Personal info
Known for
Director
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
1977-07-22
Location
Tamil Nadu, India
Edit pageJ. Siva kumar
Biography
Sivakumar Jayakumar (born 12 August 1977), known professionally by his mononym Siva or also as Siruthai Siva, is an Indian film director, screenwriter, lyricist, and cinematographer who works primarily in Tamil cinema industry.
Siva started his film career as a cinematographer for several Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam films. He then pursued his career as a film director and screenwriter in Telugu cinema with Souryam (2008) superhit, which was followed by Sankhamhit, (2009) and Daruvu hit,(2012)
Siva achieved huge success when he progressed to Tamil cinema, where he entered as a screenwriter and director with Siruthai (2011).
He further made the high-prolific Tamil films Veeram (2014), Vedalam (2015) & Viswasam (2019). He also directed Vivegam (2017) & Annaatthe (2021).
