FC-Ormax Power List of Directors 2024: Lokesh Kangaraj

Lokesh Kanagaraj is one of the few new-generation directors from Tamil cinema to taste success with almost every single film he’s directed — and this is perhaps because the filmmaker seems to have cracked the formula to serve stardom with the right amount of subversion. In Kaithi, he gave us a Karthi whose turn from a gentle giant to a gun-guzzling beast turned heads. In Master and Leo, the director tried to leave behind his characteristic stamp in an otherwise tentpole Vijay film, and in Vikram, he managed to give one of Tamil cinema’s beloved veteran a fitting comeback. 

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