Gunasekhar

Gunasekar
Born	2 June 1964 (age 52) Narsipatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Residence	jubilee hills, Hyderabad, India
Occupation	Director Screen Writer Producer
Spouse(s)	Ragini Guna
Children	Neelima Guna, Yukthamukhi

Gunasekar (Telugu: గుణశేఖర్); (born Gunasekar Karri; 2 June 1964) is an Indian film director and screenwriter known for his works exclusively in Telugu cinema. Gunasekhar directed the Children's classic Ramayanam (1997), which won the National Film Award for Best Children's Film, including several state Nandi Awards for that year, and was screened at the International Children’s Film Festival of India.^[1]^[2]

The 2003 action film, Okkadu, which won eight state Nandi Awards, and four Filmfare Awards South including the Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu, the blockbuster film became the highest grossing Telugu film for that year, and was remade into various Indian languages.^[3]^[4] His latest venture is the historical film, Rudhramadevi which was released in October 2015 for wide positive reviews and became one of the biggest hits of the year.^[5]^[6]

Mainstream

Before venturing into mainstream film direction, Gunasekar worked as an associate director to D. V. Narsaraju, Kranthi Kumar, and Ram Gopal Varma.^[7] Gunasekhar made his directorial debut with the socio-political Lathi (1992), for which he received the state Nandi Award for Best First Film of a Director.

He directed the super-hit romance film, Sogasu Chooda Tharamaa (1995), which again received the Nandi Award for Best Feature Film, and the super-hit action thriller, Choodalani Vundi (1998), which introduced the DTS sound to the Telugu screen, the film was later remade into Hindi as Calcutta Mail. He then directed the political thriller, Manoharam (2000), which again bagged the Nandi Award for Best Story, and the Nandi Award for Best Feature Film. The 2004 drama film Arjun was screened at the International Film Festival of India in the mainstream section.^[8]

Year	Film	Director	Producer	Screenwriter	Awards and Honors
1991	Laati	Yes		Yes	Nandi Award for Best First Film of a Director
1995	Sogasu Chooda Tharamaa	Yes		Yes	Nandi Award for Best Feature Film
1997	Ramayanam	Yes		Yes	National Film Award for Best Children's Film International Children’s Film Festival of India
1998	Choodalani Vundi	Yes		Yes
2000	Manoharam	Yes		Yes	Nandi Award for Best Feature Film Nandi Award for Best Story Writer
2001	Mrugaraju	Yes		Yes
2003	Okkadu	Yes		Yes	Nandi Award for Best Feature Film Nandi Award for Best Director Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu
2004	Arjun	Yes		Yes	International Film Festival of India
2006	Sainikudu	Yes		Yes	Nandi Award for Best Special Effects
2010	Varudu	Yes		Yes	Nandi Award for Best Special Effects
2012	Nippu	Yes		Yes
2015	Tevar			Yes
2015	Rudhramadevi	Yes	Yes	Yes

Filmography of Gunasekhar

Lathi (1992) Sogasu Chuda Taramaa? (1995) Ramayanam (1997) Choodalani Vundi (1998) Manoharam (2000) Mrugaraju (2001) Okkadu (2003) Arjun (2004) Sainikudu (2006) Varudu (2010) Nippu (2012) Rudhramadevi (2015)

Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu

1972–1980	Kadiri Venkata Reddy (1972) Tatineni Rama Rao (1973) Kasinathuni Viswanath (1974) Kasinathuni Viswanath (1975) Bapu (1976) Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao (1977) K. Balachander (1978) Dasari Narayana Rao (1979) Bapu (1980)

1981–1990	Dasari Narayana Rao (1981) Kasinathuni Viswanath (1982) Kasinathuni Viswanath (1983) Jandhyala Subramanya Sastry (1984) Singeetam Srinivasa Rao (1985) Kasinathuni Viswanath (1986) Kasinathuni Viswanath (1987) M. V. Raghu (1988) Mani Ratnam (1989) Kodi Ramakrishna (1990)

1991–2000	Kranthi Kumar (1991) Kasinathuni Viswanath (1992) Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao (1993) S. V. Krishna Reddy (1994) Kasinathuni Viswanath (1995) Krishna Vamsi (1996) Dasari Narayana Rao (1997) Krishna Vamsi (1998) B. Gopal (1999) K. Vijaya Bhaskar (2000)

2001–2010	Teja (2001) Krishna Vamsi (2002) Gunasekhar (2003) Sukumar (2004) Trivikram Srinivas (2005) Puri Jagannadh (2006) Sekhar Kammula (2007) Radhakrishna Jagarlamudi (2008) S. S. Rajamouli (2009) Krish (2010) Srinu Vaitla (2011) S. S. Rajamouli (2012) Trivikram Srinivas (2013) Vikram Kumar (2014) S. S. Rajamouli (2015)

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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