Kasi Viswanathan


Kasivishwanathan is an Indian film editor, who has worked on Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam language films.

Career

Kasivishwanathan entered the cinema industry as an assistant to Malayalam editor K. Narayanan. He later started work as an associate editor on films like Thevar Magan and Kuruthipunal with N. P. Satish. He then worked under A. Sreekar Prasad in films of several languages including Oriya, Sinhalese and Kannada.
He made his debut as an editor with Kamal Haasan's Aalavandhan, experimenting with techniques involving animation and motion capture cameras, and then worked in the romantic comedy, Pammal K. Sambandam. His work on his first film won him the Tamil [Nadu State Film Award for Best Editor] in the year 2004, for the year 2001. Kasivishwanthan subsequently went on to collaborate as an editor in several of Prakash Raj's productions with Duet Movies. Under the banner he worked in movies like Mozhi and Abhiyum Naanum. He has since regularly collaborated with directors including Radha Mohan, Suseenthiran, Seenu Ramasamy, Sundar C, Mysskin and Siruthai Siva's Veeram. Till date he works on projects with various directors, both established and debutant directors.
In 2016, he made his debut as an actor in Suseenthiran's Maaveeran Kittu.

Filmography

As editor

As actor