Vijay Ulaganath

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Vijay Ulaganath
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Other namesVijay Ulaganathan
Occupation Cinematographer
Director of Photography
Years active2008-present

Vijay Ulaganath is an Indian cinematographer, who primarily works in the South India film industry. He is known for his work in films such as Neelathamara , Thoonga Nagaram , Bhaskar The Rascal , and Sigaram Thodu . He has worked as a cinematographer in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films.

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Early life and career

After the graduation in Diploma in Film Technology from Film and Television Institute of Tamil Nadu, he started his career as an assistant cinematographer with Ace Cinematographer K. V. Anand in the films Nayak, The Legend of Bhagat Singh, Chellame, Sivaji, Khakee.

He turned as an independent cinematographer in the film Madampi [1] directed by B. Unnikrishnan. [2] Then he worked with Director Lal Jose in the film Neelathamara. [3] Later he joined with Director Gaurav Narayanan in his Debut film Thoonga Nagaram [4] [5] produced by Cloud Nine Movies.

He was one of the cinematographers in the film Kerala Cafe Malayalam anthology film directed by a team of ten directors, ten cinematographers, musicians, editors, art directors and almost all the top Malayalam film actors joined this unique venture. [6] He teamed up with director Siddique in the Malayalam blockbuster Bhaskar the Rascal, [7] [8] which was remade in Tamil as Bhaskar Oru Rascal.

Vijay Ulaganath has associated with directors Lal Jose, Siddique, Gaurav Narayanan and Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao.

Filmography

As cinematographer

YearFilmLanguageDirector
2008 Madampi Malayalam B. Unnikrishnan
2009 Kerala Cafe Malayalam Lal Jose
2009 Neelathamara Malayalam Lal Jose
2010 Elsamma Enna Aankutty Malayalam Lal Jose
2011 Thoonga Nagaram Tamil Gaurav Narayanan
2012 Sudigadu Telugu Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao
2013 Lucky Star MalayalamDeepu Anthikkad
2014 Sigaram Thodu Tamil Gaurav Narayanan
2015 Ivan Maryadaraman MalayalamSuresh Divakar
2015 Bhaskar the Rascal Malayalam Siddique
2016 Speedunnodu Telugu Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao
2017 Fukri Malayalam Siddique
2018 Bhaskar Oru Rascal Tamil Siddique
2018 Sei TamilRaj Babu
Rendavathu Padam Tamil C. S. Amudhan

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