 Murugadoss won the Filmfare Award for Best Director for his 2014 Tamil action drama "Kaththi".Murugadoss' first break in the film industry was as an assistant director of "Ratchagan" (1997).He then worked with S. J. Surya for the film "Kushi" (2000) before directing his first film, the Ajith starred "Dheena", in 2001.