Chakravarthy Ramachandra

Chakravarthy Ramachandra is an Indian film producer who has worked on Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam-language films. After beginning his career as an independent producer, he joined YNOT Studios as its CEO.

Chakravarthy Ramachandra
Born	(1978-09-21) 21 September 1978 (age 46) Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India
Other names	Ram
Education	Post Graduate Diploma in Film Making
Alma mater	London Film Academy
Occupation	Film producer
Years active	2005–present
Spouse	Puja Chakravarthy ​ (m. 2013)​

Career

Early career

He continued working in the technical crew of Telugu films, notably serving as the line producer in Sukumar's Arya 2 (2009), Walt Disney Pictures's Anaganaga O Dheerudu (2011) and Oosaravelli (2011), and developed his knowledge of film-making. Ramachandra was then set to make his debut as a co-producer with Sukumarudu (2013), but later opted out of the venture.^[1] He later set up his own production house, Bad Monkey Productions, to produce the unreleased Telugu and Tamil comedy films Antha Scene Ledu and Nondi Kuthirai (2014) starring Navdeep and Shashank.^[2][3][4][5]

YNOT Studios

Ramachandra first became involved with YNOT Studios during the release of Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi in Telugu as Love Failure. His work on the film as an executive producer paved the way for him to join YNOT Studios' other projects. After working as the executive producer of Guru (2017) and Vikram Vedha (2017), Ramachandra became the company's chief executive officer and in the late 2010s, he co-produced films such as Tamizh Padam 2 (2018) and Game Over (2019) alongside the studio's founder S. Sashikanth.^[6][7]

As the company approached its tenth anniversary, Ramachandra reversed the company's collaboration with Reliance Entertainment to co-produce several of their projects, and the announcement of their subsidiaries: its distribution arm, YNOT X and the music label YNOT Music.^[8] In the early 2020s, the company alternated between producing high-budget projects featuring leading actors and technical crew, and making small-budget content-driven films featuring relative newcomers. Big-budget productions such as Jagame Thandhiram (2021) and the Hindi version of Vikram Vedha (2022), were complemented by a number of smaller ventures with "off-beat" scripts including Halitha Shameem's Aelay (2021), Madonne Ashwin's Mandela (2021), Nishanth Kalidindi's Kadaseela Biriyani (2021) and Jayaprakash Radhakrishnan's Thalaikoothal (2023).^[9][10]

Night Shift Studios

In August 2023, the studio announced the principal photography of its first feature film, Bramayugam, directed by Rahul Sadasivan and starring Mammootty, Arjun Ashokan, and Sidharth Bharathan in the lead roles.^[11] The film released in January 2024 across five Indian languages.^[12]

Personal life

Ramachandra married Pooja at the Taj Deccan, Hyderabad on 23 August 2013.^[13]

Filmography

†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Films produced with YNOT Studios

Year	Film	Language	Credited as	Cast	Director(s)	Ref(s)
2012	Love Failure	Telugu	Executive producer	Siddharth, Amala Paul	Balaji Mohan
2017	Guru	Telugu	Executive producer	Venkatesh, Ritika Singh, Mumtaz Sorcar	Sudha Kongara	[14]
	Vikram Vedha	Tamil	Executive producer	Madhavan, Vijay Sethupathi, Shraddha Srinath	Pushkar–Gayathri	[15]
2018	Tamizh Padam 2	Tamil	Co-producer	Shiva, Iswarya Menon	C. S. Amudhan	[16][a]
2019	Game Over	Tamil Telugu	Co-producer	Taapsee Pannu	Ashwin Saravanan	[18][a]
2021	Aelay	Tamil	Co-producer	Samuthirakani, K. Manikandan	Halitha Shameem	[19][b]
	Mandela	Tamil	Co-producer	Yogi Babu, Sheela Rajkumar	Madonne Ashwin	[21][a]
	Jagame Thandhiram	Tamil	Co-producer	Dhanush, James Cosmo, Aishwarya Lekshmi	Karthik Subbaraj	[22][a]
	Kadaseela Biriyani	Tamil	Producer	Vijay Ram, Haikim Shah	Nishanth Kalidindi	[23]
2022	Vikram Vedha	Hindi	Co-producer	Hrithik Roshan, Saif Ali Khan, Radhika Apte	Pushkar–Gayathri	[24][c]
2023	Thalaikoothal	Tamil	Co-producer	Samuthirakani, Kathir	Jayaprakash Radhakrishnan	[25]
	Martin Luther King	Telugu	Co-producer	Sampoornesh Babu, Naresh, Venkatesh Maha	Puja Kolluru
2025	Test †	Tamil	Producer	Madhavan, Nayanthara, Siddharth	S. Sashikanth

Films produced under Night Shift Studios

Year	Film	Language	Credited as	Cast	Director(s)	Ref(s)
2024	Bramayugam	Malayalam	Producer	Mammootty, Arjun Ashokan, Sidharth Bharathan	Rahul Sadasivan