Sruti Harihara Subramanian

Sruti Harihara Subramanian has concieved and directed the Amazon Exclusive musical docu-series "Harmony with AR Rahman." Sruti is a National award winning film maker and a theatre actor with a deep love for animals and the environment. Her debut feature documentary 'A Far Afternoon ' on eminent painter Krishen Khanna bagged the Rajat Kamal for the best art/cultural film at the 63rd Indian National Film Awards and also the best music for non- feature film. It has been screened across various film festivals and cities including London, Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Kochi, Hyderabad, Stockholm and in the US of A. It has been nominated for the best documentary in the New York Indian International Film Festival 2016 and at The Indian Film Festival at Stuttgart. Her music video Sewa Geet which was shot across the length and breadth of India has also received great acclaim. The song was based on Rabindranath Tagore's poem 'Matrimondir Punya Angana' with Hindi interpretation by Javed Akhtar and performed by Kailash Kher. A graduate in Visual Communications, Sruti won the title of Miss.Chennai, runner up along with the titles of Ms.Talent and Ms. Cyber princess in 2002. Since then she has modelled for over 100 brands. She has debuted as an actor with veteran director K.Balachander's music based TV serial Sahana. She enacted a character specially created and curated by the legendary director. Sruti has worked as an assistant to actor/director Revathy in the tele film 'Verrukku Neer'. She later assisted director Vikram K Kumar on the bilingual feature film Yaavarum Nalam (Tamil) and 13B (Hindi). She assisted director Vishnu Vardhan on a Telugu film 'Panjaa'. She was the assistant director for British pop icon MIA's music video 'Bird flu' and in Yuvan Shankar Raja's music video 'I'll be there for you'. Her company Happy Wanderer Films has several national and international corporate and ad films to its credit for companies and NGOs like Piramal Enterprises, Vasan Eye Care, Brittania, Amec Foster Wheeler , Craft Council of India, Villgro, Cuomo Foundation an Ngo based in Monaco etc. Sruti is 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 regional languages of South India. Sruti also runs golisodastore.com a platform to bring environment-friendly products to the mainstream market. Sruti has been working on a couple of feature film scripts and in her spare time she pursues her love for acting by performing with the Chennai based theatre group Theatre Nisha.