Sujith Sudhakaran is a costume designer associated with the Malayalam film industry. He also works in Telugu and Tamil cinema. He won his maiden National award for best costume designer for Malayalam movie, Marakkar: Lion of the Arabian Sea (2021). He shared the award with V. Sai and they worked together on the film. His work for yet another Mohanlal starrer, Bro Daddy also got noticed. Sujith frequently works with Mohanlal-starrer films. In fact, his first Malayalam work was Oppam starring the megastar, followed by Lucifer.
Sujith Sudhakaran – National Award-winning Costume Designer
‘Oppam’ (2016) is Sujith Sudhakaran’s debut work in Malayalam
Sujith was born and brought up in Thrissur. Mannuthi is his hometown. He has one younger brother. His father was employed in gulf during his academic years. He initially pursued engineering studies. Later he discontinued it and studied fashion designing and took diploma from Bangalore Vogue Institute.
He took internship under different fashion designers and also travelled extensively to learn more about costumes and fashion. He also learnt dyeing and printing during his travels. Even after joining the fashion industry, he spent most of his money for travelling. He started a business venture, and he failed to run that label for even 1 year. It flopped, and later he joined the fashion industry, where he earned success and popularity. He was only 23 then. Now he owns a business firm named Conlang.
Sujith Sudhakaran was in the ad industry before joining films. He has done costume designs for celebrities like Virat Kohli during his ad-career. He never thought he would get into the film industry this early, and got into films in the hope he could get some good investment for his further business plans.
Sujith Sudhakaran – Some interesting and lesser-known facts
1. Apart from his friendship with colours and designs, his worldwide travels helped him a lot in his profession. When he travels one place, tries to learn fashion of that place.
2. At a time, he never takes on more projects together, as he feels it may affect his work. He just wants to concentrate on quality work, rather than doing more films.
3. He followed director Priyadarshan for a long time; in fact, he took a lot of effort to convince him for his first break in Malayalam, Oppam. He was living next to Priyadarshan’s residence, and when he used to go for morning walk, used to follow him, saying, ‘don’t want remuneration, just need work’. Years later, Priyadarshan’s Marakkar earned him National award.
4. For the work of Marakkar, 30 people worked with him day and night. As it told the story which happened 500 years back, hand stitching was used for most works (especially for hideout costumes of Mohanlal and his associates), adding more efforts to the job. And he won National award for its efforts.
5. Wardrobe of ‘Go Daddy’ was an instant hit. Double shaded saris and scallop work in saree borders became talk of the town.
6. Mostly period cinema wins National award for best costume design, and Marakkar also belong to this category. He won the award in the 8th year, since he became a part of fashion industry.
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