Michael Muthu

Michael Muthu is an Indian director, writer and actor who has worked on theatre productions and films. Based in Chennai, he is regarded as one of the city's prominent theatre performers.[1][2][3]

Michael Muthu
Born1968
Chennai, India
OccupationDirector, writer

Career

Michael Muthu started his career in theatre after finishing his schooling, and was a member of the Loyola Theatre Society during his first two years of college. In 1991, he became the founder of the Chennai-based theatre group, Boardwalkers. He has since worked on productions including God, Biloxi Blues, The Hairy Ape, Sleuth, The Pied Piper of Hamlin, and Jesus Christ Superstar.[4][5] In the early 1990s, he starred alongside M. Night Shyamalan in the director's English film Praying With Anger (1992), while he also played supporting roles in French and Italian productions based in India in the late 1990s.[6]

In 2002, Michael began working on directing an English film titled The Girl, and despite it completing production, it was previewed to audiences but not released theatrically as he could not find distributors.[7] In January 2017, he announced plans to make a bilingual film titled The Way Things Are in English and Theeviram in Tamil, produced by Sameer Bharat Ram. Starring Gokul Anand, Amzath Khan and Arjun Chidambaram in the lead roles, the film was shot in 2017 and had a delayed OTT release on the Simply South platform in November 2020.[8][9]

In a rare Indian film appearance, he starred in Shankar's 2.0 (2018) as a police officer, working alongside Rajinikanth.[10] He also portrayed the role of Sushant Singh Rajput's father in his final film, Dil Bechara (2020).

Partial filmography
Films
Year Film Language Credited for Role Ref.
Director Actor
1992 Praying With Anger English Yes Sanjay
1999 Les Montagnes Bleues French Yes Srinivas
1999 Branchie Italian Yes Sarwar
2002 The Girl English Yes
2006 That Four-Letter Word English Yes Theatre director
2018 2.0 Tamil Yes Police officer
2020 Dil Bechara Hindi Yes Immanuel Rajkumar Sr
2020 Theeviram Tamil Yes
2020 The Way Things Are Tamil Yes

References
  1. "Chennai thespian Michael Muthu presents his latest production, The Birdcage". www.indulgexpress.com.
  2. "Madras Musings - We care for Madras that is Chennai".
  3. "As funds dry up, theatre suffers creative block". dtNext.in. 27 March 2017.
  4. Falcon, Chennai. "Michael Muthu » SpiritOfChennai.com".
  5. S, Srivatsan (16 December 2020). "Mike Muthu on adapting 'The Burglar's Christmas'" – via www.thehindu.com.
  6. Zachariah, Preeti (8 January 2015). "'Theatre staves off boredom'" – via www.thehindu.com.
  7. Muthalaly, Shonali (9 September 2010). "The stage is set" – via www.thehindu.com.
  8. "Theatre thespian Michael Muthu to debut as film director soon - Times of India". The Times of India.
  9. "Mike Muthu steps off stage". www.indulgexpress.com.
  10. "Michael Muthu now a part of 2.o". The New Indian Express.
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