Operator ₹4,000, focus puller ₹3,000, DIT ₹3,500, DGCA drone pilot ₹5,000, dual-operator drone rig ₹8,000 — per day, published, no negotiation theatre. Book the department with our kit, or against a camera you already own. Our DOPs have shot national TVCs for Policy Bazaar, Walkaroo and Vega, 100+ music videos and 80+ web-series episodes. Ranchi is home: the Main Road studio holds the kit and the crew live here. Jamshedpur, Dhanbad and Bokaro on 12–24 hours notice.
Flat per-person, per-day labour rates. Kit is a separate line — a crewed shoot day is the two added together, and we quote both in the same message. Nothing here is a starting price.
The line most bookings actually need. Someone who knows the menu structure, the media workflow and how that body behaves after four hours in Jharkhand sun. Available at short notice more often than a named DOP.
Stops being optional the moment you shoot wide open. Note the puller does not arrive with a wireless follow focus in their bag — Tilta Nucleus-M is ₹1,500/day, DJI Focus Pro ₹1,750/day, booked alongside.
Buys you the certainty that the day is actually on the drive before the truck leaves. Colour for delivery is a post booking, not a shoot-day line — we will not blur that.
The Jharkhand advantage is regulatory, not technical: green-zone airspace means a commercial flight in and around Ranchi needs no permit. Red-zone flights near airports and military installations are refused outright.
One pilot on the sticks, a second operator on the gimbal, so the camera move runs independent of the flight path. Priced as one line so you are not reconciling two people against two invoices.
Travel and accommodation outside Ranchi are billed at cost. Call time and expected wrap get confirmed when you book — long schedules and night shoots are quoted rather than rate-carded, because pretending a 20-hour day costs the same as a 9-hour one is how crew relationships end.
Named people with credits you can watch, not a stock photo and the word “team”. All three are on commercial schedules, so a named DOP needs real notice — a week or more. A camera operator we can usually cover the same week.
Commercial Director & Cinematographer
National brand films. Has shot and directed TVCs for Policy Bazaar, Walkaroo (the Mr. Kadam campaign) and Vega. Works on Sony FX and RED bodies, with heavy on-location production experience.
Best for: TVCs, brand films, anything that has to survive a client review in Mumbai.
Cinematographer & Music Video Director
9 years operating RED and ARRI cinema cameras. 100+ music videos shot and directed across devotional, Haryanvi, Punjabi and mainstream Hindi releases.
Best for: music videos and single-day shoots that have to come out looking like a film.
DOP & Web-Series Specialist
80+ TVCs, music videos and web-series episodes shipped since 2015. Leads concept, camera direction and post, and grades in DaVinci Resolve for OTT and broadcast delivery.
Best for: long-form — web series, OTT docuseries, multi-episode schedules.
Showreels, full credit lists and the ad-film side of the business live on the ad film and photography team page.
Most enquiries arrive without this decided, and it changes the quote more than the camera choice does. The fourth card is the honest one: the departments we do not staff.
You collect or we deliver, your crew shoots it, the operating risk and the security deposit sit with you. The cheapest line and our default. Right when you already have a department you trust.
Same kit, our operator, focus puller, DIT or pilot attached. One booking, one invoice, and the person holding the camera already knows how it fails. Right when the schedule is tight or the body is unfamiliar.
You have the body, you need the department. We send operator, puller, DIT or pilot against your kit. We will ask what body, mount and codec first — sending someone who has never opened that menu helps nobody.
Gaffers and spark, art department, hair and makeup, line producers, casting, location managers. Not on our books and we will not rate-card them. Lighting and grip go out as kit; you crew it, or we point you at people in Ranchi who do.
This is what physically sits at the Main Road studio, so it goes out same day inside Ranchi. Premium bodies — ARRI Alexa Mini LF, Sony Venice 2 — shuttle from Delhi on 12–24 hours notice, and our operators are trained on them. Kit rates are separate from the crew rates above.
The default one-operator body in Jharkhand. Light enough to hand off to a gimbal build mid-day.
The docuseries and corporate workhorse. Most Jharkhand long-form we crew runs on this.
Global shutter and RAW for music-video work. Vikas has 9 years on RED bodies specifically.
One-person cinema. Pairs with a single operator instead of an operator plus a grip.
Glass, FIZ and monitoring the crew depends on — priced on their own lines, because a focus puller without a follow focus is just an expensive spectator.
The lens set held in Ranchi. 18/25/35/50/85mm, T2.1, colour-matched. Everything else — Supremes, Sigma Cine, Atlas Orion — shuttles from Delhi on 12–24 hours notice.
₹4,000 / day set
Wireless focus, iris and zoom, 3-motor kit. Book it with the focus puller — the puller supplies the hands, not the hardware.
₹1,500 / day
LiDAR-assisted pulling. The safer option on fast primes and moving talent where a manual pull is a coin toss.
₹1,750 / day
7-inch director monitors, 1800 nits, 3D LUT. What the DIT loads the show LUT onto so the client is not judging log.
₹1,000 / day
Full fleet, lens catalogue and grip list on the Ranchi and Delhi camera rental hub.
Crew day rates are identical across the state. What changes is notice: same day inside Ranchi, 12–24 hours everywhere else. Travel and stay are billed at cost.
Home base. The Main Road studio holds the kit and the crew live here, so this is the only city where you get an in-person recce, a same-day swap if something fails, and a face you can put to the booking.
Crew travels from Ranchi. Give us a day rather than an afternoon — kit moves across Jharkhand on 12–24 hours notice. Same crew day rates; travel and stay billed at cost, not marked up.
Same 12–24 hour notice window. Worth flagging early if the shoot needs a drone, because the pilot and airframe travel as one booking and weekends go first.
Covered on the same terms. Hazaribagh, Deoghar and Ramgarh sit in the same dispatch radius — tell us the location and we will confirm the notice window honestly rather than promising same day.
Shooting in Delhi NCR instead? Crew books out of our second base there at the same day rates — operators, pullers, DITs and pilots delivered to set across Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Faridabad and Ghaziabad, with the kit. The one real difference is airspace: Jharkhand is green-zone and needs no drone permit, NCR is largely yellow-zone and the NPNT clearance takes 7–14 days, which we file in-house. See camera on rent in Delhi NCR.
Day rates are flat and published: camera operator ₹4,000, focus puller (1st AC) ₹3,000, DIT ₹3,500, DGCA-certified drone pilot ₹5,000, and a dual-operator drone rig — one pilot flying, one operator on the gimbal — ₹8,000. Those are labour rates only. Camera bodies, lenses, FIZ and monitoring are separate rental lines, so a crewed day is the sum of the two. Confirm your call time and expected wrap when you book; long schedules and night shoots are quoted rather than rate-carded. For shoots outside Ranchi, travel and stay are billed at cost.
Yes. Crew-only bookings are normal — plenty of Jharkhand productions already own or have hired a body and just need a competent camera department. We still ask what the body, mount and codec are before confirming, because sending an operator who has never touched that menu structure helps nobody. If you want kit as well, it comes off the same booking and the same invoice.
Three, and they are real people with credits you can watch. Leslie Dsouza is a commercial director and cinematographer working on national brand films — TVCs for Policy Bazaar, Walkaroo (the Mr. Kadam campaign) and Vega — and shoots on Sony FX and RED. Vikas Grover is a cinematographer and music-video director with 9 years on RED and ARRI and 100+ music videos across devotional, Haryanvi, Punjabi and Hindi releases. Raju Malikpuriya is a DOP and web-series specialist with 80+ TVCs, music videos and web-series episodes since 2015, and grades in DaVinci Resolve for OTT and broadcast. Be aware they are on commercial schedules, not sitting idle in Ranchi — name a DOP and give us dates early, or take a camera operator, which we can almost always cover at short notice.
Dry rental is kit only. You collect or we deliver, your crew shoots it, and the operating risk and the deposit sit with you. That is our default and it is the cheaper line. Wet rental is the same kit with our crew attached — one booking, one invoice, and the person operating it already knows the menus, the media workflow and the ways that body fails on a hot day. The third case is crew-only, where you have the camera and hire just the department. All three are available in Ranchi.
Yes. Ranchi is home — the kit and the Main Road studio are here — and crew travels out from Ranchi to Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Hazaribagh, Deoghar and Ramgarh. Kit reaches anywhere in Jharkhand on 12–24 hours notice, so give us a day rather than an afternoon. Crew day rates are the same everywhere in the state; travel and accommodation are billed at cost, not marked up.
Yes — a certified pilot is ₹5,000 per day on our DGCA-registered airframes. Ranchi and most of Jharkhand is green-zone airspace, which means no flight permit is required for a commercial shoot; that is a genuine scheduling advantage over Delhi NCR, where yellow-zone NPNT permits take 7–14 days and we handle them in-house. Nano airframes under 249g, such as the DJI Mini 4 Pro, need no permit anywhere. Red-zone flights near airports and military installations are refused outright, in Ranchi or anywhere else.
Yes, individually — focus puller ₹3,000 per day, DIT ₹3,500. Two things worth knowing before you budget. The focus puller does not arrive with wireless follow focus in a bag: FIZ is a separate rental line, Tilta Nucleus-M at ₹1,500 per day or DJI Focus Pro at ₹1,750. And a DIT does on-set offload with checksums, LUT application and dailies — not a finishing grade. Colour for delivery is a post booking, not a shoot-day line.
Yes, at the same day rates. We run two bases — the Main Road studio in Ranchi and our Delhi NCR depot at Tilak Nagar — and operators, focus pullers, DITs and drone pilots book out of either, delivered to set across Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Faridabad and Ghaziabad. The honest difference is airspace, not quality: Ranchi and most of Jharkhand is green-zone, so a commercial drone flight needs no permit, while Delhi NCR is largely yellow-zone and an NPNT clearance takes 7–14 days, which we file in-house. Ranchi is also the one city where you can walk in, meet the crew and inspect the kit before the shoot day.
We are a camera department and a drone unit. Gaffers and spark crew, art department and production design, hair and makeup, line producers, casting and location managers are not on our books and we will not pretend to rate-card them. Lighting and grip go out as kit — Aputure, ARRI Skypanel, Ronford-Baker slider and jib — but you crew it, or we point you at people in Ranchi who do that work. Saying no here is cheaper for you than finding out on the shoot day.
Availability is usually confirmed within about two hours on WhatsApp during business hours, and kit moves same day inside Ranchi city. A camera operator at short notice is normally fine. A named DOP is not — they are booked against commercial schedules, so treat that as a week or more. Drone pilots and the dual-operator drone rig go first on weekends and festival dates. If your dates are fixed, book them; if they are flexible, tell us and we will find the window.
Send the shoot dates, the location, which roles you need and whether you already have a camera. We come back with names, availability and a fixed quote — usually within two hours during business hours. If we cannot staff it properly, we will say so rather than send someone who will learn your camera on your shoot day.
Need kit as well as crew? Start at the Ranchi and Delhi camera rental hub, or go straight to cine lens rental and the ARRI Alexa Mini LF. For the ad film, TVC and photography side of the business, see ad shooting and photography.
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