Tammreddy Bharadwaja is an Indian film director and producer who works in

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. Bharadwaja directed over 20 films and produced around 10 films in his career. He also served as the president of the APFCC (Andhra Pradesh Film Chamber of Commerce). He is known for his role as a liaison between Telugu film producers and film workers unions. He is the son of

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, a veteran film producer who received the

Raghupathi Venkaiah Award The Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu Award is an award issued by the Indian state government of Andhra Pradesh, to recognise lifetime achievements in Telugu cinema. The award was introduced in 1981 in honour of Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu, a pioneer of t ...

. Bharadwaja started his film career as a producer with ''

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'' (1979). His second film was '' Mogudu Kavali'' (1980). Both of them starred

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and were commercially successful. He later turned a director and made successful films like ''Alajadi'' (1989), ''Pachani Samsaram'' (1993), ''Swarnakka'' (1998). In 2006, he directed ''Pothe Poni'' which won the

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for Best Feature Film - Gold.

Early life

Tammreddy Bharadwaja is born in a film family. His father,

is a film producer who received the

. His brother Lenin Babu is also a film director. Since his childhood, Bharadwaja was interested in labour problems. His father was a

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. Bharadwaja was a union member in Students' Union Federation. Due to these reasons, he was attracted towards

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problems. Later on in his career, this made him useful as a liaison between Telugu film producers and film workers' unions. Bharadwaja did his schooling in Wesley High School,

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. He later did his B. E. in the College of Engineering, Osmania University.

Career

Bharadwaja pursued a career as a Civil Engineer in Andhra Pradesh's irrigation department and also had a brief stint at Hyderabad municipal corporation. He then stepped into film industry in 1979 as a producer and later became a director. Bharadwaja started a film

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, ''Charita Chitra'' named after his daughter. His first film as a producer was ''

'' (1979). It was also the first film for

as a full-fledged solo lead. His second film was '' Mogudu Kavali'' (1980) also starring Chiranjeevi. ''Kothala Rayudu'' ran for 100 days film and ''Mogudu Kavali'' ran for 175 days. Bharadwaja debuted as a director with ''Manmatha Samrajyam'' (1989) starring Malasri. His second film as a director was ''Alajadi'' (1989), which was commercially successful. Then he directed more films in the next few years, out of which ''Pachani Samsaram'' (1993) was a box-office hit. In 1995, he produced and directed ''Vetagadu'', a remake of Hindi film ''

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'' (1993). The film was a major financial set back for Bharadwaja. After the failure of ''Vetagadu'', he closed his office and quit the film industry. His even went abroad to settle down. He came back and changed his banner name to ''Ravindra Arts'', which was his father's banner. He produced and directed ''Swarnakka'' (1998) on that banner which became successful. Bharadwaja produced '' Suri'' in 2000 which became a box-ofifce disaster. As per Bharadwaja, for ''Suri'', he even lacked the money to put the movie titles or market the film in newspapers. His next directorial film ''

Ramma Chilakamma ''Ramma Chilakamma'' () is a 2001 Indian Telugu-language romantic drama film directed by Tammareddy Bharadwaja and starring Sumanth and Laya. The title of the film is based on a song from ''Choodalani Vundi'' (1998). ''Ramma Chilakamma'' is a ...

'' (2001) starred

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and Laya and was a box-office failure.'''' His 2006 directorial venture, ''Pothe Poni'' was critically acclaimed and won the

for Best Feature Film - Gold.

Filmography

;Actor * ''

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'' (2012) as Himself * ''Nenera Police'' (1991) as Villain ; As distributor *''

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'' (2020)

References

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