Kalyaan is an Indian film director and screenwriter. He was born on 1st January 1980 in Chennai, India, who has been working in Tamil film Industry. As a director and writer, Kalyaan is best known for Gulaebaghavali (2018) and Jackpot (2019). Kalyaan will be a direct and writer of the new upcoming Indian movie Ghosty (2023).  In the year 2014, Kalyaan began making his directorial debut film, Katha Solla Porom, but the film did not find distributors and was put on hold.

On October 2014, Kalyaan then began work on Kaathadi, during. Sai Dhanshika was signed on to play a police officer, while Avishek Karthik, previously seen in Gautham Vasudev Menon’s Vaaranam Aayiram (2008) and Nadunisi Naaygal (2011), was selected to portray the lead actor. The film began production in late 2014 and was revealed to be in post-production by October 2015. The movie was shot extensively in Chennai, Kerala and Yelagiri hills. A long delay before the release of the film meant that the two other films of Kalyaan, Katha Solla Porom (2016) and the Prabhu Deva-starrer Gulaebaghavali (2018), were released before Kaathadi, which released in February 2018.