Ranjith Sankar is an Indian Filmmaker who works in Malayalam films. He started his movie career with the 2009 thriller film Passenger.[1] Sankar followed Passenger up with Arjunan Saakshi (2011),[2]Molly Aunty Rocks (2012), Punyalan Agarbattis (2013), Varsham (2014), Su.. Su... Sudhi Vathmeekam (2015), Pretham (2016), Ramante Eden Thottam (2017), Punyalan Private Limited (2017), Njan Marykutty (2018) Pretham 2 (2018), Kamala (2019) and Sunny (2021). Sankar launched his production house Dreams N Beyond in 2012 and his distribution house Punyalan Cinemas in 2017.

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Ranjith Sankar
Born	14 February Thrissur, Kerala, India
Occupation	Filmmaker
Years active	2009 - present
Notable work	Passenger (2009) Punyalan Agarbattis (2013) Varsham (2014) Su Su Sudhi Vathmeekam (2015) Pretham (2016) Ramante Edanthottam (2017) Njan Marykutty (2018)

Biography

Born in Thrissur, Kerala, India, Ranjith Sankar completed his education at St. Thomas College in Thrissur and studied BTech Civil Engineering at Mar Athanasius College of Engineering Kothamangalam.^{[citation needed]} Shankar's writing career began with television series such as Nizhalkal and American Dreams. He won the Kerala State Award for Best Screenplay for American Dreams.[3]

In 2009 he madePassenger.^{[citation needed]}

Molly Aunty Rocks (2012) starring Revathy and Prithviraj was Dreams n Beyond's first production, a critical and commercial success[4] His next film was Punyalan Agarbattis (2013), a satire featuring Jayasurya, Nyla Usha, Innocent, Rachana Narayanankutty and Aju Varghese.

His next movie Varsham starring Mammootty, Asha Sarath and Mamta Mohandas was released in November 2014. The film was a huge commercial and critical success[5] and Mammootty won several awards for his role in it.^{[citation needed]} This was followed by a biographical film Su.. Su... Sudhi Vathmeekam in November 2015.

Ranjith Sankar's third film with Jayasurya, a horror comedy titled "Pretham" was released in August 2016. It has been remade in Telugu.^{[citation needed]}

Ramante Edanthottam was his next, a best-selling movie on female empowerment. He followed it up with sequels to Punyalan and Pretham titled Punyalan Private Limited and Pretham2. He launched his distribution company Punyalan Cinemas with Punyalan Private Limited which was another major commercial success.

He made Njan Marykutty in 2018 which was the first commercial movie in India with a transgender person as protagonist. Jayasurya played Marykutty which won two Kerala State Awards and had a major run in film festivals.

The experimental thriller Kamala was released in 2019.

Filmography

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Awards

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Kerala State Awards

• Best screenplay (Television) for the 2003 serial American Dreams

Dubai AMMA Awards

• Best Socially Committed movie Director - Passenger
• Best Debut director - Passenger

Asianet Film Awards

• Best screenplay - Passenger
• Popular film - Pretham

Kerala Film Critics Awards

• Special Jury Award for direction - Passenger

World Malayali Council - Kairali Awards

• Best Screenplay - Passenger

Surya TV Awards

Best Debut director

V Santharam Awards

Best Debut director (Nomination)

Filmfare Awards

Best Director (Nomination)

SouthScope Awards

Best Director (Nomination)

Other awards

2009: First Lohithadas Puraskaram for best screenplay

References

External links

• Official blog
• sify.com
• http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/malayalam/article/67808.html
• http://www.rediff.com/movies/report/south-review-arjunan-saakshi/20110131.htm
• sify.com
• https://web.archive.org/web/20101225020705/http://www.metromatinee.com/artist/Ranjith%20Shankar-1953
• http://www.expressbuzz.com/entertainment/Entertainstory.aspx?Title=Ranjiths+%E2%80%98Arjunan..%E2%80%99+will+be+an+action+thriller&artid=pjS1h1lMAZY=&SectionID=TPEu9LXF3Wk=&MainSectionID=TPEu9LXF3Wk=&SectionName=T0d/vXfniiY=&SEO=%5B%5D
• http://varnachitram.com/2009/10/12/interview-with-ranjith-sankar-part-2/