Gopi Amarnath

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Gopi Amarnath is an Indian cinematographer, who works in the Tamil film industry.{{Cite web |url=http://silverscreen.in/gopi-amarnath/ |title=Cinematographer Gopi Amarnath - News, Photos & Videos |access-date=3 January 2015 |archive-date=17 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317212203/http://silverscreen.in/gopi-amarnath/ |url-status=dead }}

Career

Gopi studied in MGR Film Institute and started to work as an assistant to ace cinematographer, P. S. Vinod.

Amarnath received positive reviews for his work in Maalai Pozhudhin Mayakathilaey (2012), and was thus signed up by C. V. Kumar to collaborate on another venture.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sify.com/movies/cs-kumar-gets-ready-with-pizza-news-tamil-mhzk8Vdcfcdsi.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150103044841/http://www.sify.com/movies/cs-kumar-gets-ready-with-pizza-news-tamil-mhzk8Vdcfcdsi.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 January 2015|title=CS Kumar gets ready with 'Pizza'}} His work in Karthik Subbaraj's directorial debut Pizza (2012), won him critical acclaim and the Vijay Award for Best Cinematographer. He subsequently received a breakthrough and began working on bigger budget productions, teaming up with Sundar C for Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru (2013) and Aambala (2015).{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/stars-big-and-small/article4714588.ece|title=Stars, big and small|newspaper=The Hindu|date=14 May 2013|last1=Naig|first1=Udhav}}

As of 2015, he has five films in various stages of production.

Filmography

=As cinematographer=

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Year ! Film ! Notes
2011 \| Potta Potti \|
rowspan="2" \|2012 \| Maalai Pozhudhin Mayakathilaey \|
Pizza \|
2013 \| Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru \|
2014 \| Irumbu Kuthirai \|
rowspan="3" \|2015 \| Aambala \|
Enakkul Oruvan \|
Yatchan \|
2016 \| Pencil \|
2017 \| Maayavan \|
rowspan="2" \|2018 \| Semma Botha Aagathey \|
Thamizh Padam 2.0 \|
2019 \| Vantha Rajavathaan Varuven \|
2023 \| Vasantha Mullai \|
2023 \|Raththam
\|Mookuthi Amman 2

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Year

! Film

! Notes

2011

| Potta Potti

rowspan="2" |2012

| Maalai Pozhudhin Mayakathilaey

Pizza

2013

| Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru

2014