Sivakumar Vijayan

Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) is a film and television institute located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Named after Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, the institute provides higher and professional education and technical e ...

(born 17 May) is an Indian

Cinematographer The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the c ...

Early life and education

Sivakumar Vijayan was born in

Chennai Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of ...

to a middle-class Tamil family and grew up in Chennai and Kolkata. He is an electronics engineer from

Madras University The University of Madras (informally known as Madras University) is a public state university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Established in 1857, it is one of the oldest and among the most prestigious universities in India, incorporated by an a ...

and pursued a master's in Media and Entertainment business administration. His passion for film photography started during his college days and after completing his engineering he joined

, Kolkata specialising in Motion picture photography (cinematography). His first independent film as a cinematographer was

Vidiyum Munn ''Vidiyum Munn'' (''Before Dawn'') is a 2013 Indian Tamil thriller film directed by Balaji K. Kumar. The film stars Pooja Umashankar as Rekha, a prostitute trying to rescue a 12-year-old girl, played by Malavika Manikuttan, from the clutches of ...

(2013).

Career

After graduating from

(SRFTI), he assisted cinematographer P. C. Sreeram in the film

Paa (film) ''Paa'' () is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by R. Balki, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, and Vidya Balan. The film is inspired by the 1996 Hollywood film Jack as per some reports and is based on the re ...

(2009),

Ishq (2012 film) ''Ishq'' () is a 2012 Indian Telugu romantic drama film written and directed by Vikram Kumar. The film was produced by Vikram Goud under Shresht Movies banner. The film features Nithiin and Nithya Menen in the lead roles with Ajay in a pivotal ...

.He was also cinematographer for the

Tamil Tamil may refer to: * Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia ** Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils **Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia * Tamil language, nati ...

feature film

(2013) in which he was appreciated for the quality of photography and for the sense of framing by French critic Isabelle Arnaud. An article in The Hindu noted his work in ''Vidiyum Munn'' for creating the mood, textures, disoriented canted angles and other factors in the film which affected the audience at an almost subconscious level. He worked on a sports drama

Iruthi Sutru ''Irudhi Suttru'' () is a 2016 Indian sports drama film written and directed by Sudha Kongara. Filmed simultaneously in Tamil language, Tamil and Hindi, with the latter being titled as ''Saala Khadoos'' (), the film stars R. Madhavan as boxing c ...

directed by sudha k prasad, the film is a bilingual made simultaneously in Tamil and as '' Saala Khadoos'' in Hindi. Saala Khadoos movie released in 2016 and became both critically acclaimed and box office hit. Even the film critic subash k jha appreciated his cinematography in Saala khadoos and mentioned him as the third hero of the film.

Personal life

He lives in

Filmography

As cinematographer

Short films

As assistant cinematographer

References

External links

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Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vijayan, Sivakumar Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute alumni 1982 births Living people Hindi film cinematographers Artists from Chennai Cinematographers from Tamil Nadu Tamil film cinematographers