Mediente Films International Pvt ltd. is an Indian film entertainment production company founded by film producer Manu Kumaran, a second-generation filmmaker and son of national award-winning filmmaker K P Kumaran. Known for making entertaining and socially relevant films in multiple languages for audiences around the globe, Mediente has produced Indiefilms like Yellow, directed by Nick Cassevetes (starring Sienna Miller, Ray Liotta), Aaksha Gopuram (Mohanlal, Nithya Menen) and controversial films like Battle for Banaras, a documentary on Narendra Modi’s Banaras elections that has been banned by the Indian censor board and Mr Singh Mrs Mehta which got stuck as well at the censor board due to nudity.