Mahesh Aney

Movies

Shoebox
Cinematography
Mampu watches her father struggling to keep his single-screen theatre alive - as her hometown Allahabad acquires a new name and starts losing traces of its past.
Aa Bb Kk
Director of Photography
Jani is branded as a curse by the society after her mother dies while giving birth, which makes it a struggle for her and her brother to survive in their day-to-day life.
Pitruroon
Cinematography
In today's urban Indian lifestyle where more relationships seem idealistic and flawless, an archaeologist encounters his look alike and the disturbing past of the look alike's aging mother in rural Maharashtra. But was his father responsible for the plight of this old woman. The film is an emotional story of a romance failed by a cruel twist of fate, a confrontation of shattered family values and rebuilding of human bonds.
The Coffin Maker
Director of Photography
Based in a small village in Goa, "The Coffin Maker" is about Anton Gomes who comes from a family of accomplished carpenters and takes up coffin making when difficult circumstances render him jobless and penniless. Cynical and disillusioned Anton exists. Till one day Death challenges his life.
Celluloid Man
Director of Photography
Indian documentary about Indian film history and P. K. Nair, the founder of the National Film Archive of India and guardian of Indian cinema. He built the archive can by can in a country where the archiving of cinema was considered unimportant.
Swades
Director of Photography
A successful Indian scientist returns home to his village to take his nanny back to America with him, and in the process rediscovers his roots.
Ittar
Cinematography
Rituparna Sengupta will be seen playing the role of Abha, who is a school teacher. Ittar will show how Abha meets Dipak Tijori's character.