Tatineni Satya is an Indian filmmaker who has worked in the Telugu and Tamil film industry.

Career

Satya is the grandson of film director

T. Prakash Rao Tatineni Prakash Rao (24 November 1924 – 1 July 1992) was an Indian film director and screenwriter who worked in Telugu cinema, Telugu, Hindi cinema, Hindi, and Tamil cinema, Tamil films. In a career spanning nearly four decades, he directed ov ...

, who was active from the 1940s to the 1980s in the Telugu film industry and son of film director

T. L. V. Prasad T. L. V. Prasad is an Indian film director who predominantly worked in Hindi and Telugu cinema.. He is the director of nearly 70 Hindi films and 35 Telugu films. He also directed a few films in Bengali. Career He is the son of noted Telugu d ...

who became one of the famous directors for doing maximum films with

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within short span. Satya completed his schooling in

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and graduated from Loyola College, Chennai with a degree in visual communications. He then joined

David Dhawan David Dhawan (born Rajinder Dhawan; 16 August 1951) is an Indian director of Hindi films. A member of the Dhawan family, he has directed over 42 films. The 1993 action thriller '' Aankhen'' and 1999 comedy '' Biwi No.1'' earned him two Filmfar ...

as an assistant for ''

Jodi No.1 ''Jodi No.1'' () is an Indian 2001 Hindi-language comedy film directed by David Dhawan. Released on 13 April 2001, the film stars Sanjay Dutt, Govinda, Anupam Kher, Twinkle Khanna and Monica Bedi. Budgeted at the film was a commercial succes ...

'' (2001) and continued to work with him for eight further films. Satya then worked as an assistant for a Tamil film, ''

Kanda Naal Mudhal ''Kanda Naal Mudhal'' ( there) is a 2005 Indian Tamil language romantic comedy film written and directed by newcomer V. Priya, who had earlier assisted Mani Ratnam. Produced by Prakash Raj under the Duet Movies banner, the film stars Prasanna ...

'' (2005) in the direction of

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, before starting to prepare his own scripts. He first contacted producer R. B. Choudary to finance his scripts, but the producer wanted him to narrate scripts for his son

Jiiva Amar Choudary (born 4 January 1984), known professionally as Jiiva, is an Indian actor and film producer who works mainly in Tamil cinema and a few Hindi films. He is the youngest son of film producer R. B. Choudary. He began his career as a ch ...

. Satya's script was about a psychotic character, and having seen Jiiva play similar psychotic characters in '' Raam'' (2005) and '' Katrathu Thamizh'' (2007), he was not keen to stereotype Jiiva in such roles. Despite the refusal, Choudary offered him the chance to begin his career instead by making ''

Bheemili Kabaddi Jattu ''Bheemili Kabadi Jattu'' () is a 2010 Telugu-language sports drama film written by newcomer Tatineni Satya, starring Nani, and Saranya Mohan along with numerous newcomers. It is a remake of the 2009 Tamil film ''Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu''. This fil ...

'' (2010), a remake of the successful Tamil film, '' Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu'' (2009). Satya subsequently moved to Hyderabad and started auditioning for new actors and doing demo shoots for the characters in the movie. The shooting of the movie was started in the month of August 2009 and finished by January 2010, taking around 54 working days. The film, starring Nani and

Saranya Mohan Saranya Mohan is a former Indian actress, who predominantly appeared in Malayalam and Tamil films. She has also acted in a few Telugu, Kannada and Hindi films. She is best known for her performances in ''Yaaradi Nee Mohini'' (2008), ''Vennila ...

, garnered critical and commercial acclaim. His next film ''

Shiva Manasulo Shruti ''Siva Manasulo Sruthi'' (abbreviated as ''SMS'') is a 2012 Indian Telugu-language romantic comedy film which is a remake of the successful 2009 Tamil film ''Siva Manasula Sakthi'' starring Jiiva and Anuya directed by M. Rajesh. The film is d ...

'' (2012), was also a remake of a popular Tamil film ''

Siva Manasula Sakthi ''Siva Manasula Sakthi'' () also known by the initialism ''SMS'', is a 2009 Indian Tamil language, Tamil-language romantic comedy film written and directed by debutant M. Rajesh, a former assistant of director S. A. Chandrasekhar. It stars Jiiv ...

'' (2009). He then directed the Telugu remake of another popular Tamil film ''

Mouna Guru ''Mouna Guru'' () is a 2011 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by Santha Kumar and produced by M. K. Thamizharasu. The film stars Arulnidhi and Ineya, while John Vijay, Madhusudhan Rao, Uma Riyaz Khan, Krishnamoorthy, and Bala ...

'' (2011) titled '' Shankara'' which began production in 2014 but had a delayed release in 2016 and went unnoticed. In 2015, he began working on a bilingual thriller film produced by and starring Sachiin J. Joshi titled ''

Yaar Ivan ''Veedevadu'' () is a 2017 Indian Telugu-language action thriller film written and directed by Tatineni Satya. Also shot in Tamil as ''Yaar Ivan'' (), the film stars Sachiin J. Joshi and Esha Gupta, with Prabhu and Kishore in pivotal roles. Fe ...

'' in Tamil and ''

Veedevadu ''Veedevadu'' () is a 2017 Indian Telugu-language action thriller film written and directed by Tatineni Satya. Also shot in Tamil as ''Yaar Ivan'' (), the film stars Sachiin J. Joshi and Esha Gupta, with Prabhu and Kishore in pivotal roles. ...

'' in Telugu. The film took two years to complete production, with actress Esha Gupta,

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and Kishore amongst others working on the film. It opened to mixed reviews in September 2017.

Filmography

References

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