Vijaykanth's 'Managara Kaaval' director Thiagarajan passes away

Popular Tamil director

M Thiagarajan

breathed his last breath earlier today on December 8, after a series of tragic and unfortunate events. The filmmaker was found dead on the streets near

AVM Studios

in Chennai. It was only when the public came to inform the police that they had seen him lying like that for a long time that they came to know that he was director M Thiagarajan.

He had directed blockbuster films like '

Maanagara

Kaaval' starring

Vijaykanth

which was ironically the 150th film produced by AVM Productions. The ace filmmaker’s sudden and tragic death has left film lovers in a state of shock and social media is getting filled with condolence messages. The directors union has expressed grief over the news of his death.

Reportedly, in a Facebook post, by an assistant director had shared how M Thiagarajan died in front of the AVM Studios and his passion of making films had kept him alive despite all the odds. M Thiagarajan used to stay in a government-owned canteen also known as Amma Unavagam. Unfortunately, the director had to suffer in poverty and seems to have finally lost his life.