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P. Vasu (Vasudevan Peethambaran) was born on 15 September, 1954 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, is an Indian film director, writer, and actor. Discover P. Vasu's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

Popular As Vasudevan Peethambaran
Occupation Director, writer, producer, actor
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 15 September, 1954
Birthday 15 September
Birthplace Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Nationality India

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His wife is Shanthi

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Children Shakthi Vasudevan Abirami Vasudevan

P. Vasu Net Worth

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Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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Vasudevan Peethambaram, known professionally as P Vasu, is an Indian director, writer and actor who works predominantly in Tamil and Kannada films apart from a few Telugu, Hindi, and Malayalam language films.

In a career spanning three decades, Vasu has directed over 64 films to his credit.

P. Vasu's father, Peethambaram, worked as a make-up man for M. G. Ramachandran and N. T. Rama Rao in their films during his time.

He was one of the leading make-up artists during his period and was elected as the president of the make-up union Tamil Nadu for 30 years.

He later went on to become a producer.

He produced about 25 films in Tamil and Telugu and became one of the leading producers in the south.

He produced with his brother M. C. Sekhar, who was a cinematographer.

M. C. Sekhar had worked as a cinematographer for more than 150 films.

1981

Vasu started his career with Santhana Bharathi as a co-director and made films such as Panneer Pushpangal (1981), Madhu Malar (1981), Mella Pesungal (1983), Sahasame Jeevitham (1984) and Needhiyin Nizhal (1985).

"We compromised on certain things as we had different approaches to the subject. That's the reason why some of our other movies failed to make a big impression in the box office, prompting us to take our own paths," said Vasu and moreover Vasu was more interested in making commercial films while Bharathi wants to make different kind of films.

1990

During his career, films like Panakkaran (1990), Nadigan (1990), Chinna Thambi (1991), Mannan (1992), Walter Vetrivel (1993) and Sethupathi IPS (1994) have become blockbusters.

The director went through a career slump in the mid-1990s after a series of failures, through his high budget romantic musical Love Birds (1996).

He has made films in all the four South Indian languages and he has worked with almost all top stars.

2000

From the 2000s, Vasu also began as an actor.

He usually portrays a supporting role or an antagonistic role.

2004

His directed films Apthamithra (2004) went on to cross the one-year mark, while legendary Chandramukhi (2005) has had a record run of 800 days and more.

2007

Vasu made a film called Thottal Poo Malarum (2007), with his son Shakthi.

The young actor is not new to acting; he has acted as a child in his father's films.

2008

However, Kamal Haasan couldn't take up the project as he already got committed to Dasavathaaram (2008), where he had to play 10 roles.

2010

Elated with the grand success of his Kannada film Aptharakshaka (2010), which happens the last project of Vishnuvardhan.

He completed remaking the film in Telugu titled Nagavalli (2010) (Chandramukhi 2), features Venkatesh in the lead role.

Earlier P. Vasu had plans about remaking the film in Tamil with Superstar Rajinikanth titled Chandramukhi 2.

However, the project didn't happen as the actor got busy with Shankar’s Enthiran (2010).

Soon after the grand success of Chandramukhi, P Vasu was initially supposed to sign Kamal Haasan for a film featuring him in triple action roles.

2011

Peethambharan died on 21 February 2011 at the age of 89.

Vasu is an alumnus of Wesley High School, Chennai.

Vasu is married to Shanthi and has a son, Sakthi Vasu, who is an actor and a daughter, Abhirami Vasudevan.

His mother is Kamala.

Vasu's brothers are Vidyasagar and Vimal, and his sisters are Vijaylakshmi, Vasantha and Vanaja.

He is a Malayali from Nedumbal, a village in Thrissur district, Kerala, but settled in Tamil Nadu.

Vasu joined director C. V. Sridhar as an assistant.

2013

In June 2013, P. Vasu revealed that he was set to direct an English film titled Curry in Love, with an apparent star cast of Sonam Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Vijay, Eddie Murphy and Jon Voight.

However, the supposed cast denied the reports as baseless and P. Vasu postponed the film, citing a delay in production.

2014

Similarly in early 2014, P. Vasu released an official statement claiming that his next film would be an animatronics venture titled Aishwaryavum Aayiram Kaakkavum and that Aishwarya Rai would feature in the leading role.

Aishwarya Rai's team later denied claims citing that such allegations of an agreement were premature.

2017

Later in April 2017, Vasu revealed that he still had intentions of making the film if he found a producer to help finance the project.

Actor Raghava Lawrence have teamed up for the first time with the director in Shivalinga (2017) that too for the remake of Vasu's Kannada blockbuster Shivalinga (2016) as horror-comedy genre.

Shivalinga is saved by its packaging as a commercial family entertainer and Vadivelu's comedy.

2019

Vasu is also his outing with Shiva Rajkumar in Ayushman Bhava (2019).

Vasu's films are usually in the masala genre, with melodrama as a key theme.