Durai (director)

{{Short description|Indian film director (1940–2024)|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}} {{Use Indian English|date=June 2019}} {{Infobox person | image = | imagesize = | name = Durai | birth_name = J.F.C. Durai | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1940|02|25}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2024|04|22|1940|02|25}} | death_place = Tiruninravur, Chennai district, Tamil Nadu, India | othername = | occupation = Film director, screenwriter, editor | website = {{URL|directordurai.net}} | yearsactive = }}

'''J.F.C. Durai''' (25 February 1940 – 22 April 2024) was an Indian film director who was mostly active during the 1970s. As of 2014, he had directed 46 films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. Though known for his work in commercial cinema, he made women-centric films like ''Avalum Penthaane'' and ''Pasi'',<ref name="Kannan2000">{{cite book|last=Kannan|first=Dr. R.|title=Women in Films: An Incisive Study Into the Issues and Trends|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E-hkAAAAMAAJ|page=24|year=2000|publisher=Publications Division, Madurai Kamaraj University}}</ref><ref name="Bowker1983">{{cite book|author=Bowker|title=Variety's Film Reviews: 1978-1980|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_nBZAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Bowker|isbn=978-0-8352-2795-7}}</ref> which won two National Film Awards. He served as a jury member of the 58th National Film Awards (India) in 2011.<ref name=dff /> As of 2011, he was the vice president of the South Indian Film Writers' Association.<ref name=dff />

Born on 25 February 1940,<ref name=dff>{{cite web|title=National Film Awards 2010|url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm58NFAAward.aspx|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=9 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414003922/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm58NFAAward.aspx|archive-date=14 April 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Durai died on 22 April 2024, at the age of 84.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/durai-director-of-national-award-winning-film-pasi-dies/article68095689.ece|title=Durai, director of national award winning film Pasi, dies|work=The Hindu|first=B|last=Kolappan|date=22 April 2024|access-date=22 April 2024}}</ref>

==Partial filmography== {{unreferenced section|date=April 2024}} * ''Pennin Perumai'' (1956) as sound engineer * ''Avalum Penn Thaane'' (1974) * ''Oru Kudumbathin Kathai'' (1975) * ''Aasai 60 Naal'' (1976) * ''Mugiyada Kathe'' (1976) (Kannada) * ''Raghupathi Raghavan Rajaram'' (1977) * ''Paavathin Sambalam'' (1978) * ''Oru Veedu Oru Ulagam'' (1978) * ''Sadhurangam'' (1978) * ''Aayiram Jenmangal'' (1978) * ''Pasi'' (1979) * ''Oli Pirandhadhu'' (1979) * ''Neeya?'' (1979) *''Porkaalam'' (1980) * ''Maria My Darling'' (1980) (also in Kannada) *''Aval Oru Kaviyam'' (1981) *''Mayil'' (1981) *''Thani Maram'' (1981) *''Kilinjalgal'' (1981) *''Thunai'' (1982) *''Velicham Vitharunna Penkutty'' (1982) (Malayalam) *''Do Gulaab'' (1983) (Hindi) * ''Pet Pyaar Aur Paap'' (1984) (Hindi) *''Veli'' (1985) *''Oru Manithan Oru Manaivi'' (1986) *''Palaivanathil Pattampoochi'' (1988) * ''Pudhiya Athiyayam'' (1990)

==Awards== {{unreferenced section|date=April 2024}} * 1978 – Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Director – ''Oru Veedu Oru Ulagam'' * 1979 – National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil – ''Pasi''<ref name=dff /> * 1979 - Filmfare Award for Best Film - Tamil - ''Pasi'' <ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/xbvqLIHMR2A Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20161008084855/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbvqLIHMR2A&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbvqLIHMR2A| title = Rare Video of 27th Annual Film Fare Awards - 1980 (Voice Over - Radhika Sarathkumar) | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N6kQAQAAMAAJ&q=+Pasi+Dorai|title = The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who|year = 1982}}</ref> * 1980 – Best Film Award for ''Pasi'' at Tashkent Film Festival * 1982 – Kalaimamani

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [http://www.directordurai.net/contact.html Official website] * {{IMDb name|id=0243655}}

Category:1940 births Category:2024 deaths Category:Tamil film directors Category:Telugu film directors Category:Tamil Nadu State Film Awards winners Category:People from Thanjavur district Category:Tamil film editors Category:Kannada film directors Category:20th-century Indian people Category:Film directors from Tamil Nadu Category:Film editors from Tamil Nadu Category:National Film Award (India) winners