Kamal Ghosh


Kamal Ghosh was an Indian cinematographer and film director. Although a native of Kolkata, he was active primarily in Tamil and Telugu cinema.

Career

Kamal Ghosh was the nephew of filmmaker, writer and actor Debaki Bose. He received training from his uncle, working with New Theaters, Calcutta, in various aspects of film making. It was the lawyer turned filmmaker K. Subramanyam who brought Ghosh to South India. He started his career as an assistant cinematographer to Sailen Bose in the film Balayogini released in 1937. Ghosh worked as the cinematographer in-charge for the Tamil-language Jupiter Pictures film Anaadhai Penn, directed by R. Prakash. Ghosh's photography, especially the lighting, was widely praised. Ghosh also worked as a director in two 1953 films: Paropakaram and Rohini. But both were commercially unsuccessful, so he decided to drop that career and continued to work as a cinematographer.

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As director

Ghosh was affected by glaucoma and died in 1983.