Amar Kaushik

A first motorcycle, assembled from parts and intent before a licence was possible. The pattern set early.

Mechanical engineering. Learns tolerances, torque, and that most rules of physics are actually suggestions about budget.

Hand-builds fixed-wing aircraft, then drones. Straps a GoPro Hero 1 to a two-axis gimbal before "drone video" is a phrase.

Buys one of the first in the city. Becomes one of Bangalore's first professional aerial photographers — the sky suddenly has a rate card.

Designs and builds cinema FPV rigs, flies them commercially over sites, rivers and film sets. Type F-L-Y on your keyboard sometime.

Clients asked for more than the sky. He came down and learned the ground trade properly.

Years under directors on real sets. Corporate films, campaigns, music videos, and productions that taught more than any institution could.

A decade in, cinematography is the spine. The drones, the studio, the AI work — everything borrows this eye.

Edits on planes. Thirty-plus flights a year; the tray table is a workstation, the window seat is a lighting reference.

Works as an AI generalist — advising creative and marketing teams on which tools are real, which are noise, and how to use them without losing the craft.

Commissioned AI film work, concept to delivery — governments among the clients, brands alongside. It stopped being remarkable around the third delivery.

The rarest input an AI pipeline can have turns out to be a decade behind real cameras. Taste doesn't prompt-engineer itself.