Sunanda Murali Manohar

Who is Sunanda Murali Manohar?

Sunanda Murali Manohar is a noted Film Producer based in London, UK. She has produced over 25 feature films for South Asian and Western audiences. With a film and media career that has spanned over almost 3 decades, Sunanda is best known for her films Jeans, Thambi, Provoked and Dhaam Dhoom.

Born into a family business she has grown up in an environment where her father was a renowned distributor of Karnataka, India for Hindi films, also known as Bollywood. He was a pioneer of sorts in the film industry for over 50 years. Her father initiated and constructed the first air-conditioned cinema in Bangalore in 1965 and another in Mysore in 1971. Having distributed over 350 films in a span of 50 years in the industry, her father's knack for the media business greatly influenced Sunanda and she learnt the ropes of the trade at an early age.

By virtue of marriage to Dr J Murali Manohar she continued to do film distribution in Madras alongside her husband who started his career as a medical doctor and moved to the Media Business in 1985.

Since then, in 1987 she launched a distribution office in Chennai to distribute various Hindi films in Tamilnadu and Kerela. Sunanda then developed into producing feature films and continues to do so. Over the course of her career she collaborated with the likes of Mr Rajinikanth, Aishwarya Rai, Shankar, Madhavan, A R Rahman, Deepika Padukone and Bryan Adams.