Top 10 Indian Cinematographers In 2022

Cinematography has always played a vital part in the success of a movie. The willingness to push limits with experimentation makes a great cinematographer. There is a cinematographer in every "wow" moment in the film. Choosing the best cinematographer is tough, but this is the list of talented people in Indian cinema in 2022, onto the list.

1. Santosh Sivan Santosh Sivan (born 8 February 1964) is a film dir >> Read More...

Santosh Sivan was born in Kerala. He is a cinematographer, director, actor, and producer known for his work in the Malayalam, Tamil, and Hindi cinema industries. He is the first DOP (director of photography) in the Asia-Pacific region to be awarded the prestigious American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) membership. He received 11 national awards and more than 25 international awards and was honored with the prestigious PADMASHRI for his contribution to Indian cinema.

2. Ravi Varma He was born in East Godavari district, Andhra Prad >> Read More...

Ravi Varma is well-known for his realistic picturization and poetic framing sense. He started his career in Malayalam films, and he gradually established himself in both Tamil and Hindi language films. Ravi also worked as a filmmaker, producer, and writer. He started his DOP career in 1999 as an assisting cinematographer and has worked on 40 feature films. He has worked on more than 500 plus television commercials, short films, music albums, and documentaries.

3. P.C. Sreeram

P.C. Sreeram is so hot in the film industry that his name on the project is enough for stars to sign on. He made his cinematic debut in the early 1980s in the Tamil film industry. Sreeram is also the president of Qube Cinemas a digital cinema technology company. He got his first national award in 1987 for the Tamil movie Nayagan.

4. Sudeep Chatterjee Sudeep Chatterjee is a well-known cinematographer >> Read More...

Sudeep Chatterjee is known for his work in several Bengali and Hindi cinema. He started his career as a cameraman at a news station, making documentaries and advertisements, but slowly found his way into Bollywood. He won 2 national awards for his outstanding films, Chotuskone (Bengali) and Bajiroa Mastani (Hindi).

5. Rajeev Ravi Rajeev Ravi is an Indian cinematographer from the >> Read More...

Rajeev Ravi is a cinematographer, director, and producer from Kerala. Ravi got his breakthrough in the film industry with CHANDNI BAR (2001) and afterward shot plenty of different movies, never settling with one genre. Some of his notables are Udta Punjab Click to look into! >> Read More... (Hindi), Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum (Malaya), No Smoking Click to look into! >> Read More... (Hindi), and Dev. D (Hindi).

6. Girish Gangadharan Girish Gangadharan is a famous Indian Cinematograp >> Read More...

Girish started his career in 2013, and in a short period, he became known for his unconventional camerawork and for making the visuals come to life for the audience. His most famous work is the movie Jallikkattu, for which he was selected for an Oscar nomination and won a National award and an Asian film award.

7. Tirru Tirru is a famous Indian Cinematographer, who has >> Read More...

S. Thirunavukarasu, better known as Tirru, is an Indian cinematographer who has worked in multiple languages across India. He started his journey in association with P.C.Sreeram. He is also known for television commercials and shot more than 1000 commercials in the last two decades. He worked on most of the advertising production in India.

8. Venu

Venugopal Madathil Venugopal Madathil was born on June 5th, 1966 in K >> Read More... is popularly known as Venu. His first feature film as a cinematographer was PREM NAZIRINE KANMANILLA which came out in 1987. 4 National awards, 1 Indra Gandhi award and four state film festival awards was gave for his masterpieces. He has worked as a DOP on over 80 feature films. Some of his masterpieces are Guna(1991), Miss Beatty's children(1992), Ponthan Mada(1994)

9. M.J. Radhakrishnan

There is no denying that M.J. Radhakrishnan is one of the best cinematographers of all time. He's at the top of his game and has been for the last 40 years. He worked on over 117 feature films, more than 30 short films, and several documentaries. The list concluded with the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999, the Golden Goblet award at the Shanghai International Film Festival, the best DOP at the Kazan International Film Festival, the Indian National Award, seven state film awards, and so on. He died of cardiac arrest on June 12, 2019.

10. Avik Mukhopadhyay Avik is an Indian Cinematographer. He majorly work >> Read More...

Avik was a famous cinematographer who worked on several iconic movies. Indian cinema recognized him for his aesthetic work. Some of his bests are Chokher Bali, Patalghar, Bhalo Theko, Raincoat, Dosar, The Last Lear Click to look into! >> Read More... , Antaheen, and Abohomaan. He received the National Film Award for Best Cinematography three times and the Filmfare Award for Best Cinematographer once.

Those ten people are just representatives of the other outstanding cinematographers in the field. There are still thousands of movies that touched our hearts because of the cinematographer's work.