Director Shankar First Movie -

As Shankar himself later said, “I didn’t know what I couldn’t do. So I tried everything.”

Before the larger-than-life sets of Enthiran , before the social commentary of Anniyan , and before the cinematic spectacle of Indian , there was a modestly budgeted 1993 action-comedy about a look-alike vigilante. That film, Gentleman , was the moment director Shankar first pressed the accelerator on a career that would redefine Indian commercial cinema. director shankar first movie

Every Shankar film that followed— Indian (1996), Mudhalvan (1999), Enthiran (2010)—owes a debt to Gentleman . The high-gloss production values, the Robin Hood morality, the larger-than-life action sequences, and the obsession with technology all began here. As Shankar himself later said, “I didn’t know