Super Surgery
Discovery Health | 1 x 60 minutes | 2007
Additional Cinematography
The grueling 27-hour surgery by 30 doctors on two-year-old Lakshmi Tatma who was born with one of the world's rarest physical abnormalities. Joined at the pelvis to her half-formed conjoined twin, she has four arms and four legs. As news of her operation spreads, Lakshmi becomes a global story and the world's media gather around the hospital hungry for news. The operation is an agonizing wait for her parents but the procedure is a complete success.




Body Shock Special - The Girl With Eight Limbs
Channel 4, UK | 1 x 60 min | 2007
Additional Cinematography
For a few weeks in 2007 she was the most famous little girl in the world. This Body Shock Special tells the story of Lakshmi Tatma, the girl with eight limbs. Two-year-old Lakshmi was born with one of the world's rarest physical abnormalities. Joined at the pelvis to her half-formed conjoined twin, she has four arms and four legs. In her remote Indian village she is revered as a living god. With exclusive access, this film follows Lakshmi's family on an epic emotional journey from their rural home to a hospital in Bangalore where her parents must decide whether to proceed with potentially life-threatening surgery to remove her extra limbs.




Human Face Transplant
Channel 4, UK | 1 x 60 minutes | 2003
Cinematography
Director Eains Colley follows doctors across the globe who are pioneering human face transplant… But are we ready for it? The film recreates an accident in which a young girl's face was pulled off in a running grass cutting machine, the trauma faced by the family and the doctors and the subsequent operation that became the world's first human face transplant




OutBreak
Wall to Wall Television | Discovery Health Channel | 30 minutes | 2003
Cinematography
In October 1994, the medieval scourge, Plague, broke out in the western state of Surat in India. This documentary recreated one of the most chaotic times in the lives of millions of people in the nation and in history of Indian medical and administrative machinery



Living Pulse
Discovery Health | 1 x 30 minutes | 2003
Cinematography
Technological innovations in science have always found way into medicine and revolutionized the way patients are treated around the world. Telemedicine is one such boon of the 21st century. This reality documentary followed Dr. Shetty as he transformed the life of 5 year old Madhu through Telemedicine




Immortality
Mentor TV | Boa Films | Channel 4, UK | 50 minutes | 2002
Cinematography
David Malone explores the future of the stem cell industry - Who should be the beneficiaries of this new technology? What are the global consequences of dividing the world into "lives" and "live-nots"? Where does India fit in?



Documentary Films & High Speed Cinematography
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) | 1988 - 1990 | Cinematographer
Film and video format programmes for rocket launches by ISRO in Sri Harikota
Specialized in high speed film photography and made documentaries on rural development for the DECU Unit of IRSO

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