He worked on over 150 films including His Highness Abdullah, Bharatham, Kamaladalam, Sadayam, Chronic Bachelor, Akashadoothu, Pappayude Swantham Appoos , Punjabi House,Hitler, Aniyathipraavu and Manivathoorile Aayiram Sivarathrikal.
In 1954, Anandakuttan was born in vazhappilly, a small town near Changanassery, in Kottayam district of the south Indian state of Kerala, to a school teacher couple, Ramakrishnan Nair and Karthyayani Amma, as their only son among three children.
[1] He attended NSS School, Changanassery then moved to Chennai where he studied cinematography[2] to join K. Ramachandra Babu as his assistant.
[3] His debut as an independent cinematographer was in 1977, with the movie, Manassoru Mayil, directed by P. Chandrakumar,[4] which started a career which covered over 150 movies, some of which were commercially and critically successful such as His Highness Abdullah, Bharatham, Kamaladalam, Sadayam, Chronic Bachelor, Akashadoothu, Harikrishnans, Punjabi House and Aniyathipraavu.
[5] Anandakuttan was married to Geethamani and the couple had a son, Sreekumar and two daughters named Neelima and Karthika.