Director, writer, actor and producer · Telugu cinema
Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao
Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao movies: 13 Telugu films on file (12 as director, 9 as writer, 2 as actor, 1 as producer), 1997–2019. Earliest on file: Subhakankshalu (1997). Latest release: Kousalya Krishnamurthy (23 August 2019).
- Films on file
- 13 (12 as director, 9 as writer, 2 as actor, 1 as producer)
- Years on file
- 1997–2019
- Selected films on file
- Speedunnodu, Kousalya Krishnamurthy, Annavaram
- Record
- Q4901763 on Wikidata
Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao is an Indian film director, producer, actor and writer from Andhra Pradesh. Known as a remake specialist and a maker of parody films, he has hits including Subhamastu, Subhakankshalu, Suswagatham and Suryavamsam. He produced Nee Thodu Kavali and made his acting debut in Kudirithe Cup Coffee.
Early life
He was born into a farming family in Tathapudi village, Guntur district. He went to school in Tathapudi, Murikipudi and Martur and attended college in Chilakaluripet.
Assistant director
He started out as an assistant director to T. Krishna on Vande Mataram, Devalayam and Repati Pourulu.
Suswagatham
He directed Suswagatham (1998), Pawan Kalyan‘s third film, produced by R. B. Choudary under Super Good Films. It marked the Telugu debut of Devayani, and S. A. Rajkumar composed the music. Pawan Kalyan played a young man who loses everything because of his blind love for a girl, and his performance was critically acclaimed. It was the first film to credit him as “Power Star”, and it became a super hit that laid the ground for his rise to stardom.
Sudigadu
In 2012 he directed Sudigadu, starring Allari Naresh. Made up of spoofs of nearly 100 Telugu films, it did exceptionally well at the box office and cemented Naresh’s position in Telugu cinema.
Later remakes
He directed Speedunnodu (2016), a remake of the Tamil Sundarapandian starring Bellamkonda Sreenivas, which drew mixed reviews. He followed it with Kousalya Krishnamurthy (2019), a remake of the Tamil sports drama Kanaa. That film marked the Telugu debut of Aishwarya Rajesh, and critics called it a thought-provoking subject weakened by clichéd presentation.
Career on file
Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao has 13 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 1997 to 2019: 12 films as director, nine films as writer, two films as actor and one film as producer. The earliest of them is Subhakankshalu (1997), and the most recent release is Kousalya Krishnamurthy (2019). The most widely covered of these, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Speedunnodu (2016), Kousalya Krishnamurthy (2019) and Annavaram (2006). Other recent releases on file are Silly Fellows (2018), Sudigadu (2012) and Kudirithe Kappu Coffee (2011).
In the films Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao directed, Brahmanandam appears most often (four films), ahead of Chandra Mohan (3) and Raasi (3). S. A. Rajkumar and Sri Vasanth each scored three of them, more than any other music director; next is Vandemataram Srinivas (2). Across these films the credits on file name 9 music directors and 45 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 9 of them; they average 150 minutes, and the longest is Annavaram at 174 minutes. Five of them have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. By decade the list splits into 1990s (5), 2000s (3) and 2010s (5). 1998 is the busiest single year, with three films.
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.