Abinandhan Ramanujam

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Abinandhan Ramanujam
Born
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
NationalityIndian
Alma materL. V. Prasad Film Institute
OccupationDirector of photography
Years active2009—present

Abinandhan Ramanujam is an Indian cinematographer who hails from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He is working in Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi films.[1]

Early life[]

Abinandhan Ramanujam was born in Chennai. He was 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. In school and college days, Abinandhan was very active and had participated in many filmmaking competitions. He used to keep himself busy with some or the other work which was related to filming.

Career[]

The Postman is one of such film by Abinandhan which gained National award in best non-feature film category in 2009. Abinandhan got his first break from director Bejoy Nambiar. Nambiar was shooting for his MTV series Rush when Akshay, a friend of him who was assisting Nambiar spoke about Abinandhan. He was then called with his camera to Mumbai to be the DOP of the series. At this time, he had developed good contacts within the industry. It was during this period when Lijo Jose Pellissery who had even directed two episodes of the MTV series called up Abinandhan to be the DOP of the super-hit movie Amen. His movie Double Barrel is known for its extraordinary shots. Besides filming, Abinandhan likes traveling. His collaborations with filmmaker Lijo Jose Pellissery are highly acclaimed.

Filmography[]

Filmography
Year Title Language Director Notes
2011 Paalai Tamil Senthamizhan
2013 Amen Malayalam Lijo Jose Pellissery
Hiphop Tamizha - Club le Mabbu le Tamil Dhanush Kumar Official Music Video[2]
2014 Mosayile Kuthira Meenukal Malayalam Ajith Pillai
Yeh Hai Bakrapur Hindi Janaki Vishwanathan[3]
2015 Double Barrel Malayalam Lijo Jose Pellissery
2016 Darvinte Parinamam Malayalam Jijo Antony
Kavalai Vendam Tamil Deekay
2017 Kavan Tamil K. V. Anand
Sakka Podu Podu Raja Tamil G. L. Sethuraman
2018 Dobaara Hindi Bejoy Nambiar Short film[4]
Maadathy, an Unfairy Tale Tamil Leena Manimekalai
2019 Irupathiyonnaam Noottaandu Malayalam Arun Gopy
Nine Malayalam Jenuse Mohamed
Kee Tamil Kalees
Happy Sardar Malayalam Sudip Joshy, Geethika Sudip
Sillu Karupatti Tamil Halitha Shameem
2020 Backpackers Malayalam Jayaraj Post Production/Delayed
Chathur Mukham Malayalam Ranjeet Kamala Sankar
Salil V.		 Post Production/Delayed
Did You Sleep With Her English Abinandhan Ramanujam Short film[5]
LOKAME (ft Ekalavyan) Malayalam Bani Chand Babu Music video, Mamta Mohandas Productions[6]
2021 Kalathil Santhippom Tamil N. Rajasekar
Navarasa Tamil K. V. Anand
Gautham Menon
Bejoy Nambiar
Ponram
Karthik Subbaraj
Halitha Shameem
Karthick Naren
Rathindran R Prasad
Arvind Swami		 (Anthology) NETFLIX

As partial cinematographer[]

Year Title Language Director Notes
2018 Swathandriam Ardharathriyil Malayalam Tinu Pappachan (for only Mysore Portion)
2018 Imaikkaa Nodigal Tamil R.Ajay Gnanamuthu (Kadhalikathey Song[7])
2019 Kaappaan Tamil K. V. Anand (for only London Portion)

Awards and achievements[]

Year Award Category Film/Other
2009 Gold Medalist [8] 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[]

Actor in short films[]

  • Tinder Kadhal (2018),Directed by Pradeep Ranganathan[9]

References[]

  1. ^ "Hot shot!". thehindu. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  2. ^ Hiphop Tamizha - Club le Mabbu le (Official Music Video). HiphopTamizha. 26 August 2012. Archived from the original on 26 August 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2021 – via YouTube.
  3. ^ "Who's the Bakra?". The Indian Express.
  4. ^ Dobaara | Official Trailer | Manav Kaul, Parvathy Omanakuttan | Streaming Now On ZEE5. ZEE5. 14 September 2018. Archived from the original on 25 September 2018. Retrieved 15 September 2021 – via YouTube.
  5. ^ Did You Sleep With Her. Abinandhan Ramanujam. 8 October 2020. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2021 – via YouTube.
  6. ^ LOKAME ft Ekalavyan | Bani Chand Babu |Vineeth Kumar Mettayil | Mamta Mohandas Productions |Official. Muzik247. 14 November 2020. Archived from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2021 – via YouTube.
  7. ^ https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%28Kadhalikathey+Video+Song
  8. ^ https://prasadacademy.com/alumni/department-of-cinematography.html
  9. ^ Tinder Kadhal - By Morattu single - feat Abinandhan Ramanujam. Abinandhan Ramanujam. 24 April 2018. Archived from the original on 12 February 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2021 – via YouTube.

External links[]

  • Abinandhan Ramanujam on imdb
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