Nair Vinod Raman

VINOD RAMAN NAIR was born on the 27 th October 1973, in Mumbai - India to a middle class household of Socialist India. His father Raman Nair was an Administrative Manager at the BIMA and mother Droupathy Nair was working with the Department of Atomic Energy. Fathoming through a conservative upbringing, where Television was not allowed and films were abolition, he was inspired by Richard Attenborough 'Gandhi' which was screened in his school. And what further harnessed his story telling endowments were the Amar Chitra Katha and Indrajal comics that his father used to get for him to get him in to the habit of reading. And as he grew, he ventured in all kinds of fiction and turned a voracious reader. World History was a subject he relished. Languages were another interest area. Malayalam being his mother tongue, he ventured in to other languages viz. Hindi, English, Marathi and German. After finishing his high school and pursuing an Economics degree from Mumbai University in 1991, he was obsessed with films. With growing resistance from the family and not knowing which direction to move what came as a ray of hope was his meeting with the Late Basu Bhattacharaya, who was the trustee of the college. After the degree, he passionately tried an admission with the film and Television Institute in vain. His first break came when he met Basu Bhattacharaya again and started working as an intern with him. Following Basuda's demise and his meeting with Govind Nihalani introduced him to the world of documentaries. With the film scenario at that time not being too exciting in Mumbai, he took to writing documentaries and commercials. THE CHEST, a documentary on mountain quarrying in 1996 for FILMS DIVISION earned a special mention at the Maharashtra State Awards 1996. What followed were 12 documentaries in a span of 3 years. Another documentary SLUM DIVERS OF GANGES earned a special mention at the Hongkong festival in 1997. Harnessing his dream to direct his story one day, he ventured all across India having assisted legendary film makers like Pulak Gogai, Kamal and Feroz Khan. He also assisted Imtiaz Ali for a TV series. He also worked with Zee Network for a year in 2000 writing several TV programs. His first break came when he met a German Producer Jacob Prinz. The collaboration went on to bag 2 documentaries on Palestine. He was perhaps the 1 st Indian to shoot at the Gaza Strip amidst the waging war. He was signed to write a movie 'Palestine - the day of revenge' with German literary Laureate Ludwig Watzal starring Omar Shariff. But the film got shelved following financial problems. But with documentaries being unchartered territory in Bollywood, he hit a lean patch. Following which he took to writing again. He wrote the first SINGLISH film of India 'THE AWAKENING' PRODUCED BY Paradise Pictures. He wrote the screenplay for the critically acclaimed Marathi movie RUNH. There were other films which he wrote for Suhail Tatari, Anil Devgan and few others which didn't materialize. In 2011 he took to production with his collaboration with CATNMOUSE ENTERTAINMENT PVT LTD. They went on to produce the film MICHAEL with Nasseruddin Shah. In 2016 he made a short film 'INDISPOSABLE CHOKER', which was acclaimed at the Kerala Film Festival. He has a wife, who is a law professional and a 11yr old son who is doing his high school.