Natarajan Subramaniam

Natarajan Subramaniam
Born	Natarajan Subramaniam Paramakudi, Tamil Nadu, India
Occupation(s)	Cinematographer, Film Actor, producer
Years active	2001–present

Natarajan Subramanian, better known as Natty, is an Indian cinematographer who has worked on Hindi, Tamil and Telugu films. He has also worked as an actor in Tamil films and achieved recognition through his performance as a conman in Sathuranga Vettai (2014).

Career

Natarajan pursued an interest in photography and quit school at 18, choosing to take up a series of odd jobs to fund his interest rather than going through college. He worked as a still photographer at weddings, and then performed as a videographer at ceremonies. He briefly assisted cinematographer B. R. Vijayalakshmi but was unable to get a break in the film industry, so chose to work on documentaries instead, before venturing into work on commercials and music videos. He shot videos of the music band Euphoria's first album, and his work was well received. He became acquainted with director Ram Gopal Varma and the pair discussed a film project which did not materialise, before he was recommended by Varma to Anurag Kashyap, whom he worked with for three Hindi projects - Last Train to Mahakali (1999), Paanch (2003), and Black Friday (2004). In between he had also worked for Tamil romanctic-comedy Youth (2002) starring Vijay, and had briefly agreed to be a part of AR Murugadoss's Ramanaa (2001), which he later opted out from. Despite being active in Tamil films, he has chosen to prioritise work as a cinematographer in Hindi films, working on successful films including Jab We Met (2007), Golmaal Returns (2008) and Raanjhanaa (2013).

Away from cinematography in big-budget Hindi films, Natarajan has embarked on an alternate career as an actor in small-budget Tamil films. He initially appeared in two films by his friend Uday Mahesh, Naalai (2006) and Chakkara Viyugam (2008), both of which went unnoticed at the box office but won positive acclaim for Natarajan's performances as an actor. He starred in two further action-masala films aimed at the village and town audiences, Milaga (2010) and Muthukku Muthaaga (2011), which received similar lukewarm responses. In 2014, Natarajan featured in the Tamil caper film, Sathuranga Vettai directed by newcomer Vinoth and produced by Manobala. The film opened to positive reviews and became a surprise success at the box office, with a critic noting Natarajan "is brilliant as Gandhi Babu. He does his part with relish using his brains more than brawn with expressive body and eye language".

Filmography

As actor

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2002	Youth	Customer asking for Rani magazine	uncredited
2006	Naalai	Natty
2008	Chakkara Viyugam
2010	Milaga	Azhagar
2011	Muthukku Muthaaga	Raman
2014	Sathuranga Vettai	Gandhi Babu
2014	Jeeva	Man at bar	Special appearance in "Oru Rosa" song
2015	Katham Katham	Pandian
2017	Enkitta Mothathe	Ravi
2017	Bongu	Deva
2017	Richie	Selva
2018	Sandi Muni

As cinematographer

Year	Film	Language	Director	Notes
1999	Last Train to Mahakali	Hindi	Anurag Kashyap	Short Film
2002	Youth	Tamil	Vincent Selva	Debut Tamil film
2003	Paanch	Hindi	Anurag Kashyap	Debut Hindi film Unreleased
2004	Black Friday		Anurag Kashyap
2005	Parineeta		Pradeep Sarkar
2007	Eklavya: The Royal Guard		Vidhu Vinod Chopra
	Jab We Met		Imtiaz Ali
2008	Phir Kabhi		V. K. Prakash
	Halla Bol		Rajkumar Santoshi
	Golmaal Returns		Rohit Shetty
2009	Love Aaj Kal		Imtiaz Ali
2010	Lafangey Parindey		Pradeep Sarkar
	Knock Out		Mani Shankar
2011	Desi Boyz		Rohit Dhawan
2012	Thuppakki	Tamil	AR Murugadoss	"Vennilave" song only
2013	Raanjhanaa	Hindi	Anand L Rai
2014	Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty		AR Murugadoss
2015	Puli	Tamil	Chimbu Deven
2016	A Aa	Telugu	Trivikram Srinivas	Debut Telugu film
2017	My Story	Malayalam	Roshni Dinaker
2018	Chal Mohan Ranga	Telugu	Krishna Chaitanya

External links

• Natarajan Subramaniam at IMDb