Santosh Sivan (Malayalam: സന്തോഷ് ശിവന്) (born in Trivandrum, Kerala) is a critically acclaimed Indian film director and cinematographer. He has won five National Film Awards, three Filmfare Awards, and ten international film festival awards.
Sivan is the older brother of film director Sanjiv Sivan and younger brother of director Sangeeth Sivan. Their father, Sivan, is a renowned director and cinematographer of Malayalam documentary films, and r...
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Santosh Sivan (Malayalam: സന്തോഷ് ശിവന്) (born in Trivandrum, Kerala) is a critically acclaimed Indian film director and cinematographer. He has won five National Film Awards, three Filmfare Awards, and ten international film festival awards.
Sivan is the older brother of film director Sanjiv Sivan and younger brother of director Sangeeth Sivan. Their father, Sivan, is a renowned director and cinematographer of Malayalam documentary films, and runs the Trivandrum-based Sivan Studio.
Santosh grew up in the city of Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India, where he attended Loyola School and Mar Ivanios College. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India in 1984. In December 1995 he became a founding member of the Indian Society of Cinematographers. As a cinematographer, he has won three Kerala State Film Awards and four National Film Awards for Best Cinematography.
As a director, his debut film Halo (1996) won him a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie and National Film...
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