Kasi Viswanathan
Biography
Kasivishwanathan (born 28 January 1968) is an Indian film editor, who has worked on Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam language films.
Kasivishwanathan entered the cinema industry as an assistant to Malayalam editor K. Narayanan. He later moved on to work as an associate editor in films like Thevar Magan (1992) and Kuruthipunal (1996) with NP. Satish. He later worked under A. Sreekar Prasad in films in several languages including Oriya, Sinhalese, and Kannada.
He made his debut as an editor with Kamal Haasan's Aalavandhan (2001), experimenting with techniques involving animation and motion capture cameras, and then worked in the romantic comedy, Pammal K. Sambandam (2002).
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 Abiyum Nanum. He has since regularly collaborated with directors including Radha Mohan, Suseenthiran, Seenu Ramasamy Sundar C Myskin, and Siruthai Shiva's Veeram. To date, he works on projects with various directors, both established and debutant directors.
In 2016, he made his debut as an actor with a role in Suseenthiran's Maaveeran Kittu (2016).
