Anand C Chandran

Anand C Chandran is an Indian cinematographer. Born to Bini Chandran on April 3, 1991, Anand showed interests in filming videos right from a very young age. This 25 year old was born in Kerala. He attended Sivagiri Vidyaniketan for his lower primary schooling and completed his primary education from Rajagiri Higher Secondary School. He later joined Bhavan’s Vidya Mandir in Girinagar and at the same time, he joined IGM Public School. He has a sister. He is fluent in English and Malayalam. Anand shot video clips on his phone camera in his early days when he had this epiphany, which he wanted to pursue it as a career.

He bought a DSLR camera later and began his romance with photography. After joining Bachelors in Science in Film Technology at the illustrious SRM University, he started making few short films to explore and hone his skills. As an undergraduate, he spent his time trying to understand filming and camera. He began his journey in the Film Industry in 2011, even before he graduated, under the guidance of Alphonse Puthren Alphonse Puthren is a versatile Indian director, a >> Read More... . The director believed this young cinematographer had the talent to be the cinematographer for Neram Click to look into! >> Read More... , a bilingual film that was simultaneously shot in Malayalam and Tamil.

He was even associated with the Lokadharmi Theater group in Kochi. In 2013, he moved to Mumbai and a year later he began work on Premam Click to look into! >> Read More... . His biggest hit of all times turned out to be Premam, which was widely cherished by the film fraternity. Premam is a musical romantic-comedy that revolved around the coming-of-age of the central character played by Nivin Pauly Nivin Pauly is predominantly a Malayalam actor. Bo >> Read More... and directed by Alphonse Puthren. It was released in 2015 and Anand earned reputation with the movie being screened in the theaters of UAE and USA. He tributes his art to development via short films.

He feels that during his struggling days, distributing and displaying short films were not as easy and they were not even taken seriously in those days. His short film creations include “The Rat: A Sexy Tale”, “Oru Kutty Chodyam (A little Question)” and “Kattan Kaappi”. Anand has also made appearances in some of his short films. He recently got engaged to Swathy Pratap and currently resides in Mumbai. He looks up to Alphonse as a friend, guide, and inspiration, with whom he enjoys working the most. As a young man, Anand has achieved a lot in life that others can just dream of doing. He continues working as a cinematographer and has recently worked on another project called Anandam, which has been a moderate success.

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Anand C. Chandran is a cinematographer popular in South Indian film industry. He was born on 3rd April 1991. He hails from the town of Alwaya in Kerela. He was from the first batch of students who did the course of B.Sc Film Technology from SRM University, Chennai. While there, he was part of the Lokadharmi Theatre group as well. His talent and aptitude for cinematography were displayed early on when he won the award for best cinematography at the inter-college short film competition at Madras Christian College for the short film titled ‘Letters from Heaven’. Right after he completed his education, he got offered the job of director of photography for "Neram"(2013), his first film. The film, a thriller with dark humour, did very well in cinemas. The movie was so well received in Kerela and in Tamil Nadu that it will be re-made in Telugu and Marathi as well. The movie is about an engineer called Mathew, his love life, his family problems, money debts and how these all fuse together to create misery for him and how in the end it all gets resolved. The film won best debut actor awards at the Filmfare awards and the Best Actor’s Pair award at Asianet Film Awards.

His mantra is that the Director of Photography should keep the screen shots in sync with the script of the film for best results and he believes that the most effective way of learning the art of the camera is by watching films.

Another one of his projects was " Aviyal Click to look into! >> Read More... ", a Tamil film which was written as well as directed by six directors – Alphonse Putharen, Mohit Mehra Mohit Mehra is an Indian movie director who has ma >> Read More... , Lokesh Kanagaraj Lokesh is a famous writer and director in Tamil Fi >> Read More... , Guru Smaran Guru Smaran is an Indian film director, whose dire >> Read More... , Shameer Sultan. It is a compilation of short films by these directors and had multiple casts working together. Chandran was one of the five cinematographers chosen to work on this project.

Another one of his films is "Premam", a Malayalam romantic comedy, directed by Alphonse Putharen. The movie, released in 2015, was critically acclaimed and did exceedingly well at the box office. The story is about a boy named George and how love evades him over the years, playing cruel tricks on him all along. This movie won multiple awards at various award functions such as IIFA Utsavam, Asia Vision Movie Awards, Asianet Film Awards, and more. Another movie he has to his name is the short film titled "Kattan Kappi" ( Black Coffee Story soon >> Read More... ), a film about the life of John right after the end of his relationship with his long-time girlfriend.

Chandran is a young artist and mostly does film that represent the youth. He is good with his work and thus is doing so well from such an early age on.

Although all the movies that Chandran has worked on have won multiple awards and have been very well appreciated, but he himself did not receive any personal awards. Despite that, he seems to have a promising career and will surely do many more award winning movies in the future.