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Nirav Shah is a Producer, Director of Photography, Original Music Composer and Cinematography Indian born on 16 november 1974 at Chennai (Inde)
Nirav Shah (born 16 November 1974) is an acclaimed Indian cinematographer. He has worked on a number of major box office hits in Hindi and Tamil since his debut with the 2004 Hindi film Paisa Vasool.
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Directed by Balaji Mohan
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Siddharth, Amala Paul, Suresh, Ravi Raghavendra, Surekha Vani, Sriranjini
Roles Producer
Rating70%
Arun (Siddharth) and Parvathi (Amala Paul) give an interview about their love story. But they fight even before the interview gets over. Then the movie rewinds 5 months earlier. Arun meets Parvathi in a college canteen. Soon they become friends. Parvathi's mother, Saroja breaks up with her husband Akilan. Parvathi lives with her mother. As time progresses, they break up but the reason is not revealed. Arun's friend Vignesh tries to propose his junior Rashmi. But Rashmi addresses Vignesh as brother and she introduce her lover who is Vignesh's senior. Arun tries to recover from the break-up. Arun's friend calls him to a trip to Pondicherry to see his friend John.John's girlfriend Cathy starts friendly chat with Arun. Cathy wishes to help Arun and asks him why they broke up. Arun says that he doesn't have any reason and that is his problem. Since Cathy becomes friendly with Arun, Misunderstanding crops up between Cathy and John. Meanwhile Akilan approaches Prabhu for divorce. Prabhu who is Arun's father advice Akilan to reunite with Saroja after knowing that Akilan is Parvathi's Father. Akilan and Saroja unite in Parvathi's grandparents 80th marriage. Consequently, John realise that Arun and Cathy are just being friendly and he reunites with cathy. While Rashmi realise that her lover (vignesh's senior) is a playboy, she realises this and tells this to Vignesh and accepts his true love. At last, Parvathi and Arun reunite after a silly quarrel in the same canteen that they met earlier.
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Ayalaan (2024)
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors Sivakarthikeyan, Isha Koppikar, Sharad Kelkar, Karunakaran, Bhanupriya, Bala Saravanan
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59%
Gabbar Is Back (2015)
, 2h11Directed by Radhakrishna Jagarlamudi
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Akshay Kumar, Sonu Sood, Prakash Raj, Shruti Haasan, Shraddha Kapooor, Amala Paul
Roles Director of Photography
Rating69%
The police get information that 10 tehsildars across Maharashtra have been mysteriously kidnapped. But they are as mysteriously returned - except the most corrupt officer, who is hanged in public. The police get a CD from mystery man 'Gabbar' who says his mission is to target corrupt officers. Police driver Sadhuram (Sunil Grover) is convinced he can crack who Gabbar is - but his superior officers humiliate him in front of all the other officers.
, 2h38Directed by M. Rajesh
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Arya, Tamannaah Bhatia, Santhanam, Vishal, Muktha, Karunakaran
Roles Director of Photography
Rating45%
Inji Iduppazhagi (2015)
, 2h30Directed by Prakash Kovelamudi
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Arya, Anushka Shetty, Sonal Singh Chauhan, Prakash Raj, Urvashi, Pavani Gangireddy
Roles Director of Photography
Rating55%
Idhu Enna Maayam (2015)
Directed by A. L. Vijay
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Vikram Prabhu, Keerthy Suresh, Kavya Shetty, Navdeep, Nassar, Ambika
Roles Director of Photography
Rating55%
Arun (Vikram Prabhu) is a struggling theatre artiste. With the help of his friends, who are also struggling theatre artistes, he starts a website called UMT which helps men struggling in love to successfully unite with the woman of their dreams with the help of theaterics. One day, UMT gets a rich client in the form of Santhosh (Navdeep), the owner of a real estate company. Santhosh is in love with a singer Maya (Keerthy Suresh) and offers ₹1,00,00,000 if Arun and his friends can help him in winning Maya's heart. Arun has second thoughts over the offer because Maya is his ex-girlfriend. They had broken up due to a serious misunderstanding between them. Though he still has feelings for Maya, he reluctantly agrees to help Santhosh. However, he foils all the plans to bring Santhosh and Maya together. A frustrated Santhosh then directly proposes to Maya, but she rejects him as she has still not forgotten Arun.
Kaaviya Thalaivan (2014)
Directed by Vasanthabalan
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Prithviraj Sukumaran, Siddharth, Vedhika, Anaika Soti, Thambi Ramaiah, Ponvannan
Roles Director of Photography
Rating74%
Un hommage au cinéma tamoul des années 30/40 et, aux troupes de théâtre tamoul en voie de disparition. De 1920 à 1940, un voyage dans la vie d’artistes de théâtre tamoul, à travers leur amitié, leur amour et leurs rivalités. Sans être un biopic, Vasanthabalan reconnait s'être inspiré de quelques artistes de l’époque tels que K.B. Sundarambal, ou encore de S.G. Kittappa, doyens des théâtres musicaux de Madurai, capitale culturelle de l'Etat du Tamil Nadu, en Inde.
Kaaviya Thalaivan (2014)
, 2h30Directed by Vasanthabalan
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Siddharth, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Vedhika, Nassar, Anaika Soti, Thambi Ramaiah
Roles Director of Photography
Rating74%
Thavathiru Sivadas Swamigal (Nassar) runs a drama troupe in which Thalaivankottai Kaliappa Bhagavathar (Siddharth) and Melachivilberi Gomathi Nayagam Pillai(Prithviraj) are his direct disciples. Gomathi is left by his father in the troupe of Swami. Kali is found by Swami during a train trip where the boy is singing and begging alms. Impressed by his singing talents, Swami takes the boy with him. Gomathi and Kaliappa have relationship like brothers. They grow up together and stage many plays where Gomathi often plays "Sthripart" - the female role and Kali plays "sidepart"- supporting characters. While Vadivambal (Vedhicka), the female member in the group falls in love with Kali, the latter loves Rangamma (Anaika Soti), the princess of the zameen. Bhairava (Ponvannan) who is another student of Swami is a popular "Rajapart" - performing main title characters of a stage play. He becomes headstrong over his acting capabilities and does not attend the rehearsals for which he gets scoldings from Swami. After a quarrel, he leaves the troupe as he could not bear the torture of Swami. Swami does not give up and conducts an audition for the main character role of Soorapadman in which Kali and Gomathi perform. Kali gets selected, which leaves Gomathi angry. The reason behind Swami's bias towards Kali is never answered clearly to Gomathi which leaves him more frustrated.
Saivam (2014)
Directed by A. L. Vijay
Genres Drama
Actors Sara Arjun, Nassar, Suresh, Kausalya, Sankarabharanam Rajyalakshmi, Shanmugarajan
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67%
Kathiresan (Nassar) is the head of a large family which consists of three of his sons and a daughter and their respective families. Everyone get together at his house for a vacation. When the entire family goes to their temple on a given day, some ill fated events occur. The family thinks it is because it had forgotten to perform a ritual sacrifice which involved the slaughter of a rooster known as Paappa (a rooster), which was part of their poultry. This thought is fueled all the more by each family member blaming this to be the cause for all their problems both at home and at work. Kathiresan decides to sacrifice Paappa in the upcoming festival, and the family rests assured that all their problems will disappear eventually after the ritual. Then, suddenly, Paappa goes missing.
Thalaivaa (2013)
, 3h3Directed by A. L. Vijay
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Action
Themes Gangster films
Actors Vijay, Amala Paul, Sathyaraj, Rajeev Govinda Pillai, Abhimanyu Singh, Ragini Nandwani
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
Vishwa (Vijay) is a dancer who lives in Sydney, Australia. He also manages a water distribution business there with his childhood friend Logu (Santhanam) and his dance team members. He is the son of Ramadorai (Sathyaraj), a Mumbai-based don who fights for the rights of the Tamil-speaking migrants in the city. Ramadorai had sent Vishwa away to Australia when he was a child for his safety and although they are in regular contact, he lies to Vishwa that he is a businessman.
Vettai (2012)
, 2h48Directed by N. Linguswamy
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors R. Madhavan, Arya, Sameera Reddy, Amala Paul, Ashutosh Rana, Nassar
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
Thirumurthy and Gurumurthy are two brothers in Thoothukudi, with Thirumurthy being the elder. He is however sensitive to violence and his younger brother is brave and rogue. Whenever Thirumurthy is beaten by anyone, he has Gurumurthy to finish them. However, Gurumurthy gets frequently punished by his policeman father (Nagendra Babu) for beating up the local people, while Thirumurthy only feels for him.
Directed by Balaji Mohan
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Siddharth, Amala Paul, Suresh, Ravi Raghavendra, Surekha Vani, Sriranjini
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70%
Arun (Siddharth) and Parvathi (Amala Paul) give an interview about their love story. But they fight even before the interview gets over. Then the movie rewinds 5 months earlier. Arun meets Parvathi in a college canteen. Soon they become friends. Parvathi's mother, Saroja breaks up with her husband Akilan. Parvathi lives with her mother. As time progresses, they break up but the reason is not revealed. Arun's friend Vignesh tries to propose his junior Rashmi. But Rashmi addresses Vignesh as brother and she introduce her lover who is Vignesh's senior. Arun tries to recover from the break-up. Arun's friend calls him to a trip to Pondicherry to see his friend John.John's girlfriend Cathy starts friendly chat with Arun. Cathy wishes to help Arun and asks him why they broke up. Arun says that he doesn't have any reason and that is his problem. Since Cathy becomes friendly with Arun, Misunderstanding crops up between Cathy and John. Meanwhile Akilan approaches Prabhu for divorce. Prabhu who is Arun's father advice Akilan to reunite with Saroja after knowing that Akilan is Parvathi's Father. Akilan and Saroja unite in Parvathi's grandparents 80th marriage. Consequently, John realise that Arun and Cathy are just being friendly and he reunites with cathy. While Rashmi realise that her lover (vignesh's senior) is a playboy, she realises this and tells this to Vignesh and accepts his true love. At last, Parvathi and Arun reunite after a silly quarrel in the same canteen that they met earlier.
Thaandavam (2012)
, 2h36Directed by A. L. Vijay
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Vikram, Jagapati Babu, Anushka Shetty, Amy Jackson, Raai Laxmi, Nassar
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
On 1 January 2010, a sudden bomb blast occurs in London, killing several people. The scene shifts to the same place after exactly a year, where a blind man Kenny Thomas (Vikram) lays flowers on the memorial and mourns someone's death during the bomb blast. He is then given some secret details by a mysterious woman. Kenny then takes a taxi driven by Satyan (Santhanam) who is a comical Tamil guy. He drops Kenny at a place and waits for him to return. But Kenny actually goes inside to kill someone. He kills him and throws him down. Seeing the corpse, Satyan flees. During this entire scene, Kenny is shown to produce a sound from his mouth, to find his way, which is later shown as echolocation. Later Kenny is shown to play piano in a local church, and he is blind he has so many people who care for him. In the meantime, Kenny carries out two more murders, taking the same taxi driven by the innocent Satyan, following instructions from the mysterious woman.
Vaanam (2011)
, 2h41Directed by Radhakrishna Jagarlamudi
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about prostitution
Actors Silambarasan, Bharath, Anushka Shetty, Prakash Raj, Saranya, Sonia Agarwal
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72%
Cable Raja (Silambarasan) is a cable operator born and raised in a slum area in Chennai. He bemoans his poverty and wishes to become rich by marrying his girlfriend Priya (Jasmin Bhasin). He cons her into believing he is well off, and adopts a well-bred persona in front of her. Raja is always accompanied by his best friend Seenu (Santhanam) and guided by Bhajan singer Ganesh (VTV Ganesh). When he is asked by Priya to buy high-priced passes to a New Year's Eve gala, he finds himself severely short of money. After a failed attempt at chain snatching and crossing paths with the police, he heads to a hospital with theft on his mind.
Deiva Thirumagal (2011)
, 2h46Directed by A. L. Vijay
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors Vikram, Sara Arjun, Anushka Shetty, Amala Paul, Nassar, Santhanam
Roles Director of Photography
Rating81%
Krishna (Vikram) is intellectually disabled and has the mental ability of a six-year old. He lives a peaceful life in the hill station of Ooty. He is cared for by Victor (Krishna Kumar), the owner of a chocolate factory where Krishna works. One day he excitedly announces to the village that he will become a father. That night, his daughter is born, but his wife Banumathy dies during childbirth. Unable to grasp the concept of death, he simply accepts that his wife has "gone to God" and starts life as a father. He names his daughter Nila, and raises her with love and care. She soon grows into a happy young girl (Sara). With the help of Victor and his other mentally challenged friends, Krishna enrolls Nila in school.