Director, writer and actor · Telugu cinema
Mohan Krishna Indraganti
Mohan Krishna Indraganti movies: 13 Telugu films on file (12 as director, 9 as writer, 1 as actor), 2004–2025. Earliest on file: Grahanam (2004). Latest release: Sarangapani Jathakam (25 April 2025).
- Films on file
- 13 (12 as director, 9 as writer, 1 as actor)
- Years on file
- 2004–2025
- Born
- 17 April 1972 · April birthdays (Wikidata)
- Selected films on file
- Ami Thumi, Ashta Chamma, V
- Record
- Q6893545 on Wikidata
Mohana Krishna Indraganti is an Indian film director who works mainly in Telugu cinema. His debut, Grahanam (2005), won eleven awards, including the National Film Award for Best First Film of a Director, and his later films include Ashta Chamma (2008), Golconda High School (2011), Anthaka Mundu Aa Tarvatha (2013), Sammohanam (2018) and V (2020).
Early life
Indraganti was born in Tanuku, West Godavari district, to Indraganti Srikanth Sharma and Janaki Bala. His parents and grandparents were writers, and his grandmother’s vivid storytelling, his reading and film talk with an uncle drew him towards cinema. He grew up in Vijayawada, took a BA at Loyola College and an MA in English and philosophy at the University of Hyderabad. After being turned down by FTII, he wrote and co-directed a Doordarshan docu-drama, Mahandhra, and used it to win a place at York University in Toronto, where he completed an MFA in film between 1998 and 2000.
Grahanam
Back in Hyderabad he made a horror short, Chali, which impressed Tanikella Bharani, who became his mentor. After a brief, abandoned stint on Ram Gopal Varma‘s Madhyanam Hathya, he turned to Grahanam, adapted from a story by the writer Chalam. Producers admired the script but doubted its commercial prospects, so he began financing it himself until Bharani, who also acted in it without a fee, introduced him to a producer. The film was shown in the Indian Panorama at IFFI 2005 and won the National, Nandi and Gollapudi Srinivas awards for a debut.
Ashta Chamma and later films
His second film, Mayabazaar (2006), starred Bhumika Chawla and Raja. Ashta Chamma, with Swathi, Nani and Srinivas Avasarala, was a big hit and won the Akkineni Award for Best Home-viewing Feature Film; Golconda High School and Anthaka Mundu Aa Tarvatha, which brought him a Nandi Award for Best Story Writer, also did well.
Recent work
He directed Sudheer Babu in the romantic drama Sammohanam, a profitable film about a cartoonist who falls for an actress, and again in the action thriller V, with Nani.
Other work
He also lent his voice to the film Mithunam (2012).
Career on file
Mohan Krishna Indraganti has 13 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 2004 to 2025: 12 films as director, nine films as writer and one film as actor. The earliest of them is Grahanam (2004), and the most recent release is Sarangapani Jathakam (2025). Measured by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them, the best-known titles here are Ami Thumi (2017), Ashta Chamma (2008) and V (2020). Other recent releases on file are Aa Ammayi Gurinchi Meeku Cheppali (2022), Sammohanam (2018) and Gentleman (2016).
In the films Mohan Krishna Indraganti directed, Tanikella Bharani and Srinivas Avasarala appear most often (six films each), ahead of Nani (3) and Eesha Rebba (3). Music on four of them is by Kalyan Malik, with Vivek Sagar (3) and Mani Sharma (2) next. Sridevi Movies produced three of them, more than any other banner on file. Across these films the credits on file name 8 music directors and 30 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 10 of them; they average 139 minutes, and the longest is Mayabazar at 153 minutes. Four of them have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. By decade the list splits into 2000s (3), 2010s (7) and 2020s (3).
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.