The Veteran movie director C.V.Rajendran was not well from quite some time, passed away here on Sunday. He was 81. The film director C. V. Rajendran is fairly popular name in the Kollywood and he helmed some of the super hit, successful and directed popular films in Tamil language of all time, which includes, Galatta Kalyanam, Sumathi En Sundari and Raja starring Sivaji Ganesan and J.Jayalalithaa who afterwards became the Chief Minister of the Tamil Nadu.
He also helmed some other trendy and famous cult classic, like, Vani Rani, Sivagamiyin Selvam, Ponnoonjal, Maalai Sooda Va, Garjanai and a number of others in Tamil starring Sivaji Ganesan, Jaishankar, Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth.
All songs of the C. V. Rajendran directed films were big hits and still popular among the mass and music lovers.
Hailing from a rural community near Madurantakam, Rajendran was connected to another popular Tamil films director C.V.Sridhar, with whom he worked throughout his initial days as the assistant.
Apart from Tamil films, Rajendran had also helmed films in Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, and Hindi also.
Rajendran was the brother of famous Tamil filmmaker Sridhar, the man behind several yesteryear classics, made his direction debut in 1967 with the movie Anubavam Pudhumai.
He went on to make a number of movies not just in Tamil but also in Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. Rajendran has known for his equation with Shivaji Ganesan also.
Producer Dhananjayan Govind tweeted and shares the grief regarding untimely demise of the veteran film director C. V. Rajendran and writes, “Very sad to know the passing away of one of the finest Directors #CVRajendran sir. May his soul rest in peace …he directed many popular films with top Actors ” Senior film critic Sreedhar Pillai tweeted, “RIP #CVRajendran, popular yesteryear director. He had directed many popular films with top actors including the legendary Sivaji Ganesan.”‘
