Petla "Puri" Jagannadh (born 28 September 1966) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer, who works primarily in the

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. He made his directorial debut with the Telugu film '' Badri'' starring Pawan Kalyan, Renu Desai and Ameesha Patel. In 2006, he directed the Telugu film '' Pokiri'', premiered at the 7th IIFA Film Festival held in Dubai. The film was later re-made into several Indian languages, and brought Puri widespread Indian recognition. He made his

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debut in 2004, with the film '' Shart: The Challenge''. In 2011, he directed the Hindi film '' Bbuddah... Hoga Terra Baap'' starring

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, which was archived in the Oscar library. He also produces films under his co-owned production companies, Puri Jagannadh Touring Talkies, Vaishno Academy and Puri Connects in partnership with actress Charmme Kaur. He owns a music company called Puri Sangeet. The box office hits that he directed, in addition to ''Badri'', including films '' Itlu Sravani Subramanyam, Appu, Idiot, Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi, Sivamani, Pokiri, Desamuduru, Golimaar, Businessman, Iddarammayilatho, Heart Attack, Temper ''and'' iSmart Shankar''.

Early life

Puri Jagannadh was born on 28 September 1966 in Pithapuram, Andhra Pradesh. His native place is Bapiraju Kothapalli village of Visakhapatnam District in Andhra Pradesh. He was schooled at St. Theresa High School, Pedda Boddapalli and graduated from A. M. A. L. College, Anakapalle in 1986. His first younger brother, Petla Uma Sankara Ganesh is an MLA from Narsipatnam, YSR Congress Party, while second younger brother Sairam Shankar is an actor. He married Lavanya in 1996. The couple has a son, Akash and a daughter, Pavithra. His son Akash made his film debut as a lead in ''Mehbooba'' (2018).

Career

Puri started his film directional career as an assistant director to '' Ram Gopal Varma'' for several Telugu films mainly of action genre. His Telugu film directorial debut, '' Badri'' starred Pawan Kalyan. Apart from Telugu films, he has also worked in the Kannada film industry and introduced Puneeth Rajkumar with the film '' Appu''. In 2011 he worked with

in the film '' Bbuddah... Hoga Terra Baap''. In 2020, Jagannadh directed action film '' Liger'', which is being produced by Dharma Productions and Charmme Kaur. It stars Vijay Deverakonda and Ananya Panday in lead roles.

Filmography

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'' (1989) * ''

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'' (2010) as himself * '' Businessman'' (2012) as a taxi driver * '' Temper'' (2015) as a biker * '' ISmart Shankar'' (2019) as himself * ''

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'' (2021) as himself in a song * '' Liger'' (2022) as himself in the song "Coka 2.0" * '' Godfather'' (2022) as Govardhan * '' Ori Devuda'' (2022) as himself

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