The current cameraman for Robot is R.Ratnavelu, not sure for how long, but lets hope he is the one who is going to stick to the project till the end. Robot the big budget movie by director Shankar, starring none other than Superstar Rajinikanth and Bollywood bomb Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been having replacement of cameraman quite frequently since the project was announced.
The initial chose for shooting Rajini and Ash and the Robot was Nirav Shah, but he walked out. He was replaced by Thiru but looks like there has been differences with Thiru too and he has been now replaced by R. Ratnavelu.
The reason seems to be that Shankar has insisted his crew to be completely dedicated to Robot for the next 2 years and it is a difficult task for many to do. Lets hope Ratnavelu gets to be associated with the movie which will go down in history!!
The best crew of the movie industry is making it to the list of people who are going to make a history called Robot. Another buzz is that Cinematographer Nirav Shah has been roped in to handle the camera for Robot.
Nirav Shah has handled the camera for movies like Dhoom 2, Billa, Pattiyal and Pokkiri. His current handling of cinematography for Ajith Kumar starrer Billa has been appreciated as mind-blowing and his Cinematography in this movie is the one that has taken the film to Hollywood levels.