Shaji N. Karun
Shaji N. Karun
- Born: 1 January 1952, Kerala, India.
- Shaji Neelakantan Karun is a National Award-winning Indian film director and cinematographer.
- He studied cinema and television at the highly reputed film
institute of India at Pune.
- He become the
cinematographer of nearly 40 films and almost all films of
Aravindan. His work won him the Eastman Kodak Award for
Excellence in 1990.
- His debut film Piravi (1988) won the Caméra d'Or - Mention d'honneur at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.
- In 2000, he was decorated with
the
Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the
Ministry of Culture, the government of France.
- For his achievements in cinema, the Government of India
hounoured him by
Padma
Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in
2010.
- He is best known for his award winning films Piravi (1989), Vanaprastham (1999) and Kutty Srank (2010).
- www.shaji.info
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