Soundarya Rajinikanth


Soundarya Rajinikanth is an Indian graphic designer, producer and director who primarily works in the Tamil film industry. She is the founder and owner of Ocher Picture Productions. Soundarya began her career in films as a graphic designer. For those starring her father Rajinikanth, she designed the title sequences. She became a film producer with Goa. She made her debut as a director with the film Kochadaiyaan.

Career

Soundarya did her childhood education in the Ashram Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Velachery, Chennai.
In 2007, Ocher Studios signed an agreement with Warner Bros Entertainment to partner up in producing and distributing Tamil films. Her directorial debut was supposed to be Sultan: The Warrior, a 3D animated film featuring her father Rajinikanth. Despite heavy pre-production promotion, including a teaser of the film and an interactive website, the film was dropped. She instead directed Kochadaiiyaan, India's first motion capture film, with Rajinikanth in the lead role. Through Kochadaiiyaan, Soundarya earned the distinction of becoming the first woman to direct her father in a feature film. At the NDTV Indian of the Year awards 2014, she was honoured for "Technical Innovation In Film".
In 2016, she worked on the pre-production of a film titled Nilavukku Enmel Ennadi Kobam with Dhanush, Kajal Aggarwal and Manjima Mohan, but the film was later dropped. Her next directorial venture was Velaiilla Pattadhari 2, shot in Tamil and Telugu languages.
In 2019, She started a production company called May 6 Entertainment.

Personal life

Soundarya is the younger daughter of actor Rajinikanth and his wife Latha. She has one elder sister, Aishwarya R. Dhanush.
Soundarya married Ashwin Ramkumar, an industrialist, on 3 September 2010 at Rani Meyyammai Hall in Chennai. The couple has a son, Ved, born on 6 May 2015. In September 2016, Soundarya revealed that she and her husband had filed for divorce by mutual consent due to irreconcilable differences. In July 2017, the couple officially divorced.
She has married Vishagan Vanangamudi, an actor and businessman, on 11 February 2019 at Leela Palace in Chennai.

Filmography

YearFilmNotesRef
1999PadayappaGraphic designer
2002BabaGraphic designer
2005ChandramukhiGraphic designer
2005Anbe AaruyireGraphic designer
2005SivakasiGraphic designer
2005MajaaGraphic designer
2005SandakozhiGraphic designer
2007Chennai 600028Graphic designer
2007SivajiGraphic designer
2008KuselanActor; cameo appearance in song "Cinema Cinema"
2008KathanayakuduActor; cameo appearance in song "Cinema Cinema"
2010GoaProducer
2014KochadaiiyaanDirector, graphic designer; special appearance in "Engae Pogutho Vaanam"
2017Velaiilla Pattadhari 2Director

Web series