Aloysius Vincent (1928-2015) was born into and lived his whole life in a family where photography was a way of life: his father was a photographer in Kozhikode and he grew up watching his father working, and both his sons, Jayanan and Ajayan, are well-known cinematographers. It was at the behest of his father that he left for Chennai when he was about 18, and joined the Gemini Studios to assist Kamal Ghosh, a Bengali cameraman working for Gemini. The first film he worked in was one of the biggest blockbusters in Indian film history – Chandralekha, by S.S. Vasan – that set new heights in commercial cinema production in the country. His association with Ghosh in his formative years...
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