Allirajah Subaskaran

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Summary

Allirajah Subaskaran is a British-Sri Lankan entrepreneur who founded Lycamobile and Lyca Productions and became a major financier and distributor in South Asian cinema. His public record includes substantial philanthropy through the Gnanam Foundation, including water and development projects, Ebola relief, flood assistance, school-support initiatives and donations to public COVID-19 relief funds. Lyca has also backed films addressing issues such as farmer distress and corporate exploitation, although its wider slate is commercially oriented and spans mainstream genres without a consistent representation-first or activist identity. His business career has attracted political scrutiny, including controversy over alleged links between Lyca and Sri Lankan political interests, which he denied; those disputes do not themselves indicate woke activism. Overall, the documented pattern is philanthropic and commercially cultural rather than ideological or identity-driven.