Shehnad Jalal

Best Cinematography Award at the 72nd National Film Awards in 2025. The documentary, A Pestering Journey won him the Navaroze Contractor Award for the Best Documentary Cameraman at the 4th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, 2011, He won a nomination for Achievement in Cinematography at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2017, for his work in the movie Loktak Lairembee (film) (Lady of the Lake) in the Meitei language, directed by Haobam Paban Kumar. The film won the Golden Gateway award for Best Film at the Mumbai International Film Festival 2016 and the National Award for the Best Indian Film on Environment Conservation, 2016. A member of the Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC).

• Name — Shehnad Jalal • Birthplace — Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India • Occupation — Cinematographer • Years Active — 2006- present • Education — Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute • Mother — Jahanara Jalal • Father — A Jalaludeen

• Year — Award — Category — Recipient — Result — Notes • 2010 — Kerala State Film Awards — Best Cinematography — Chitrasutram — Shared with M. J. Radhakrishnan • 2011 — 4th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala — Best Documentary Cameraman — A Pestering Journey • 2017 — Asia Pacific Screen Awards — Best Cinematographer — Loktak Lairembee • 2023 — SIIMA Awards — Best Cinematographer — Bramayugam

• Year — Film — Director — Language • 2023 — Curry & Cyanide: The Jolly Joseph Case — Christo Tomy — English Netflix Original • 2017 — Work of fire — K R Manoj — Malayalam • 2016 — Kesari — K R Manoj — Malayalam • 2015 — Maruvili – Call from the other shore — Anwar Ali — Malayalam • 2015 — Amma — Neelan — Malayalam • 2014 — adutha bellodu koodi jeevitham arambhikkum — Manilal — Malayalam • 2013 — On the trail of a rain song — Usha Zacharias — English • 2010 — A Pestering Journey — KR Manoj — Malayalam • 2007 — 16mm-Memories, Movement and a Machine — KR Manoj — Malayalam

• Year — Film — Director — Language • 2016 — Funeral of a native sons — Muhsin Parari — Malayalam

The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Recorded with the occupation photographer. Institutional cataloguing adds that shehnad Jalal is recorded as a citizen of India. Institutional cataloguing adds that shehnad Jalal is recorded with the gender male. Born on 28 June 1978.

• All films are in Malayalam, unless mentioned otherwise. • Year — Title — Director — Notes • 2010 — Chitrasutram — Vipin Vijay — Debut • 2012 — Ee Adutha Kaalathu — Arun Kumar Aravind • 2013 — Chennaiyil Oru Naal — Shaheed Kader — Tamil film; Debut in Tamil cinema • Left Right Left — Arun Kumar Aravind • Kanyaka Talkies — K. R. Manoj • Vedivazhipadu — Shambhu Purushothaman • Vishudhan — Vysakh • 2015 — Nirnayakam — V. K. Prakash • 2016 — Loktak Lairembee — Haobam Paban Kumar • Kavi Uddheshichathu..? — Thomas Kutty & Liju Thomas • Velutha Rathrikal — Razi Muhammed • 2017 — Irattajeevitham — Suresh Narayanan • Vimaanam — Pradeep M. Nair • 2019 — Sathyam Paranja Viswasikkuvo — G. Prajith • Kamala — Ranjith Sankar • 2022 — Bhoothakaalam — Rahul Sadasivan • 2023 — Madanolsavam — Sudheesh Gopinath • 2024 — Bramayugam — Rahul Sadasivan — National Film Award for Best Cinematography • Ullozhukku — Christo Tomy • 2025 — Paathirathri — Ratheena PT • Diés Iraé — Rahul Sadasivan

• Year — Film — Director — Language • 2010 — The way she is venerated in love — Manilal — Malayalam • 2009 — Charulatha-the tale untold — Sangeetha Padmanabhan — Malayalam • 2009 — French Revolution — Manu — Malayalam • 2006 — Ngaihak Lambida (English: Along The Way) — Haobam Paban Kumar — Meiteilon