Geetha Krishna is an Indian film director, who has made Telugu and Tamil films. He made his debut with the Telugu film ''

Sankeertana ''Sankeertana'' is a 1987 Telugu-language film, produced by M. Gangaiah under the Konark Movie Creations banner and directed by Geetha Krishna. It stars Nagarjuna and Ramya Krishna, with music composed by Ilaiyaraaja. It was released on 20 March ...

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, for which he won the

Nandi Award for Best First Film of a Director The Nandi Award for Best Debut Director winners since 1981:(in Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India *Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Telugu languag ...

. Since then, he has directed a series of Telugu and Tamil films.

Career

Geetha Krishna's debut film ''

'' was a musical love story, set against religious taboos featuring

and

Ramya Krishnan Ramya Krishnan (born 15 September 1970), also credited as Ramya Krishna (in the Telugu and Kannada film industries) is an Indian actress. She has appeared in over 260 films in five languages: Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi. Ramy ...

. The film became a successful venture commercially and he won the

. Next he made '' Kokila'' - a crime-mystery based on eye transplantation, a socially relevant theme in the late 1980s and the film also fared well critically. Geetha Krishna next made two further experimental films with ''Keechuraallu'' and ''Priyathama'' on the issue of

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. After a sabbatical, he returned in 1996 with ''Server Sundaramagaari Abbayi'' which dealt with heart transplantation as the main theme, where he also composed the film's music himself. He went on to make a Tamil film in 1999, ''

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'' featuring

Prabhu Deva Prabhu Deva (born 3 April 1973) is an Indian dance choreographer, film director, producer and actor who has worked predominantly in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, and Kannada language films. In a career spanning 32 years, he has performed and designed a ...

and

Simran Simran (Gurmukhi: ਸਿਮਰਨ; hi, सिमरण, सिमरन ; from Sanskrit: , ''smaraṇa'', 'to remember, reminisce, recollect'), in spirituality, is a Sanskrit word referring to the continuous remembrance of the finest aspect of ...

. In the late 2000s, he began work on a bilingual venture known as ''

Koffi Bar ''Koffi Bar'' in Telugu and ''Nimidangal'' () in Tamil, is a 2011 Indian thriller film directed by Geetha Krishna. The film was presented by Lakshmi Ganapathi Film. Cast * Shashank as Ramakrishna *Bianca Desai as Srijana * Atul Kulkarni as a r ...

'', with the Telugu version releasing in 2011 and the Tamil version, ''Nimidangal'', two years later. In 2013, he revealed he was working on sixty five hour docudrama that maps the history of India starting from the Indus Valley civilization. Titled ''My Country India Time Capsule'', Geetha Krishna researched the project extensively and expressed that the venture would involve top technicians and artistes.

Filmography

References

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