Vijay Ulaganath


Vijay Ulaganath is an Indian cinematographer, who primarily works in the South India film industry. He is known for his work in films such as Neelathamara, Thoonga Nagaram, Bhaskar The Rascal, and Sigaram Thodu. He has worked as a cinematographer in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films.

Early life and career

After the graduation in Diploma in Film Technology from Film and Television Institute of Tamil Nadu, he started his career as an assistant cinematographer with Ace Cinematographer K. V. Anand in the films Nayak, The Legend of Bhagat Singh, Chellame, Sivaji, Khakee.
He turned as an independent cinematographer in the film Madampi directed by B. Unnikrishnan. Then he worked with Director Lal Jose in the film Neelathamara. Later he joined with Director Gaurav Narayanan in his Debut film Thoonga Nagaram produced by Cloud Nine Movies.
He was one of the cinematographers in the film Kerala Cafe Malayalam anthology film directed by a team of ten directors, ten cinematographers, musicians, editors, art directors and almost all the top Malayalam film actors joined this unique venture.
He teamed up with director Siddique in the Malayalam blockbuster Bhaskar the Rascal, which was remade in Tamil as Bhaskar Oru Rascal.
Vijay Ulaganath has associated with directors Lal Jose, Siddique, Gaurav Narayanan and Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao.

Filmography

As cinematographer
YearFilmLanguageDirector
2008MadampiMalayalamB. Unnikrishnan
2009Kerala CafeMalayalamLal Jose
2009NeelathamaraMalayalamLal Jose
2010Elsamma Enna AankuttyMalayalamLal Jose
2011Thoonga NagaramTamilGaurav Narayanan
2012SudigaduTeluguBhimaneni Srinivasa Rao
2013Lucky StarMalayalamDeepu Anthikkad
2014Sigaram ThoduTamilGaurav Narayanan
2015Ivan MaryadaramanMalayalamSuresh Divakar
2015Bhaskar the RascalMalayalamSiddique
2016SpeedunnoduTeluguBhimaneni Srinivasa Rao
2017FukriMalayalamSiddique
2018Bhaskar Oru RascalTamilSiddique
2018SeiTamilRaj Babu
Rendavathu PadamTamilC. S. Amudhan