‘Celluloid Swapnatakan' of Malayalam Cinema

K. Ramachandra Babu, who died of cardiac arrest here on Saturday at the age of 72, released his book ‘Celluloid Swapnatakan’ at the recently-concluded International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK 2019) in Thiruvananthapuram. The book is a compendium of his memories and experiences in Malayalam Cinema.

Babu was a maverick cinematographer, who started his career in the 1970s. He shot some of the landmark films of Malayalam, and Indian, cinema.

His major films include ‘Nirmalayam’, ‘Yavanika’, ‘Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha’, ‘Swapanadanam’, ‘Agraharathil Kazhuthai’ ‘Rathinirvedham’ and ‘Padayottam’ to name a few. An alumnus of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, Babu won four State awards, for ‘Dweepu’, ‘Rathinirvedam’, ‘Chamaram’ and ‘Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha’.

He was about to make his directorial debut with the 3D film ‘Professor Dinkan’, starred by Dileep. Noted cinematographer Ravi K. Chandran is his younger brother.

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