Rahul Riji Nair is a promising film director and screenwriter of Malayalam cinema. His film, Kalla Nottam (2019), won the National Award for Best Malayalam Film and the Golden Royal Bengal Tiger Award for Best Indian Film.
His debut feature film as a director, Ottamuri Velicham, received Best Feature Film at the Kerala State Film Awards 2017. The critically acclaimed film starring Vinitha Koshy and Deepak Parambol was shown at different film festivals and also received two international awards and four international nominations. His second film as a director, Dakini in 2018, was panned by the critics and was a box office failure. It was a commercial film starring Sarasa Balussery and Savithri Sridhar of Sudani from Nigeria fame playing pivotal roles, apart from veteran artists – Pauly Wilson and Sethulakshmi. His 2022 film, Keedam, got noticed.
Rahul Riji Nair – National Award-winning Malayalam Film Director
Rahul Riji Nair hails from Kollam. He completed his degree in Software engineering and worked as a software engineer as well as Marketing Manager in Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram, before he forayed into the entertainment field. He set up his own production company, First Print Studios, in 2012 and made the first documentary film, The Human Boundaries. He later directed a few short films, one music video in Tamil and a few documentary films, before he scripted and directed Ottamuri Velicham in 2017. The director has struggled for many years before he became a full-fledged director, and at many times his film has been cancelled.
Rahul Riji Nair – Some interesting and lesser-known facts
1. He married Nithya Vijay in 2012, and in the same year, he started his production house.
2. His debut film Ottamuri Velicham, a slow-paced, realistic thriller, was awarded the Second Best Feature Film award at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival 2018, apart from numerous honours.
3. The film was also shortlisted for the Oxfam Best Film on Gender Equality Award at the Mumbai Film Festival.
4. His Tamil music video, Mounam Sollum Varthaigal, released in 2017, was an instant hit.
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