H. C. Venugopal, known professionally as H. C. Venu, is an Indian cinematographer who mainly works in Kannada cinema, along with Tamil cinema.
H. C. Venugopal is a cinematographer who has predominantly worked for Kannada films. He has been active since the late 1990s, regularly collaborating for high-profile Kannada films including A (1998), Sparsha (1999), H2O (2002), Aa Dinagalu (2007), Jaggu Dada (2016) to name a few. He was also involved in the shoot of the first 3D Kannada film Katari Veera Surasundarangi (2012) .
In recent years, he has collaborated with Arjun Sarja for the bilingual films, Jaihind 2 (2014) and Prema Baraha (2018).
Venugopal married actress-politician Tara in 2005. They have a son named Shreekrishna (b. 2013) together.