Akkamappettai Paramasivan Nagarajan was an Indian film director, producer, actor and writer who set a trend in film making in Tamil cinema from 1965 to 1977.

Navarathinam is a 1977 Indian Tamil-language road film, written and directed by A. P. Nagarajan, his final film. It stars M. G. Ramachandran, Latha, Jayachitra and Zarina Wahab. The film was released on 5 March 1977, and failed commercially.