Prahlad Gopakumar

Prahlad Gopakumar is a Malayalam Cinematographer who lives in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. He was born on November 26, 1983, in Palghat, and his hometown is Thiruvananthpuram, Kerela, India. He did his Junior to High School education from ICSE & ISC board of education at Loyola School, Trivandrum, from 1988 to 2001. His wife’s name is Sunitha Menon. He completed a bachelor’s degree in Architecture in 2006 at the University of Kerela and worked as an Architectural trainee in Srishti in 2004. Later, in 2006 he did a two years diploma in Film and Video Communication. In 2009, he worked as Photographic Reccee at Bharath Bala Productions, as Corporate Social Responsibility at Akzo Nobel India, and later as Assistant Cinematographer in The Imprints.

In 2010, he did the cinematography for an Educational Video for Children at TERI India, and as Interior Design in Zinc Square Hospitalities, later in Infosys Trivandrum as Corporate Video and as a cinematographer in Zolaris Media. He worked as Director and Cinematographer at Documentation of Field Work in Jharkhand and UP, India. He worked at Zinc Square Entertainments for a set of 9 Music Videos. In 2012, he did the cinematography for a Malayalam feature film named ‘ One One is a Telugu reality game show which airs on Ze >> Read More... ’ at Ministry of Movies. In 2013, he worked on a Long Documentary ‘Waiting for a Storm’ in TISS.

Later in 2016, he worked on a Makhana Project at Ujjwal Utkarsh & PSBT, and for a Gujarati feature film ‘Dha’. Currently, he has been working as Faculty in Film at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology since 2020, and faculty in NID in Ahmedabad since 2014, where he is engaged in teaching and directing short documentaries for the Institute. He is skilled in Photography, Graphics, Music Videos, Photoshop, Documentaries, Feature Films, Advertising, Cinematography, Short Films, and more. He can speak Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, and English languages.