Sruti Harihara Subramanian is a director, entrepreneur, theater actor and former Miss Chennai in 2002. Her first feature documentary A Far Afternoon, about artist Krishen Khanna, got 2 national awards: Rajat Kamal Award for Best Art and Culture Film and Best Music for non-feature film at the 63rd National Film Awards. She is notable for directing the 5 episode Amazon Exclusive musical docu-series, Harmony with A. R. Rahman and the 2017 documentary Brave and Bold. In 2019 she received the Upcoming Entrepreneur of the Year award from FICCI.
Early life Before starting her career as a documentary director, she was Miss Chennai in 2002 and worked as an assistant director with notable filmmakers like Revathi. She assisted Vikram K. Kumar in the movies Yavarum Nalam & 13B in 2009 and Vishnuvardhan (director) in the movie Panjaa in 2011. Sruti has also acted in Tamil TV series like Sahana in 2003, Chidambara Rahasyam in 2004 and was featured in over 100 print ads. Apart from winning the 2nd runner-up, she also won the Miss Talent and Miss Cyber Princess at the Miss Chennai contest in 2002. She is also a trained Carnatic singer and Bharatnatyam dancer.
Entrepreneur life
Sruti is a founder of Goli Soda Store, which was created as a sustainability store with zero wastage in 2013 in Chennai. In 2019 Sruti was awarded the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Ladies Organization (FLO) award for Upcoming Entrepreneur of the Year. Sruti received the award from Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit. The same year she was awarded the Yuva Samman Young Achiever award in the Best Entrepreneur category.
Sruti is also the founder trustee of The Cinema Resource Centre (TCRC) which is a not-for- profit public archive of Indian cinema designed to enable research on the audio-visual cultural artifacts produced by Indian films, especially those made in the South Indian regional languages.
Filmography
Year Title Role Language Type Notes 2015 A Far Afternoon: a Painted Saga by Krishen Khanna Director English Documentary feature film Won National Film Award 2016 Sewa Geet Director Hindi Music Video Piramal group anthem sung by Kailash Kher 2017 Brave and Bold Director Tamil / English Documentary film by Cuomo Foundation 2018 Harmony with A. R. Rahman Director English / Malayalam / Manipuri / Lepcha / Hindi Documentary film Featuring A R Rahman 2021 Yavanika Director Tamil / Kannada / Hindi / Telugu / English Dance Film featuring Priyadarsini Govind 2022-23 Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1 & 2 Promo Videos Director Tamil / English / Hindi Series of Promotional films
Awards and nominations 2015 : Rajat Kamal for the best art/cultural film at the 63rd Indian National Film Awards Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Ladies Organization (FLO) award for Upcoming Entrepreneur of the year Yuva Samman Young Achiever award.
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