Venu

Biography:

Indian cinematographer and director Venugopal (born 26 January 1957), sometimes known as Venu, specializes in Malayalam movies. a CMS college Kottayam and Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, graduate. In addition to four Kerala State Film Awards, he has won four National Film Awards, including three for Best Cinematography and one Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director. The Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC), of which he is a founding member

Karur Neelakanta Pillai, a writer in Malayalam, has a grandson named Venu. Since August 26, 1983, Venu has been wed to Indian film editor Beena Paul.The couple has a daughter named Malavika who is the manager of the Great North Museum and is married to an Englishman: Hancock

With a diploma in motion picture photography, Venu left the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, in 1982. Over 80 feature films with Mani Kaul, K G George, John Abraham, Pamela Rooks, Padmarajan, Bharathan, and M. T. Vasudevan Nair included him as a cinematographer.

In 1987, Amma Ariyan and Namukku Parkkan Munthiri Thoppukal shared the National Film Award that Venu won. He then won two additional prizes for his roles in Ponthan Mada (1994) and Miss Beatty’s Children (1993). He made his directing debut in 1998 with M. T. Vasudevan Nair’s historical fiction Daya. Both the Indira Gandhi Award and the Kerala State Film Award for Best Debut Director went to the movie.