Kalaipuli G. Sekaran

Kalaipuli G. Sekaran is an Indian film distributor, director and actor who has worked in Tamil language films.^[1]

Career

G. Sekaran began his career as a film financier and distributor, before becoming a producer and a partner at Kalaipuli Films with S. Thanu and Soori. They debuted as producer with the film Yaar? (1985) by Kannan, with Sekaran portraying a negative role in the film.^[2] He subsequently moved on and worked on as a director in films including Oorai Therunjukitten (1988), Kaaval Poonaigal (1989) and Ulavaali (1994), before launching himself as a lead actor in Jameen Kottai (1995). He subsequently also played the lead role in Kudumba Sangili (1999), but neither film did well commercially. During the making of the film, G. Sekaran failed to return an advance he had received from financier A. Balakrishnan prompting a legal tussle in 2007.^[3] This subsequently meant that Sekaran went back to distributing films.

In the late 2000s, he took up the post of chairman with the Distributors’ Council and represented the interest of distributors.^[4][5][6] In 2008, he directed a thriller called Kattuviriyan starring Malavika for which he also composed the music and the following year he was involved in a controversy for mishandling funds raised in Film Producer's association.^[7] In 2011, he worked on the production of a film titled Kallaparundhu, but the film did not have a theatrical release.^[8]

Filmography

As actor

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