Renadive

Renadive, also known as Renu, was born on August 30, 1979, in Kunnamkulam, Kerala, to Kallayil Vijayaraghavan, a photographer. Renu’s passion for photography sparked after his father gifted him a toy camera in his childhood. He completed a diploma course in Still Photography from the Indian Institute of Photography. He has worked on multiple episodes of Veritta Kazhchakal Veritta Kazhchakal is a TV Show in Malayalam langu >> Read More... for the Kairali TV channel as a cameraman. He joined fellow cinematographer Alagappan in 2006 for the film Agnisakshi as an assistant cinematographer, and in 2007, he joined the team of the film Big B as an assistant cinematographer to Sameer Tahir. He has worked with Sameer Thahir Sameer C. Thahir is an Indian writer, cinematograp >> Read More... on every single one of his films ever since. 

He has worked as an Associate cinematographer on the movies Anwar (2010), Bachelor Party Click to look into! >> Read More... (2012 ), and Iyobinte Pusthakam Click to look into! >> Read More... (2014). He has worked as an Assistant Director on the movies Rasathanthram (2009), Photographer (2006), Pranayakalam (2007), Novel (2007), Thalappavu (2007), Heartbeats (2008), Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded (2009), and  Shakespeare M.A Malayalam (2009). Movies he has worked on as the head cinematographer are 5 Sundarikal (2013), Comrade in America (2017), Vijay Superum Pournamiyum (2019), Argentina Fans Kaattoorkadavu (2019), Shylock (2020), Mike (2022), and Palthu Janwar (2022).