Shaji N. Karun

Personal Info

Know For

Camera

Gender

Male

Birthday

1952-01-01 (73 years old)

Deathday

2025-04-28

Place of Birth

-

Shaji N. Karun

Biography

Shaji Neelakantan Karunakaran (1 January 1952 – 28 April 2025), better known as Shaji N. Karun, was an Indian film director and cinematographer. His debut film Piravi won the Caméra d'Or – Mention d'honneur at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. He was the inaugural chairman of the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, the first academy for film and TV in India and was also the executive chairman of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) from 1998 to 2001.

Production

1978

Kanchana Sita

as Director of Photography

1979

Kummatty

as Director of Photography

1985

Chidambaram

as Director of Photography

1982

Twilight

as Director of Photography

2010

Kutty Srank

as Director

1989

Piravi

as Director

1983

Manju

as Director of Photography

1994

My Own

as Director

1999

Vanaprastham

as Director

1999

Vanaprastham

as Screenplay

2014

Swapaanam

as Director

2002

Nishad

as Director

2002

Nishad

as Screenplay

1983

1987

And There Was a Village...

as Director of Photography

1989

Piravi

as Screenplay

1984

Panchavadi Palam

as Director of Photography

1986

Arappatta Kettiya Graamathil

as Director of Photography

1986

Meenamasathile Suryan

as Director of Photography

1978

The Circus Tent

as Director of Photography

1980

Esthappan

as Director of Photography

2014

Swapaanam

as Story

2019

She

as Director

1986

Panchagni

as Cinematography

1986

Nakhakshathangal

as Director of Photography

1988

Ore Thooval Pakshikal

as Director of Photography

1983

Koodevide?

as Director of Photography

1974

Rays of Hope

as Director of Photography

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