Sabu Cyril is an Indian film art director He has won National Film Award for Best Art Direction four times and Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction including south five times His work in Enthiran won him international recognition Over the years he has emerged to be the most expensive and celebrated art director in the country Sabu Cyril was born in Kerala and completed his schooling there He graduated from the Government College of Fine Arts Chennaiformerly Government School of Arts and Crafts Chennai From 1982 to 1988 he was a freelance graphics designer for companies such as Welcomgroup Hotels the Taj Group of Hotels and Madura Coats In 1988 he began his art director career and has directed more than 480 advertisements 3 teleserials and 50 feature films in Malayalam Hindi Tamil Telugu and Kannada and designed several stage shows In 1996 he directed the stage design for the Miss World beauty pageant He also worked as one of the 2nd unit directors in the 1990 film Iyer the Great From Wikipedia