Karu Pazhanaiappan is a Tamil film director.

Biography

He hails from Karaikudi, known as capital of Chettinad,affluent in cultural heritage. His parents are Sri Pala. Chinna Karuppaiah and Smt. Nagammai and Karu Palaniappan is the eldest amongst their 3 children.

Books appealed to Palaniappan right from childhood. His dad Chinna Karuppiaah, a trader is an ardent reader. His interests lay not merely in magazines and newspapers but varied from classics to popular writers like Kannadasan, Jayakanthan, Ashokamithran. Following the saying ‘Like father like son’ Palaniappan inherited this ‘love of reading’ from his dad, right from when he was able to read A B C!

His passion for reading books spread its wings to learning languages, writing, acting and elocution. His innate style of starting midway through a debate and expressing his thoughts with eloquence, charismatically grabbing the attention of the audience and keeping them spellbound, winning their applause and admiration…presented him with countless trophies, certificates and accolades.

After his schooling in Madurai Seventh day Adventist, he studied English Literature in the renowned American college of Madurai (under grad) and mastered in Literature in Madurai Thiyagaraja College. His intense pursuit of Tamil literature secured him the covetable student training course in Vikatan Group of Magazines.

His sustained reading and movies watched with zest and zeal created an affiliation to cinema within Palaniappan, thus inspiring his first toddler steps into Kollywood on 1994. Though he is acclaimed as director Parthiban’s protégé Palaniappan worked under two other directors. With Mr. Parthiban he worked in Pullakuttikaaran (Parent) and House full. His grey cells contributed to Director Dharani’s stories that didn’t get transformed into films in the sandwiched time frame between his Edhirum pudhirum and Dhil. He worked under director Ezhil in Thullaadha manamum thullum, Pennin manadhai thottu and Poovellaam un vaasam. Palaniappan married his soul-mate Pia, and has two children, Iniya (Daughter) and Dhaya (Son).

Career

Karu. Pazhaniappan is known for his natural narration and the impeccable characterization. He made his debut Tamil film Parthiban Kanavu a Srikanth – Sneha Starrer. The film became one of the biggest hits of the year. The story line of a true love won appreciation from film critics. His second film Sivappathigaram with Vishal faired well at the box office. His Pirivom Santhippom got major attention of the family audience. His next film was Manthirapunnagai in which he debuted as hero, His second film with Srikanth called Sathurangam was finished in 2004 it was remained unreleased but recent reports said that it would release soon.

As Director

Year	Film	Language	Notes
2003	Parthiban Kanavu Parthiban Kanavu (film) Parthiban Kanavu [English: Parthiban's Dream] is a Tamil film directed by Karu Pazhaniappan. The film stars Srikanth and Sneha in lead roles. It had Manivannan and Vivek in supporting roles. Sneha featured in Dual Role for the first time. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Vidyasagar. ...	Tamil	Winner, State Award for Best Director
2006	Sivappathigaram Sivappathigaram Sivappathigaram is a Tamil film directed by Karu Pazhaniappan. The film stars Vishal, Mamta Mohandas, Manivannan, Rajan P. Dev, Upendra Limaye, Ganja Karuppu and Raghuvaran. The film's score and soundtrack are composed by Vidyasagar. Mamta Mohandas made her debut in Tamil with this film...	Tamil Tamil language Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...
2008	Pirivom Santhippom Pirivom Santhippom Pirivom Santhippom is a 2008 Tamil movie starring Sneha and Cheran in the lead roles and it is about the life of a young couple in a joint family with the Nattukottai Nagarathar Chettiar community located in Karaikudi, TN. This was another grape wine for Sneha as this was completely a heroine...	Tamil
2010	Mandhira Punnagai	Tamil	Also actor
2011	Sadhurangam Sadhurangam Sathurangam is a 2011 Tamil political drama film directed by Karu Pazhaniappan, starring Srikanth and Sonia Agarwal. The film's background score was composed by Vidyasagar, and his soundtrack was released in 2004. Filming was completed in 2006 but the film remained unreleased for five years. The...	Tamil	Winner, State Award for Best Script Writer

Assistant Director

• Pullakuttikaaran (1995)
• Thulladha Manamum Thullum (1999)
• Pennin Manathai Thottu
  Pennin Manathai Thottu
  Pennin Manathai Thottu is a South Indian Tamil film released in 2000.It contains the song "Kalluri Vaanil" danced by Prabhu Deva Sundaram.-Soramimi spoof:...
  
   (2000)
• Poovellam Un Vaasam (2001)

Awards

• Best Director Award

Tamil Nadu State Award
Parthiban Kanavu - 2003

• Best Story Writer Award

Tamil Nadu State Film Award
Sathurangam - 2004