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 Nelson Dilipkumar DIRECTOR

Nelson Dilipkumar

Born 21 June 1984 (age 37)

Nationality Indian

Alma mater New College, Chennai

Occupation Film director, screenwriter

Years active 2004– present

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Nelson Dilipkumar is an Indian film director and screenwriter who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. Nelson won the Best Screenplay Award in Norway Tamil Film Festival for his debut directional movie Kolamavu Kokila. He was listed among the Promising Directors of 2018 in Times of India article.

Contents

1 Film career

2 Filmography

3 Awards and nominations

Film career

Nelson is a graduate with a degree in Visual communication from New College, Chennai. He started his career as an assistant script-writer in Star Vijay.

In between, Nelson started his debut movie Vettai Mannan in 2010 starring Silambarasan, Hansika Motwani and Deeksha Seth which was planned to be produced by NIC Arts S. S. Chakravarthy, featuring music by Yuvan Shankar Raja. The movie was shelved for unknown reasons in halfway through.There was an attempt to revive the project in 2017 and a new crew was selected. Anirudh Ravichander replaced Yuvan Shankar Raja as the composer. However the project failed to take off again.

Composer Anirudh Ravichander helped him land his debut feature film, the dark comedy Kolamavu Kokila starring Nayanthara in the lead role, which he wrote and directed. The film produced by Lyca Productions released on 17 August 2018 and became a commercial success. His next film was Doctor starring Sivakarthikeyan in lead role opposite Priyanka Arul Mohan. The film became biggest Tamil-language blockbuster in 2021, among the films that released theatrically after the pandemic-induced lockdowns.

In 2021, composer Anirudh Ravichander introduced him to actor Vijay as a potential candidate to direct the latter's next film. Nelson was eventually selected and signed on to direct actor Vijay's 65th film Beast.The film will be released in the year 2022.

Filmography

Years	Film	Credited as		Production company	Notes	Ref.
		Director	Writer
2018	Kolamavu Kokila	Yes	Yes	Lyca Productions	Debut as director
2021	Doctor	Yes	Yes	Sivakarthikeyan Productions
2022	Beast	Yes	Yes	Sun Pictures	Filming

Awards and nominations

Year	Film	Award	Category	Result
2019	Kolamavu Kokila	8th South Indian International Movie Awards	Best Debut Director	Won
		Norway Tamil Film Festival Awards	Best Screenplay	Won

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