Raghuraj

Raghuraj, also known as R. Raghuraj, is an Indian film director, known for his work in Tamil, Kannada, and Telugu, film industries. He started his career as a photojournalist and an apprentice editor to B. Lenin. He was debuted as a director in the 1997 Tamil drama film, Sakthi, which features Yuvarani and Vineeth in the lead roles. However, the film bombed at the box office and received negative reviews. Raghuraj took a break and returned with the very successful musical hit Telugu film, Kalusukovalani (2002).

This led him to do a Tamil remake of the film, entitled Ice in 2003. Unlike the success that Kalusukovalani has earned, Ice received negative reviews and did not perform well at the box office. The following year, he briefly worked with a film entitled Jockey, starring Malavika, Prashanth, and Lalila in the lead roles. However, the film was shelved. In the year 2009, Raghuraj started working on a trilogy and the first one was entitled Appavi. But the film had some delays due to some issue with the media and was only released in 2011.

He then shifted to doing Kannada films and started with an action packed film ‘titled Boss. It earned positive reviews and was later dubbed in Hindi as Double Boss. He consistently worked in the Kannada film industry until the year 2016 and directed films like Rama Rama Raghurama (2011), Sidila Mari Click to look into! >> Read More... (2013), Namaste Madam (2014), and Supari Surya (2016).

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R Raghuraj is an Indian film director. He has worked in Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada language films. Raghuraj started his career as a photojournalist. He apprenticed as an editor with B. Lenin. Shortly after, he was presented with the opportunity to direct his first feature film, Sakhti (1997). This opportunity was given to him by the film producer K. T. Kunjumon.

Raghuraj directed the film Sakhti, starring Vineeth Radhakrishnan and Yuvarani in the lead roles, and released it to the public. But unfortunately, the film did not do well and received negative reviews. In 2002, Raghuraj came out with another Telugu film, Kalusukovalani (2002), starring Uday Kiran Uday Kiran Vajapeyajula was an Indian actor who wa >> Read More... , Gajala, and Prathyusha. Kalusukovalani was a box offce success. It became a big hit and redeemed Raghuraj as a director. It encouraged him to remake the film with the name Ice (2003) in Tamil, starring Ashok and Priyanka Trivedi.

The film did not do as well in Tamil as in Telugu. In 2004, he started working on a project called Jockey, which later stalled. In 2009, Raghuraj announced that he was working on a trilogy, with Appavi (2011) as the first of the three films. Since then, Raghuraj has worked on several films, mainly in three languages - Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada. Some of these films are Sakthi (1997, Tamil), Kalusukovalani (2002, Telugu), Ice (2003, Tamil), Boss (2011, Kannada), Rama Rama Raghurama (2011, Kannada), Appavi (2011, Tamil), Sidila Mari (2013, Kannada), Namaste Madam (2014, Kannada), Supari Surya (2016, Kannada), 4 Letters (2019, Telugu).