Sudeesh Nair, a.k.a. Pappu, is a protege of National Award winning cinematographer and filmmaker Rajeev Ravi. He started out by assisting Rajeev Ravi in films like Chandni Bar (2001), Shesham (2002) and Dev.D (2009), and subsequently made his debut as an independent cinematographer with the Mollywood crime film Second Show (2012). Since then, Pappu has helmed the camera in a number of Malayalam movies, notable among which are the coming of age mystery thriller Koothara (2014), Njan Steve Lopez (2014) and the romantic drama Eeda (2018).