# Chakravarthy Ramachandra

Chakravarthy Ramachandra is an Indian film producer who has worked on Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam-language films. After beginning his career as an independent producer, he joined YNOT Studios as its CEO.

## Career
### Early career

He continued working in the technical crew of Telugu films, notably serving as the line producer in Sukumar's Arya 2 (2009), Walt Disney Pictures's Anaganaga O Dheerudu (2011) and Oosaravelli (2011), and developed his knowledge of film-making. Ramachandra was then set to make his debut as a co-producer with Sukumarudu (2013), but later opted out of the venture. He later set up his own production house, Bad Monkey Productions, to produce the unreleased Telugu and Tamil comedy films Antha Scene Ledu and Nondi Kuthirai (2014) starring Navdeep and Shashank.

### YNOT Studios

Ramachandra first became involved with YNOT Studios during the release of Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi in Telugu as Love Failure. His work on the film as an executive producer paved the way for him to join YNOT Studios' other projects. After working as the executive producer of Guru (2017) and Vikram Vedha (2017), Ramachandra became the company's chief executive officer and in the late 2010s, he co-produced films such as Tamizh Padam 2 (2018) and Game Over (2019) alongside the studio's founder S. Sashikanth.
As the company approached its tenth anniversary, Ramachandra reversed the company's collaboration with Reliance Entertainment to co-produce several of their projects, and the announcement of their subsidiaries: its distribution arm, YNOT X and the music label YNOT Music. In the early 2020s, the company alternated between producing high-budget projects featuring leading actors and technical crew, and making small-budget content-driven films featuring relative newcomers. Big-budget productions such as Jagame Thandhiram (2021) and the Hindi version of Vikram Vedha (2022), were complemented by a number of smaller ventures with "off-beat" scripts including Halitha Shameem's Aelay (2021), Madonne Ashwin's Mandela (2021), Nishanth Kalidindi's Kadaseela Biriyani (2021) and Jayaprakash Radhakrishnan's Thalaikoothal (2023).

### Night Shift Studios

In August 2023, the studio announced the principal photography of its first feature film, Bramayugam directed by Rahul Sadasivan, starring Mammootty, Arjun Ashokan and Sidharth Bharathan in the lead roles. The film is scheduled to release in early 2024 across five Indian languages simultaneously.

## Personal life

Ramachandra married Pooja at the Taj Deccan, Hyderabad on 23 August 2013.

## Filmography

| † | Denotes films that have not yet been released |

### Films produced with YNOT Studios

| Year | Film | Language | Credited as | Cast | Director(s) |
| 2012 | Love Failure | Telugu | Executive producer | Siddharth, Amala Paul | Balaji Mohan |
| 2017 | Guru | Telugu | Executive producer | Venkatesh, Ritika Singh, Mumtaz Sorcar | Sudha Kongara |
| 2017 | Vikram Vedha | Tamil | Executive producer | Madhavan, Vijay Sethupathi, Shraddha Srinath | Pushkar–Gayathri |
| 2018 | Tamizh Padam 2 | Tamil | Co-producer | Shiva, Iswarya Menon | C. S. Amudhan |
| 2019 | Game Over | Tamil Telugu | Co-producer | Taapsee Pannu | Ashwin Saravanan |
| 2021 | Aelay | Tamil | Co-producer | Samuthirakani, K. Manikandan | Halitha Shameem |
| 2021 | Mandela | Tamil | Co-producer | Yogi Babu, Sheela Rajkumar | Madonne Ashwin |
| 2021 | Jagame Thandhiram | Tamil | Co-producer | Dhanush, James Cosmo, Aishwarya Lekshmi | Karthik Subbaraj |
| 2021 | Kadaseela Biriyani | Tamil | Producer | Vijay Ram, Haikim Shah | Nishanth Kalidindi |
| 2022 | Vikram Vedha | Hindi | Co-producer | Hrithik Roshan, Saif Ali Khan, Radhika Apte | Pushkar–Gayathri |
| 2023 | Thalaikoothal | Tamil | Co-producer | Samuthirakani, Kathir | Jayaprakash Radhakrishnan |
| 2023 | Martin Luther King | Telugu | Co-producer | Sampoornesh Babu, Naresh, Venkatesh Maha | Puja Kolluru |
| 2024 | Test † | Tamil | Producer | Madhavan, Nayanthara, Siddharth | S. Sashikanth |

### Films produced under Night Shift Studios

| Year | Film | Language | Credited as | Cast | Director(s) | Ref(s) |
| 2024 | Bramayugam | Malayalam | Producer | Mammootty, Arjun Ashokan, Sidharth Bharathan | Rahul Sadasivan | |