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

As actor

• David (2013)

As partial cinematographer

Awards and achievements

References

External links

• Abinandhan Ramanujam on imdb