Lokesh Kumar

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Lokesh Kumar
Lokesh Kumar Chennai 2017.jpg
Lokesh Kumar in 2017
Born (1989-06-29) 29 June 1989 (age 35)
Occupation(s)Film director, producer and screenwriter
Years active2013–present
Website http://www.filmmakerlokesh.com/

Lokesh Kumar is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. [1] [2] He made an award-winning Tamil language feature film My Son Is Gay . [3] [4] [5]

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Life and career

Lokesh Kumar was born on 29 June 1989 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu (India). [1] [2] He did his schooling in Kalashetra Matriculation and Higher Secondary School, Chennai, after which he went to study Mechanical Engineering at S.A. Polytechnic College. After college he worked in the corporate sector for a few years. In 2013, he quit his corporate job and started making independent films. [6] He made few experimental short films and by 2014, he decided to make an independent feature film which dealt with a teenage boy coming out to his mother, the film went through a lot of issues and delayed. [7] [8] [9] By 2016, the film was fully completed with the help of an NRI producer Anil Saxena. [10] [11] His film My Son Is Gay is the first Tamil feature film on gay relationship in the 100 years of Tamil Cinema existence. [12] The film was screened in several international film festivals and earned him many awards. [4] [13] [14] [15]

Filmography

YearTitleNotes
2013You're My BrotherShort film
2013Wait a MinuteShort film
2013JudgementShort film
2014AcidShort film
2015DarknessShort film
2017 My Son Is Gay Winner—Best Film, Indian World Film Festival
Winner—Best Of Out & Loud, Pune International Queer Film Festival
Winner—Best Debut Director, Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival
Winner—Best Film, Jury Award, Jaffna International Cinema Festival
2023 N4 Feature Film
2024The Last One (film)Feature Film (In Pre-production)

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