Sivakumar Vijayan

Sivakumar Vijayan
Born	17 May chennai, India
Alma mater	Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute
Occupation	Cinematographer
Website	http://www.sivakumarvijayan.com

Sivakumar Vijayan(born 17 May) is an Indian Cinematographer.

Sivakumar Vijayan was born in Chennai to a middle-class Tamil family and grew up in Chennai and Kolkata. He is an electronics engineer from Madras University. His passion for film photography started during his college days and after completing his engineering he joined Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata specialising in Motion picture photography(cinematography). His first independent film as a cinematographer was Vidiyum Munn (2013).

After graduating from Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI), he assisted cinematographer P. C. Sreeram in the film Paa (film) (2009), Ishq (2012 film).He was also cinematographer for the Tamil feature film Vidiyum Munn (2013)in which he was appreciated for the quality of photography and for the sense of framing by French critic Isabelle Arnaud. An article in The Hindu noted his work in vidiyum Munn for creating the mood,textures,disoriented canted angles and other factors in the film which affected the audience at an almost subconscious level. At present he is working on a sports drama Iruthi Sutru directed by sudha k prasad, the film is a bilingual made simultaneously in tamil and as Saala Khadoos in hindi.

He lives in Chennai.

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