Balaji Mohan

Balaji Mohan, born onMay 1987, is an Indian film director. After discontinuing his engineering studies to pursue his passion and become a director, he enrolled at a film academy and attended courses and workshops, besides participating in short film contests. After shooting more than halfadozen short films, he directed his first fulllength bilingual film romantic comedy Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi and Love Failure based on one of his own short films.

Balaji was born onMay 1987 in Trichy to a Telugu father and a Tamil mother. He pursued his schooling in Campion AngloIndian Higher Secondary School in Trichy and later joined the Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering in Chennai for his higher studies, albeit he had decided in 10th class already that he wanted to become a director. He recalls that his parents bought him a handycam in his third semester, and he made his first short film called Velicham, which was also sent to film festivals and won. Although he had initially planned to complete his education before following his passion and pursuing a career in filmmaking, he did not want to wait for too long after making Velicham. After convincing his parents, he discontinued his engineering course two years later and went on to join the L. V. Prasad Film and TV Academy in Vadapalani, Chennai to learn editing and sound design. He also studied acting at Alchemy Institute, Adyar, Chennai.

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