Lokesh Kanagaraj

Early life
Lokesh Kanagaraj was born in Kinathukadavu, Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu, India. He did his schooling in Vivek Vidyalaya Matriculation School and HSC +1 & +2 in Palaniammal Higher secondery school kaliyapuram In PSG College of Arts and Science, he majored in Fashion Technology before pursuing his MBA. He is an ex-bank employee. He pursued his passion towards film making by participating in a corporate short film competition. The judge of the competition was director Karthik Subbaraj. He then encouraged Lokesh to continue making films.

Career
In 2016, his short film Kaalam was included in the anthology film Aviyal produced by Karthick Subbaraj. In 2017, he made his directorial feature debut with the action-thriller Maanagaram. In late 2018, he began working on a film for Dream Warrior Pictures, the same production company behind Maanagaram. With Karthi in the lead role, the action-thriller was titled Kaithi.

He completed an action-thriller film Master which stars Vijay and Vijay Sethupathi. Which was released on 13 January 2021, a day before the Pongal festival. It received positive reviews. It ran successfully in theatres.

His next directorial Vikram starring Kamal Haasan, Vijay Sethupathi, and Fahadh Faasil, released in 2022.