K V Raju

K V Raju is a well-recognized director, dialogue-writer, and screenwriter. He is known mostly for his contribution to Kannada Film Industry. K V Raju is the brother of famous director K V Jayaram. In the year 1982, Raju entered the Kannada Film Industry as an associate director to his brother for movie Baadada Hoo. In the year 1984, he made his debut as a director and writer through film Olave Baduku, for which he received positive reviews. Raju gained immense popularity over few years and soon he was flooded with the opportunity to direct various movie such as- Sangrama (1987), Bandha Mukhta (1987), Navbharta (1989), Yuddhakanda(1989), Belli Modagalu, Belli Kalungoora, etc; all of which were blockbusters. 

His films were mostly above-average grosser in terms of commercialization and were regarded as unique because they never were influenced by Telugu or Tamil films in spite of being commercial films. KV Raju became a sensation in Kannada film Industry by giving a large number of blockbusters in both 80’s and 90’s. He worked with most of Kannada superstars and almost every other actor was ready to work with him. Soon Raju ventured into the Hindi film Industry in the year 1991 with his film ‘Indrajeet’, starring Amitabh Bachan and Jayaprada. He also directed two other Hindi films- Udhaar Ki Zindagi (1994) and Khooni Jung (2004). Over time Raju deviated from being a director only to become a famous dialogue-writer.

Recognized for his powerful, strong, realistic dialogues and razor-sharp editing, Raju soon took over the Kannada Film Industry. When top film directors used to work on one film per year K V Raju used to direct or work for at least two films per year. K V Raju was the person who gave the opportunity to Devraj, Jaggesh and Shahsi Kumar and all of three went on to become superstars. Raju took a decade-long break from film direction because he found lack of good film scripts, but he continued writing for other films and currently, he till writes for movies. Big-budget and multi-starrer film Rajdhani (2011) was the first film directed by K V Raju after his decade-long break. The film was initially supposed to be developed by Raghu but he was replaced by the producer of the film Soumya Sathyan due to allegations of financial misappropriation. In the year 2017, Raju worked for the screen-play and dialogue-writing of film Tiger Galli, starring Sathish Ninasam Born with the name of Shivakumar on June 20 in Yel >> Read More... , Bhavana Rao Bhavana Rao is a beautiful Indian film actress who >> Read More... , Mr. Shivamani and Roshni Parekh Roshni Parekh became a recognized face in Indian t >> Read More... as leads.

KV Raju Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)