Thazhathupurakkal Karunakara Panicker Rajeev Kumar (born 20 September 1961) is a National Award-winning Indian director of Malayalam films, from Trivandrum.

He is the winner of five Kerala State Film Awards for Best Film, Director, Story Writer & Script Writer, a show director, theatre actor and percussionist (Mridangam).

He is a founding member and leader of the musical band Blue Birds in 1978-79[1] and Super Mimics, a comedy show in 1979.

He is also the Kerala University winner of Mono Act in the University Youth Festivals 1980–1982 and Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy winner for Mono Act 1979–1982.

[citation needed] TK Rajeev Kumar was the chairman of Kerala State Chalachitra Academy from 2003 to 2006.