Sriram Raghavan

Sriram Raghavan
Born	1963 (age 53–54) Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Residence	Mumbai
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Film director

Sriram Raghavan (born 1963) is an Indian film director and screen writer. He is notable for producing a 45-minute docufiction on Indian serial killer Raman Raghav and 2004 Hindi feature film Ek Hasina Thi produced by Ram Gopal Varma, starring Urmila Matondkar and Saif Ali Khan. His second feature film was 2007's Johnny Gaddar. His latest film Badlapur (2015) received positive reviews and was commercially successful.

Sriram was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu in a Tamil family to a botanist father and a movie-loving mother. He grew up in Pune, where he also did his schooling at the St. Vincent's High School.

He is a graduate of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune.Rajkumar Hirani, one of his batchmates, edited his diploma film, The Eight Column Affair, which went on win the National Film Award in 1987.

He started his career before joining the FTII for Stardust, but left since he wasn't interested in it. Post his FTII studies, he made a documentary Raman Raghav, with Raghuvir Yadav. Later, he met Ram Gopal Varma, who liked his work in Raman Raghav, and signed him up for the film Ek Hasina Thi, a dark thriller starring Saif Ali Khan and Urmila Matondkar.

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