For a chain of unforgettable visuals, you need Santosh Sivan, the recipient of this year’s coveted Pierre Angenieux tribute at Cannes.
A film is best a movie as soon as it becomes something you can set your eyes on. For which you need a cinematographer. And for a sequence of unforgettable visuals, you need Santosh Sivan, the recipient of this 12 months’s coveted Pierre Angenieux tribute at Cannes.
Sivan, who began running in 1986, is busier than ever proper now. He has began taking pictures and directing ‘Zuni’, based on the legend of Habba Khatun, in the snowy reaches of Kashmir. He is also operating on Rajkumar Santoshi’s duration film Lahore 47, starring Sunny Deol and Preity Zinta, being produced by Aamir Khan; and is ready to get began on Riteish Deshmukh’s biopic on Shivaji.
In this chat a day earlier than his stuffed-to-the-brim masterclass, in which Zinta passed him the award, Sivan speaks about the importance of this award, and awards in wellknown, which for him mean a larger popularity now not just of his very own abilities, however of the important magic that handiest cinematographers can conjure up. And of capturing on pinnacle of trains with superstars, and sure songs going viral.