Mithun Gangopadhyay

Mithun Gangopadhyay, a promising young cinematographer, has worked on several short films, promos, and music videos, including Kailash Kher's Rangeele. He was born in Delhi, India, on April 3, 1981. His parents moved to Africa when he was a child and returned when he was seven years old. He studied in Delhi and then went to Bombay and worked as an advertising director for a few years. Then he went to film school in America, at the New York Click to look into! >> Read More... Film Academy and UCLA. He spent four years there. He worked as an assistant director to Vidhu Vinod Chopra Vidhu Vinod Chopra is a classic filmmaker, who has >> Read More... . Parineeta was his debut film, which he worked in the post-production side. Then he went to work on Eklavya.

When he made some short films in NYFA, he found out that his interest lies in cinematography. When he was in India, he didn't work in cinematography at all. He realized he needed to master cinematography by the time he finished film school in New York. It was a challenging technical task that also necessitates a lot of aesthetic decisions. That is why he chose to attend UCLA, where he spent three years. He was the young cinematographer on set. He is a significant photography lover, so he studied many photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean-Luc, Mario Testino, Albert Watson, and Javier Vallhonrat. He just completed a TV show called Sound Tripping.