Santosh Sivan



Santosh Sivan is a critically acclaimed Indian film director and cinematographer. He has won five National Film Awards, three Filmfare Awards, and ten international film festival awards.

Sivan is the older brother of film director Sanjiv Sivan and younger brother of director Sangeeth Sivan. Their father, Sivan, is a renowned director and cinematographer of Malayalam documentary films, and runs the Trivandrum-based Sivan Studio.

As a director, his debut film Halo (1996) won him a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie and National Film Award for Best Children's Film. His second film Malli (1998) won him the Best Director and Golden Pyramid awards at the Cairo International Film Festival and the Feature Film (second place) award at the Chicago International Film Festival.

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