Penmetsa Ramesh Varma is an Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter, who works predominantly in

Telugu cinema Telugu cinema, also known as Tollywood, is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Telugu language, widely spoken in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Telugu cinema is based in Film Nagar, Hy ...

Early life

Born in

Bhimavaram Bhimavaram is a city and headquarters of West Godavari district of the Andhra Pradesh state of India. It is the administrative headquarters of Bhimavaram mandal in Bhimavaram revenue division. It is a part of Bhimavaram Urban Development Aut ...

, West Godavari district of

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

, Varma finished his B.Com. from

Osmania University Osmania University is a collegiate public state university located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Mir Osman Ali Khan, the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad in 1918 , He released a farman to establish OSMANIA UNIVERSITY on the day of 28 August 1918. It ...

and began his career as publicity designer along the footsteps of his father P. Prasad Raju, who was then working as a sketching artist at Eenadu Colorama, Ramoji Film City.

Career

After completing his

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in 1998, he designed poster ads under his firm named "Kiran Poster Ads", with his first film ''

Preminchukundam Raa ''Preminchukundam Raa'' ( Come, let's love) is a 1997 Indian Telugu-language romantic action film directed by Jayanth C. Paranjee and produced by D. Suresh Babu under Suresh Productions. The film stars Venkatesh and Anjala Zaveri with music com ...

'' (1998). He was also a publicity designer for the films ''Narasimhanaidu'', ''

Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengalis, Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter ...

'', ''

Jalsa ''Jalsa'' () is a 2008 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film written and directed by Trivikram Srinivas and produced by Allu Aravind, under the Geetha Arts banner starring Pawan Kalyan, Ileana, Parvati Melton, Kamalinee Mukerji, Mukesh R ...

'', ''

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'', and the

Bollywood Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ...

films '' Kuch Tum Kaho Kuch Hum Kahein'', and '' Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain''. Varma directed a film ''

Oka Oorilo ''Oka Oorilo (modalaina premakatha)'' is a 2005 Telugu romantic film directed by Ramesh Varma and starring Tarun, Saloni and Raja. The film's soundtrack is by Devi Sri Prasad. Plot Seenu (Tarun), Lalitha ( Saloni) and Ravi (Raja) are childhood ...

'' (2005) starring actor Tarun. His next film as a director was '' Ride'' (2009) followed by '' Veera'' (2011) with Ravi Teja, and ''

Abbayitho Ammayi ''Abbayitho Ammayi'' () is a 2016 Indian Telugu-language film directed by Ramesh Varma. The film stars Naga Shourya and Pallak Lalwani, with Brahmanandam, Rao Ramesh and Tamil actor Mohan (actor), Mohan playing supporting roles. The film was re ...

'' (2016). He was

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

for Havish Koneru's '' 7'' (2019) followed by Bellamkonda Srinivas' suspense thriller '' Rakshasudu'' (2019). He produced two films as well: ''

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'' (2013), and ''

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'' in 2019, and has penned story for film '' Mallepuvvu''.

Filmography

References

External links

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Ramesh Varma on BookMyShow
{{DEFAULTSORT:Varma, Ramesh Telugu film directors Film directors from Andhra Pradesh Telugu film producers Film producers from Andhra Pradesh Telugu screenwriters Screenwriters from Andhra Pradesh People from West Godavari district Living people Year of birth missing (living people)