B. S. Lokanath

B. S. Lokanath
Born	c. 1937 Bangalore, Karnataka
Died	9 December 2011 Chennai, India
Other names	Loknath, Lokanathan
Occupation	cinematographer
Years active	1971 - 1985
Spouse(s)	R.L.Radha
Awards	National Film Award for Best Cinematography Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Cinematographer

B. S. Lokanath (c. 1937 – 2011) was an Indian cinematographer who worked in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi films. He is well known as the cinematographer of K. Balachander and has worked in 55 films with him.^[1] During his career, he won the National Film Award for Best Cinematography for Apoorva Raagangal (1975) and the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Cinematographer for Ninaithale Inikkum (1979).^[2] He died of a heart attack in Chennai on 9 December 2011.^[1]

Partial filmography

1967–1980

Black-and-white	Ramachandra (1967) Nariman Irani (1968) K. K. Mahajan (1969) K. K. Mahajan (1970) Nando Bhattacharya (1971) Mankada Ravi Varma (1972) Apurba Kishore Bir (1973) K. K. Mahajan (1974) B. S. Lokanath (1975) P. S. Nivas (1976) Balu Mahendra (1977) Shaji N. Karun (1978) Kamal Nayak (1979) Sivan (1980)
Color	M. N. Malhotra (1967) K. S. Prasad (1968) Marcus Bartley (1969) Radhu Karmakar (1970) Ramachandra (1971) K. K. Mahajan (1972) Soumendu Roy (1973) Soumendu Roy (1974) Ishan Arya (1975) S. Ramachandra (1976) Soumendu Roy (1977) Govind Nihalani (1978) Rajan Kinagi (1979) Ashok Kumar (1980)

1981–2000

2001–present

Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Cinematographer
1968–1980	P. N. Sundaram (1968) Marcus Bartley (1969) Amirtham (1970) — (1971) — (1972) — (1973) — (1974) — (1975) — (1976) Babu (1977–78) A. Somasundaram, Nallusamy / Gnanasekar, Tiwary (1978–79) B. S. Lokanath (1979–80) Ashok Kumar (1980–81)
1981–2000	B. Kannan (1981–82) Soumendu Roy (1982–83) — (1984) — (1985) — (1986) — (1987) Ajayan Vincent (1988) Ashok Kumar (1989) Abdul Rahman (1990) Raghunatha Reddy (1991) Santosh Sivan (1992) M. C. Shekar (1993) Jeeva (1994) Santosh Sivan (1995) Arthur A. Wilson (1996) Thangar Bachan (1997) Annadurai (1998) Ilavarasu (1999) Ananda Kuttan (2000)
2001–present	R. Rathnavelu (2001) Arjun Jena (2002) N. K. Ekambaram (2003) B. Kannan (2004) R. D. Rajasekhar (2005) Ravi Varman (2006) Nirav Shah (2007) Arthur A. Wilson (2008) Manoj Paramahamsa (2009) Santosh Sivan / V. Manikandan (2010) Balasubramaniem (2011) M. Sukumar (2012) Siddharth (2013) Nirav Shah (2014)

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