Srikanth Addala

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Sreekanth Addala
Occupation Director
Years active 2004-present

Sreekanth Addala (Telugu: శ్రీకాంత్ అడ్డాల) is an Indian film director associated with Telugu cinema. After working on many movies as an assistant director, Sreekanth directed his first movie Kotha Bangaru Lokam with Varun Sandesh and Shweta Basu Prasad. The movie was well received and was declared one of the biggest hits of the year 2008. His second project Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu released in 2013. All of his movies were produced by his mentor and friend Dil Raju. He also penned lyrics for a song in his first movie.

Career

He started his career as an assistant director. He also worked as an associate director for several Telugu movies. He worked as an assistant director for the movie Arya in 2004. His association with film producer Dil Raju began with that movie. Dil raju was impressed with Sreekanth and gave him an advance of INR9000 and told him to come up with a story. Impressed by Sreekanth's work ethic, Dil Raju also asked him to work for Bommarillu. He took a three months gap after Bommarillu and came up with the story of Kotha Bangaru Lokam. He worked on the script for six more months.[1] And finally in 2008, Sreekanth was given an opportunity to direct his first movie by Dil Raju. The movie was Kotha Bangaru Lokam starring Varun Sandesh and Shweta Basu Prasad.[2] The movie won multiple Nandi Awards and Filmfare Awards in various categories. It was also nominated for a Filmfare Award in the Best Movie Category. The movie was commercially successful. After nearly two years, Sreekanth began working on a multi-starrer movie Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu. Once again produced by Dil Raju, the movie stars Venkatesh and Mahesh Babu. The movie released on 11 January 2013 and got huge response from all over the world.[3] Srikanth Addala would be launching Nagababu's son Varun Tej as his next venture titled " Gollabhama " . The lead actress of the movie has been finalized as Akshara Gowda.[4] The movie would be going to floors in the first half of 2014.[5]

Filmography

Direction

Year Film Producer Cast Notes
2013 Gollabhama[6]
2013 Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu Dil Raju Venkatesh, Mahesh Babu, Anjali, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Prakash Raj
2008 Kotha Bangaru Lokam Dil Raju Varun Sandesh, Shweta Basu Prasad, Prakash Raj , Jayasudha

Song Writer

Title Album Year Singer{s} Notes
Kotha Bangaru Lokam 2008 Krishna Chaitanya, Aditya, Siddhartha, Kranthi, Sasikiran

References

  1. ↑ "dil raju interview". idlebrain. Retrieved 14 December 2011. 
  2. ↑ "KBL". imdb. Retrieved 14 December 2011. 
  3. ↑ "SVSC". idlebrain. Retrieved 14 December 2011. 
  4. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akshara_Gowda
  5. ↑ "Srikanth Addala finalizes Gollabhama". Teluguhour. Retrieved 19 January 2014. 
  6. ↑ "Srikanth Addala next movie titled Gollabhama". timesofap.com. February 11, 2013. Retrieved February 11, 2013. 
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