Dinesh Baboo

Dinesh Baboo
Born	Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Occupation	Film director, cinematographer, producer, actor, Script-writer
Spouse(s)	Sobhana K K, Chethana

Dinesh Baboo (also known as Dinesh Babu ದಿನೇಶ್ ಬಾಬು Kannada) (born in Trivandrum, India) is an Indian film director, cinematographer, producer, actor and screenwriter. He has worked in both Malayalam cinema and Kannada cinema. His directorial ventures were chiefly with Kannada films. His popularity also is largely as a director rather than a cinematographer due to his many popular films in Kannada, some of which went on to become blockbusters.

Career

Cinematographer

His career in cinema started as a cinematographer. He stood behind the camera for noted Malayalam films like Dhruvam, King, Ullasa Poonkattu and the blockbuster movie Commissioner which was instrumental in raising Suresh Gopi, currently a superstar in Malayalam movie world to stardom.

Great talent in cinematography was the springboard that launched him to great success in the world of cinema. This also helped him to have first hand knowledge of every technical aspect of cinema, which a director need not be necessarily familiar with. He also directed a Malayalam film named Mazhavillu starring Kunchacko Boban and Preeti Jhangiani. Although his camera skills were widely appreciated in Mollywood, his ambition took him to the world of Kannada films where he chose to direct rather than handle the camera.

Director

His directorial career in the Kannada film world took off with a hugely successful thriller Idu Saadhya in 1989. The movie, featuring eight stars, was actually made on a shoestring budget of just 1.5 million INR and shot at a single location within 48 hours. It set a Guinness record of fastest completion of an Indian film. A drama theatre where the film was shot mingles into the theme and almost becomes a character of the movie. Idhu Sadhya became a trend setter because of its brilliant direction, screenplay and cinematography. His inspiration for this film came from the theme of Michele Soavi's Deliria (film). (Stagefright) must also have been an influencing factor for this film.

Suprabhatha is another major success of Dinesh Baboo. The story revolves around a single location, this time, a gas filling station. A film with Super Star Dr.Vishnuvardhan and Suhasini, became a box office looter creating many records and gave a major boost to the career of Dinesh babu.

As a director, his craftsmanship has been lauded by columnists and reviewers.

Actor

He is appearing in front of camera for the first time as a Police officer in the film Accident which is Directed by Ramesh Aravind.

Personal life

Dinesh Baboo had a failed marriage and had divorced his first wife. He married his assistant director Chethana in 2010.^[1]

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Credited as	Language	Awards and Achievements
1986	Uyire Unakkaga	Cinematographer	Tamil
	Unakkaagave Vaazhgiren	Cinematographer	Tamil
1987	Ananda Aradhanai	Director	Tamil
1988	Suprabhatha	Director	Kannada	Filmfare Award for Best Director (Kannada)
1989	Idu Saadhya	Screenplay, Cinematographer, Director	Kannada	Based on Stage Fright Guinness record for fastest completion of an Indian film at that time
	Inspector Vikram	Director	Kannada
	Hendthighelbedi	Director, Writer, Cinematographer	Kannada
1993	Vasantha Poornima	Co-storywriter[2]	Kannada
	Dhruvam	Cinematographer	Malayalam
	Ammayane Sathyam	Cinematographer	Malayalam
	Chamayam	Cinematographer	Malayalam
1994	Commissioner	Cinematographer	Malayalam
	Pidakkozhi Koovunna Noottandu	Cinematographer	Malayalam
1995	The King	Cinematographer	Malayalam
1997	Bhoopathi	Cinematographer	Malayalam
	Ullasappoonkattu	Cinematographer	Malayalam
	Amrutha Varshini	Cinematographer, Director	Kannada	Remade in Malayalam as Mazhavillu
	Laali	Director	Kannada
1998	Nishyabda	Director	Kannada
	Hendthigheltini	Director	Kannada
1999	Premotsava	Director	Kannada
	Mazhavillu	Director	Malayalam	Remake of Amrutha Varshini
2000	Deepavali	Director, cinematographer	Kannada
	Nan Hendthi Chennagidale	Director	Kannada
2001	Everybody Says I'm Fine!	Light Supervisor	English
	Chithra	Director	Kannada	Remake of Telugu film Chitram
2002	Hollywood	Director	Kannada
	Balagalittu Olage Baa	Director	Kannada	Based on Our Hospitality
2003	Abhi	Director	Kannada
2004	Kanakambari	Director	Kannada
2005	Magic Ajji	Director	Kannada
	Pandu Ranga Vittala	Director	Kannada
2006	Neenello Naanalle	Director	Kannada	Remake of Telugu film Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana
2008	Mr. Garagasa	Director	Kannada	Based on 1998 French comedy Le Dîner de Cons (also known as The Dinner Game)
	Aakasha Gange	Director	Kannada
2009	Janumada Gelathi	Director	Kannada
	mooru guttu ondu sullu ondu nija	Director	Kannada
	Accident	Actor	Kannada
	Bellary Naga	Director	Kannada	Remake of Malayalam film Rajamanikyam
2010	School Master	Director	Kannada
2010	Eradane Maduve[3]	Director	Kannada	Prequel of Mathond Madhuvena & remade in Telugu as Bhale Pellam Bhale Mogudu
2011	Mathond Madhuvena	Director	Kannada	Sequel of Eradane Maduve
2011	Bhale Mogudu Bhale Pellam	Director	Telugu	Remake of Eradane Maduve
2011	Naanalla[4]	Director	Kannada	Based on Primal Fear
2012	Ondu Kshanadalli[5]	Director	Kannada
2014	Athi Aparoopa[6]	Director	Kannada
2016	Priyanka	Director , Cinematographer	Kannada

Television^[7]

• Mane Mane Kathe
• Akansha
• Swati Muttu

References

1. "Dinesh Baboo marries his assistant Chethana". Sify. August 17, 2010. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
2. "Vasantha Poornima". WordPress. July 25, 2013. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
3. "Eradane Maduve Movie Review". The Times of India. July 10, 2010. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
4. "Naanalla Review". IndiaGlitz. October 22, 2011. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
5. "Ondu Kshanadalli Movie Review". The Times of India. TNN. October 6, 2012. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
6. B S Srivani (April 12, 2014). "An Indian love story revisited". Deccan Herald. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
7. Shyam Prasad S (October 12, 2015). "Dinesh Baboo on his experience with Priyanka". The Times of India. Retrieved October 12, 2015.

External links

1. IMDB page mainly referring to his film career at the Internet Movie Database
2. Accident (As an actor) at the Internet Movie Database