Director Sakthi dies

Popular Tamil director R.C Sakthi, who launched Kamal Haasan in a lead role, breathed his last Monday at a private hospital here. He was 75.

Sakthi started his career as a theatre artist. He floated a theatre troupe with his friends and went on to act in a few plays before moving to cinema.

He started his career as an assistant to theatre artist Subbhu Arumugam, and worked with him on several plays.