Krishna Vamsi Pasupuleti (Telugu: కృష్ణవంశీ) (born 28 July 1962) is an Indian film director. He is a two-time national award winning director. He is regarded as one of the most creative directors in India. He directs for Telugu films in the Tollywood industry.
Krishna Vamsi was born in Tadepalligudem in Andhra Pradesh. His father named him "Venkata Bangaaru Raju". His friends used to call/tease him by the name "Bangaaram". So, before joining his Intermediate Course, he changed his name to "Krishna Vamsi". He did his BSc. in Tadepalligudem followed by M.A. in Agricultural Economics from Agra University.
Early life and background
He then entered the film industry. He started as a camera assistant, assistant to the editor and assistant director. He worked under Ram Gopal Varma.
Career
Krishna Vamsi established his own production company Andhra Talkies in 1997.
Sindhooram is by far the best epic movie of his generation, a story attempted by few before but never could portray in the way Vamsi did. It is definitely on par with his mentor Ram Gopal Varma. Krishna vamsi's attempt definitely raised many eyebrows. He gave chance to many good talents like Ravi Teja with this film. Sanghavi has definitely played her part the best.
This movie highlights all aspects of Naxalism and it is beautifully portrayed throughout the movie. This movie gives you an understanding on how the young and old are roped into the influence of Naxalism.
Although his first film was Money Money(1995) produced by RGV, he preferred not getting credited.
He is well-known for bringing out new talents in artists. He made Jagapati Babu, who is famous for playing typical family roles, play a tapori role in his award winning movie Anthapuram. However, his movie Samudram, in which Jagapathi Babu played the leading role, was a disaster.
He is a choreographer too. His songs have the typical Krishna Vamsi romantic touch. At least one song in each of his films has a melodious duet.(Except "Rakhi") Examples are: "kannullo nee rupame" from Ninne Pelladutha, "ii velalo niivu em cestu untavu" from Gulabi, "nuvvu nuvvu" from Khadgam, "oke oka maata" from Chakram.
His movies contain good social message too. Movies like Chakram, Khadgam, Sindhuram are good examples.
Krishna Vamsi shares a very good relation with Sirivennela Sitaramasastri, the ten time Nandi best lyricist award winner. He gets the best out of him whether it be teen songs like "class room lo tapassu cheyyuta", duets like "nuvvu nuvvu", message-oriented songs like "jagamanta kutumbam naadi" and "Ardha Satabdapu Agnanaani Swarajyamandama".
His movie, Chakram was inspired by an old song written by Sirivennala Seetha Rama Sastry "Jagamanta Kutumbam naadi". Ironically it was the biggest flop of his career.
His movie "Rakhi" is an above average movie. It dealt with how women are tortured in the society.But the entire film shows the vulgarity.The hero and heroins resemble the vulgar in their songs with most vulgar scenes . This is an example what the film makers do for their commercial gains .The film lacks the reality and really a disaster.It proves that how the star actors ruins the entire movie for their false image.
He also choreographed two songs from the film Okkadunnadu on director Chandra Sekhar Yeleti's request.
He then directed the movie Chandamama, released in September 2007. It received some average reviews in the beginning but was appreciated by audiences, later becoming one of the best movies of that year.
In 2009, Sasirekha Parinayam released;it did average business.
His recent movie "Mahatma" which stars Srikanth and Bhavana as leading pair had down conviencing business and gained a good public appreciation. This was Srikanth's 100th Movie. The director Mr Vamshi gave Srikanth a good look according to the character. This film talked about Gandhian principles. The song "Indiramma inti peru kaadura Gandhi" was critically apreciated.
His next project is named as Khandireega with Ravi Teja. It is expected to be a comedy movie in which Ravi Teja play's a role as a Great Grand son of King Krishna Deva Rayalu and funny scenes with tenali rama krishna.
He is also working on a movie with Akkineni Nageswara Rao(ANR), Akkineni Nagarjuna and Sumanth on Annapurna Studios banner.
Personal life
Sirivennela Sitaramasastri adopted Krishna Vamsi, not legally through Indian Government Gazette, but by traditional Hindu method.
Krishna Vamsi is married to Ramya Krishnan, a South Indian actress. They have a son named Ritwik. Ramya Krishnan acted in one of his film Chandralekha prior to her marriage with him; the film failed at the box office.
Filmography
| Year | Name | Language | Cast | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Gulabi | Telugu | JD Chakravarthi, Maheshwari, Chalapati Rao, Jeeva, Chandramohan | ||
| 1996 | Ninne Pelladutha | Telugu | Akkineni Nagarjuna, Tabu, Chalapati Rao, Ravi Teja, Jeeva, Chandramohan, Lakshmi | Produced by Akkineni Nagarjuna | |
| 1997 | Sindhooram | Telugu | Brahmaji, Sanghavi, Ravi Teja, Chalapati Rao, Paruchuri Venkateswar rao | Won 7 Nandi Awards | |
| 1998 | Antahpuram | Telugu | Soundarya, Prakash Raj, jagapathi babu, Sai Kumar | Won 8 Nandi Awards | |
| 1999 | Chandralekha | Telugu | Akkineni Nagarjuna, Isha Koppikar, Ramya Krishnan,Brahmaji,Tanekella Bharani, Murali Mohan, Chandra mohan | Nagarjuna's 50th film,Produced by Akkineni Nagarjuna. Remake of Mohanlal StarrerMalayalam film Chandralekha, directed by Priyadarshan. | |
| 2000 | Samudram | Telugu | Jagapati Babu, Sakshi Shivanand | ||
| 2001 | Murari | Telugu | Mahesh Babu, Sonali Bendre,Lakshmi, Ravi Babu, Raghu Babu | Mahesh Babu won Nandi Award "special jury best actor" | |
| 2002 | Shakthi | Hindi | Karisma Kapoor, Nana Patekar,(Shahrukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai in special song) | Remake of Anthapuram,(Shahrukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai in special song) | |
| 2002 | Khadgam | Telugu | Ravi Teja, Sonali Bendre, Prakash Rai, Kim Sharma,Brahmaji,Shafi, Ahuthi Prasad | Best Director Nandi Award for Kishna Vamsi | |
| 2004 | Sri Anjaneyam | Telugu | Nithin Reddy, Charmy Kaur, Arjun Sarja, Subbaraju(Prakash Rai andRamya Krishnan in cameo roles) | (Prakash Rai and Ramya Krishnan in cameo roles) | |
| 2005 | Chakram | Telugu | Prabhas, Charmy Kaur, Asin Thottumkal, Prakash Rai, Shiva Reddy, Srinivas Reddy, AVS, M.S.Narayan, VenuMadhav,RaghuBabu | ||
| 2005 | Danger | Telugu | Swathi, Allari Naresh, Sai Ram Shankar,Shiva Prasad,Shafi, Ahuthi Prasad | Best Director Nandhi award for Krishna Vamsi, Best Villain Nandhi award for Shiva Prasad. No songs in this film,a rare thing in Telugu Films. Charmy Kaur dubbed for Swathi | |
| 2006 | Rakhi | Telugu | N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Ileana, Charmy Kaur, Sayaji Shinde | ||
| 2007 | Chandamama | Telugu | Kajal Aggarwal, Nagendra Babu,Sindhu Menon, Shiv Balaji, Navdeep,Ahuthi Prasad | Best Director Nandhi award for Kishna Vamsi, Best male supporting actorNandhi award for Ahuthi Prasad | |
| 2009 | Sasirekha Parinayam | Telugu | Genelia, Tarun,Navdeep,Ahuthi Prasad, Subbaraju, Paruchuri GopalaKrishna | ||
| 2009 | Mahatma | Telugu | Srikanth, Bhavana,Jayaprakash Reddy,Jyothi, Charmy Kaur in a cameo | Srikanth 100th Film, Charmy Kaur special song | |
| 2010 | kandireega | Telugu | Ravi Teja | Stuck / On Hold |
Awards
- Nandi award from Andhra Pradesh State Government for the movies Gulabi, Sindooram, Anthapuram, Chakram and Chandamama
- Filmfare award as Best Director for Khadgam
- National awards for Best regional language film : Sindooram, Ninne Pelladutha
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