About the Director :

Velmurugan Periyavan Hailing from Cape Comorin in the southern end of India. He is a versatile traveler and photographer grown up in forest and ocean surroundings; it makes him doing research in nature, heritage and culture. Graduating from his native, he then got in to a Diploma course in CINEMATOGRAPHY at India’s pioneer film school, “MGR Government Film and Television Institute”. Employed with the same institute in the year 1999, he is teaching Film making till now. He worked as the Cinematographer for different TV Commercials, TV Serials and Feature Films. In 2017 he authored and published his research work in Tamil language on South Indian Feature Films with the title “Tamil Thiraipada Nootrandu – 2018 (Tamil Film Centenary – 2018). As a mark of South Indian Film Centenary, ADAVI is his debutant directorial venture in world common language Silence. This silent movie is the only recent attempt; the last one was made 85 years before in South India.