Bijith Bala (born 29 May 1980) is an Indian film director/editor, who has worked predominantly in Indian movie industry. Bijith has worked in movies like '' Shutter'' (2012), ''

Nellikka ''Nellikka'' is a 2015 Malayalam-language film written by P R Arun and directed by Bijith Bala. The film stars Deepak Parambol with Atul Kulkarni, Sashi Kumar, and Bhagath Manuel in supporting roles. The film is a musical family film. Prakash M ...

'' (2015), '' Vellam'' (2021), and '' Dug Dug''. His editing career has included various languages.

Career

Bijith began as a graphical designer in 2003. His first movie as a visual effect artist was ''

Ente Veedu Appuvinteyum ''Ente Veedu Appuvinteyum'' (transl. My home also for Appu) is a 2003 Indian Malayalam-language family drama film directed by Sibi Malayil and produced by Prem Prakash. It was the debut movie as scriptwriters of brothers Bobby and Sanjay. ...

'' in 2003. Following that he worked in around 10 movies as a visual effects artist. In 2007 he moved to film editing field. He has many super hits in his editing career. In 2012 he worked as an associated director for the movie Shutter. In 2015 he has his directorial debut

. The movie was a musical family entertainer. In 2018 he has moved to Bollywood and did the editing work for Rocketry: The Nambi Effect. Later he has worked in his second Bollywood movie Dug Dug, which is directed by Ritwik Pareek and has selected in

Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world. Founded in 1976, the festival takes place every year in early September. The organi ...

in 2021.

Personal life

Bala was born to Balachandran and Rajalakshmi, in

Calicut Kozhikode (), also known as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India. Known as the City of Spices, Kozhikode is listed among the City of Literature, UNESCO's Cities of Literature. It is the nineteenth large ...

. He married Simi S. Nair and they have a daughter, Anmaya Bijith.

Filmography

;As editor ;As director ;As trailer editor ;As visual media artist

Awards, nominations and recognitions

Film festival

*Official Selection on

'2021 – Dug Dug

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bala, Bijith Living people Malayalam film directors Malayali people Malayalam film editors People from Kozhikode 1980 births