Kasi Viswanathan

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Born (1968-01-28) 28 January 1968 (age 55)
NationalityIndian
OccupationFilm editor

Kasivishwanathan (born 28 January 1968) is an Indian film editor, who has worked on Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam language films. [1]

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Career

Kasivishwanathan entered the cinema industry as an assistant to Malayalam editor K. Narayanan. He later moved on to work as an associate editor in films like Thevar Magan (1992) and Kuruthipunal (1996) with N P. Satish. He later worked under A. Sreekar Prasad in films of several languages including Oriya, Sinhalese and Kannada.[ citation needed ]

He made his debut as an editor with Kamal Haasan's Aalavandhan (2001), experimenting with techniques involving animation and motion capture cameras, and then worked in the romantic comedy, Pammal K. Sambandam (2002). His work on his first film won him the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Editor in the year 2004, for the year 2001. Kasivishwanthan subsequently went on to collaborate as an editor in several of Prakash Raj's productions with Duet Movies. [2] Under the banner he worked in movies like Mozhi and Abiyum Nanum. He has since regularly collaborated with directors including Radha Mohan, Suseenthiran, Seenu Ramasamy Sundar C Myskin and Siruthai Shiva's Veeram. Till date he works on projects with various directors, both established and debutant directors.

In 2016, he made his debut as an actor with a role in Suseenthiran's Maaveeran Kittu (2016). [3] [4]

Filmography

As editor

As actor

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References

  1. "Silverscreen | The Kasi Viswanathan Page :: All The News, Photos, Videos and More About Kasi Viswanathan On A Single Page". silverscreen.in. Archived from the original on 29 July 2014.
  2. "Kasi Viswanathan Interview".
  3. "Noted technician turns actor with 'Maveeran Kittu' - Tamil News". 10 August 2016.
  4. "Veeram editor turns actor for 'Maveeran Kittu'". 2 December 2020.