Mahesh Muthuswami

Mahesh Muthuswami
Born	Palani, Tamil Nadu, India
Occupation	Cinematographer
Years active	2005-present

Mahesh Muthuswami is an Indian cinematographer working in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films.

Upon his graduation from Film and Television Institute of India , Pune, he started working with legendary cinematographer P. C. Sreeram. With him he worked in features - Kushi (Telugu), Vaanam Vasappadum (Tamil) . He worked with ace cinematographer Ramji in Sandhya, a Hindi film.

His diploma short film, Chaitra directed by Kranti Kanade was the official student Oscar entry in the year 2002.

His first film was Rightaa Thappaa for director, producer Bhuvana. The film went on to win two State Awards.

His second feature Chithiram Pesuthadi,was Mysskin's directorial debut. It became a hit owing to the unique style the film was written in.

Post Chithiram Pesuthadi, he shot the Hindi Film Risk starring Randeep Hooda, Vinod Khanna and Tanushree Dutta for director Vishram Sawant.

Then he teamed up with director Mysskin again shooting Anjaathey and Nandalala for him. Anjathey was a runaway commercial success.

Nandalala got him the Best Cinematographer award for the year 2010 from the reputed and popular Tamil weekly magazine Ananda Vikatan.

In 2009 he did camerawork for a Hindi 3D Animation Feature film, Alibaba & 41 Thieves, produced by UTV Motion Pictures and directed by Soumitra Ranade.

In his next feature Vamsam he teamed up with director Pandiraj . It was the debut film for actor Arulnidhi .

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