While on an exhibition in Germany, he was invited to make a movie and thus began his work as a director.
His first movie was Paadha Mudra which was both critically and commercially successful.
Yugapurushan, released in February 2010, had been in the making for over fifteen years.
[1] Though Sukumaran has made few films, they were "enough to establish him as a filmmaker worth reckoning" with and to give him a reputation in Malayalam cinema.
[2] He studied painting and mastered water color as well as oil color under Artist Mouttathu K Raman Unnithan (Medayil Bungalow) at Pallickal, Nooranadu in a gurukula sampradaya for several years.