Abinandhan Ramanujam Explained

Abinandhan Ramanujam
Birth Place:Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Alma Mater:L. V. Prasad Film Institute
Occupation:Director of photography
Nationality:Indian
Yearsactive:2009—present

Abinandhan Ramanujam is an Indian cinematographer who works primarily in Malayalam and Tamil films.[1]

Early life

Abinandhan Ramanujam was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He graduated from L.V. Prasad Film and TV Academy and is a gold medalist from there. He later did a course in visual communication from Dr G R Damodaran College of Science, Coimbatore . Since childhood Abinandhan was interested in photography. His father Ramanujam was a bank officer, who always encouraged him in his work. His father owned an old Yashica camera; he would practice his photography skills, and his father would monitor it as well give guidance on his photography. He used to keep himself busy with some or the other work which was related to filming.

Career

Abinandhan got his first break from Bejoy Nambiar. Nambiar was shooting for his MTV series Rush when Akshay, Sreekar Prasad’s son, who is a friend of him who was assisting Nambiar spoke about Abinandhan. He was then called with his camera to Mumbai to be the cinematographer of the series. It was during this period when Lijo Jose Pellissery who had directed two episodes of the MTV series called up Abinandhan to be the cinematographer of his next film, Amen (2013). His movie Double Barrel is known for its extraordinary shots.

Filmography

Filmography
Year Film Language Notes
2011 Paalai Tamil
2012 Friends Book Telugu
2013 Amen Malayalam
2014 Mosayile Kuthira Meenukal Malayalam
Yeh Hai Bakrapur Hindi [2]
2015 Double Barrel Malayalam
2016 Darvinte Parinamam Malayalam
Kavalai Vendam Tamil
2017 Kavan Tamil
Sakka Podu Podu Raja Tamil
2018 Dobaara Hindi Short film
Maadathy Tamil
2019 Irupathiyonnaam Noottaandu Malayalam
Nine Malayalam
KeeTamil
Happy Sardar Malayalam
Sillu KarupattiTamil
2020 Did You Sleep With Her English Short film
2021 Kalathil Santhippom Tamil
Backpackers Malayalam
Chathur Mukham Malayalam
Kuruthi Malayalam
2022 Bro Daddy Malayalam
Kaduva Malayalam
2023 Alone Malayalam
Bagheera Tamil
Mark Antony Tamil
2025 Good Bad Ugly Tamil
malayalam
As actor

For music videos

Filmography
Year Title Language Notes
2012 Club Le Mabbu Le Tamil
2020 Lokame (ft. Ekalavyan) Malayalam
2021 Kadhal Enge Tamil

As partial cinematographer

Year TitleLanguageDirectorNotes
2018 Swathandriam Ardharathriyil Malayalam Only the scenes in Mysore
2018 Imaikkaa Nodigal Tamil For "Kadhalikathey"
2019 Kaappaan Tamil Only the scenes in London

Awards and achievements

Awards & Achievements
YearAwardCategoryFilm/Other
2009Gold Medalist [3] Best CinematographerL.V.prasad Film institute
2009National Film Award for Best Non-Feature FilmBest Non-Feature FilmThe Postman
2015South Indian International Movie AwardsSIIMA Best Cinematographer MalayalamMosayile Kuthira Meenukal
20207th Aurangabad International film festival AwardBest Cinematographer Maadathy, an Unfairy Tale

Actor in films

Actor in short films

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Hot shot! . 3 September 2018 . thehindu.
  2. Web site: Who's the Bakra?. The Indian Express.
  3. Web site: Alumni of L.V.Prasad Film & TV Acadcemy - Cinematography . prasadacademy.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160130230245/http://www.prasadacademy.com/alumni/department-of-cinematography.html . 2016-01-30.