Dinesh Baboo also known as Dinesh Babu is an Indian film director, cinematographer, producer, actor and screenwriter. He was born in Trivandrum. His father's name is P.k damodaran. He has worked in both Malayalam cinema and Kannada cinema. His directorial ventures were chiefly with Kannada films. His popularity also is largely as a director rather than a cinematographer due to his many popular films in Kannada, some of which went on to become blockbusters. His career in cinema started as a cinematographer. He stood behind the camera for noted Malayalam films like Dhruvam, King, Ullasa Poonkattu and the blockbuster movie Commissioner which was instrumental in raising Suresh Gopi, currently a superstar in Malayalam movie world to stardom. he worked as a cinematographer for the movie Majic Ajji, abhi, Chithra, depavali, Mazhavillu, etc...