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| Puri Jagannath |
Puri Jagannath (Telugu:, born 28 September 1966, is a prominentTollywood film
director and producer. His brother SaiRam is also a hero in Tollywood. He is considered one of the sought after filmmakers in the Telugu movie industry especially after the blockbuster hit Pokiri. He is also a two time Nandi Award recipient.
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Puri Jagannath directorial debut Badri, starred Pawan Kalyan in the lead role and Renu Desai, Prakash Raj, and Bollywood actress Amisha Patel in the supporting roles.
Later on he floated his own film production house Vaishno Academy. His production house went on to produce hit films such as Idiot,Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi, Shivamani 9848022338, and Pokiri (which went on to be the biggest hit of Telugu film).
His recent film was Chiruta, with Ram Charan Teja and Neha Sharma in the lead roles. The film was Ram charan's debut film who is the son of Tollywood Megastar, Chiranjeevi.
Jagannadh directed Ram Charan Teja's first film Chiruta and C. Ashwini Dutt produced the film under Vyjayanthi Movies.
All his movies start with a divide talk and end as block busters. His Pokiri was his first movie which had a silver jubilee run at the box-office. Pokiri even completed 200 days and Completed 562 days in Kurnool. Mahesh Starrer Pokiri is the only film in 75 years of Telugu Industry to be screened for more than 500 days.
His next film with Prabhas titled Bujjigadu - Made In Chennai was released on 23 May 2008 and the film was hailed by critics as Prabhas' best performance but the film achieved moderate success at the box office.
His latest film Neninthe with Ravi Teja was released on 18 December 2008 and the film took satisfactory openings but later was declared an average film in Puri's career after delivering a hat-trick with Raviteja . Puri Jagannadh is one of the famous and influential director in the 2000s and he is continuing the same track record. Puri usually uses fights master such as: Vijayan, Allan Amin, andVijay. Vijayan also popularly work's for Puri's films. He composed the fights for Pokiri, Desamuduru, Chiruta, and Bujjigadu.
Filmography
Director
Golimaar (2010)
Baava (2010)
Ek Niranjan (2009) Average
Neninthe (2008) Flop
Bujjigadu (2008) Average
Chiruta (2007) Hit
Desamuduru (2007) Hit
Pokiri (2006) Blockbuster Record Breaking Hit
Super (2005) Flop
143 (2004)
Andhrawala (2004} Utter flop
Shart (2004) (HINDI)
Shivamani (2003) Hit
Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi (2003) Blockbuster Hit
Idiot (2002) Blockbuster Hit
Appu (2002) (KANNADA) Blockbuster Hit
Itlu Sravani Subramanyam (2001) Hit
Baachi (2001)
Yuvaraja (2001) (KANNADA) Super Hit
Badri (2000) Blockbuster Record Breaking Hit
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