Balu Mahendra
Personal information
- Known for
- Directing
- Known credits
- 63
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- May 20, 1939
- Died
- February 13, 2014
- Place of birth
- Batticaloa, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka
- Also known as
- Balanathan Benjamin Mahendran
Biography
Balanathan Benjamin Mahendran or commonly known as Balu Mahendra, was an Indian cinematographer, director, screenwriter and film editor. Born into a Sri Lankan Tamil household, Mahendra developed a passion towards photography and literature at a tender age. He was drawn towards film-making after witnessing the shoot of David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai in Sri Lanka. He started his career as a literary editor before gaining an admission to the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) to pursue a course in cinematography. Mahendra entered films as a cinematographer in the early 1970s and gradually rose to becoming a film-maker by the end of the decade.
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Filmography
Directing
27 titles
Camera
60 titles
Writing
27 titles
Editing
14 titles1988
