After graduating as an engineer, Madhavan's profound interest in movies made him to pursue film studies at a film institute in Chennai, India. Then he started to work as an assistant director under one of the most prominent filmmakers in India, Mr. Ram, who predominantly works in the Tamil film industry. Madhavan assisted him in two feature films which were chosen to be screened at the International film festival of Rotterdam. Then he started his work on a short film script which is now known as "The Fall".