C. V. Sridhar

Born in Chithamur, Chengalpattu, Madras Presidency, British India on July 22, 1933 — died October 20, 2008 (aged 75)

C. V. Sridhar (22 July 1933 – 20 October 2008) was an Indian screenwriter and film director. He has directed nearly 60 films in Tamil, Hindi and Telugu. Sridhar hailed from Chitthamur, a village near Madurantakam, Tamil Nadu. He studied at St. Joseph's Higher Secondary School, where he began writing and staging plays while he was in the Seventh Standard.