Satish Kasetty

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Satish Kasetty (born as Kasetty Sathyanarayana and sometimes credited as K. Sathyanarayana) is an Indian Film Director who predominantly works in the Telugu Film Industry.

Satish is known for his debut directorial 2006 Telugu film ‘Hope’ for which he won the National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues at the 54th National Film Awards. The film dealt with the topic of teenage suicides due to peer pressure and stress caused by the education system. He shared the award with the producer of the film Policherla Venkata Subbiah. The jury presented the award to the film for “focusing on the need to re-examine the present-day education system that leads many young people to commit suicide”.

In 2009, Kasetty released his musical romantic film ‘Kalavaramaye Madilo’, . It won the prestigious “Nandi” award, as the third best film. The Nightingale of the south india Chitra won the best singer award for the song “pallavinchani”. The story of this film revolved around the lead character, played by actress Swati Reddy, aspiring to sing for A. R. Rahman. Rediff.com in their review of the film called it “appealing” and gave three out of five stars. Most recently Satish came up with his third film, ‘Terror’, a thriller featuring Srikanth in the lead. The film went on to be released in February 2016 and received critical acclaim.

Before turning a film director, Kasetty has also been a fashion photographer, event manager, choreographer and ad film maker. He was also the jury on the 59th National Film Awards.

Ashok Koralath

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Ashok Koralath is Art Director mostly working in Telugu Film Industry, he did movies in Bollywood, Mollywood and Kollywood also.

Ashok Koralath did B.sc- Visual communication from Madras college of Arts (Faculty of engineering ) Madras University in the year of 1981 to 1986.

he Worked as a free lance art designer for different AD agencies for two years:
– AD Design campaigns for Chandrika Soap
– Publicity designs for films in the period of 1987 to 1989.

He has made astonishing sets for famous T.v. reality shows, for example, Aata series on the channel Zee telugu and the Challenge series on the channel Maa. His sets at Asianet award night brought honor to the event and the sets at Santhosham award night obtained wide acclaim.

he has worked on more than 148 movies, some of the movies are ‘Daddy’, ‘Takkari Donga’,’Okkadu’, ‘Varsham’, ‘Anji’, ‘Shankar Dada MBBS’, ‘Bunny’, ‘Shankar Dada Zindabad’, ‘Don’, ‘Arundhathi’.

Dwaraka Movie Latest Release Trailer | Vijay Devarakonda | Pooja Jhaveri | Prudhvi Raj

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Dwaraka Movie Latest Release Trailer. #Dwaraka movie ft. Devarakonda and Pooja Jhaveri. Directed by M Srinivas Ravindra and produced by Pradyumna Chandrapati & Ganesh Penubotu on Legend Cinema banner. Music composed by Sai Karthik. #VijayDevarakonda #PoojaJhaveri

Dwaraka movie also ft. Prakash Raj, Prudhvi Raj, Raghu Babu, Shakalaka Shankar, Sudharshan and Kalakeya Prabhakar.

The movie is all set to release grandly on March 3rd, 2017.

Cast & Crew:
Star Cast : Vijay Devarakonda, Pooja Jhaveri and Prakash Raj
Director : M Srinivas Ravindra
Producers : Pradyumna Chandrapati & Ganesh Penubotu
Music Director : Sai Karthik
Cinematography : Shyam K Naidu
Art Director : Brahma Kadali
Banner : Legend Cinema

Selvaraghavan

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Selvaraghavan is an Indian Film Director and Screenwriter who has directed Predominantly Tamil language films and also done remake of his movies in telugu.

Selvaraghavan was born in a Tamil family and the son of film director Kasthuri Raja,He subsequently went on to attain a BEng in Mechanical Engineering, his elder brother of actor Dhanush and has two sisters, who are both doctors. Afflicted with Retinoblastoma, a cancer of the retina, an eye had to be removed so the cancer wouldn’t spread and Selvaraghavan makes public appearances wearing glasses. he married actress Sonia Agarwal, with whom he had previously worked with on three films. After their two-year marriage Sonia Agarwal and Selvaraghavan filed for divorce with mutual consent in a Chennai family court . Selvaraghavan married Gitanjali Raman on 19 June 2011, daughter of former Advocate General of Tamil Nadu P. S. Raman She had worked as his assistant director in Mayakkam Enna.

His family faced financial pressures in the early 2000s with his father was out of work, and subsequently they decided to put their remaining earnings into a venture titled Thulluvadho Ilamai (2002), which Selvaraghavan had written. Featuring his brother Dhanush in his first role, alongside Sherin and Abhinay, the film told the coming-of-age story of six high school students and featured a hit soundtrack by Yuvan Shankar Raja. After taking a small opening, the film began to get teen audiences to cinema halls for its adolescent themes, while also being publicized in quarters as “soft porn” film. It subsequently went on to become a sleeper hit and won positive reviews from critics for breaking the stereotypes of Tamil films. Post-release, Selvaraghavan stated that he had also directed the film but was forced to credit his more established film-maker father Kasthuri Raja as the director, in order to help the project find a distributor.

After writing the script for his father’s directorial venture Thulluvadho Ilamai (2002), Selvaraghavan went on to make a series of romantic drama films with ‘Kadhal Kondein’ (2003) and ‘7G Rainbow Colony’ (2004) before also venturing to make coming-of-age films ‘Pudhupettai’ (2006) and ‘Mayakkam Enna’ (2011). He has also ventured into making science fiction and fantasy films, such as depicting a fantasy Chola kingdom in ‘Aayirathil Oruvan’ (2010) and a parallel universe in ‘Irandam Ulagam’ (2013).

his telugu remake was ‘Aadavari Matalaku Ardhalu Verule’ and rest were dubbed to Telugu.

his upcoming movie is ‘Nenjam Marappathillai’

Sharath Marar

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Sharath Marar is an Indian Film Producer. He mainly works in Telugu Film Industry. He has a strong relation with the Telugu film industry having very close relation with Mega Star Chiranjeevi, Allu Arvind, Power Star Pawan Kalyan, Ram Gopal Varma, Krishnavamsi, Puri Jagannath etc.

Sharath Marar was born and raised at Hyderabad. However his roots are from kerala. His ancestors are settled in Hyderabad from the past four generations. His great grandfather was worked in Nizam railways. His grandfather worked as a major doctor in Nizam’s army. His father was worked in radio and television.

Sharath Marar completed his graduation in B. Com and later he was done his post graduation in MBA (Finance) and ICWAI. Sharath father was always encouraged him to go to creative field. At that time he was more interacted with the media.

Sharath Marar was knew the Ram Gopal Varma before he become a movie director. So he was always maintaining a fair relationship with Ram Gopal Varma. Later he was got an offer from the Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited (ABCL) in 1996.

At the same time Sharath Marar was build a fair relationship with Bollywood famous actor Mr. Amitab Bachchan. Within the two years he knew lot of things from the ABCL, it is become a crash course to Sharath Marar.

Later Sharath Marar has leaved his job from ABCL. After that he was tied up with a big TV production houses and K Bala Chandar. During that time Sharath Marar was deals with total TV channels in Telugu.

Later Sharath Marar got a good chance as executive producer for Pawan Kalyan’s “Johnny” movie. Sharath Marar says that “Next best thing that happened to me was stepping in as executive producer for Pawan Kalyan’s Johnny. I connected with him right in the first meeting. We vibe very well”.

Sharath Marar recenty produced multi-starrer movie ‘Gopala Gopala’, in which Victory Venkatesh and Power Star Pawan Kalyan are played the main lead roles. This film is remake of Bollywood movie “Oh My God” and the movie is successes at box office.

Preciously Sharath Marar worked as NTV Channel CEO and MAA CEO.

Sharath Marar produced the Pawan Kalyan’s latest Telugu movie “Sardaar Gabbar Singh” and it is directed by K. S. Ravindra. For this movie music is scored by Devi Sri Prasad and Kajal Aggarwal was playing the female lead role in the movie.

currently he is producing pawan kalyan’s Kaatamrayadu.

R Ravinder

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R Ravinder is an Indian Film Art Director.

R Ravinder was born and brought up in Nellore got Bachelor degree in fine arts from JNTU, Hyderabad. he opted not to pursue my post-graduation though he got admission in to IIT Delhi for the Master in Designing course.

innitialy ventured into software and web designing to earn his daily bread. later joined ‘Just Yellow’ and worked there as an in-house art director for the Amrutam TV serial by Just Yellow. Ravinder made his debut as film art director with ‘Aithe’ film. Since then he worked for films ‘Morning Raga’, ‘Anukokunda Oka Roju’, ‘Chatrapati’, ‘Vikramarkudu’, ‘Amma Cheppindi’, ‘Rakhi’ and ‘Okkadunnadu’.

Ravinder got a chance to work with Rajiv Menon for the ‘Morning Raga’and some of his commercial advertisements.

Rajanna movie got him the Nandi Award for Best Art Director.

his recent movies include ‘Eega’, ‘Anthaka Mundu Aa Tarvatha’, ‘Atharintiki Daaredi’, ‘Autonagar Surya’, ‘S/O Satyamurthy’, ‘Soggade Chinni Nayana’.

R. Narayana Murthy

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R. Narayana Murthy is an Indian Film Actor, Director, Composer, Singer and Producer known for his works predominantly in Telugu Cinema. He owns a film production company called Sneha Chitra Pictures.

He was born in the village of Mallampeta, Rowthulapudi Mandalam, East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. He was not married.

He is known for left-oriented films that expose the exploitation of society’s lower class. His films tend to revolve around themes like the atrocities of the hegemonic classes against the helpless and Telangana Movement. In 1994, he directed ‘Erra Sainyam’ premiered at the International Film Festival of India in the mainstream section.

All his films address contemporary social problems: unemployment, World Bank policies, problems in the Third World countries, environmental issues, dams, rehabilitation problems, land issues, political turmoil, etc. Hence the exploited people became the main audience of his films. He was starred in hits like ‘Ardharatri Swaatantryam’, ‘Adavi Diviteelu’, ‘Laal Salaam’, ‘Dandora’, ‘Erra Sainyam’, ‘Cheemala Dandu’, ‘Dalam’, ‘Cheekati Suryulu’, ‘Ooru Manadiraa’ and ‘Vegu Chukkalu’.

Dasari Narayana Rao gave him a role in Krishna’s film ‘Neramu Siksha’ (1973) and was given a meaty role in the film Needa. Subsequently, Narayana Murthy acted in Dasari’s ‘Sita Ramulu’ (1980), Korikale Gurralaite, Vishwaroopam and K. Bapayya’s ‘Agni Poolu’. Dasari made him a full-fledged actor with a film titled ‘Sangeeta’ produced by Hara Gopal under the Purna pictures banner and also ‘Orey Rickshaw’.

Narayana Murthy was then started ‘Ardharatri Swatantram’ as his first venture under his production house ‘Sneha Chitra Pictures’ in Rampachodavaram of East Godavari district on June 10, 1984. The film was released on 6 November 1986 on the eve of T. Krishna’s death anniversary. T. Krishna played the role of a naxalite in that film. It was a big hit at the box office and gave Murthy a reputation as a communist.

Narayana Murthy currently doing a film called “Bonala Potharaju” directed by Allani Sridhar under the banner filmedia productions pvt. ltd. and more movies

Head Constable Venkataramaiah his recent movie which released on 14 January 2017 was received well by the audience and was declared Hit.

Ajay Sastry

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Ajay Sastry is a Director/Writer who directed his maiden film called ‘ Nenu Meeku Telusa ‘ starring Manchu Manoj, Sneha Ullal and Riya Sen.

His journey started with a short film called “12”(Baarah) that was produced by KAD Movies And Rana Daggubati (of dum marro dum Fame). In the past, he played the role of Associate Director & Screenplay writer for movies such as ‘Rakhi’ and ‘Danger’.

He had served as president of YOCS(Young Orators Club) for many years. He had been an active participant and winner at youth festivals in and around Hyderabad.

To add to this Ajay has been the lead singer of Rock bands like “Alter Egoz” and “Jekyll and Hyde”. An orator and a poet, his poems have been published in the “American Anthology Of Poetry”.

During his schooling, he had an opportunity through the YMCA to attend the ‘World Championship Of Modern Western Dances’ at London and ran a dance school for almost five years before he shifted to being an ad film maker.

His first movie as a director ‘Nenu Meeku Telusa’ hit the silver screen on October 10, 2008. he also released it as ‘Ennai Theriyuma’ in Tamil.

Sekhar Suri

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Sekhar Suri is an Indian Film Director predominately works for Telugu films. He got good recognition for the thriller film ‘A Film by Aravind’. He directed 4 Telugu films and a Hindi film so far. All his movies has the some thriller elements in them.

Sekhar was born in Tanuku, West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. He used to watch a lot of TV series as a kid. God father was his favorite series on Doordarshan. This obsession continued till his graduation. He spent most of his early life in Hyderabad. He discontinued his degree in commerce to become a film maker.

His original name is SS Chandra Sekhar. Since Chandra Sekhar is a very common name in the film industry, he changed his name to Sekhar Suri. Another Tollywood director Indraganti Mohanakrishna is his cousin.

He reached Mumbai to explore opportunities in Bollywood. He worked as a ghost writer for some suspense TV programs for 8 years. Then he got a chance to meet Sanjay Dutt but he was unable to grab an opportunity to make a film with him. So he returned to Hyderabad in search of opportunities in the Telugu film industry. He happened to meet actor Tarun on an occasion with the help of his friend. With the help of Tarun, he got a chance to meet the owner of Super Good Films. This way he got a chance to direct Tarun for the film Adrushtam. The script of the film was loosely based on Roman Holiday. However the film did not do well at the box office.

Later he prepared the script on his own and made it into a film A Film by Aravind starring Rajeev Kanakala, Richard Rishi, and Mona Chopra in the lead roles. This film became a hit. Rishi had bagged seven films after this film. Next he made a psychological thriller film Three which was a real life incident happened in Hyderabad. This film received critical response. Next he made a film Aravind 2 starring Srinivas Avasarala, Kamal Kamaraju and others.

He also ventured into Bollywood with the film Guns of Benares.

Madan

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Madan is a Telugu Film Writer, Director and Producer. He was born and brought up in Madanapalle, Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. He has done his graduation from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupathi at Annie Besant Theosophical College, Madanapalli.

He used to write short stories and direct play-lets during his college days.Later he moved to Hyderabad where the regional Film Industry in Telugu language is located. He worked for 2 years as an assistant cameraman under Mr. S. Gopal Reddy, a popular Film Cameraman. Later he has worked as a co-writer for few films. He is currently regarded as one of the promising Script writers and Directors in the Telugu Film Industry for his creative thinking, innovative subjects and intellectual content.

In 2004, he became popular by the film ‘Aa Naluguru’ one of the classic Telugu films, as a script writer. He penned story, screen play and dialogues for ‘Aa Naluguru’.- starring Rajendra Prasad. The movie has thought provoking message and received three Andhra Pradesh State Nandi Awards i.e. Best film, Best actor and Best character.

In 2006, under his own banner “Aa Naluguru films,” he had written, produced and directed ‘Pellaina Kothalo’ starring Jagapathi Babu and Priyamani. The film was well received by the audience particularly by the youth and went on to become a super hit movie.

in 2013 he made Coffee With My Wife a bilingual in telugu and kannada, his recent moie is Garam 2016 with Aadi, Adah Sharma, Brahmanandam.

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