Poongkothai chandrahasan biography of michael
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Poongkothai Chandrahasan
Sri Lankan filmmaker and activist
Poongkothai Chandrahasan (born 1980) is a Sri Lankan filmmaker and activist. She starred in award-winning cinematographer P.
C. Sriram's 2004 movie, Vaanam Vasappadum, India's first film shot in digital high definition format.[1]
Early life
She was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, the daughter of Samuel Chelvanayakam Chandrahasan and Anne Nirmala née Naganathan.
Her family moved to India in 1983, when she was three. She studied at the Sacred Heart convent,[where?] and earned a BA in English and a Masters in Communication, and a diploma in film making. She interned at Kronkite and Ward in Washington D.C.
and apprenticed under P. C. Sreeram during the making of Vaanam Vasappadum and Chetan Shah.[1][2]
Chandrahasan is the granddaughter of S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, a Sri Lankan politician and leader of the Federal Party (TULF).[2] Her maternal grandfather, Dr.
E. M. V