Director and writer · Telugu cinema
Kishore Kumar Pardasani
Kishore Kumar Pardasani movies: 4 Telugu films on file (4 as director, 2 as writer), 2009–2017. Earliest on file: Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam (2009). Latest release: Katamarayudu (24 March 2017).
- Films on file
- 4 (4 as director, 2 as writer)
- Years on file
- 2009–2017
- Selected films on file
- Gopala Gopala, Thadaka, Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam
- Record
- Q29032478 on Wikidata
Kishore Kumar Pardasani (also known as Dolly) is an Indian film director known for the Telugu films Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam, Tadakha, Gopala Gopala and Katamarayudu.
Early life
He was born in Vijayawada and grew up in Vizianagaram, where he studied law at Maharaja College. He then moved to Hyderabad and joined the film industry as an assistant to Sreenu Vaitla and V. V. Vinayak.
Debut
He made his directing debut with Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam (2009). He came up with the interval twist first while writing the script, and Siddharth agreed to star after hearing it. The film was well reviewed and did well.
Tadakha
Tadakha (2013), a remake of the Tamil film Vettai, starred Naga Chaitanya, Tamannaah and Sunil. According to the source, it collected a ₹21 crore share, and Sunil won Best Supporting Actor at both Filmfare and SIIMA.
Gopala Gopala
Gopala Gopala (2015), a remake of OMG – Oh My God!, starred Venkatesh as an atheist who sues God, with Pawan Kalyan as Krishna and Shriya Saran and Mithun Chakraborty in support. Made on a budget of ₹12 crore, it was shot mainly around Visakhapatnam, with parts in Hyderabad and Varanasi. Released for Sankranti, it was well reviewed and, according to the source, grossed ₹88.1 crore.
Katamarayudu
When S. J. Suryah left Katamarayudu, a remake of the Tamil film Veeram, Kishore stepped in, reuniting with Pawan Kalyan for the second time after Gopala Gopala. The film, starring Pawan Kalyan and Shruti Haasan, was released worldwide on 24 March 2017.
Career on file
Kishore Kumar Pardasani has 4 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 2009 to 2017: four films as director and two films as writer. The earliest of them is Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam (2009), and the most recent release is Katamarayudu (2017). The most widely covered of these, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Gopala Gopala (2015), Thadaka (2013) and Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam (2009).
In the films Kishore Kumar Pardasani directed, Tamannaah Bhatia and Pawan Kalyan appear most often (two films each). Music on two of them is by Anoop Rubens. Across these films the credits on file name 3 music directors and 21 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 4 of them; they average 153 minutes, and the longest is Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam at 165 minutes. By decade the list splits into 2000s (1) and 2010s (3).
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.