Srinivas Sunderrajan

Srinivas Sunderrajan or Vaas is an Indian musician and an independent filmmaker based in Mumbai, The City of Dreams. He started his career in 2006. Vaas is widely known and famed for his films The United Kartik Krishnan Project (2010), Great Elephant (2012) and Gurgaon (2018), not just this, he directed the third season of The Dewarists (2013).

As a musician Srinivas plays the bass for Mumbai’s hardcore band Scribe. In his early years, Vaas assisted on an independent film named The Pool, directed by Chris Smith, starring Nana Patekar Nana Patekar is a popular Indian actor who was bor >> Read More... . The film won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival. Adding to his success , he then decided to come up with short films like Tea Break, which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for the Best Short Film at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles and Vaapsi, which won the Best Short at the MAMI festival in Mumbai.

The first Indian film ever to be screened at the Transilvania International Film Festival was Srinivas’ The United Kartik Krishnan Project. It was one of the greatest risks in his production career as the budget for the movie was just Rs.40,000 still because of the great storyline and the great role play, Anurag Kashyap Born on 10th September 1972, Anurag Kashyap has es >> Read More... helped in the promotion of the film after seeing the initial screening. His Next great project was the Great Elephant, Srinivas shares a deep connection with the movie as, he planned the plot of this movie in his college life.

The film premiered at the Greatest South Asian Film Festival in New York City and won The Jury Prize in the category of Best Narrative Feature of the Year 2011.A part was screened at the Indian Films Festival of Hope and in Copenhagen at a festival called CPH PIX. Srinivas, along with direction and writing, loves photography, entertaining his audience on the Vimeo app by making videos, and he is not afraid to share his opinion on his social media. Vaas also has in advance announced the plan of his third movie, which is named Heartless.