P. T. Selvakumar

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| birth_name = P.T. Selvakumar
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| birth_place = Kaniyakumari
| occupation = Director, producer, Marketing,press relations officer
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'''P. T. Selvakumar''' is an [[Indian people|Indian]] film director, producer,Marketing and PRO who has worked in the Tamil film industry.<ref>http://www.indiaglitz.com/trajendhar-deeply-hurt-by-trolls-and-memes-on-his-speech-in-puli-audio-launch-tamil-news-152389.html</ref><ref>http://behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news-1/jan-12-01/vijay-pt-selvakumar-06-01-12.html</ref>

==Career==
Selvakumar started his career as a journalist before becoming associated with film director [[S. A. Chandrasekhar]], who later appointed Selvakumar as his son [[Vijay (actor)|Vijay]]'s press relations officer. Selvakumar briefly also forayed into production during 2003, financing [[T. P. Gajendran]]'s family drama, ''[[Banda Paramasivam]]'' (2003), which was later remade in Hindi as ''[[Housefull 2]]'' (2012).<ref>http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/songs-to-perk-up-your-mood/article4446258.ece</ref>

Selvakumar began working on his first directorial venture in January 2012, when it was announced that he had decided to sign up four actors in the lead roles with [[Nakul (actor)|Nakul]], [[Shiva (actor)|Shiva]], [[Santhanam (actor)|Santhanam]] and [[Premji Amaren]] selected. [[Priyamani]] was also soon after reported to have joined the cast, but the film was not officially announced.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news-1/jan-12-01/vijay-pt-selvakumar-06-01-12.html |title=Vijay's friend to make debut as director |publisher=Behindwoods |date=6 January 2012 |accessdate=20 October 2012}}</ref> In October 2012, the film re-emerged with a new cast featuring Vinay Rai, Aravind Akash and Sathyan alongside Premji, while [[Raai Laxmi]] played the film's lead actress.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/86813.html |title=Vinay back on track with Onbadhula Guru |publisher=IndiaGlitz |date=4 October 2012 |accessdate=18 October 2012}}</ref> Based on ''[[The Hangover]]'' (2009), Selvakumar's ''[[Onbadhula Guru]]'' (2013) shooting started from October 2012 and was released in early 2013 to negative reviews. Rediff.com gave 2 out of 5 stating "The entire film is like a collection of comic scenes put together to make the audience laugh without much thought to the storyline".<ref>http://www.rediff.com/movies/report/review-south-onbadhula-guru/20130308.htm</ref>

In 2014, he began working on the production of ''[[Puli (2015 film)|Puli]]'' (2015) directed by [[Chimbu Deven]] and featuring [[Vijay (actor)|Vijay]] in the lead role.<ref>http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movies-cinema-news-14/ilayathalapathy-vijays-58th-film-aka-vijay-58-will-be-directed-by-chimbudevan.html</ref> The movie received negative reviews and became a box-office disaster.<ref>http://www.ibtimes.co.in/puli-lifetime-box-office-collection-vijay-starrer-turns-out-be-flop-658590</ref> His next film is [[Pokkiri Raja (2016 film)|Pokkiri Raja]]'' (2016)'' released to mixed reviews.

And now as executive producer in jail movie starring by G.V prakash kumar female lead by abarnithi and directed by Vasanthabalan movie based on north madras story line movie started on 2018 August and delayed due to some issue
and now getting ready to release on early 2020s

and also a running a book of media called (film Today)

and also started a Kalappai makkal katchi

==Filmography==
*''All films are in Tamil, unless otherwise noted.''
===As director===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="background:#f5f5f5;"
|- style="background:#B0C4DE;"
! Year
! Film
!class=unsortable| Notes
|-
| 2013 || ''[[Onbadhule Guru]]'' ||
|}

===As producer===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="background:#f5f5f5;"
|- style="background:#B0C4DE;"
! Year
! Film
!class=unsortable| Notes
|-
| 2003 || ''[[Banda Paramasivam]]'' || Also actor
|-
| 2015 || ''[[Puli (2015 film)|Puli]]'' ||
|-
| 2016 || ''[[Pokkiri Raja (2016 film)|Pokkiri Raja]]'' ||
|-
|}
| 2019 || ''[[Jail (2019 delayed)|Jail]]'' ||
|-
|}

==References==
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