Madonne Ashwin

Madonne Ashwin is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in the Tamil film industry. He is known for his films Mandela and Maaveeran. He is a recipient of three National Film Awards.

Career

Madonne Ashwin initially made short films for Naalaya Iyakkunar such as Dharmam before working as a dialgoue writer for Kurangu Bommai under Nithilan Saminathan. He made his feature film debut with the political satire film Mandela. He cites R. K. Laxman as an inspiration for the film as he made political cartoons without hurting anyone's sentiments.
His next film was Maaveeran, which is about a cartoonist that has supernatural powers. Ashwin revealed that the breaking the fourth wall aspect of the film was inspired by Stranger than Fiction and Ober. Lokesh Kanagaraj had given him a few inputs for the film.