Sriram Raghavan

About Sriram Raghavan

Sriram Raghavan is a director and other crew working in Hindi cinema and Telugu cinema. Clapnumber holds 19 titles for Sriram Raghavan, from The Eight Column Affair in 1987 to Ikkis in 2026. By decade, that is 1 in the 1980s, 2 in the 1990s, 2 in the 2000s, 6 in the 2010s and 6 in the 2020s. Those titles are mostly thriller, comedy and drama.

Biography

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 acclaimed Johnny Gaddaar (2007), an adaptation of the 1962 French novel Les mystifiés by Alain Reynaud-Fourton; followed by the action spy film Agent Vinod (2012) starring Saif Ali Khan; a critical and commercial failure. Raghavan's followup Badlapur (2015), a film based on Death's Dark Abyss by Massimo Carlotto met with positive reviews and was a moderate commercial success at the box office. Raghavan's prominence increased with Andhadhun (2018) which tells the story of a blind piano player who unwittingly becomes embroiled in the murder of a retired actor. The film received critical acclaim and was commercially successful. He is the recipient of several accolades, including two National film Awards and two Filmfare Awards.