A thoroughbred Chennaite, Atlee is a Visual Communication graduate from Sathyabama University. Growing up at a time when the Tamil Film scene was making its mark at the national level, Atlee’s passion and love for movies led him to seek a career in film making. A career started to shape up for Atlee during his college days, when his very first Tamil short film, En Mel Vizhundha Mazhai Thuli (English: A Raindrop that fell on me) won him two National-level awards. Atlee soon found himself at the forefront of the Tamil Film Industry, when he started assisting Director Shankar with his magnum opus Endhiran (Robot), and there has been no looking back ever since.
Today, Atlee is better known as the director of Mugaputhagam (Language: Tamil, Running Time: 22 minutes), a short film whose name literally translates to Facebook in English.The movie is a comedy-thriller, revolving around a young man who earnestly believes in finding love online, Facebook, to be precise, and his three friends. The film’s posters, teasers and trailers have been going viral online with the trailer garnering more than 10,000 views and as many shares in the first few hours of being uploaded to Youtube. Moving forward from Mugaputhagam, Atlee is planning to start work on his first feature film later this year.]
Bio from the period BIL record (source).