Sudeep Chatterjee is an Indian cinematographer, who mainly works in

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and Bengali films. He has collaborated with critically acclaimed directors like Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Vishal Bharadwaj, Srijit Mukherji,

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and Nagesh Kukunoor. He is mostly known for his work in films like '' Iqbal'' (2005), ''

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'' (2007), '' Guzaarish'' (2010), '' Dhoom 3'' (2013), '' Chotushkone'' (2014), ''

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'' (2015), '' Padmaavat'' (2018), and '' Gangubai Kathiawadi'' (2022). He has received the

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, twice, for '' Chotushkone'' and ''

''.

Early life and education

Chatterjee was born and raised in

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. After he passed class 10 his father gave him a camera, which in time provided him with a career direction. After he finished his schooling he joined an engineering college, but after only eight months he left it to join the

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(FTII),

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, where he studied cinematography.

Career

After graduating from

, he started his career in Kolkata making advertisements and documentaries, eventually after two years, filmmaker Anjan Dutt offered him Bada Din (1997), a Hindi film starring

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. Thereafter he shifted based to Mumbai and started working TV series and commercials for a year before he shot

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(2002). Soon was working in film across genres, action, thriller and drama, and his in Salman Khan starrer, '' Lucky: No Time for Love'' (2005), where he shot the picturesque locales of

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, followed by Nagesh Kukunoor's successive films '' Iqbal'' (2005) and '' Dor'' (2006), and Jaan-E-Mann (2005) got him attention, and he got to do '' Chak De! India'' (2007) directed by

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, where he grained and desaturated the film, and shot almost 80% of the movie with a hand-held camera, eventually winning him accolades and the 2008 Filmfare Award for Best Cinematography, IIFA Award for Best Cinematography and

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amongst others. His next important work was in Bengali film, '' Kaalpurush'' (2008), directed by acclaimed film director of Bengali cinema, Buddhadev Dasgupta, and starring

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and Rahul Bose, the film won the

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. In 2010 came '' Guzaarish'' directed by

starring

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and Ashwariya Rai, Sudeep had previously apprenticed with Sanjay, also a fellow FTII student, in '' 1942: A Love Story'', where he was the song director. Guzaarish Won IIFA, Screen, and

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award for best Cinematography. He followed it up with the big budget super successful entertainer Dhoom 3 (2013). He then worked in the film '' Chotushkone'' (2014) directed by critically acclaimed director Srijit Mukherji for which Chatterjee won the prestigious

. Chatterjee followed up with his second consecutive National award in 2015 with the highly acclaimed ''

'' directed by

. He again collaborated with

for the critically and commercially successful period piece '' Padmavat'' (2018). He is currently shooting the period drama '' Gangubai Kathiawadi'' (2021) directed by

and much anticipated '' Brahmāstra'' (2022) directed by Ayan Mukherjee. He is presently a member of the advisory board of the Kautik International Student Film Festivalhttp://kautik18.com/festival-people/

Filmography

Films

Web series

Documentary

* '' Sachin: A Billion Dreams'' (2017) - a multi-lingual (English, Hindi, Marathi)

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Awards and nominations

References

External links

Official website
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chatterjee, Sudeep Hindi film cinematographers Living people Artists from Kolkata Film and Television Institute of India alumni Filmfare Awards winners 20th-century Indian photographers 21st-century Indian photographers Cinematographers from West Bengal Best Cinematography National Film Award winners Year of birth missing (living people)