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Top 10 Telugu Directors

When we speak about the latest generation of directors of Tollywood, none other than SS Rajamouli comes to mind for his excellent direction in films like Eega, Baahubali, and RRR. Trivikram Srinivas is popular for his latest hit, Ala Vaikuntapurramuloo, with Allu Arjun. The older generation directors like Koti Ramakrishna and K Viswanath have given a lot of performance-oriented classical hits. KS Ravindra, Sukumar, Puri Jagannadh, Nag Ashwin, Vikram Kumar, and Vamshi Paidipally are some of the directors who have given super hit films. Sandeep Vanga, who directed Arjun Reddy, entered Bollywood by directing Kabir Singh has become famous for Animal with Ranbir Singh.

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1. S. S. Rajamouli

A film director and a screenwriter S.S. Rajamouli was born as Koduri Srisaila Sri Rajamouli in Film Nagar, Hyderabad, Telangana. He is well known for his hit films like Magadheera, Eega and Baahubali: The Beginning. He started off directing daily soaps in Telegu for Eenadu Television working under K. Raghavendra Rao. His debut as Film director was Student no.1 in 2001 which turned out to be a blockbuster. His next venture was after a long gap of two years, Simhadri, which also received rave reviews. His third flick Sye was based on a game of rugby and for this, he joined hands with K.K. Senthil Kumar. This film received appreciation from all over and was a hit. His next movie was Chatrapathi, which again touc...

Date of Birth: 10-10-1973

Age: 51

Star Sign: Libra

Gender: Male

Language: Telugu

Skills: Director, Scriptwriter

S. S. Rajamouli Biography

Date of Birth: 10-10-1973

Age: 51

Star Sign: Libra

Gender: Male

Language: Telugu

Skills: Director, Scriptwriter

2. Sukumar

Sukumar Bandreddi is an Indian film producer, director, and screenwriter. Most of his work is in Telugu cinema. He is known for the films like Jagadan, Arya 2, 1: Nenokkadine, 100% Love and NannakuPrematho. He was born on 11 January 1970 to Tirupati Naidu and VeeraVeni in Mattaparru, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh. His father was a rice trader and mother was a homemaker. He did his schooling from ZilaParishad High School, Razole. He took graduation and Master’s degree in Mathematics. He worked as a Physics and Mathematics lecturer for six years at Aditya Junior College, Kakinada. He and his colleague,PrakashToleti, at the college decided to do something different and hence they chose to leave t...

Date of Birth: 11-01-1970

Age: 54

Star Sign: Capricorn

Gender: Male

Language: Telugu

Skills: Screenplay Writer, Director, Producer

Sukumar Biography

Date of Birth: 11-01-1970

Age: 54

Star Sign: Capricorn

Gender: Male

Language: Telugu

Skills: Screenplay Writer, Director, Producer

3. Gunasekhar

Gunasekhar is a literature enthusiast, a theatre artist and now an Indian film Director and Screenwriter. He was born on 2nd June 1964 in Narsipatnam, Visakhapatnam. Since he was a child he had an interest in literature and he also wrote short stories. As he developed an interest for theatre, he started taking part in different plays and writing plays. Keeping in mind his movie buff, he moved to Chennai to pursue a career in the same. He worked under various writers and directors. He was an Assistant writer under Kasi Viswanadh and then as an Assistant Director under D.V. Narsaraju and Director Kranthi Kumar. He gave his Directorial Debut, Lathi in 1992 and won Andhra Prad...

Date of Birth: 02-06-1978

Age: 46

Star Sign: Gemini

Gender: Male

Language: Telugu

Skills: Writer, Director, Producer

Gunasekhar Biography

Date of Birth: 02-06-1978

Age: 46

Star Sign: Gemini

Gender: Male

Language: Telugu

Skills: Writer, Director, Producer

4. Trivikram Srinivas

Trivikram Srinivas, a Telugu director and writer, who brought out a need for new marketing strategy for Telugu film makers. He had always presented and structured to carve out the original marketing plan that was required in Tollywood then. His clever promotion strategies than he had planned, for example, for a film like’’ Athadu’’, he made the film in Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam languages. Later, the same film was dubbed into Polish language for Poland people. The film’s satellite in Telugu circuit was sold to a whooping sum of $45 million then, and it became the top grosser in 2005. His next flick in 2008 was Jalsa which had released in 1000 theatres and the film grossed $220 million in just 50 days. Later ...

Date of Birth: 07-11-1971

Age: 53

Star Sign: Scorpio

Gender: Male

Language: Telugu

Skills: Director

Trivikram Srinivas Biography

Date of Birth: 07-11-1971

Age: 53

Star Sign: Scorpio

Gender: Male

Language: Telugu

Skills: Director

5. Sekhar Kammula

Sekhar Kammula or Kumar Sekhar Kammula is a director by profession in the Indian film industry. He works as a screenwriter and producer as well. He works predominantly in the Telugu film industry. He is married to Sri Vidya Kammula and has two children named Vandana Kammula and VibhavKammula. He completed his graduation in the field of Mechanical Engineering from the Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (CBIT) and M.S. degree in the line of Computer Science from the U.S. After that; he worked for about three years in the IT sector. he pursued his degree of Master of Fine Arts from the university named Howard University situated in Washington D.C. While his study period in the field of films, he worked in ma...

Date of Birth: 04-02-1972

Age: 52

Star Sign: Aquarius

Gender: Male

Language: Telugu

Skills: Director

Sekhar Kammula Biography

Date of Birth: 04-02-1972

Age: 52

Star Sign: Aquarius

Gender: Male

Language: Telugu

Skills: Director

6. Chandra Sekhar Yeleti

Chandra Sekhar Yeleti was born in Tuni in Andhra Pradesh. He is an Indian Film director working for the Telugu Film Industry. He is currently living in Hyderabad, Telangana. He is famous for his authentic and inspiring concepts in his movies. He started his career by shooting ‘Janmabhoomi’ ads for Government of Andhra Pradesh. He made this in collaboration with K. Raghavendra Rao, a screenwriter. Gangaraju Gunnam is Chandra Sekhar’s Cousin. He is National Award Winning Film producer cum director. He worked as an Assistant director under his cousin in the film ‘Little Soldiers’. Chandra Sekhar Yeleti was married on May 19. Then he moved to Telugu Television industry. He directed 10 ep...

Date of Birth: 04-03-1973

Age: 51

Star Sign: Pisces

Gender: Male

Language: Telugu

Skills: Screenplay Writer, Director

Chandra Sekhar Yeleti Biography

Date of Birth: 04-03-1973

Age: 51

Star Sign: Pisces

Gender: Male

Language: Telugu

Skills: Screenplay Writer, Director

7. Koratala Siva

Koratala Siva is a screenwriter and film director from India. He works mainly in Tollywood. Koratala Siva has penned many scripts for films like Munna, Brindavanam, Oosaravelli, Okkadunadu and Bhadra. Apart from writing skills, Siva is also popular for his directorial skills. In 2013, he directed the action drama movie Mirchi in Telugu, and later in 2015, he directed the movie, Srimanthudu. Both fared well at the box office. For his movie Mirchi, the acclaimed singer, Kailash Kher won the Telugu Filmfare Award for the best playback Singer. Before his directorial debut in Mirchi, Koratala Siva pursued his graduation in engineering and often worked as an assistant to one of his relative, Posani Krishna Murali, ...

Date of Birth: 15-06-1975

Age: 49

Star Sign: Gemini

Gender: Male

Language: Telugu

Skills: Director, Screenplay

Koratala Siva Biography

Date of Birth: 15-06-1975

Age: 49

Star Sign: Gemini

Gender: Male

Language: Telugu

Skills: Director, Screenplay

8. Puri Jagannadh

Puri Jagannadh wears many feathers to his cap including production, direction and screenplay writing. His main area of interest is Telugu films. He has received Nandi awards thrice in his career spanning more than a decade. During the year 2004, Jagannadh ventured into Bollywood with the flick, Shart: The Challenge. This film bombed at the box office. Bbuddah..Hoga Terra Baap is his directorial venture of 2011 and it has the credit of being recorded in Oscar library. Puri Jagannadh Touring Talkies and Vaisho Academy are his productio...

Date of Birth: 28-09-1966

Age: 58

Star Sign: Libra

Gender: Male

Language: Hindi

Skills: Producer, Director, Writer, Dialogue Writer, Screenplay Writer, Story Writer, Playback Singer, Lyricist, Assistant Director

Puri Jagannadh Biography

Date of Birth: 28-09-1966

Age: 58

Star Sign: Libra

Gender: Male

Language: Hindi

Skills: Producer, Director, Writer, Dialogue Writer, Screenplay Writer, Story Writer, Playback Singer, Lyricist, Assistant Director

9. Srinivas Avasarala

Srinivas Avasarala is a Telugu film celebrity, who was born to Satya Narayana Murthy and Nagamani Avasarala. He is a popular director, actor, screenplay writer as well as dialogue writer. Being impressed to screenplay writing, he attended a course in Screen writing in California. He also learnt acting from the Lee Strasburg Theatre and Film Institute. He has also worked as a theater artist in New York and also worked as an assistant director in the film Blind Ambition. Working at Universal Studios is really amazing and this opportunity was given to Srinivas Avasarala and he did perfectly, as a script screener. Though he is a post graduate in Mechanical Engineering and worked in Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, his interest was in the...

Date of Birth: 19-03-1984

Age: 40

Star Sign: Pisces

Gender: Male

Language: Telugu

Skills: Director

Srinivas Avasarala Biography

Date of Birth: 19-03-1984

Age: 40

Star Sign: Pisces

Gender: Male

Language: Telugu

Skills: Director

10. Radhakrishna Jagarlamudi

National Award-winning Director (Film Kanche), and co-director Krish is known as one of the creative Filmmakers in the industry. He is famous for his movies in different genres. He showcased his talent by achieving Film fare award for a 1st movie in his carrier, Gyanam a Telugu movie, it broke all the records, and its remake came into three different languages (Tamil, Bengali, and Kannada). This Movie makes him famous as a director in Tollywood. In his ten years of the carrier, he directed ten movies & Special things about those film are, each of them belongs to very different category. He amazed everyone with the first multi starrer Telugu film-Vedam, which was the blockbuster hit of 2010. He directed many award-winn...

Date of Birth: 11-11-1978

Age: 46

Star Sign: Scorpio

Gender: Male

Language: Telugu

Skills: Director

Radhakrishna Jagarlamudi Biography

Date of Birth: 11-11-1978

Age: 46

Star Sign: Scorpio

Gender: Male

Language: Telugu