Gangaraju Gunnam

Gangaraju Gunnam
Born	(1955-10-19) 19 October 1955 Kakinada, East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India
Occupation	Film director Film writer producer
Spouse(s)	Urmila
Children	Sandeep Vihang
Website	justyellowmedia.com

Gangaraju Gunnam (Telugu: గంగరాజు గుణ్ణం) is an Indian film producer, director and writer known for his works in Telugu cinema and Television. He received two National Film Awards for producing path breaking films like Aithe, and Bommalata.^[1]^[2] He has also produced and directed, blockbusters like Anukokunda Oka Roju and Amma Cheppindi respectively, and has garnered three state Nandi Awards. He has also created the popular sitcom Amrutham. He owns the film production company Just Yellow.^[3]

Personal life

Gunnam Ganga Raju was born and brought up in Kakinada. He studied up to 6th standard in St. Josephs Convent in Kakinada. He then received a Government of India scholarship and got into Hyderabad Public School. He finished his schooling and wanted to get into medicine but never got through. He waited for one year and joined BA English at Andhra Loyola College in Vijayawada. But he was removed from college in the second year as the entire English medium students went for a strike. Then he discontinued studies and worked as a door to door sales representative for Navbharath Cigarettes. Then he did his Bachelor of Arts privately. He joined Master of Arts and completed it. During that time He also wrote Probationary officers in State Bank of India.^[4]

Awards

National Film Awards

National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu - Aithe (2003)
National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu - Bommalata (2006)

Nandi Awards

Nandi Award for Best Screenplay Writer - Little Soldiers (1996)
Nandi Award for Best Director - Little Soldiers (1996)
Nandi Special Jury Award - Amma Cheppindi (2006)

Filmography

Writer

Little Soldiers - Story & Dialogue (1996)
Aithe - Dialogues (2003)
Anukokunda Oka Roju - Dialogues (2005)
Amma Cheppindi - Story & Dialogues (2006)
Amrutham - Story & Dialogues (2007)
Katha - Dialogues (2009)
Laya TV Serial - Story (2008–2010)
Edureetha TV Serial - Story (2011)

Director

Little Soldiers (1996)
Amma Cheppindi (2006)
Chandamama lo Amrutham (2014)

Producer

Little Soldiers (1996)
Aithe (2003)
Anukokunda Oka Roju (2005)
Bommalata (2006)
Amma Cheppindi (2006)
In a Day (2006)
Katha (2009)

Art Director

Little Soldiers (1996)

Television

Amrutham (2001–2007; 313 episodes)
Nanna (2003–2004; 89 episodes)
Radha Madhu (2006–2008; 450 episodes)
Ammamma.com (2006–2007; 200 episodes)
Laya (2008–2010; 321 episodes)
Adagaka Ichina Manasu (2011; Stopped after 60 episodes)
Edureetha (2011)
Prathibinbam (2014 - present)

References

↑ "51st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
↑ "53rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
↑ Gunnam Gangaraju - Telugu Cinema interview - Telugu film producer and director
↑ http://www.telugucinema.com/tc/stars/ggrajuinterview.php

External links

Ganga Raju Gunnam at the Internet Movie Database

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Nandi Special Jury Award

Vijayachander (1983)
Karthik (1987)
Kallu Chidambaram (1988)
Chiranjeevi (1988)
Venkatesh (1988)
Jagapati Babu (1990)
Naresh (1992)
Suman (1997)
Ravi Teja (1999)
Venu Thottempudi (1999)
AVS (2000)
Srihari (2000)
Akkineni Nagarjuna (2000)
Manjula Ghattamaneni (2001)
Mahesh Babu (2001)
Surya (2001)
N. T. Rama Rao Jr. (2002)
Ravi Teja (2002)
Mahesh Babu (2002)
Pavan Malhotra (2003)
Saritha (2004)
Mahesh Babu (2004)
Allu Arjun (2004)
Sneha (2005)
Priyadarshini Ram (2005)
Vadde Naveen (2005)
Gangaraju Gunnam (2006)
Jyothika (2006)
Genelia D'Souza (2006)
Ram Charan Tej (2007)
Bhumika Chawla (2007)
Allu Arjun (2008)
Anushka Shetty (2008)
Genelia D'Souza (2009)
Ram Charan Tej (2009)
Srikanth (2009)
Manchu Manoj (2010)
Sunil (2010)
Samantha Ruth Prabhu (2010)
Akkineni Nagarjuna (2011)
Charmy Kaur (2011)

Nandi Award for Best Director

1981-2000	Bharathiraja (1981) U. Visweswar Rao (1982) Jandhyala (1983) Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao (1984) Singeetam Srinivasa Rao (1985) Kasinathuni Viswanath (1986) Kasinathuni Viswanath (1987) Suresh Krissna (1988) Ram Gopal Varma (1989) Kranthi Kumar (1990) Ram Gopal Varma (1991) C. Umamaheswara Rao (1992) Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao (1993) Singeetam Srinivas Rao (1994) Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao (1995) Gangaraju Gunnam (1996) Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao (1997) Dasari Narayana Rao (1998) Ram Gopal Varma (1999) S. V. Krishna Reddy (2000)

2001-present	Teja (2001) Krishna Vamsi (2002) Gunasekhar (2003) Sekhar Kammula (2004) Krishna Vamsi (2005) Sekhar Kammula (2006) Krishna Vamsi (2007) Radhakrishna Jagarlamudi (2008) S. S. Rajamouli (2009) Sunil Kumar Reddy (2010) N. Shankar (2011)

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