About Me
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I see the world around me in moving frames.
Growing up I enjoyed watching Eastman Era Hollywood Cinemas on the television set with my grandfather. I was intrigued by how ‘moments are chosen, even handpicked from real life and transformed onto a reel’. This captivated my imagination. This was the onset of my curiosity about how stories were told through the lens.
Since a very young age, I have always been inclined towards art and craft, and other practical, skills-based activities specifically, sketching. I would pause cartoon shows on the television to make sketches of the cartoon characters on the screen. When I had to choose a major/ subject for my higher education, based on my interests and skills, I chose to study Commercial and Visual Art at L.S. Raheja School of Art, Mumbai (2009) and photography was my special subject. This was followed by an Advanced photography course at J. J. School of Art, Mumbai (2011).
Even while studying commercial art, Cinematography continued to remain at the heart of my passion. Given my training in photography and my need to learn from observation, I started working in the industry as a still photographer. This was a blessing in disguise as it landed me with an opportunity to work as a Film Continuity Still Photographer. Here, I worked alongside some proficient cinematographers and learned in-depth about handling a moving camera while attending to the directorial intentions. Although studying photography allowed me to understand the use of High Definition cameras and appropriate technology and lighting, it was the continuity-still photography that prompted the evolution of my vision into the one that is required of a cinematographer to execute a perfect scene capture.
Journey that began with Continuity-Still Photography took turns such as Publicity Still Photography, capturing Behind the Scene videos (Making of), Shorts Films, Documentaries, Corporate Audio-Visuals, Television Commercials, and Regional Commercial Feature Film.
Taking the next step into my career journey, I look forward to interesting projects and adventures enabling me to capture ‘real onto reel’.
