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Poongkothai chandrahasan biography for kids
Poongkothai Chandrahasan
Sri Lankan filmmaker and activist
Poongkothai Chandrahasan (born ) is a Sri Lankan filmmaker and activist. She starred in award-winning cinematographer P. C.
Sriram's movie, Vaanam Vasappadum, India's first film shot in digital high definition format.[1]
Early life
She was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, the daughter of Samuel Chelvanayakam Chandrahasan and Anne Nirmala née Naganathan.
Her family moved to India in , when she was three. She studied at the Sacred Heart convent,[where?] and earned a BA in English and a Masters in Communication, and a diploma in film making. She interned at Kronkite and Ward in Washington D.C.
and apprenticed under P. C. Sreeram during the making of Vaanam Vasappadum and Chetan Shah.[1][2]
Chandrahasan is the granddaughter of S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, a Sri Lankan politician and leader of the Federal Party (TULF).[2] Her maternal grandfather, Dr.
E. M. V. Naganathan,