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Years active. 1987-present. Relatives. Shridhar Raghavan (brother) Sriram Raghavan (born 22 June 1963) is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in Hindi cinema. He is primarily considered an auteur of neo-noir action thrillers. Raghavan made his directorial debut with Ek Hasina Thi (2004). He then went on to direct the critically ...
Sriram Raghavan is a director and writer of neo-noir thrillers in Hindi cinema. He has won several awards for his films, including Andhadhun (2018), a black comedy about a blind pianist.
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- Johnny Gaddaar (2007) Much like Khosla Ka Ghosla, Maqbool and Black Friday, Johnny Gaddaar became a blueprint for generations of future storytellers.
- Andhadhun (2018) Sriram Raghavan’s biggest hit triggered the kind of online and offline discourse that most directors only dream of. It became a cultural moment, a perfect distillation of his Pune-centric noir into a film that mobilised its craft into a language of entertainment.
- Badlapur (2015) Badlapur is a better Raman Raghav 2.0 than Anurag Kashyap’s Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016). Which is fair, given that Sriram Raghavan was the first to make a docudrama about the Sixties' serial killer post his FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) days.
- Ek Hasina Thi (2004) A young woman is charmed and duped by her new boyfriend. After reaching rock-bottom in prison, she sets out to take warm-blooded revenge.
Jan 11, 2024 · Sriram Raghavan aspired to become a journalist when he came to Mumbai (Bombay at the time), but luck had him meet director Mukul Anand, which prompted him to join FTII (Film and Television Institute of India). While Ek Hasina Thi is regarded as Sriram’s directorial debut, his FTII diploma film, The Eight Column Affair, was nothing short of a full-fledged directorial debut.
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Jan 10, 2024 · There’s an almost Zen-like quality to how confident Sriram Raghavan seems just days before the release of Merry Christmas, his first film in over five years.Even after a long day with the press ...
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Jan 17, 2024 · Dial M for Murder and Sriram Raghavan for murder mysteries. The filmmaker’s latest thriller Merry Christmas is a delicious entry in his two-decade long film career and days after the release of the Katrina Kaif-Vijay Sethupathi starrer, the director is a happy, relaxed man.
Jan 10, 2024 · These spate of directors included, as you can guess, Sriram Raghavan, and many consider Gopal Varma to be his predecessor. But over time, Raghavan devised an idiosyncratic style to tie these dark neo-noir narratives with black comedy, and created his own specific language of cinema which accessed the social unconscious of the lower and middle classes, and became pronounced with every addition to his filmography.
