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{{Infobox person
| name = Madhumitha
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| birth_name = Madhumitha Sundararaman
| birth_date =
| birth_place = [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], India
| spouse =
| death_place =
| children =
| occupation = Director, writer
| yearsactive = 2008–present
}}

'''Madhumitha''' is a [[Tamil film]] director.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movies-slide-shows/movie-2/top-directors/directors-25-21.html|title=Kollywood's Top 25 Directors - Directors - Vetrimaran Balaji Sakthivel Lingusamy Vasanth Karu Pazhaniappan Simbudevan|website=www.behindwoods.com}}</ref>

==Career==
Madhumita was born in [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], India and grew up in [[Indonesia]]. She later moved to [[Singapore]] for college and did her master's degree in [[Los Angeles]], US.<ref name = hindu>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/moodu-mukkallo-cheppalante-marks-the-debut-of-director-madhumita-and-hero-rakendu-mouli-in-telugu-films/article6753905.ece|title=Challenging sterotypes|first=Y. Sunita|last=Chowdhary|date=4 January 2015|work=The Hindu}}</ref>

During her stay in Singapore she made several short films, one of which won the best of the world category in BBC and she was honoured with the Singapore Student Award.<ref name = hindu/> In USA, she briefly worked with the ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' team before returning to Chennai to become a film director.<ref name = hindu/>

Her debut film was the romantic drama ''[[Vallamai Tharayo]]'' starring [[R. Parthipan]] and [[Chaya Singh]]. In spite of mixed reviews,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/2008/jun/27ssvd.htm|title=Review: Vallamai Tharayo|website=www.rediff.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/Well-begun-just-half-done-Vallamai-Thaaraayo/article15399090.ece|title=Well begun, just half done - Vallamai Thaaraayo|date=27 June 2008|work=The Hindu}}</ref> with [[Sify]] calling her direction "amateurish",<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924211509/http://www.sify.com/movies/vallamai-tharayo-review-tamil-14704805.html sify.com]</ref> the film completed a 100 days-run at the box office <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150421072846/http://www.sify.com/movies/vallamai-tharayo-celebrates-100-days-news-tamil-kkfsMGajidhsi.html sify.com]</ref> and won the [[Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Family Film]] in 2008.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190925115710/https://www.sify.com/movies/tamilnadu-state-awards-2007-2008-announced-news-tamil-kkfr09fffbgsi.html sify.com]</ref> According to Madhumitha, the film was also screened at various international film festivals including the [[Newport Beach Film Festival]] in Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/Doing-festival-rounds/article15931543.ece|title=Doing festival rounds|date=25 March 2009|work=The Hindu}}</ref> Her second film was the comedy flick ''[[Kola Kolaya Mundhirika]]'', which was co-written by [[Crazy Mohan]]. After a five-years hiatus, 2015 will see the release of her next projects, the bilingual romantic comedies, ''[[Moone Moonu Varthai]]'' (Tamil) / ''[[Moodu Mukkallo Cheppalante]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/etcetera/article6711013.ece|title=Etcetera|first=Nikhil|last=Raghavan|date=20 December 2014|work=The Hindu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movies/news/Three-words-of-love/articleshow/31789264.cms|title=Three words of love - Times of India|website=The Times of India}}</ref>

==Filmography==
*''All films are in Tamil, unless otherwise noted.''
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! rowspan="2" style="width:35px;"| Year
! rowspan="2" style="width:150px;"| Film
! colspan="2" style="width:195px;"| Credited as
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; width:250px;"| Notes
|-
! style="width:65px;" | Director
! width=65 | Writer
|-
| 2008 || ''[[Vallamai Tharayo]]'' || style="text-align:center;"| {{y}} || style="text-align:center;"| {{y}} || [[Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Family Film]]
|-
| 2010 || ''[[Kola Kolaya Mundhirika]]'' || style="text-align:center;"| {{y}} || style="text-align:center;"| {{y}} ||
|-
| 2015 || ''[[Moone Moonu Varthai ]]'' || style="text-align:center;"| {{y}} || style="text-align:center;"| {{y}} || Simultaneously shot in Telugu as ''Moodu Mukkallo Cheppalante''
|-
|2019 ||''[[K.D. (film)|K. D.]]'' || style="text-align:center;"| {{y}} || style="text-align:center;"| {{y}} ||
|-
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|id=3373917}}

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