Madhura Sreedhar Reddy

Madhura Sreedhar Reddy
మధుర శ్రీధర్ రెడ్డి
Born	Warangal, Telangana, India
Residence	Hyderabad, India
Nationality	Indian
Education	MS (Research)
Alma mater	NIT Warangal, IIT Madras
Occupation	Film Director, Producer, Writer
Years active	2010 - Present
Era	TCS, Infosys & Wipro
Religion	Hindu
Awards	Best Debut Director (Sneha Geetham)

Madhura Sreedhar Reddy (మధుర శ్రీధర్ రెడ్డి) is a software engineer turned Director and Producer. He started his film career by establishing music label Madhura Audio which eventually turned as second largest in Telugu Film Industry. He also owned one of the popular Telugu film magazines named Cinestar. He turned as a director with youthful film Sneha Geetham in 2010 and gained critical acclaim. He also received Best Debut Director for Sneha Geetham. His second directional venture It’s My Love Story did well at the box office. He continued his success by directing Backbench Student, which introduced Tamil actor Mahat Raghavendra as main lead hero.

Background

Madhura Sreedhar Reddy was born and raised in Warangal. He is a B.Tech graduate from Regional Engineering College (REC, currently called as NIT Warangal). He completed his MS (Research) from IIT Madras and received Gold Medal for his excellency by Vice President of India. He worked in many multinational companies like TCS, Infosys and Wipro.

Career

After gaining critical and commercial acclaim with Sneha Geetham, Madhura Sreedhar directed It’s My Love Story and Backbench Student. In an effort to encourage novel concepts in Telugu, Sreedhar turned as producer for Maaya which is directed by National Award winner Neelakanta. Maaya is based on the concept of Extrasensory Perception, which is new to Telugu movie audience. Everyone praised Maaya stating it as ‘Out of the box’ movie. Maaya is going to be remade as Murder 4 by ace Bollywood producer and director Mahesh Bhatt.

Madhura Sreedhar introduced his associate PB. Manjunath as director with critically and commercially acclaimed movie Ladies & Gentlemen, which is based on the effects of cyber-crimes on netizens. It turned out as a first best small concept based movie in the year 2015 and critics highly praised Ladies & Gentlemen. Times of India rated it with 3 and mentioned Spectacular in its approach. Hindu and Deccan Chronicle also gave 3 rating. Major Telugu film websites like Idlebrain and Greatandhra gave 3+ ratings. Ace Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt appreciated it by saying “Bold and hard hitting.”

Madhura Sreedhar Reddy is going to produce Om Mangalam Mangalam by offering his protégé Sanjeev Reddy direction chance under Madhura Entertainment banner. Sanjeev Reddy is also the story writer of Sreedhar’s Ladies & Gentlemen. A huge star hunt has been conducted for Om Mangalam Mangalam which received overwhelming response from all over Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Many Tollywood celebrities like Sandeep Kishan, Allari Naresh, Nani, Manchu Lakshmi supported this star hunt.

Madhura Sreedhar Reddy is well-known for introducing many talented actors like Sandeep Kishan, Chaitanya Krishna, Aravind Krishna, Nikitha Narayan, Mahat Raghavendra, Avantika Mishra, Sushma Raaj… etc. for Telugu Film Industry. He is also considered as Marketing Guru for his innovative film marketing strategies and movie promotions. Fascinated by controversies in IPL Cricket, Match Fixing and after parties, Madhura Sreedhar Reddy commissioned a script work for tentatively titled I'm Not Sachin. Madhura Sreedhar Reddy approached Indian Cricketer Sreeshanth to explore his in interest in films. Apart from these films, Madhura Sreedhar Reddy is planning to produce Love, Sex & Murder in 2015.

Influences

From the very early age Madhura Sreedhar is fascinated by iconic Indian director Ram Gopal Varma. His movie “Shiva” has deep impact on him and he considers Ram Gopal Varma as his guru. Following his guru’s path, he too never worked as an assistant under anyone.

Awards

Madhura Sreedhar Reddy has won Best Debutante Director for Sneha Geetham.

Filmography

Film	Role	Year
Sneha Geetham	Director	2010
It's My Love Story	Director	2011
Backbench Student	Director	2011
Prema Ishq Kaadhal	Co-producer	2013
Maya	Co-producer	2014
Ladies & Gentlemen	Producer	2015
Om Mangalam Mangalam	Producer (Pre-Production)	2015
I am Not Sachin	Director (Pre-Production)	2015
Love Sex & Murder	Producer (Pre-Production)	2016
Dana Karna^[1]	Director (Pre-Production)	2016

References

↑ "Backbench Student's shooting wrapped up". telugu123.com. 5 January 2013. Retrieved 5 January 2013.

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