Markandeyan is a 2011 Indian Tamil-language film written and directed by FEFSI Vijayan. It stars his son Shabarish, Savika Chaiyadej (Pinky), Nivedhitha, Santhanam in lead. The film score is composed by Sundar C Babu, while cinematography is by D. Sasikumar and Santtonio and editing handled by Raja Mohammed. Markandeyan was panned by critics.

FEFSI Vijayan launched his son Shabarish with this film.^[2] Thai actress Savika Chaiyadej (Pinky) made her debut into Indian cinema with this film.^[3] Shabarish trained for a year in Thai boxing.^[4]

Songs by Sundar C. Babu.^[5] Salman Khan (who worked with FEFSI Vijayan in Wanted and Dabangg),^[2] Vijay, and Shriya Saran attended the audio launch.^[6][7][8]

A critic from The New Indian Express opined that "The director has painstakingly worked on the script in the earlier half and given it a fresh feel. However, he could have taken more effort in the second half and made it just as engaging".^[9] A critic from Sify gave the film a verdict of "disappointing" and criticised the film.^[10] A critic from Behindwoods gave the film a half out of five stars and wrote that "Technically, there is not much that deserves mention except for the effort of the crew to make the action sequences."^[11]