aalavandhan\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aalavandhan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. After working with actor\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dhanush\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dhanush<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0in\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parattai_Engira_Azhagu_Sundaram\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parattai Engira Azhagu Sundaram<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Velraj break through came with film\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polladhavan_(2007_film)\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Polladhavan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0directed by\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vetrimaaran\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vetrimaaran<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, for which he won the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vijay_Award_for_Best_Cinematographer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vijay Award for Best Cinematographer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Velraj and Vetrimaaran continued working together, making films such as\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aadukalam\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aadukalam<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asuran_(2019_film)\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asuran<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, their most recent film. His first directional debut was\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Velaiilla_Pattadhari\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Velaiilla Pattadhari<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, starring\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dhanush\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dhanush<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amala_Paul\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amala Paul<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and with\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anirudh_Ravichander\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anirudh<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0as music director. The film was successful and Velraj won several awards for best debut director. In 2015, he directed his second film,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thanga_Magan_(2015_film)\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanga Magan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Velraj is a member of the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_Society_of_Cinematographers\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian Society of Cinematographers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/vel-rajan-r\/\" data-numposts=\"10\" data-colorscheme=\"light\" data-order-by=\"social\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joint secretary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.1","language":"ta","enabled_languages":["en","ta"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"ta":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7838,"href":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7837\/revisions\/7838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesica.in\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}