Gopi Prasannaa

 ( Year Of Birth Missing ) 

Gopi Prasannaa is an Indian graphic designer who has designed many movie posters in the South Indian film industry. His notable works include the graphic novel-style poster for Aaranya Kaandam (2010) and introducing first-look posters with Kaththi (2014). During the COVID-19 lockdown, he gained recognition for the nostalgic series 'Ninaivugalai Thedi'.

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Personal life Prasannaa's first film in a theater was Sagara Sangamam (1983) when he was 6 years old. He was also interested in painting during his childhood. Prasannaa admires movie poster artists like Tom Martin and some Japanese artists. He was inspired from the hand-drawn movie hoardings of Chennai's golden era and Maniyan Selvam's illustrations in Ananda Vikatan magazines during his youth.

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Career

Prasannaa initially worked as a programmer, tried his hand in gaming, advertising and branding, before starting a career as a publicity designer. His journey in publicity design began with the Tamil film Aaranya Kaandam, directed by Thiagarajan Kumararaja in 2010. The poster was styled as a graphic novel fully illustrated in yellow and black making it the first of its kind for the Tamil industry. In 2014, Prasannaa introduced the trend of first-look posters in Tamil cinema with the film Kaththi, a social drama directed by AR Murugadoss. During the COVID-19 lockdown in India, Prasannaa created a series of retro movie posters for films like Sadma, 16 Vayathinile, Mullum Malarum, Mouna Ragam, Antha 7 Naatkal which are part of the 10-part series. The series was named 'Ninaivugalai Thedi', which translates to 'chasing memories'. He drew inspiration from the poster of Sagara Sangamam for the series.

In 2021, the first-look poster of Master, directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj, released on New Year's Eve. It quickly went viral on social media and set records.

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Selected filmography

+ List of film posters designed by Gopi Prasannaa
2010 ! scope="row"	Aaranya Kaandam	Thiagarajan Kumararaja	Debut as publicity designer 1st of 3 collaborations with Thiagarajan Kumararaja
2014 ! scope="row"	Kaththi	AR Murugadoss
2015 ! scope="row"	O Kadhal Kanmani	Mani Ratnam	1st of 6 collaborations with Mani Ratnam
2016 ! scope="row"	Theri	Atlee
2017 ! scope="row"	Kaatru Veliyidai	Mani Ratnam
2017 ! scope="row"	Mersal	Atlee
2018 ! scope="row"	Chekka Chivantha Vaanam	Mani Ratnam
2018 ! scope="row"	Sarkar	AR Murugadoss
2018 ! scope="row"	96	Premkumar Chandran
2019 ! scope="row"	Super Deluxe	Thiagarajan Kumararaja
2019 ! scope="row"	Bigil	Atlee
2019 ! scope="row"	Nerkonda Paarvai	H. Vinoth
2021 ! scope="row"	Master	Lokesh Kanagaraj	1st of 3 collaborations with Lokesh Kanagaraj
2022 ! scope="row"	Beast	Nelson Dilipkumar
2022 ! scope="row"	Vikram	Lokesh Kanagaraj
2022 ! scope="row"		Mani Ratnam
2023 ! scope="row"	Varisu	Vamshi Paidipally
2023 ! scope="row"	Thunivu	H. Vinoth
2023 ! scope="row"		Mani Ratnam
2023 ! scope="row"	Modern Love Chennai	Thiagarajan Kumararaja (Ninaivo Oru Paravai)	Also debut as production designer
2023 ! scope="row"	Leo	Lokesh Kanagaraj
2024 ! scope="row"	Ayalaan	R. Ravikumar
2024 ! scope="row"	The Greatest of All Time	Venkat Prabhu
2024 ! scope="row"	Vettaiyan	T. J. Gnanavel
2024 ! scope="row"	Meiyazhagan	Premkumar Chandran
2024 ! scope="row"	Amaran	Rajkumar Periasamy
2025 ! scope="row"	Vidaamuyarchi	Magizh Thirumeni
2025	Thug Life	Mani Ratnam
style="text-align:center;"		Gautham Vasudev Menon

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External links

Categories: Year Of Birth Missing, Living People, Film Poster Artists, Indian Graphic Designers, Indian Graffiti Artists

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