[3] Sundaram is the son of dancer Mugur Sundar, and the elder brother of choreographers Prabhu Deva and Nagendra Prasad.
[4] Sundaram began his career assisting as a choreographer for his father Mugur Sundar's projects, before going on to lead troupes.
[6] He then went on to become a choreographer of Tamil directors Mani Ratnam and Shankar, and worked on Amitabh Bachchan's album, Aby Baby (1996).
[7] After working on an unreleased film titled Colombus, he then went on to feature in the trilingual One Two Three (2003) alongside Jyothika and his brothers.
Choreographers and artists L. L. Cool Jayanth, Ashok Raja, Dinesh,[11] Sridhar,[12] Shobi Paulraj,[13] Baba Bhaskar,[14] Kalyan, Johny, Noble Paul,[15] Prem Rakshith, Jani,[16] Lalitha Shobi, Sathish Krishnan, Viji Sathish, Poppy, Japan Kumar, Sindhuja, Nanditha Jennifer, Raja, Shanthi Arvind, Anusha Swamy, Boopathy & Vasanthi had worked as dancers and assistants to him.