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{{short description|Indian cinematographer, and producer|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Ishan Arya
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| birth_place = [[Hyderabad, India]]
| death_date = 1996
| death_place = Mumbai
| othername = Irshad Ahsan
| yearsactive = 1973–1987
| spouse = [[Sulbha Arya]]
| children = Sameer Arya, Sagar Arya
| occupation = [[Cinematographer]]
| relatives = [[Ramesh Behl|Srishti Behl]] (daughter-in-law)<ref name=sist4>{{Cite web |url=http://www.businessworld.in/article/Srishti-Behl-Arya-Monika-Shergill-Content-Queens-/03-04-2020-188139/ |title=Srishti Behl Arya & Monika Shergill: Content Queens |website=Business World |date=2 April 2020}}</ref><br />[[Shaukat Kaifi]] (aunt)<br/>[[Shabana Azmi]] (first-cousin)<br/>[[Baba Azmi]] (first-cousin)
| family = [[List of Hindi film families#Akhtar-Azmi family|Akhtar-Azmi family]]<br/>[[List of Hindi film families#Behl family|Behl family]]
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'''Ishan Arya''' (born '''Irshad Ahsan''') was an Indian [[cinematographer]], and producer, best known as co-producer and cinematographer of [[Art cinema]] classic ''[[Garm Hava]]'' (1973).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/xh9EvT8R5nSO58eu3RJgRL/Film--Back-story.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 November 2018|website=livemint.com website|author=Nandini Ramnath|title=Film - Back story (film review of Garm Hava 1973)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181101140149/https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/xh9EvT8R5nSO58eu3RJgRL/Film--Back-story.html|date=27 July 2012|access-date=17 December 2023}}</ref><ref name=exp/><ref>{{cite news |title=Ishan Arya Filmography |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/590132/Ishan-Arya/filmography |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502010051/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/590132/Ishan-Arya/filmography |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 May 2014 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2014 |accessdate=30 April 2014}}</ref> After working in theatre and advertising, he made his debut with ''Garm Hava'' directed by [[M. S. Sathyu]].<ref>{{cite web| title = Return of 'Garm Hava'|publisher=[[Livemint]] | url = http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/BfQSkhD0GNPpiyIexlWbDO/Return-of-Garm-Hava.html |date=17 September 2013| accessdate = 30 April 2014 }}</ref> After that he worked largely in South Indian cinema, especially Telugu, though he worked on two noted Hindi art films, ''[[Bazaar (1982 film)|Bazaar]]'' (1982) directed by [[Sagar Sarhadi]] and ''[[Anjuman (1986 film)|Anjuman]]'' (1986) directed by [[Muzaffar Ali]].<ref name="GulazāraNihalani2003">{{cite book|author1=Gulazar|author2=Govind Nihalani|author3=Saibal Chatterjee|title=Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC&pg=PT284|year=2003|publisher=Popular Prakashan|isbn=978-81-7991-066-5|page=260}}</ref> At the [[23rd National Film Awards]], he won the [[National Film Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography Award]] for [[Telugu cinema|Telugu film]], ''[[Mutyala Muggu]]'' (1975).<ref name="23rdaward">{{cite web|url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm23rdNFAAward.aspx|title=23rd National Film Awards|publisher=[[International Film Festival of India]]|accessdate=4 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219064158/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm23rdNFAAward.aspx|archive-date=19 February 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="23rdawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/23rd_nff_1975.pdf|title=23rd National Film Awards (PDF)|publisher=[[Directorate of Film Festivals]]|accessdate=4 October 2011}}</ref>

==Personal life==
He was born as Irshad Ahsan in 1942 and is a nephew of [[Shaukat Kaifi]] and first cousin of [[Shabana Azmi]]. He changed his name to Ishan Arya after marrying actress [[Sulbha Arya]] according to [[Arya Samaj]] rites.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pradhan |first=Bharathi S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bmSwAAAAIAAJ |title=Colas, Cars & Communal Harmony |date=2003 |publisher=India Book Distributors (Bombay) |isbn=978-81-7310-154-0 |language=en}}</ref> Their son Sameer Arya (married to Srishti Behl, the daughter of [[Ramesh Behl]]) is also a cinematographer, known for films like ''[[Koyla]]'' (1997), ''[[Koi... Mil Gaya]]'' (2003) and ''[[Shootout at Wadala]]'' (2013).<ref name=exp>{{cite web | title = Logic in Lens|work= The Indian Express
| url = http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/logic-in-lens/1119742/0 | date=24 May 2013|accessdate = 30 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Sameer Arya – Through The Lens | publisher = [[Cine Blitz]] | url = http://cineblitz.liveinstyle.com/features/detail/sameer-arya-through-the-lens# | date = June 2013 | accessdate = 30 April 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140502005714/http://cineblitz.liveinstyle.com/features/detail/sameer-arya-through-the-lens | archive-date = 2 May 2014 | url-status = dead }}</ref> Their other son Sagar Arya is an actor and voice over artist, married to Anwesha Bhattacharya, the daughter of [[Rinki Bhattacharya|Rinki]] and film director [[Basu Bhattacharya]].

Cinematographer [[Baba Azmi]] who is Arya's first cousin, started his career assisting Arya in Telugu films in the 1970s, starting as light boy, he worked with Arya for 10–12 Telugu films.<ref>
{{cite web | title = Unknown stars: Baba Azmi, cinematographer|work= ibnlive.in.com| url = http://ibnlive.in.com/news/unknown-stars-baba-azmi-cinematographer/138876-8-66.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101230063749/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/unknown-stars-baba-azmi-cinematographer/138876-8-66.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 30 December 2010 |author= Riddhi Doshi |date=29 December 2010|accessdate = 30 April 2014 }}</ref>

==Filmography==

===Producer===
* ''[[Garm Hava]]'' (1973, Hindi)
* ''Rusthum Jodi'' (1980, Kannada)

===Cinematographer===
* ''[[Garm Hava]]'' (1973, Hindi)
* ''[[Mutyala Muggu]]'' (1975, Telugu)
* ''[[Khoon Pasina]]'' (1977, Hindi)
* ''[[Kakana Kote]]'' (1977, Kannada)
* ''Gorantha Deepam'' (1978, Telugu)
* ''[[Bazaar (1982 film)|Bazaar]]'' (1982, Hindi)
* ''[[Mumbaicha Faujdar]]'' (1984, Marathi)
* ''[[Anjuman (1986 film)|Anjuman]]'' (1986, Hindi)
* ''Aaj Jhale Mukt Mi'' (1986, Marathi)
* ''Kahan Kahan Se Guzar Gaya'' (1986, Hindi)
* ''[[Nasihat]]'' (1986, Hindi)
* ''[[Mohre]]'' (1987, Hindi)
* ''[[Toorpu Velle Railu]]'' (1979, Telugu)

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0038166}}

{{National Film Award Best Cinematography|state=collapsed}}

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