The Jakarta Post – At her young age, director Madhumita Sundar Raman, 25, is already carving a space for herself as an artist in the South Indian film industry. The making of her latest movie-the Tamil comedy Kola Kolaya Mundhirika – brought her and her crew members to Indonesia for the filming of a song on location.
“This has never been done before. People don’t know about Indonesia and there is so much beauty here that can be shown,” Madhumita told The Jakarta Post during a recent interview.
Having finished a week of filming in Jakarta, Garut, Kawah Putih, Bandung and Bali, Madhumita (now based in Chennai) confessed she missed Indonesia, since she grew up here attending Gandhi Memorial International School from sixth grade through to high school.
Madhumita went on to pursue a degree in multimedia studies at the La Salle School of Arts in Singapore where she directed two short films on the symbolism of the bindi (a decorative accessory worn on the forehead by women in India) and womanhood. Both projects went on to win awards from the BBC and the Singaporean government.
Encouraged by such early recognition, Madhumita continued her specialization in filmmaking at the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles where working on Pirates of the Caribbean 3 and meeting Johnny Depp were just a tiny part of her varied experiences..full story.
