Gnana Rajasekaran (born 23 January 1953) is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, playwright and Retired IAS Officer.

[2] Gnana Rajasekaran[3] was born in Pallikonda, Vellore district, Tamil Nadu, India, to Gnanaprakasam and Sharadambal, both teachers.

After he graduated, he worked as a technical officer with the Intelligence Bureau in Mumbai for four years, where many of his plays were staged.

Before his career as a film-maker, Rajasekaran published an allegorical novel titled Yanai Kuthirai Ottagam, which was judged the best novel of the year by the Tirupur Tamil Sangam.

He then went on to direct the Nassar-starrer Mugam (1999), with the film fetching poor reviews and faring badly at the box office.