| Chakravarthy Ramachandra | |
| Birth Date: | 21 September 1978 |
| Birth Place: | Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Education: | Post Graduate Diploma in Film Making |
| Alma Mater: | London Film Academy |
| Occupation: | Film producer |
| Othername: | Ram |
| Yearsactive: | 2005–present |
Chakravarthy Ramachandra is an Indian film producer who has worked on Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam-language films. After beginning his career as an independent producer, he joined YNOT Studios as its CEO.
He continued working in the technical crew of Telugu films, notably serving as the line producer in Sukumar's Arya 2 (2009), Walt Disney Pictures's Anaganaga O Dheerudu (2011) and Oosaravelli (2011), and developed his knowledge of film-making. Ramachandra was then set to make his debut as a co-producer with Sukumarudu (2013), but later opted out of the venture.[1] He later set up his own production house, Bad Monkey Productions, to produce the unreleased Telugu and Tamil comedy films Antha Scene Ledu and Nondi Kuthirai (2014) starring Navdeep and Shashank.[2] [3] [4] [5]
Ramachandra first became involved with YNOT Studios during the release of Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi in Telugu as Love Failure. His work on the film as an executive producer paved the way for him to join YNOT Studios' other projects. After working as the executive producer of Guru (2017) and Vikram Vedha (2017), Ramachandra became the company's chief executive officer and in the late 2010s, he co-produced films such as Tamizh Padam 2 (2018) and Game Over (2019) alongside the studio's founder S. Sashikanth.[6] [7]
As the company approached its tenth anniversary, Ramachandra oversaw the company's collaboration with Reliance Entertainment to co-produce several of their projects, and the announcement of their subsidiaries: its distribution arm, YNOT X and the music label YNOT Music.[8] In the early 2020s, the company alternated between producing high-budget projects featuring leading actors and technical crew, and making small-budget content-driven films featuring relative newcomers. Big-budget productions such as Jagame Thandhiram (2021) and the Hindi version of Vikram Vedha (2022), were complemented by a number of smaller ventures with "off-beat" scripts including Halitha Shameem's Aelay (2021), Madonne Ashwin's Mandela (2021), Nishanth Kalidindi's Kadaseela Biriyani (2021) and Jayaprakash Radhakrishnan's Thalaikoothal (2023).[9] [10]
In August 2023, the studio announced the principal photography of its first feature film, Bramayugam directed by Rahul Sadasivan, starring Mammootty, Arjun Ashokan and Sidharth Bharathan in the lead roles.[11] The film is scheduled to release in early 2024 across five Indian languages simultaneously.[12]
Ramachandra married Pooja at the Taj Deccan, Hyderabad on 23 August 2013.[13]
| Denotes films that have not yet been released |
| Year | Film | Language | Credited as | Cast | Director(s) | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Love Failure | Telugu | Executive producer | Siddharth, Amala Paul | ||
| 2017 | Guru | Telugu | Executive producer | Venkatesh, Ritika Singh, Mumtaz Sorcar | [14] | |
| Vikram Vedha | Tamil | Executive producer | Madhavan, Vijay Sethupathi, Shraddha Srinath | [15] | ||
| 2018 | Tamizh Padam 2 | Tamil | Co-producer | [16] | ||
| 2019 | Game Over | Tamil Telugu | Co-producer | Ashwin Saravanan | [17] | |
| 2021 | Aelay | Tamil | Co-producer | Samuthirakani, K. Manikandan | Halitha Shameem | [18] |
| Tamil | Co-producer | [19] | ||||
| Jagame Thandhiram | Tamil | Co-producer | Dhanush, James Cosmo, Aishwarya Lekshmi | [20] | ||
| Kadaseela Biriyani | Tamil | Producer | Vijay Ram, Haikim Shah | Nishanth Kalidindi | [21] | |
| 2022 | Vikram Vedha | Hindi | Co-producer | [22] | ||
| 2023 | Thalaikoothal | Tamil | Co-producer | [23] | ||
| Martin Luther King | Telugu | Co-producer | ||||
| 2024 | Test | Tamil | Producer | S. Sashikanth | ||