Yadu Vijayakrishnan is a filmmaker, cinematographer and writer. At the age 19, he worked as one of the cinematographers of the Brazilian film Feio, Eu? and went onto make several short films before his graduation. He directed and produced over twenty historical documentaries and a fifty-episode travelogue series for the TV channel where he worked for two years. Subsequently, he directed the riveting documentary '21 Months of hell' which garnered widespread media attention for portraying the torture methods employed by the government during the Emergency. After working as the cinematographer for two films, he made two horror web-series before directing the Sanskrit movie Bhagavadajjukam. 'Bhagavadajjukam' won several awards including being officially selected in International Film Festival of India and Bengaluru International Film Festival.