Hari is a Tamil film director He is basically from a Tirunelveli Hindu Nadar family He worked as assistant director with director Sharan As of 2010 he has directed ten films the latest being Singam one of the biggest Tamil hits of 2010 He is married to former actress Preetha daughter of Vijayakumar and has a son named Sreeram During the shooting for Seval Preetha gave birth to a baby boy their third son