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Nelson Dilipkumar, credited in films as Nelson, is an Indian director and screenwriter who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. His films are known for featuring elements of black comedy and synchronised comical characters.Nelson won the Best Screenplay Award in Norway Tamil Film Festival for his directorial debut Kolamaavu Kokila. He was listed among the Promising Directors of 2018 in Times of India article.

Nelson is a graduate with a degree in Visual communication from New College, Chennai. He started his career as an assistant script-writer in Star Vijay.

In between, Nelson started his debut movie Vettai Mannan in 2010 starring Silambarasan, Jai, Hansika Motwani and Deeksha Seth which was planned to be produced by NIC Arts S. S. Chakravarthy, featuring music by Yuvan Shankar Raja. The film was shelved for unknown reasons halfway through.There was an attempt to revive the project in 2017 and a new crew was selected. Anirudh Ravichander replaced Yuvan Shankar Raja as the composer. However the project failed to take off again.

Anirudh Ravichander helped Nelson land his debut feature film,the dark comedy Kolamavu Kokila starring Nayanthara in the lead role, which he wrote and directed. The film produced by Lyca Productions released on 17 August 2018 and became a commercial success. His next film was Doctor starring Sivakarthikeyan in lead role opposite Priyanka Arul Mohan. The film became one of the biggest Tamil-language blockbusters among the films that released theatrically after the pandemic-induced lockdowns.

In November 2020, composer Anirudh Ravichander introduced him to actor Vijay as a potential candidate to direct the latter's next film.Actor Vijay was impressed with Nelson's script and the latter was signed on to direct actor Vijay's 65th film Beast.The film stars Vijay and Pooja Hegde in lead roles. Beast will be released on 14 April 2022 as a pan-Indian film dubbed in Telugu, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam languages.Nelson will also direct Rajinikanth's 169th film.