Abinandhan Ramanujam

Abinandhan Ramanujam
Abinandhan Ramanujam
	Abinandhan with director Shaji Kailas (right) at the sets of Kaduva
Born	Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	L. V. Prasad Film Institute
Occupation	Director of photography
Years active	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.^[1]

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.^[1]

Filmography

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

As actor

David (2013)

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	Title	Language	Director	Notes
2018	Swathandriam Ardharathriyil	Malayalam	Tinu Pappachan	Only the scenes in Mysore
2018	Imaikkaa Nodigal	Tamil	R. Ajay Gnanamuthu	For "Kadhalikathey"
2019	Kaappaan	Tamil	K. V. Anand	Only the scenes in London

Awards and achievements

Awards & Achievements
Year	Award	Category	Film/Other
2009	Gold Medalist ^[3]	Best Cinematographer	L.V.prasad Film institute
2009	National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film	Best Non-Feature Film	The Postman
2015	South Indian International Movie Awards	SIIMA Best Cinematographer Malayalam	Mosayile Kuthira Meenukal
2020	7th Aurangabad International film festival Award	Best Cinematographer	Maadathy, an Unfairy Tale

Actor in films

David, directed by Bejoy Nambiar

Actor in short films

Tinder Kadhal (2018), directed by Pradeep Ranganathan

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Hot shot!". thehindu. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
^ "Who's the Bakra?". The Indian Express.
^ "Alumni of L.V.Prasad Film & TV Acadcemy - Cinematography". prasadacademy.com. Archived from the original on 30 January 2016.

External links

Abinandhan Ramanujam on imdb

[:0-1] "Hot shot!". thehindu. Retrieved 3 September 2018.

[2] "Who's the Bakra?". The Indian Express.

[3] "Alumni of L.V.Prasad Film & TV Acadcemy - Cinematography". prasadacademy.com. Archived from the original on 30 January 2016.

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