H. C. Venugopal

H. C. Venugopal, known professionally as H. C. Venu, is an Indian cinematographer who mainly works in Kannada cinema, along with Tamil cinema.

H. C. Venugopal
Venugopal (left), Vijay Raghavendra (right), in IFFI (2006)
Born	Doddaballapura Taluk, Bengaluru, India
Other names	H. C. Venu
Occupation	Cinematographer
Years active	1996 - Present
Television	Raja Rani
Spouse	Tara

Career

H. C. Venugopal is a cinematographer who has predominantly worked for Kannada films. He has been active since the late 1990s, regularly collaborating for high-profile Kannada films including A (1998), Sparsha (1999), H2O (2002), Aa Dinagalu (2007), Jaggu Dada (2016) to name a few.^[1] He was also involved in the shoot of the first 3D Kannada film Katari Veera Surasundarangi (2012) .^[2]

In recent years, he has collaborated with Arjun Sarja for the bilingual films, Jaihind 2 (2014) and Prema Baraha (2018).^[3][4]

Personal life

Venugopal married actress-politician Tara in 2005. They have a son named Shreekrishna (b. 2013) together.^[5]

Selected filmography

• All films are in Kannada, unless mentioned otherwise.

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

Year	Film	Notes
1998	A	Debut
1999	Prathyartha
2000	Sparsha
2002	Dhumm
	Marma
	H2O	Bilingual in Kannada and Tamil
	Parva
2005	Maharaja
2006	Kallarali Hoovagi
	Neenello Naanalle
2007	Aa Dinagalu
Ugadi
2008	Anthu Inthu Preethi Banthu
2009	Birugaali
2010	Modalasala
	Suryakaanti
2011	Rajadhani
2012	Chingari
	Katari Veera Surasundarangi
2013	Nam Duniya Nam Style
2014	Jaihind 2 Abhimanyu	Bilingual in Tamil and Kannada
	Dil Rangeela
2015	RX Soori
2016	Jaggu Dada
	Mummy
	Nagarahavu
2018	Prema Baraha Solli Vidava	Bilingual in Kannada and Tamil
2020	Shivarjuna
2023	Kaasina Sara
2024	UI