{{Short description|Indian writer, actor, film director and screenplay writer}} {{Use British English|date=February 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Ajayan Bala | image= | caption = | birth_place = Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu, India | other_names = | occupation = Writer, actor, film director | years_active = 2009–present | height = | spouse = | parents = | relatives = | website = }}
'''Ajayan Bala''' is an Indian writer, actor, and film director from Kancheepuram, Tamilnadu. His book ''Ulaka cin̲imā varalār̲u : maun̲ayukam 1894-1929'' was awarded as best book in the fine arts section by Tamil Nadu Government in 2007. He has written several fiction and non-fiction works in Tamil. He has written a history serial in the popular Tamil magazine Ananda Vikatan.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vikatan.com/oddities/miscellaneous/42750--2|title=நாயகன் - அஜயன் பாலா|first=Vikatan|last=Correspondent|website=www.vikatan.com/|date=7 January 2009 }}</ref>
He has written story and screen play for the movies ''Chennaiyil Oru Naal'', ''Manithan'', and ''Thalaivii''. He has also directed one of the chapters in the horror anthology ''6 Athiyayam''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/tamil/en/audiotrack/interview-ajayan-bala |title=An Interview with Ajayan Bala {{!}} SBS Your Language |website=www.sbs.com.au |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207010519/https://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/tamil/en/audiotrack/interview-ajayan-bala |archive-date=2018-02-07}}</ref>
==Bibliography== ===Novels=== * Pakalmeenkal (published as a serial in Kalki)
===Short story collections=== * Mayilvakanan and other stories (Marutha Pathippakam) * Moondravathu Arai Nanbanin Kathal Kathai * Ajayan Bala Sirukathaikal (Nathan Pathippakam) * Muthukkal Pathu (Amrutha Pathippakam)
===Translated Screenplays=== * The Battle of Algiers * Bicycle Thieves
===Biographies=== * Ambedkar * Annai Theresa * Oviyar Van Gogh * Karl Marx * Charlie Chaplin * Che Guevara * Nelson Mandela * Nethaji Subhas Chandra Bose * Periyar * Martin Luther King
===Other Non-Fiction=== * Mudivatra Kalaignan: Marlon Brando * Sumar Ezhuthalanum Super Star-um * Semmozhi Sirpigal (Life of 100 Tamil scholars) * Ulaka cin̲imā varalār̲u : maun̲ayukam 1894–1929
==Filmography== ===As director and writer=== {| class="wikitable" |- style="background:#B0C4DE; text-align:center;" ! rowspan="2" scope="col"| Year ! rowspan="2" scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" colspan="2"| Credited as ! rowspan="2" class="unsortable" scope="col" | Notes |- ! Director !! Writer |- | rowspan="2"|2013 || ''Chennaiyil Oru Naal'' || {{no}} || {{partial|Screenplay}} || <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-cinemaplus/making-a-remake/article7438722.ece|title=Making a remake|first=Vishal|last=Menon|newspaper=The Hindu|date=19 July 2015|via=www.thehindu.com}}</ref> |- | ''Vana Yuddham'' || {{no}} || {{partial|Dialogues}} || Tamil version |- | 2016 || ''Manithan'' || {{no}} || {{partial|Dialogues}} || |- | rowspan="3"|2018 || ''6 Athiyayam'' || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || Anthology film; segment: "Misai" |- |''Diya'' || {{no}} || {{partial|Dialogues}} || Tamil version |- | ''Lakshmi'' || {{no}} || {{partial|Dialogues}} || Tamil version |- | rowspan="2"|2019 || ''Nethraa'' || {{no}} || {{partial|Dialogues}} || |- | ''Watchman'' || {{no}} || {{partial|Dialogues}} || |- | 2021 || ''Thalaivii'' || {{no}} || {{partial|Story}} || |- | 2023 || ''Memories'' || {{no}} || {{partial|Dialogues}} || |- | 2024 || ''Uyir Thamizhukku''|| {{no}} || {{yes}} || |- | 2026 || ''Mylanji'' || {{yes}} || {{Yes}} || |}
===As actor=== *''Chithiram Pesuthadi'' (2006) *''Vaalmiki'' (2009) *'' Madrasapattinam'' (2010) *''Thenmerku Paruvakaatru'' (2010) *''Krishnaveni Panjaalai'' (2012)
===Web series === * ''Love Bullet'' (2021)
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