Srikanth Addala

Srikanth Addala
Born Relangi, West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh
Occupation Director
Years active 2004-present

Sreekanth Addala 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. Mukunda, released on 24 December 2014. His latest release, Brahmotsavam, released on 20 May 2016.

Career

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 ₹9000 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 successfully launched Nagababu's son Varun Tej with his latest release "Mukunda".

Filmography

As Director

Year Film Cast Notes
2008 Kotha Bangaru Lokam Varun Sandesh, Shweta Basu Prasad, Prakash Raj, Jayasudha
2013 Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu Venkatesh, Mahesh Babu, Anjali, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Prakash Raj
2014 Mukunda Varun Tej, Pooja Hegde, Prakash Raj, Rao Ramesh
2016 Brahmotsavam Mahesh Babu, Kajal Aggarwal, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Pranitha Subhash

Lyricist

Title Album Year Singer(s) Notes
2008 Kotha Bangaru Lokam 2008 Krishna Chaitanya, Aditya, Siddhartha, Kranthi, Sasikiran, Aditya
2016 Brahmotsavam 2016 Karthik

References

  1. ↑ "dil raju interview". idlebrain. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
  2. ↑ "KBL". imdb. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
  3. ↑ "SVSC". idlebrain. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
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