Indian cinematographers work in a number of regional film centres: Mumbai for films in Marathi and Hindi, Hyderabad for Telugu films, Chennai for Tamil films, Kochi for films in Malayalam, Kolkata for Bengali films, Bangalore for Kannada films, etc. Most Indian cinematographers are known for their work with one regional industry. Some cinematographers belong to various professional organisations and trade unions.
Western India Cinematographers' Association (WICA)
The Western India Cinematographers Association (WICA) is a society for Indian cinematographers. The society is situated at Mumbai in Maharashtra. Members of this society include the suffix WICA after their name in film credits. The organisation was formed on 2 August 1953 in Mumbai, and was presided over by a leading cinematographer of the time, Faredoon Irani; in the following month the first office bearers were chosen, including Nitin Bose as President and V. Avadhut as the Vice-President. According to WICA, there are 3800 members of the organisation.
Southern India Cinematographers Association (SICA) The Southern India Cinematographers Association (SICA), a trade union, was founded on 27 November 1972 by A. Vincent.
The Indian Society of Cinematographers The Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC) is an educational, cultural, and professional organization founded in 1995. Neither a labour union nor a guild, ISC membership is by invitation and is extended only to directors of photography and special effects experts with distinguished credits in the film industry. The society is situated at Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala. The members of this society will show a suffix, ISC with their name in film credits. Sunny Joseph is the current president of the ISC.
Founding members
Anil Mehta Ramachandra Babu Sunny Joseph P. C. Sreeram Santosh Sivan K. V. Anand Venu Ravi K. Chandran Madhu Ambat P. Sukumar
Members of ISC
Anay Goswami Anil Mehta Amal Neerad Alagappan N. Aseem Mishra C. K. Muraleedharan Chezhiyan Chota K. Naidu Fowzia Fathima Girish Gangadharan Hari Nair Jay Pinak Oza Jomon T. John K. V. Anand K. G. Jayan K. U. Mohanan Madhu Ambat Madhu Neelakandan Natty Subramaniam Preetha Jayaraman P. C. Sreeram P. S. Vinod R. Madhi Rajeev Ravi Ramachandra Babu Ravi K. Chandran Ravi Varman Sameer Thahir Santosh Sivan Sathyan Sooryan Shaji N. Karun Sanu Varghese Shyju Khalid Sunny Joseph Supratim Bhol Sylvester Fonseca Venu Velraj S. R. Kathir Sujith Vassudev Tushar Kanti Ray
List of Indian cinematographers
A Abinandhan Ramanujam Arjun Jena A. Vincent A. Vinod Bharathi A. Vasanth Abinandhan Ramanujam Aditya Vikram Sengupta Adurthi Subba Rao (1912–1975) Adwaith Shine Ajayan Vincent Akhil George Alagappan N. Amal Neerad Amar Mitra Peddireddy Amalendu Chaudhary Amit Roy Amitabha Singh Amol Gole Amol Rathod Anandakuttan (1954 – 2016) Anay Goswamy Anil Mehta Anji Anjuli Shukla Ansar Shah Apurba Kishore Bir Aravinnd Singh Arbhindu Saaraa Arjun Jena Arthur A. Wilson Arvind S Kashyap Arvind Krishna Aseem Mishra Ashok Kumar Ashok Mehta (1947- 2012) Appu Prabhakar Attar Singh Saini Avik Mukhopadhyay Avinash Arun Ayananka Bose B B. Kannan (1951–2020) B. C. Gowrishankar B. S. Lokanath (1937 – 2011) B. R. Vijayalakshmi Baba Azmi Balu Mahendra Balasubramaniem Barun Mukherjee Biju Viswanath Binod Pradhan Bhuvan Gowda Bobby Singh (1974 - 2012) C C. Rajendra Prasad C. K. Muraleedharan C. Prem Kumar Chandru Selvaraj Chirantan Das Chezhiyan Chota K. Naidu Crossbelt Mani D Debalina Majumder Debu Deodhar (1948–2010) Deep Pal (1953 – 2021) Deepak Haldankar (born 1947) Dev Agarwal Dilip Dutta Dinesh Baboo Dwarka Divecha E Eswaran Thangavel F Fali Mistry (1919–1979) Faredoon Irani (1923 - 2000) Fowzia Fathima G G. K. Vishnu G. S. Bhaskar Gavemic U. Ary Goutam Ghose George C. Williams Girish Gangadharan Gnana Shekar V. S. Gopi Bhagat Govind Nihalani H H. C. Venugopal Hari Anumolu Hari Nair Hemant Chaturvedi I Ishan Arya Ishaan Ghose J J. Williams Jal Mistry (1923–2000) Jaya Krishna Gummadi Jay Oza Jayanan Vincent Jayesh Nair Jacob Verghese Jeeva (1963–2007) Jehangir Choudhary Jibu Jacob Jimshi Khalid Johny Lal Jomon T. John K K. Vaikunth (1925 – 2003) K V Anand (1966–2021) K. U. Mohanan K. G. Jayan K. K. Mahajan (1944 – 2007) K.K. Senthil Kumar K. S. Prasad K. S. Prakash Rao (1914–1996) K. P. Nambiathiri K. V. Guhan Kabir Lal Kamal Bose (1915–1995) Kamal Ghosh Karan B. Rawat Karm Chawla (born 1985) Karthik Gattamneni Karthik Palani Kartik Vijay Kutub Inamdar L Laxman Utekar Loganathan Srinivasan Lok Singh M M. Sukumar M. S. Prabhu MN Malhotra M. J. Radhakrishnan (1958–2019) Madhu Ambat Madhu Neelakandan Mahesh Aney Mahesh Limaye Mahesh Muthuswami Manesh Madhavan Mankada Ravi Varma (1926 – 2010) Manmohan Singh Manoj Kumar Khatoi Manoj Paramahamsa Manush Nandan Mazhar Kamran Marcus Bartley Melli Irani Midhun Eravil Modhura Palit Mrinal Kanti Das Murali G. N N. K. Ekambaram Nagendra Kumar Mothukuri Nagesh Banell Nando Bhattacharya Nariman Irani Natty Subramaniam Nemai Ghosh Navroze Contractor (1944–2023) Niketh Bommireddy Nikhil S. Praveen Nimish Ravi Nirav Shah Nirmal Jani Nitin Bose (1897 – 1986) Nizar Shafi Noushad Shereef O Om Prakash P Pappu P. S. Nivas P. C. Sreeram P.G. Vinda P. S. Vinod P. N. Sundaram Padmesh Pankaj Kumar Piyush Shah Prakash Velayudhan Prasad Murella Pratap P Nair Prathap Joseph Pratheek Shetty Pravin Bhatt Prayag Mukundan Preetha Jayaraman Prem Sagar Premendu Bikash Chaki Priya Seth R R. Chittibabu R. D. Rajasekhar R. Rathnavelu R. Madhi R. Velappan Nair R. N. K. Prasad Radhu Karmakar (1919 - 1993) Raj Thota Rajeev Ravi Rajesh Yadav Rajiv Menon Ram Chandra Ramachandra Babu Ramananda Sengupta Ramji Ranjan Palit Rasool Ellore Ravi K. Chandran Ravi Varman Ravi Yadav Renadive Roby Varghese Raj S S. D. Vijay Milton S. Kumar S. Ravi Varman S. R. Kathir S. Krishna S. Ramachandra (1948 – 2011) S. R. Sathish Kumar S. Gopal Reddy S. Saravanan Saket Saurabh Saloo George Samalabhasker Sameer Reddy Sameer Thahir Sanjay Jadhav Santhana Krishnan Ravichandran Sanu Varghese Santosh Sivan Sarvesh Murari Santosh Thundiyil Satchith Paulose Sathyan Sooryan Satish Motling Satheesh Kurup Satya Hegde Puttanna Kanagal Savita Singh Sejal Shah Sekhar V. Joseph Sethu Sriram Shaji Kumar Shaji N. Karun Sakthi Saravanan Shamdat Shaman Mithru Shehnad Jalal Shivtar Shiv Shreesha Kuduvalli Shyam K. Naidu Shyam Palav Shyju Khalid Siddhartha Nuni Sirsha Ray Sivan (1932 – 2021) Sivakumar Vijayan Soundararajan Soumendu Roy (1932 – 2023) Subrata Mitra (1930 – 2001) Sudeep Chatterjee Sudeep Elamon Supratim Bhol Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti Sujith Sarang Sujith Vaassudev Sundarnath Suvarna Sunny Joseph Suryakant Lavande Sushil Rajpal Swaroop Philip T Tassaduq Hussain Mufti Teja Thankar Bachan Theni Eswar Tirru Tulsi Ghimire U U. K. Senthil Kumar Utpal V Nayanar V V. A. Dilshad V. N. Reddy (1914–1991) V. Gopi Krishna V. Manikandan V. K. Murthy (1923 – 2014) V. S. R. Swamy Venu Vetri Velraj A. Vasanth Venkatesh Anguraj Venugopal Madathil Vidhu Ayyanna Vijay Milton Vijay C Chakravarthy Vijay C. Kumar Vikash Nowlakha Virendra Saini Vishal Sinha Vishnu Nandan Vishnu Rao Vipindas Vipin Mohan Vipin Vijay
Awards Filmfare Award for Best Cinematographer Filmfare Best Cinematographer Award (South) SIIMA Award for Best Cinematographer (Telugu) IIFA Award for Best Cinematography Nandi Award for Best Cinematographer Kerala State Film Award for Best Photography National Film Award for Best Cinematography National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Cinematography Star Screen Awards Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Cinematographer
See also Cinema of India Cinema of South India Indian film directors
References
External links Official Website of WICA Official Website of ISC Official Website of SICA