[2] Kumar, originally hailing from Tirumangalam, Madurai,[3] first came to Chennai for his MSc Psychology classes that he was pursuing through distance education at Madras University in the early 2000s.
While on a trip in 2010 to Los Angeles as a part of his family business, he was inspired to start a production house and hoped to produce higher quality films in India and returned to form Thirukumaran Entertainment in 2010.
[4] The next venture, Pizza, a thriller film written and directed by debutant Karthik Subbaraj starred Vijay Sethupathi and Remya Nambeesan.
[6] A critic from Sify termed the film as "delicious" and described it as "entertaining and at the same time different in its approach",[7] while Malini Mannath from The New Indian Express described Pizza as "offbeat, intriguing and gripping, and nothing like what you've seen on Tamil screen before".
In his third venture, Kumar chose to produce a script written by Nalan Kumarasamy, the winner of the Kalaignar TV reality show Naalaya Iyakkunar (The Director of Tomorrow), agreeing terms in September 2012.
[9] A rare black comedy Tamil film, Soodhu Kavvum's main concept was about how baloney has engulfed people's day-to-day life and modern society and featured Vijay Sethupathi once again in the leading role.
[10] S. Saraswathi from Rediff gave 3.5 stars out of 5 and wrote "Soodhu Kavvum is an engaging film, with ingenious characters and entertaining situations" and called it a "must-watch".
[17] Kumar has also bought the Tamil remake rights for the 2013 Kannada psychological thriller Lucia, with Siddharth set to star in the leading role.
[needs update][18] He began his directorial venture titled Mayavan in mid-2014, while also associating with YNOT Studios for the making of Madhavan's bilingual comeback film, Irudhi Suttru.