page_title: Sanal Kumar Sasidharan
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Sanal Kumar Sasidharan / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Prakash Raj at Kerala Literature Festival 2018 Kozhikode
context_page_description: Sanal Kumar Sasidharan is an Indian film director and poet.
context_section_description: Sanal Kumar Sasidharan was born in Perumkadavila village, Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala on 8 April 1977. He graduated in Zoology from VTM NSS College Dhanuvachapuram,Trivandrum and law, then started his job as a lawyer. He was associated with Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a student organization associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party, and was the unit secretary of the ABVP during his days at the Law College. He later left ABVP over political differences, and became a critic of the BJP-controlled Central government. In 2001, he formed a film society, Kazhcha Chalachithra Vedi with his colleagues, for making independent movies through crowd funding. He has directed three short films and one feature film through crowd funding. He was awarded as the Best Director in the Kerala State Film Awards 2014. He got internationally reputed Tiger Award in the International Film Festival Rotterdam for his film Sexy Durga.
caption: Prakash Raj with sanalkumar sasidharan at KLF 18
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