Happy Birthday Sundar C.
- Vinayagar Sundar Vel, also known as Sundar.
- C, is a Tamil film director and actor.
- He has directed over 16 films in Tamil and acted in over 9 movies as the protagonist.
- Initially, he worked as an assistant director to Manivannan.
- His notable films include Ullathai Allitha (1996), Arunachalam (1997), Anbe Sivam (2003), Winner (2003), Giri (2004), Kalakalappu (2012), Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru (2013), Aranmanai (2014) and Kalakalappu 2 (2018).He took a short break from direction after his initial launch as an actor in 2006 with the film Thalai Nagaram which was a commercial failure.
- He returned to direction with his trade mark comedy roller coaster in the movie Kalakalappu in 2012 and it went on to become a moderate success. His successful career as a director continued with movies like Aranamanai film series (2014). He also produced the TV series Nandini along with his wife, actress Kushboo aired on Sun TV.
- He is a pioneer in television industry to produce a TV Series in 4 languages: Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada, simultaneously.
- The show has been praised and well received by audience, becoming a huge success and India's most watched television series in a matter of weeks since it first aired.
- He also produced movies like Hello Naan Pei Pesuren, Muthina Kathirika and Meesaya Murukku.
- Sundar C is one of the few directors who directed the two Super Stars of Tamil Cinema, Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan in Arunachalam (1997) and Anbe Sivam (2003), respectively.
