Kamal Ghosh

Kamal Ghosh (1910–1983; often misspelled in film credits as Kamaal) was an Indian cinematographer and film director. Although a native of Kolkata, West Bengal, he was active primarily in Tamil and Telugu cinema.[1]

Kamal Ghosh
Born1910
Died1983 (aged 72–73)
NationalityIndian
OccupationCinematographer, director

Career

Kamal Ghosh was the nephew of filmmaker, writer and actor Debaki Bose. He received training from his uncle, working with New Theaters, Kolkata, in various aspects of film making. It was the lawyer turned filmmaker K. Subramanyam who brought Kamal Ghosh to South India. He started his career as an assistant cinematographer to Sailen Bose in the film Balayogini released in the year 1937.[2] Kamal Ghosh worked as the cinematographer in-charge for the Tamil-language Jupiter Pictures film Anaadhai Penn (1938), directed by R. Prakash. Ghosh's photography, especially the lighting, was widely praised.[1] Ghosh also worked as a director in two 1953 films: Paropakaram and Rohini. But both were commercially unsuccessful, so he decided to drop that career and continued to work as a cinematographer.[2]

Select filmography

As director

As cinematographer

Illness and death

Ghosh was affected by glaucoma and died in 1983.[2]

References
  1. Guy, Randor (16 October 2015). "The wizard of lens". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  2. Vamanan (24 September 2018). "கேமரா கண் தந்த கமல் கோஷ்!" [Kamal Ghosh, who was given camera-like eyes!]. Dinamalar (in Tamil). Archived from the original on 26 September 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
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