- Produced 98 movies in total during his life time.
- His 1944 film Arundathi was a commercial success and completed 100 days at the theatres.
- After the production of the first Tamil talkie Kalidas in 1931, the film industry emerged as a profitable means of investment. Sundaram set up Angel Pictures in Salem and produced movies along with S. S. Velayutham. He was brother of famous textile merchant V. V. C. R. Murugesa Mudaliar.
- He was the founder of the Salem-based film production company Modern Theatres.
- In 1961 he received the Certificate of Merit for Second Best Feature Film in Malayalam.
- Sundaram was instrumental in giving M. G. Ramachandran his first major solo box office hit in Manthiri Kumari. They followed it up with Sarvadhikari.
- Sundaram produced the Malayalam film Balan (1938).
- Sundaram was born in 1907 from Sengunthar Kaikola Mudaliar Community in Tiruchengodu in Salem district to a wealthy textile merchant V.V.C.Ramalingam Mudaliar and had his studies in India and in Leeds, England, where he graduated in textile engineering.
- He first film produced under the banner of Modern Theatres was Sathi Ahalya in 1937.
- He was an Indian actor, director, and producer.
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