Vineet Malhotra

Vineet Malhotra is a cinematographer who predominantly works for Bollywood movies. He set his feet in the industry as an assistant cameraman. His first film was Solider which was directed by Abbas-Mustan. The film cinematographer was Thomas Xavier. Thus, he got an opportunity to work under Abbas-Mustan. The film was a super hit. His next assignment was for Shah Rukh Khan's movie' Baadshah' which had cinematography by Thomas Xavier.

The film was an average success. Thus, he got an opportunity to work as an assistant cameraman for nine movies altogether. Most of the movies that he assisted as an assistant cameraman include names of movies like ‘Koi Mil Gaya' (2003), 'Deewangee' (2002), 'ChoriChoriChupkeChupke' (2001), 'Malamaal Weekly' (2006). Most of the film starred actors like Salman Khan Salman Khan is a very famous Indian actor and a pr >> Read More... , RiteishDeshmukh, Ajay Devgan Ajay Devgn is an Indian film actor. He is perhaps >> Read More... and Akshaye Khanna Akshaye Khanna is a popular Indian film actor. He >> Read More... , Abhishek Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Rani Mukherjee, Susmita Sen etc. Vineet Malhotra worked for best cinematographer like Pushan Kripalani Pushan Kripalani is a Hindi cinematographer, write >> Read More... , Sameer Arya Sameer Arya is a famous cinematographer known for >> Read More... , Thomas A. Xavier, and Ravi K. Chandran. After worked as an assistant cameraman, he worked as a gaffer which means he used to assist in lightening the sets for movies like ' Phoonk Click to look into! >> Read More... ' (2008) and 'Return to Rajapur' (2006).

In addition, he worked as a gaffer for a German film ' Lilly the Witch: The Journey to Mandolan' that was released in 2011. The film starred Tanay Cheeda and Alina Freund. The film was produced and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. Thus he worked as a chief lighting technician in the above three movies and was responsible for the execution and even design of the lighting plan for the production. As a camera assistant or a second /first assistant cameraman, one needs to manage the camera paperwork like loading new batteries and changing lenses etc. After having experience as an assistant cameraman, one gets elevated into camera operator jobs in media.

Thus, he worked as a first assistant cameraman for movies like 'The Legend of Drona' (2008) and ' Zokkomon Click to look into! >> Read More... '(2011). For the movies like 'Shootout at Wadala' (2013), ' Yaariyan Click to look into! >> Read More... ' (2014) and ' Kick Click to look into! >> Read More... ' (2014), Vineet worked as a camera operator. Thus, Vineet Malhotra became a professional operator of a film or video camera. It may be noted that in filmmaking, the person designing the lighting is the cinematographer or director of photography, who is also informally called a "cameraman”.