Arun Vaidyanathan

Arun Vaidyanathan is an Indian-American film director who works predominantly in Tamil-language films. He directed his first full-length feature film in Tamil, Achchamundu! Achchamundu!, which released in July 2009. He produced a Tamil romantic-comedy film, Kalyana Samayal Saadham in 2013. In 2014, he directed Mohanlal in a Malayalam-language political satire film, Peruchazhi.

Early life and career In 2008, he began working on his debut Tamil feature film, Achchamundu! Achchamundu! is a bilingual social thriller starring Prasanna, Sneha and John Shea. The film was shot in New Jersey and New York during early 2008 and subsequently released in 2009. The film premiered in New Jersey's Garden State Film Festival, and shared 'Best Homegrown Feature Film' award with Dorothy Lyman's Split Ends Ethaya Rajan along with Ananth Govindan produced an Indian Tamil romantic-comedy film written and directed by RS Prasanna, Kalyana Samayal Saadham. It features Prasanna and Lekha Washington in lead roles, Krishnan Vasant and Arora as the cinematographer and music composer respectively. The film was covered as part of the TV series Born to Explore with Richard Wiese. Richard Wiese, who features in the show, in his interview with KSS director RS Prasanna, focused on two points – Indian weddings, their universal appeal, and the growing interest in stories and movies based in India

He then directed Nibunan / Vismaya, a bilingual film starring Arjun Sarja, Varalakshmi Sarathkumar, Prasanna, Sruthi Hariharan, Vaibhav Reddy, Suhasini Maniratnam and Suman. Along with Anand Raghav, he has penned the dialogues and screenplay for the film which is being produced by Passion Film Factory who also produced Kappal (2014).

Filmography As a film director Year Film Credited as LanguageNotes Director Writer Producer 2009 Achchamundu! Achchamundu! TamilEnglishShanghai International Film Festival- Official Selection Garden State Film Festival – Best Homegrown Film Chennai International Film Festival – Best Film 32nd Moscow International Film Festival – Official Selection 17th Minsk International Film Festival "Listapad" – Official Selection 33rd Cairo International Film Festival – Official Selection International Film Festival of India- Official Selection Asia-Pacific Film Festival – Official Selection 2013 Kalyana Samayal Saadham Tamil Additional dialogues only 2014 Peruchazhi Malayalam 2017 Nibunan Tamil Bilingual film Vismaya Kannada 2023 Shot Boot Three TamilAlso actor

As an actor YearTitleRoleNotes 2023 Aneethi Takkar Vaidy Shot Boot Three Dr. Shekar Frequent collaborators Collaborator Prasanna Navin Delhi Ganesh (Cameo) Sneha