S Nallamuthu’s famous documentary film – The World’s Most Famous Tiger’, aims at promoting tiger conservation by appealing to the emotions of human beings. By creating an emotional bond between tigers and humans, the movie, and its director, seeks to make tiger conservation more effective.”
Nallamuthu is a leading & an award winning wildlife filmmaker from Chennai, India. He specialized in cinematography from FTIT, Chennai and later worked as high-speed cameraman with Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). He has won several national & international awards including five times winner of the prestigious Indian National Film Awards.
He has worked with some of industry’s best networks right from Doordarshan to National Geographic Channel and BBC, and has shot India’s longest running Panda Award winning Environment series, ’Living on the Edge‘. His oeuvre includes firsts of many: the travel show ’Off the Beaten Track’, automobile show ’Wheels and reality show ‘Hospital’ for BBC, ’Soul Searching’ & ’Body Shock Specials‘ for Channel 4, ‘Life Force II’ —India. Section for Discovery, Hindi feature film titled ‘Dharm‘in full HD for theatrical release, and one of the first to use 4K resolution for wildlife filming in India. His passion for the Royal Bengal Tiger has translated into five tiger-centric international documentaries for National Geographic Channel and BBC, which he has produced, filmed and directed. His ability to add a theatrical touch to factual storytelling and his technical skills combined with a poetic visual style gives a unique perspective to his wildlife films. He is a regular peer Jury member of the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. Recently Nallamuthu was the Jury Chairman of the prestigious 52nd Indian Panorama Film Festival 2021.
For filmmaker Subbiah Nallamuthu, following a character is one of the most important parts of creating a great storyline. While this may be true for any filmmaker trying to present a believable narrative in front of the audience, the only difference is that Nallamuthu’s protagonists are tigers. Machli, Sundari and Maya are not just big cats, but some of the iconic characters for this wildlife filmmaker.
The World’s Most Famous Tiger’ documentary film is about Machli, the famous tigress from the forests of Ranthambore, won the filmmaker his fifth National Award in August 2019. Machli is also the star of another widely acclaimed film, Tiger Queen, which chronicles her journey of 19 years. Nallamuthu, who is based in Chennai, was in Pune recently for an event organised by a women-only wildlife tourism club named Jungle Belles. The event was aimed at encouraging women to travel and discover the jungles of India.
Nallamuthu feels a proper platform is needed. “We have channels on cooking, yoga, music, but not on wildlife & environment. This is the biggest issue for Indian wildlife filmmaker.”
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