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Puri Jagannadh is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Indian born on 28 september 1966
Puri Jagannadh also spelled as Puri Jagannath(born 28 September 1966) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer, prominent in Telugu cinema. He is a three-time Nandi Award recipient. He has made many successful films such as Badri, Itlu Sravani Subramanyam, Idiot, Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi, Sivamani, Pokiri, Desamuduru, Businessman, Cameraman Gangatho Rambabu and Iddarammayilatho.
He made his Bollywood debut in 2004, with the film Shart: The Challenge. In 2011, he directed Bbuddah... Hoga Terra Baap, which was archived in the Oscar library. He is associated with Vaishno Academy & Puri Jagannadh Touring Talkies, film production houses in South.
Puri Jagannadh's most of the films like Itlu Sravani Subramanyam, Idiot, Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi, Pokiri, Neninthe and Golimar were planned with Pawan Kalyan but could not get started due to some unknown reasons. He revealed this in an interview. At last he did a film called Cameraman Ganga Tho Rambabu with Pawan Kalyan after 12 years of long gap.
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Puri Jagannadh
Birth name Puri Jagannadh
Nationality Inde
Birth 28 september 1966 (58 years)
Creator of Puri Jagannadh Touring Talkies
Creator of Vaishno Academy
Awards Filmfare Awards South
Nationality Inde
Birth 28 september 1966 (58 years)
Creator of Puri Jagannadh Touring Talkies
Creator of Vaishno Academy
Awards Filmfare Awards South
He made his Bollywood debut in 2004, with the film Shart: The Challenge. In 2011, he directed Bbuddah... Hoga Terra Baap, which was archived in the Oscar library. He is associated with Vaishno Academy & Puri Jagannadh Touring Talkies, film production houses in South.
Biography
Jagannadh was born into a Telugu family in Pithapuram, East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh . His native village is Bapiraju Kothapalli, Visakhapatnam District in Andhra Pradesh. He started his career as an assistant director to Ram Gopal Varma for several Telugu films. His Telugu directorial debut Badri was a blockbuster, starring Pawan Kalyan in the lead role, along with Renu Desai, Prakash Raj, Amisha Patel in supporting roles. He is touted as a god father to Telugu actor Ravi Teja, by starring him in hits like Itlu Sravani Subramanyam and Idiot.Puri Jagannadh's most of the films like Itlu Sravani Subramanyam, Idiot, Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi, Pokiri, Neninthe and Golimar were planned with Pawan Kalyan but could not get started due to some unknown reasons. He revealed this in an interview. At last he did a film called Cameraman Ganga Tho Rambabu with Pawan Kalyan after 12 years of long gap.
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Businessman (2012)
, 2h11Directed by Puri Jagannadh
Genres Action, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Mahesh Babu, Kajal Agarwal, Prakash Raj, Nassar, Sayaji Shinde, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam
Roles Cameo
Rating71%
Mumbai Police commissioner Ajay Bhardwaj announces the end of the "Mafia Raj" in the city, in order to try to bring peace to the city's streets. However, a ruthless south Indian named Vijay Surya comes to the city, aspiring to be the most powerful Mafia Don there. Staying in Dharavi with his friend, he is introduced to a local politician Laalu, who is in trouble and offers him help. He recruits a portion of the gangsters and criminals living in Mumbai led by Naseer to work under him. Surya's henchman Shakeel manages to kill a witness of Laalu's crimes in the jail where he is kept in, winning Laalu's friendship.
Ye Maaya Chesave (2010)
Directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Naga Chaitanya, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Krishnudu, Sapan Saran, Surekha Vani, Sudheer Babu Posani
Roles Self
Rating76%
Karthik (Naga Chaitanya) is a mechanical engineering graduate but aspires to become a filmmaker. Through his friend, Karthik gets introduced to director Puri Jagannadh. With his support,Karthik family, who are Hindus, rents the ground floor of a two-storeyed house which belongs to the Thekekuttus. The Thekekuttu family is a conservative Malayali Syrian Catholic family from Alappuzha, Kerala, who live upstairs. The Thekekuttus have a daughter, Jessie (Samantha), who is 2 years older to Karthik. When Karthik meets Jessie for the first time, he falls in love with her. Karthik expresses his love one day to her, who is afraid of speaking to men around her strict father, and ends up angering Jessie. The two meet several times afterwards and Jessie begins to admit that she likes Karthik but wants to refrain from any problems because she knows her father won't accept a Hindu marrying their daughter. Her parents learn about their affair and arrange a marriage for her. But at the wedding, she refuses to marry the groom, displeasing everyone in her family. Karthik and Jessie continue to love each other without the knowledge of their parents. Suddenly, Jessie is forced by her father to marry and seeks Karthik's help, who was in Goa for a film shooting. Busy Karthik is unable to attend to her calls and messages; Jessie is unable to reach him. After a tense phone call from Jessie, Karthik goes back one night to check on her. An angry and hurt Jessie makes a final decision to break up with Karthik because of her father's strong disapproval of their love.
Shiva (1990)
, 2h22Directed by Ram Gopal Varma
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Akkineni Nagarjuna, Amala Paul, Amala Akkineni, Raghuvaran, J. D. Chakravarthy, Paresh Rawal
Roles (Cameo) - Botany Chhodenge song
Rating79%
The film opens with a bunch of gangsters, led by Ganesh, waiting outside the (fictional) VAS college of Arts & Sciences. A college student JD (JD Chakravarthy) gestures to the goons and they proceed to savagely assault another student and his friends.
Shiva (1990)
, 2h41Directed by Ram Gopal Varma
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Akkineni Nagarjuna, Amala Paul, Amala Akkineni, Raghuvaran, J. D. Chakravarthy, 'Subhalekha' Sudhakar
Roles (Cameo) - Botany Chhodenge song
Rating76%
The film opens with a bunch of gangsters, led by Ganesh., waiting outside the (fictional) VAS college of Arts & Sciences. A college student JD (JD Chakravarthy) gestures to the goons and they proceed to savagely assault another student and his friends.
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Temper (2015)
, 2h27Directed by Puri Jagannadh
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Kajal Agarwal, Prakash Raj, Ajaz Khan, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Brahmanandam
Rating73%
Daya is an orphan who grows up learning that a police's life is a happy one with lots of money coming in the form of bribes which inspires him to become a police officer. After years, he becomes a corrupt, cunning, manipulative and ruthless sub inspector of police. He is transferred to Vishakhapatnam where he forms an immediate friendship with the local don Waltair Vasu by releasing his four brothers Ravi, Mani, Varun and Sundeep from the jail who were arrested for smuggling. Daya's attitude does not go well with his subordinate Narayana Murthy, a sincere police constable. He tries to oppose Daya's deeds which go vain.
Jyothi Lakshmi (2015)
Directed by Puri Jagannadh
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about prostitution
Actors Charmi Kaur, Satya Dev Kancharana, Brahmanandam
Rating57%
Loafer (2015)
Directed by Puri Jagannadh
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Konidela Sai Varun Teja, Revathi, Brahmanandam, Disha Patani, Posani Krishna Murali, Mukesh Rishi
Rating51%
Heart Attack (2014)
, 2h20Directed by Puri Jagannadh
Genres Action, Romance
Actors Nithin Reddy, Adah Sharma, Ajaz Khan, Ajay, Ali, Brahmanandam
Rating53%
The film starts in Goa with the henchmen of Don Makrand Kamati (Vikramjeet Virk) kidnapping a girl at the beach and turning her into a slave for sale after injecting drugs into her. When police officer Madhusudhan (Devan) catches the slaves and drugs racket, Makarand and his henchman (Ajaz Khan) interfere him while speaking to the Media. They injure the honest Madhusudhan and turn him an immobile person. Thus their trade continues. The film then shifts to a time a year later where Varun (Nithiin) is shown roaming in the locales of Spain. Varun is a hippie kind of vagabond wandering all over the world. He lost his parents in his childhood when he was at America. Calling himself a free soul, he never believes in relationships and earns his living by working in part-time jobs he finds in Craigslist and rests at nights on the roads with some kitchen equipment to cook food. Now he is in Spain and there he comes across Hayathi (Adah Sharma), an Indian who arrived to Spain to meet her friend Priya (Kesha Khambati).
Iddarammayilatho (2013)
, 2h23Directed by Puri Jagannadh
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Allu Arjun, Amala Paul, Catherine Tresa, Brahmanandam, Tanikella Bharani, Nassar
Rating58%
Corrupt Central Minister (Rao Ramesh), is facing accusations over possessing black money of one hundred thousand crore, and money laundering it into Europe, through his un-suspecting daughter, Akanksha (Catherine Tresa), a psychology student who goes to Barcelona to pursue higher education. Akanksha finds a diary in her flat in Barcelona, and out of curiosity she starts reading the book which unfolds the romantic drama between Sanju Reddy (Allu Arjun) and Komali Shankaraabharanam (Amala Paul). Akanksha gets engaged in Paris with her father's hench man (Shawar Ali). Incidentally, she runs into Sanju Reddy, and gets to know him. Sanju is an engineer turned lead guitarist of a music band, and makes his living through stage and street performances.
Businessman (2012)
, 2h11Directed by Puri Jagannadh
Genres Action, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Mahesh Babu, Kajal Agarwal, Prakash Raj, Nassar, Sayaji Shinde, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam
Rating71%
Mumbai Police commissioner Ajay Bhardwaj announces the end of the "Mafia Raj" in the city, in order to try to bring peace to the city's streets. However, a ruthless south Indian named Vijay Surya comes to the city, aspiring to be the most powerful Mafia Don there. Staying in Dharavi with his friend, he is introduced to a local politician Laalu, who is in trouble and offers him help. He recruits a portion of the gangsters and criminals living in Mumbai led by Naseer to work under him. Surya's henchman Shakeel manages to kill a witness of Laalu's crimes in the jail where he is kept in, winning Laalu's friendship.
Cameraman Ganga Tho Rambabu (2012)
, 2h29Directed by Puri Jagannadh
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Pawan Kalyan, Tamannaah Bhatia, Prakash Raj, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Gabriela Bertante, Nassar
Rating56%
Rambabu (Pawan Kalyan) is a Hot-Blooded, High Tempered Mechanic who has a kind heart as well as a tendency to react to various social incidents shown or published in the electronic media. After studying his mentality, Ganga (Tamanna), a cameraman from NC Channel offers him a Job as a Journalist and he accepts it. Ex-Chief Minister Jawahar Naidu (Kota Srinivasa Rao) tries to collapse the Government and regaining the CM post and is strongly supported by his son Rana Babu (Prakash Raj), a newbie to politics. Meanwhile, a reputed Journalist Dasaradh Ram (Surya) brings the proofs and required information about the scams and atrocities committed by Jawahar Naidu, only to be brutally murdered by Rana Babu.
Devudu Chesina Manushulu (2012)
, 2h4Directed by Puri Jagannadh
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Action
Actors Ravi Teja, Ileana D'Cruz, Prakash Raj, Brahmanandam, M. S. Narayana, Subba Raju
Rating37%
The movie opens with Lord Vishnu (Bramhanandam) trying to pacify Lakshmi Devi (Kovai Sarala), who is quite disappointed after listening to words of Narada that Lord Vishnu didn't gave any present to Lakshmi Devi on the eve of her Birthday (Akshaya Tritiya). Lord Vishnu shows a love story between 2 orphans Ravi Teja (Ravi Teja), a settlement broker in Hyderabad and Ileana (Ileana D'Cruz), a taxi driver living in Bangkok.
Bbuddah... Hoga Terra Baap (2011)
, 1h54Directed by Puri Jagannadh
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Sonu Sood, Prakash Raj, Sonal Singh Chauhan, Raveena Tandon
Rating55%
ACP Karan Malhotra (Sonu Sood) has declared that he will eliminate all gangsters from Mumbai within two months. Gangster Kabir Bhai (Prakash Raj) decides to eliminate ACP Karan instead. So in comes Vijju (Amitabh Bachchan), a hitman who returns to Mumbai after a long exile in Paris, France in order to perform one last job.
Nenu Naa Rakshasi (2011)
Directed by Puri Jagannadh
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Rana Daggubati, Ileana D'Cruz, Abhimanyu Singh, Subba Raju, Nagineedu Vellanki, Ahuti Prasad
Rating49%
Abhimanyu (Rana Daggubati) is a professional assassin who kills local gangsters for money. He rapidly falls in love with Meenakshi (Ileana D'Cruz), after seeing her working in a cafeteria. Vikram (Subbaraju) is the local Circle Inspector who has been ordered to track down the owner of a YouTube account called "It Is My Life Boss", an account that uploads shooting and suicide videos.