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M. Sukumar
M. Sukumar
Born	Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
Occupation	Cinematographer

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M. Sukumar is an Indian cinematographer, who has worked in the Telugu, Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam language films.^[1]

Career

Sukumar began his career in 1995 by assisting his brother M. Jeevan, who had then, broken into the Tamil film industry as a photographer. While studying for his degree in agriculture, Sukumar stepped in to assist Jeevan for a shoot of Rajiv Menon's Minsara Kanavu (1997).^[2] He subsequently continued working as an assistant photographer in films including Minnale (2001), Samurai (2002) and King (2002) and struck up a good relationship with the lead actor Vikram. His association with Vikram later led to him being offered the role as the main photographer for the actor's films including Dhool (2003) and Majaa (2005).^[2] While launching Kokki (2006), director Prabhu Solomon asked Sukumar to make his first foray into cinematography but his reluctance meant that his brother Jeevan, was handed the opportunity. Towards the end of the shoot, Jeevan became busy with other projects and Sukumar was brought in to work on a few portions in the film, including a song shoot in Chalakudi.^[2]

After Kokki, he worked on other Prabhu Solomon films including Laadam (2009), Mynaa (2010) and Kumki (2012), the latter two, winning him acclaim and fetching him opportunities to work in big budget ventures. Critics described his work as "spellbinding", and both films became critical and commercial successes.^[3]^[4] His work in Maan Karate and Nimirndhu Nil (2014), meant that he was unable to continue working with Solomon in Kayal (2012). AR Murugadoss also picked Sukumar to work on a single song in his Hindi action film Holiday (2014), during a shoot in Rajasthan.^[2] THAEN movie beautiful cinematography. Super sir...

Filmography

As cinematographer

Year	Title	Notes	Awards
2006	Kokki	Tamil	1 song
2009	Laadam	Tamil
2009	16 Days	Telugu
2009	Madurai Sambavam	Tamil
2010	Mynaa	Tamil	Best Cinematography Norway Tamil Film Festival Awards
2010	Veluthu Kattu	Tamil
2012	Thadaiyara Thaakka	Tamil
2012	Kumki	Tamil	Best Cinematography Tamilnadu State Award 2013 SIIMA Awards 2013
2012	Yaare Koogadali	Tamil
2014	Nimirndhu Nil	Tamil
2014	Maan Karate	Tamil
2014	Holiday	Tamil	1 song
2014	Mosakutty	Tamil
2015	Janda Pai Kapiraju	Telugu
2015	Kaaki Sattai	Tamil
2015	Thoppi	Tamil
2015	Janda Pai Kapiraju	Telugu
2015	Kandupidi Kandupidi	Tamil
2016	Gethu	Tamil
2016	Dharma Durai	Tamil
2016	Veera Sivaji	Tamil
2017	Bairavaa	Tamil
2018	Sketch	Tamil
2018	Chi La Sow	Telugu
2019	Manmadhudu 2	Telugu
2020	Varmaa	Tamil
2021	Ichata Vahanamulu Niluparadu	Telugu
2021	Raame Aandalum Raavane Aandalum	Tamil
2021	Republic	Telugu
2021	Thaen	Tamil	Best Cinematography Norway Tamil Film Festival Awards; Studioflicks Awards; Darbhanga International Film Festival; NEW DELHI FILM FESTIVAL-NDFF; Lake City International Film Festival; FIVE CONTINENTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
2022	Maamanithan	Tamil
2022	Yashoda	Telugu

References

^ https://www.cinestaan.com/people/m-sukumar-93952 ^{[bare URL]}
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "An exclusive interview with ace cinematographer, Sukumar".
^ "Movie Review : Kumki". sify.com. Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
^ "Prabhu Solomon - Tamil Cinema Director Interview - Prabhu Solomon | Kamal Haasan | Udayanidhi Stalin | Mynaa | Kamal". Behindwoods.com. Retrieved 9 August 2022.

External links

M. Sukumar at IMDb

[1] ttps://www.cinestaan.com/people/m-sukumar-93952 ^{[bare URL]}

[bwd-2] "An exclusive interview with ace cinematographer, Sukumar".

[3] "Movie Review : Kumki". sify.com. Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2022.

[4] "Prabhu Solomon - Tamil Cinema Director Interview - Prabhu Solomon | Kamal Haasan | Udayanidhi Stalin | Mynaa | Kamal". Behindwoods.com. Retrieved 9 August 2022.

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v t e Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Cinematographer
1968–1980	P. N. Sundaram (1968) Marcus Bartley (1969) Amirtham (1970) — (1971) — (1972) — (1973) — (1974) — (1975) — (1976) Babu (1977–78) A. Somasundaram, Nallusamy / Gnanasekar, Tiwary (1978–79) B. S. Lokanath (1979–80) Ashok Kumar (1980–81)
1981–2000	B. Kannan (1981–82) Soumendu Roy (1982–83) — (1984) — (1985) — (1986) — (1987) Ajayan Vincent (1988) Ashok Kumar (1989) Abdul Rahman (1990) Raghunatha Reddy (1991) Santosh Sivan (1992) M. C. Shekar (1993) Jeeva (1994) Santosh Sivan (1995) Arthur A. Wilson (1996) Thangar Bachan (1997) Annadurai (1998) Ilavarasu (1999) Ananda Kuttan (2000)
2001–present	R. Rathnavelu (2001) Arjun Jena (2002) N. K. Ekambaram (2003) B. Kannan (2004) R. D. Rajasekhar (2005) Ravi Varman (2006) Nirav Shah (2007) Arthur A. Wilson (2008) Manoj Paramahamsa (2009) Santosh Sivan / V. Manikandan (2010) Balasubramaniem (2011) M. Sukumar (2012) Siddharth (2013) Nirav Shah (2014) Ramji (2015)