Rajiv Menon

CINEMATOGRAPHER, DIRECTOR, WRITER

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Rajiv Menon, Founder of "Rajiv Menon Productions", born in Kerala, joined the Film and Television Institute of Chennai in 1981, to study cinematography. In 1984, he went to America to train under cinematographer Garret Brown, best known for his invention of the Steadicam. In 1986, Rajiv founded "Rajiv Menon Productions", popularly known today as "RMP", where he started his career in TV commercials. Rajiv received his first national recognition through his Asian Paints "Pongal" commercial, which he both shot and directed and music for this was composed by A R Rahman. RMP has since produced over 300 TV commercials for leading brands in the country, for over 25 years. Rajiv's work in feature films was noticed and well appreciated when he did the cinematography for the award winning feature film 'Bombay (1995)' . His skill as a cinematographer received much praise, and since, he has worked with accomplished filmmakers like Mani Ratnam, Shyam Benegal and Girish Karnad. His latest contributions have been in Mani Ratnam's Guru (2007) and Kadal (2013) . Rajiv's first directorial venture Minsaara Kanavu (1997) (Electric Dreams) was not only a popular hit but also fetched four national awards for best choreography, best playback - male & female, and best music director. His second directorial venture was the multi-starrer Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000) (I have found it), besides winning the best director and best picture awards at filmfare, was screened at numerous International Film Festivals like the London Film Festival, The Washington DC Festival and the Danish Film Festival. A song from the film also won singer Shankar Mahadevan his first National Award. Rajiv Menon is a tremendously hardworking individual and his versatility extends across everything from being an ad photographer, cinematographer, director, actor, singer and orator, making him one of the country's most reputed and sought after film makers. Rajiv is equally interested in giving back to the industry a range of talent it needs to constantly renew itself. It is with this principal aim that he founded the Mindscreen Film Institute - a film school that nurtures tomorrow's talent by providing comprehensive training across all facets of Cinematography, Screenwriting and Filmmaking. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Srinivas

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Streaming Availability

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Releases by Year

Rajiv Menon on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1991 to 2018. See the full graphs of the number of Rajiv Menon movies released per year from 1991 till 2018.

Top Genres

Rajiv Menon works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Romance Genre flixes. 33% of Rajiv Menon movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Rajiv Menon worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Rajiv Menon has worked on is 7.1.

7.1 / 10

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Drama,Romance
Bombay (1995)

A Hindu man and a Muslim woman fall in love in a small village and move to Mumbai, where they have two children. However, growing religious tensions and erupting riots threaten to tear the family apart.

8.1/10141 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

An Indian adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" focusing on two sisters of opposing temperaments.

7.6/10151 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

A mridangam maker's son, who aspires to learn the instrument from a maestro and become a mridangam player, has to cross social and personal barriers to reach his goal.

7.5/10131 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

A Garage Mechanic, Chaitanya, who wants to participate in a car race, finds himself beaten and left for dead after he comes to the assistance of a journalist. When he regains his senses he ...

7.2/10113 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Comedy,Crime,Mystery
Harikrishnans (1998)

Hari and Krishnan, a criminal lawyer duo, investigate the murder of Guptan.

6.8/10150 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

6.8/10129 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Romance
Minsaara Kanavu (1997)

This is the story of Priya (Kajol) and her life. She is friendly, outspoken, sensitive, yet precocious and apt to get into trouble, and is brought up by her dad, Amal Raj (Girish Karnad). ...

6.7/10153 min

Available in 6 platform(s).