K. T. Kunjumon

K. T. Kunjumon

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K. T. Kunjumon Profile

  • Name:
  • K. T. Kunjumon
  • Born:
  • November 15, 1953

K. T. Kunjumon Biography

K. T. Kunjumon is a very famous film producer and writer of Tamil movies. He produced commercial Tamil hits like Gentleman, Kaadhalan and Kadhal Desam. Till now he has produced 11 movies in the career spanning to more than 2 decades and for all these movies, music was provided by A. R. Rahman. Kunjumon is also famous for his super hits with director Shankar. In fact Shankar was introduced to films by Kunjumon through Gentleman in 1993, which was his first major hit too. He introduced former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen through 1996 movie, Ratchagan, which was the most expensive film made in Tamil till 1998. Despite chartbuster songs like Soniya Soniya and Mallikaye Thottathu, the movie was a huge flop. The movie was directed by debutant Praveen Gandhi.

 

He was born in 1953. After school education, Kunjumon worked in the travel agency business and hotel business before entering entertainment industry. He entered to film industry as a distributor and has distributed about 350 movies in Tamil and Malayalam languages. He also dubbed many movies to other languages. As a film producer, he started off with Malayalam in the late 1980s and with 1990s he moved to Tamil film industry. He has been one of the most successful film producers in Tamil during 1990’s. Rahman’s chartbuster songs were the highlights of his movies in this decade.

 

He started a film production company A. R. S. Movies Private Ltd. He has made many youth oriented movies in association with Shankar and Rahman and such expensive movies proved to be huge hits too.  Suriyan, Nilave vaa and Endrendrum Kadhal are other production ventures. However he took a break from the industry in the early 2000’s.

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Updated: June 16, 2014

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