# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/venu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:17:38.062Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/venu"
name: "Venu"
slug: "venu"
description: "Venugopal Pillai ISC, popularly known as Venu, is an Indian cinematographer and film director who works mainly in Malayalam cinema. An alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune and CMS college Kottayam. Regarded as one of the finest cinematographers in the country, he has been the recipient of four National Film Awards, including three for Best Cinematography and one Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director, and four Kerala State Film Awards. He is a founding member of the Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC)."
tagline: "Indian cinematographer"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/57fmDN11WCMbfhuEUgvVRI4hi7c.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1961-08-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48
  momentum:             2.656091341922964
  historical:           3.643313333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0893447/"
    handle:    "nm0893447"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venu_(cinematographer)"
    title: "Venu (cinematographer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%A3%E0%B5%81_(%E0%B4%9B%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B9%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%BB)"
    title: "വേണു (ഛായാഗ്രാഹകൻ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%A3%E0%B1%81_(%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AB%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D)"
    title: "వేణు (సినిమాటోగ్రాఫర్)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7920461"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1380126"
    title: "Munshi Venu"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations