Puri Jagannadh
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| Born: | September 28, 1966 (age 40) Bapiraju Kothapalli,Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh, India.[1] |
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| Occupation: | Film director,Film writer and producer |
| Website: | www.purijagannadh.net |
Puri Jagannadh (Telugu:పూరి జగన్నాధ్), born September 28, 1966, is a Tollywood film director and producer.
His directorial debut was Badri, with Pawan Kalyan in the lead role and Renu Desai, Prakash Raj, and Bollywood actress Amisha Patel in the supporting roles.
He started his own film production house Vaishno Academy. His production house went on to produce hit films such as Idiot, Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi, Shivamani 9848022338, and Pokiri (which went on to be the biggest hit of Telugu film industry).
His most recent film was Desamuduru, with Allu Arjun and Hansika Motwani in the lead roles.
Jagannadh will be directing Ram Charan Teja (son of Chiranjeevi) and C. Ashwini Dutt will be producing the film under Vyjayanthi Movies.
All his movies start with a divide talk and ends as block busters. His Pokiri was his first movie which had a silver jubliee run at box-office. Pokiri even completed 200 days and now running towards 365 days in Kurnool.
[edit] Filmography
- Chirutha (2007)
- Desamuduru (2007)
- Pokiri (2006) (also producer)
- Super (2005)
- 143 (2004) (also producer)
- Andhrawala (2004)
- Shart (2004)
- Shivamani (2003) (also producer)
- Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi (2003) (also producer)
- Idiot ([2002)
- Appu (2002)
- Yuvaraja (2001)
- Itlu Sravani Subramanyam (2001)
- Baachi (2001)
- Badri (2000)
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.cinegoer.com/puri1.htm Birth place
