Murali G.

Murali was born and brought up in the village near Uthangarai, which is now a part of Krishnagiri district, Tamil Nadu. He did his schooling in the village and upon completion of his school, he was engaged as a social worker and got involved with the student wing of Communist party of India for more than a year before joining a music college. He enrolled himself at the Government Arts College, Kumbakonam for a degree in fine arts and later joined the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, to do a course in motion picture photography. He assisted Rajeev Ravi in Anurag Kashyap's Dev.D (2009),[1] before making his feature film debut with the Andala Rakshasi (2012). His subsequent films Madras (2014), Kabali (2016) and Kaala were directed by Pa. Ranjith.