Mahesh Limaye is an Indian

cinematographer The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the ch ...

- director known for his work in Hindi and Marathi cinema. Some of his work include ''Traffic Signal'', ''Corporate'', ''Fashion'', ''Heroine'', ''Dabaang'', ''Uttarayan'', ''

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'', ''Balgandharva'', ''

Rege ''Rege'' (Marathi language, Marathi:‘रेगे’) "Surname", a 2014 Marathi cinema, Marathi neo-noir film directed by Abhijit Panse. The film deals with the theme of kids getting involved in criminal activities. The film became a commercia ...

'' and ''

Mulshi Pattern ''Mulshi Pattern'' is a 2018 Indian Marathi-language action crime film directed by Pravin Tarde and produced by Abhijeet Bhosale, Genuine Production and Punit Balan Entertainment. The film stars Om Bhutkar, Pravin Tarde, Mohan Joshi, Upendra Li ...

''. He shot the action sequences of '' Bajirao Mastani'' and ''Padmavaat''.

Early life and education

Mahesh was born in

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, Maharashtra. Right from his young days he always had an inclination towards arts. He got into Sir J J School of arts and completed his graduation in commercial arts with specialization in photography. His love for music videos made him take keen interest in cinematography.

Career

Post his graduation from Sir J J School of Arts, Mahesh assisted Raja Sayed, a well known cinematographer. He also got a chance to assist a lot of foreign cinematographers in their advertisement projects. Mahesh shot his first film as an independent cinematographer with director Marlon Rodrigues in 2005 named CU at 9. Bipin Nadkarni, a advertisement director chose Mahesh to shoot his directorial debut ''Uttarayan''. He shot Bipin's second film ''Aevdhese Aabhal'' as well. He had a long partnership with Madhur Bhandarkar with films like ''Traffiic Signal'', ''Corporate'', ''Fashion'' and ''Heroine''. He shot 3 films for Ravi Jadhav namely ''

'', ''Balgandharva'' and ''Balak Palak''. Mahesh rose to fame when he shot ''Dabaang'' with Salman Khan. Mahesh shot some portions of ''

Dabangg 2 ''Dabangg 2'' () is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film co-produced with and directed by Arbaaz Khan in his directorial debut, who co-produced the film with Malaika Arora. Its story is set in Kanpur and written by Dilip Shukla. ''D ...

'' and collaborated with Prabhudeva for ''Dabaangg 3''. Mahesh shot Marathi features like ''

'', ''

Family Katta ''Family Katta'' is an Indian Marathi-language comedy-drama film directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni and produced by Vandana Gupte. Released in India on 7 October 2016, the film has a star cast of more than 10 actors which includes Dilip Prabhavalk ...

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''. He collaborated with Punit Malhotra for Gori Tere Pyaar Mein produced by Dharma Productions.The other films that he has shot include '' Freaky Ali'', ''Happy Ending'', ''Bhikari'', ''Shentimental''. In 2014, Mahesh debuted as a director with the Marathi feature film ''Yellow''. At the 61st National Film Awards, the film won the

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for feature films and two

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awards for the child actors. He also directed two video shorts namely ''Punaragamanayacha'' and ''Aashechi Roshnai''. He has recently worked on the Marathi feature film ''Sarsenapati Hambirrao Mohite''. Mahesh is currently working on his second directorial named ''Jaggu ani Juliet''. The film is produced by Punit Balan and the duo Ajay–Atul, Ajay-Atul are doing the music for the film.

Filmography

Awards and recognition

Won the national award for the film Yellow as Best Film Jury.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Limaye, Mahesh Living people Indian cinematographers Marathi film directors Film directors from Mumbai Year of birth missing (living people)