Trivia
- Created some of most breathtaking film works for the Indian Black and White era films. Created the sun breaking through studio roof shot in Kaagaz Ke Phool with use of a pair of ordinary mirrors to get a parallel beam. Got him the Filmfare Best Cinematographer Award for 1959
- Was principal cinematographer for the first Cinemascope film in India - Kaagaz Ke Phool
- While on training stint in London to work on color films worked with the crew of The Guns of Navarone
- Got break in Hindi films by doing a chance shot for Guru Dutt in Baazi. Abrar Alvi Guru Dutt's key writer also got a break from the same movie, he gave a chance opinion on a scene for Baazi.
According to author and eminent musicologist Rajesh Subramanian Cinematographer V K Murthy was declined admission at the Sri Jayachamarajendra Polytechnic College in Bangalore, which had started a cinema related course,. After a lot pleading he was offered a seat. The aspirant went on to shot India's first cinemascope movie Kaagaz Ke Phool 1959.
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