AR Murugadoss is an Indian film director producer and screenwriter AR Murugadoss began to think of becoming a story writer At Bharathidasan University he started to write sketch comedies and acted in them After college he tried to join the Madras Film Institute but was rejected Nevertheless Murugadoss stayed in Chennai in multiple functions First he became an assistant writer of P Kalaimani and wrote dialogues for the Tamil film Madurai Meenakshi He became assistant director of Ratchagan 1997 for half of the film and continued as assistant script director for the Telugu film Kalusukundam Ra Murugadoss then worked with S J Surya for the film Kushi S J Suryah recommended Murugadoss to Ajith Kumar for directing his debut film Dheena