Harikumar Madhavan Nair

Harikumar Madhavan Nair is an award-winning Sound Designer and audiographer who has the credit of working for Hindi and Malayalam films alike. Born to parents Madhavan Nair and Madhavi Amma, the audiographer is an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India.

Nair is a three-time National Award-winning sound designer who has been a part of the entertainment industry since 1993. The audiographer is best known for movies like Kanyaka Talkies Click to look into! >> Read More... , Nani Actor Nani (Naveen Babu Ghanta) is an adorable her >> Read More... , Valley of Flowers, and Samsara Click to look into! >> Read More... .

Harikumar served as location mixer and sound recordist for the 2013 mystery-drama Malayalam flick ‘Kanyaka Talkies’. Nair bagged Best Location Sound Recordist by the Kerala State Awards for the flick, helmed by K.R. Manoj. The movie, bankrolled by Tropical Cinema, features Lena, Murali Gopy Murali Gopy is a very revered name in the Malyalam >> Read More... , and Alencier Ley Lopez.

Nair also has to his credit the 2009 Gujarati documentary Do Din Ka Mela, for which he bagged the title Best Non- Feature Film Audiography by the National Film Awards The National Film Awards gets presented every year >> Read More... . The audiographer bagged the same title for another English documentary, A Pestering Journey, produced under the Tropical Cinema banner. He was awarded Best Non-Feature Film Audiography by the National Film Awards. A Pestering Journey is a 66-minute documentary film helmed by K.R. Manoj.                                           

The sound designer bagged his third National Film Award for the 2012 documentary film A Memory of the Sea for Best Non-Feature Film Audiography. Nair’s other movie credits include the 2019 Malayalam drama flick ‘Nani’, bankrolled by NiV Arts Movies. The movie, helmed and written by Samvid Anand, features Nirmala Srinivasan, Shweta Menon Shweta Menon is a Malayalam and Hindi movie actres >> Read More... , and Catherine Biji. Nair bagged Best Sync Sound for the movie awarded by the Kerala State Film Awards.

Nair worked as a second unit sound recordist for the 2006 film ‘Valley of Flowers’, written and directed by Pan Nalin Pan Nalin is an Indian director who directs motion >> Read More... . Bankrolled by Elzevir Films, France 2 Cinema, and Monsoon Films Private Limited, the movie stars Naseeruddin Shah Naseeruddin Shah is an experimental actor and asso >> Read More... , Milind Soman Born on 4th November 1965, Milind Soman is a super >> Read More... , and Mylene Jampanoi.

The audiographer also has the credit of serving as the second unit sound recordist for the independent film ‘Samsara’, helmed by Pan Nalin. The movie circumnavigates the life of a monk. It is produced by countries like Italy, France, Germany, and Switzerland, other than India.

His other projects include the 2021 Gujarati flick Last Film Show, helmed and scripted by Pan Nalin, the 2019 Irula film Netaji, starring Gokulam Gopalan Gokulam Gopalan has been named as A.M Gopalan, was >> Read More... , Malayalam fantasy flick Unmadiyude Maranam, released in 2019, and the Malayalam film Ka Bodyscapes, helmed by Jayan K. Cherian.

Nair is also known for other projects like the documentary Call from the Other Shore, documentary short film One Cube in Numerals, the flick Sengadal, Gattu, Loudspeaker, Manjadikuru, another documentary Speaking Tree, Unni, A Story That Begins at the End, and others.

Nair is married to Sandhya Nair and has a son named Abhiram H.