Lokesh Kumar


Lokesh Kumar is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is recognised for his Tamil language feature film My Son Is Gay.

Life and career

Lokesh Kumar was born on 29 June 1989 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He did his schooling in Kalashetra Matriculation and Higher Secondary School, Chennai, after which he went to study Mechanical Engineering at S.A. Polytechnic College. After college he worked in the corporate sector for a few years. In 2013, he quit his corporate job and started making independent films. He made few experimental short films and by 2014, he decided to make an independent feature film which dealt with a teenage boy coming out to his mother, the film went through a lot of issues and delayed. By 2016, the film was fully completed with the help of an NRI producer Anil Saxena. His film My Son Is Gay is the first Tamil feature film on gay relationship in the 100 years of Tamil Cinema existence. The film was screened in several international film festivals and earned him many awards.

Filmography

YearTitleNotes---
YearTitleNotes2013You're My BrotherShort film
2013Wait a MinuteShort film---
2013JudgementShort film---
2014AcidShort film---
2015DarknessShort film---
2017My Son Is GayWinner—Best Film, Indian World Film Festival
Winner—Best Of Out & Loud, Pune International Queer Film Festival
Winner—Best Debut Director, Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival
Winner—Best Film, Jury Award, Jaffna International Cinema Festival		---
2023N4Feature Film---
2024The Last One Feature Film ---