Hari Yelleti

Hari Yelleti lives in Vizag. Like many other ordinaries in India, Hari completed his Bachelor’s in Electronics and Communication Engineering. Then, he moved to the land of opportunity, the United States of America, where he completed his master's from the University of Kentucky. After being in PhD for around a year, Hari joined Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. as a Sr. EDA Engineer in 1996, where he worked for seven years till 2003 before resigning and returning to India to pursue his dreams of writing and filmmaking. Describing films as a medium to express oneself, he believes that films allow you to express yourself as a human being first and then as an artiste. Working with integrated circuits didn't give him that liberty, so he had to quit.”

Hari also took film courses, which he didn’t find very useful, his Film school courses were very limited in the sense that he just took a lot of production classes that allowed him to check out cameras, lights and equipment. Yelleti debuted as a director with his film ‘Ankit, Pallavi & Friends’ starring Nikhil Siddhartha and Megha Burman Megha Burman is a talented young actress who has s >> Read More... . Exploring the lives of friends trying to make it in their post-college dreams, trying to balance their friendship, love and work life; the film wasn’t easy to make. At one time, Yelleti even thought of making the film in Hindi instead of Telugu since the auditions did not produce a desired candidate until he met Nikhil. Yelleti also wrote and directed the Telugu web series “ Parampara Click to look into! >> Read More... ”, under the production of Arka Media which streamed on Disney+; both seasons of the show trended on the top shows across India. Hari is also the director of a Netflix original for the Production Firm SriSri Chitralu.