[2][3] He was the Line Producer/Production Supervisor on several international productions including the Sri Lankan location shoot of Paramount Pictures' Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Indochine (1992).

[2][7] Rutnam was the founder of Lionair, a defunct Sri Lankan airline, and owns the Asian Aviation Centre, an aeronautical engineering and flying academy.

[2] Rutnam was a school boy when David Lean arrived in Sri Lanka to shoot his Second World War epic, The Bridge on the River Kwai.

[4][5] Due to this exposure, to the consternation of his parents, he dropped out of school and went to London to pursue his dream of a career in films.

He later moved to the United States and attended the film school at the University of Southern California and the San Fernando Valley College of Law.