DEBUT FEATURE · DIRECTOR
Raja’s Playlist
A fantasy rom-com woven around the music and songs of Maestro Ilaiyaraaja.
Music by Yuvan Shankar Raja
Produced by Elephantine Enterprises
TAMIL CINEMA / SELECTED WORK
SUJITH
N. SUBRAMANIAM
Director & Cinematographer
Editor · Writer · Film Archivist
From Kudumbasthan to Raja’s Playlist.
Stories, images, and a lifelong relationship with cinema.
01 / 07 — THE FILMMAKER
SUJITH / SCREENING ROOM
Watch the work.
Direction and cinematography.
A selection of official videos.
SELECT A FILM
01 / FEATURE FILMS
Selected films.
FEATURE FILM / CINEMATOGRAPHY
Kudumbasthan
The everyday, seen through a cinematic lens.
Directed by Rajeshwar Kalisamy · Starring Manikandan
02 / INDEPENDENT FILMS
Finding my voice.
Selected directorial work
from short-form cinema.
Shared stories.
Produced by Sujith N. Subramaniam · Cinematography & editing
03 / COMMERCIALS
Another kind of story.
Selected advertising work.
Cinematography.
SHORT FILM / DOCU-FICTION · DIRECTOR · CINEMATOGRAPHER · EDITOR · PRODUCER
December 5–6
Coimbatore, December 2016. As news of Jayalalithaa’s death spreads and the city shuts down, a young bachelor searches for a meal. Blending live street footage with fiction, the film follows one person’s hunger through a moment of public uncertainty.
FEATURED IN VIKATAN · 6 DECEMBER 2017
Vikatan explored the film’s political imagery, its roots in lived experience, and the historical resonance of December 6.
04 / RECOGNITION · NAKKALITES TEAM
Vikatan
Nambikkai Virudhugal
2017
A shared milestone in the Nakkalites journey.
As a co-founder of Nakkalites, I was part of the team recognised at the Vikatan Nambikkai Virudhugal. A moment celebrating the work, collaboration, and independent spirit behind the channel.
05 / FILM PRESERVATION
Cinema deserves
a future.
Making films.
Preserving their history.
FOUNDER
Film Culture and
Heritage Foundation
Protecting India’s film and audiovisual heritage for future generations.
My preservation work brings together the rescue, collection, documentation, and care of physical film prints and audiovisual materials. The collection includes rare classic Tamil film prints of 16 Vayathinile, Thalapathi, Thevar Magan, Sathi Leelavathi, and Sigappu Rojakkal.
Through the foundation, the mission is to build a lasting physical and digital archive: preserve endangered materials, support scanning and restoration, document film history, and create opportunities for research, education, and public engagement.
The work also extends to legacy videotapes, sound recordings, and cinema equipment. Each reel and recording holds a part of our shared cultural memory.
A GIFT OF CINEMA HISTORY
From one master’s pages
to another’s hands.
I presented Kamal Haasan with a copy of A Man with a Camera by Néstor Almendros — a cinematographer’s reflections on the art and craft of making images. A small gesture of gratitude to an artist whose life and work continue to inspire my own relationship with cinema.
Preserving film culture also means keeping its books, ideas, and lived experiences in circulation, so that one generation’s knowledge can speak to the next.
About the book · Smithsonian Libraries ↗PRESERVATION IN PRACTICE
Kuruthipunal.
A trailer, rediscovered.
An original 35mm theatrical trailer, scanned in 4K and restored in collaboration with Reelity. The video follows the preservation journey and shows the scanned material alongside restoration work.
Watch the
preservation journey ↗
Kuruthipunal · 35mm scan & restorationPUBLIC ADVOCACY
Taking preservation
to the conversation.
On Neeya Naana, I spoke about preserving the original 35mm print of 16 Vayathinile and why caring for physical film matters. Bringing this work to a wider audience is part of the foundation’s mission.
Watch the
conversation ↗
16 Vayathinile · Film preservationKURUTHIPUNAL / SCAN & RESTORATION
Bringing the image back.
Original scanned material
and digitally restored images.
06 / CINEMATOGRAPHY
Worlds in a frame.
Series, films, and the
spaces between people.
STREAMING SERIES / CINEMATOGRAPHY
Aanandham
Arambam
An eight-episode series for Disney+ Hotstar.
A selection of frames from the series.
07 / THE JOURNEY
Built frame by frame.
Nakkalites
Co-founder. An independent beginning in comedy, everyday observation, and stories rooted in familiar lives.
Idly Upma
Founder. A space for short films, original voices, and collaborations across direction, cinematography, and editing.
From image to story
Feature cinematography with Kudumbasthan, followed by a debut feature as director with Raja’s Playlist.
NAKKALITES / CINEMATOGRAPHY
Back to School
Season 1 · Selected episodes
120M+VIEWS ACROSS THE SERIES
One of Tamil’s most-viewed
YouTube series
08 / ABOUT SUJITH
Always
looking closer.
Director, cinematographer, writer, editor, and film archivist based in Chennai, India.
With a background in Visual Communication, my work grew through independent filmmaking and the communities we built at Nakkalites and Idly Upma. Today, it spans feature films, streaming series, short films, advertising, and the preservation of cinematic heritage.
At every stage, the interest remains the same: finding the people and details that make a story worth telling.
09 / CREDIT INDEX
Filmography.
200+YouTube videos & web series shot
50+Advertisements shot
Selected credits across feature films, short films, and series, alongside an extensive body of digital and advertising work.
Raja’s Playlist
Feature film
Director
Kudumbasthan
Feature film
Cinematographer
Thoovana Thumbigal
Short film
Director · Cinematographer · Editor · Producer
Madras Talkies
Short film
Director · Cinematographer · Editor · Producer
Ini
Short film
Cinematographer · Editor · Producer
Marakkave Ninaikiren
Short film
Cinematographer · Producer
Aanandham Arambam
Streaming series
Cinematographer
Back to School
Web series
Cinematographer