For me, it started in Vadodara. I’ve watched Baroda become Vadodara, and somewhere in that change, my way of seeing changed too. The city shaped my eyes; its rhythm, its colours, its quiet sense of culture. It taught me to notice the small things, the pauses between moments, the play of light that most people overlook. 

Now I live in Mumbai. Everything here moves faster, louder, and brighter. And yet, somewhere between Vadodara’s calm and Mumbai’s chaos, I’ve found my balance. That contrast has become my story, and it seeps into the way I frame every shot.

I’m Rutvik Shah, 26, a cinematographer trying to make people see what I see and how I see it. Because in the end, that’s all cinema really is; a conversation between how we see the world and how we wish others could see it too.