Neelakanta (director)

Neelakanta
Neelakanta
	Neelakanta in 2018
Born	G. Neelakanta Reddy; Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh], India
Alma mater	Loyola College, Vijayawada
Occupation	Director, Screen Writer

Neelakanta is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works predominantly in Telugu films director. He has received the National Award in the screenwriting for the feature Show.^[2] He won two National Film Awards & three Nandi Awards.^[3]

Personal life[edit]

Neelakanta is a native of Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh.^[1] He studied at Loyola Public School and Loyola College in Vijayawada. Since his school days, Neelakanta has had a deep love for film direction and film making which is what drove him to Chennai after his graduation.

Career[edit]

Neelakanta always wanted to make films which eloquently depicted the psychological study of characters for the off-beat^[4] his passion materialised with Show^[5] followed by Missamma. He received two national awards, one for Best Screenplay and the other for the Best Feature Film in Telugu for Show while state Nandi Award in the screenplay department for the latter.

He then made Sada Mee Sevalo, with Shriya and Venu in lead roles,^[6] and later made a psychological thriller, Nandanavanam 120km. Both these films did not do well at the box office. Despite its commercial failure, Nanadanavanam got him huge critical acclaim.^[7] These were followed by Mr.Medhavi. with Genelia and Raja in the lead roles. This film, produced by RamaRao Bodduluri, proved to be an above-average grosser. He also wrote dialogues for a Telugu remake of the Hindi hit A Wednesday!, entitled Eeenadu. In 2011, Neelakanta directed Virodhi, featuring Meka Srikanth and Kamalinee Mukherjee. Neelakanta secured the best dialogue writer award in the year 2011 for this film. In 2013 he directed Chammak Challo, which gathered bad reviews for both the director and the film.^[8]^[9]

In 2018, he directed the Malayalam film Zam Zam starring Manjima Mohan. The film is an official remake of the Hindi film Queen.

Filmography[edit]

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
1994	Priyanka	Direction	Tamil	Remake of Hindi film Damini – Lightning
2002	Show	Screenplay, direction	Telugu	Received two National Film Awards
2003	Missamma	Screenplay, direction	Telugu	Received Four Nandi Awards
2005	Sadaa Mee Sevalo	Screenplay, direction	Telugu
2006	Nandanavanam 120km	Screenplay, direction,	Telugu
2008	Mr. Medhavi	Direction	Telugu
2009	Eeenadu	Dialogues	Telugu
2011	Virodhi	Screenplay, direction	Telugu	Screened at International Film Festival of India – 2011 Received Two Nandi Awards 2011 Screened at Melbourne International Film Festival-2011^[10]
2013	Chammak Challo	Direction	Telugu
2014	Maaya^[11]	Screenplay, direction	Telugu	^[12]
TBA	Zam Zam	Direction	Malayalam	Remake of Hindi film Queen

Awards[edit]

National Film Awards

National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu – 2002 – Show
National Film Award for Best Screenplay – 2002 – Show

Nandi Awards

Nandi Award for Best Screenplay Writer – Show (2001)
Nandi Award for Best Screenplay Writer – Missamma (2003)
Nandi Award for Best Dialogue Writer – Virodhi (2011)

References[edit]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "Interview with Neelakanta". Idle Brain.
↑ "Awards of Neelakanta". Cine Radham. Archived from the original on 2 March 2014.
↑ "నంది అవార్డు విజేతల పరంపర (1964–2008)" [A series of Nandi Award Winners (1964–2008)] (PDF) (in Telugu). Information & Public Relations of Andhra Pradesh. Retrieved 21 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
↑ "Directors show all the way". Idle brain.
↑ "Review". Fully hyderabad.
↑ "Sada mee sevalo is a dud". Rediff.
↑ "120 km away from routine flicks". cinegoer.
↑ "writer sleeping under tree". tupaki.
↑ "Nothing flashy about this". 123 telugu.
↑ "IFFM neglected Telugu films". sisi enterprises. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015.
↑ "For 'Maaya', Harshvardhan Rane follows caveman's diet". CNN-IBN. 17 January 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
↑ "Maaya is Neelakanta's new film". action cut. Archived from the original on 3 March 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2014.

External links[edit]

Neelakanta on IMDb

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[idlebrain_interview-1] 1.0 ^1.1 "Interview with Neelakanta". Idle Brain.

[2] "Awards of Neelakanta". Cine Radham. Archived from the original on 2 March 2014.

[3] "నంది అవార్డు విజేతల పరంపర (1964–2008)" [A series of Nandi Award Winners (1964–2008)] (PDF) (in Telugu). Information & Public Relations of Andhra Pradesh. Retrieved 21 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

[4] "Directors show all the way". Idle brain.

[5] "Review". Fully hyderabad.

[6] "Sada mee sevalo is a dud". Rediff.

[7] "120 km away from routine flicks". cinegoer.

[8] "writer sleeping under tree". tupaki.

[9] "Nothing flashy about this". 123 telugu.

[10] "IFFM neglected Telugu films". sisi enterprises. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015.

[11] "For 'Maaya', Harshvardhan Rane follows caveman's diet". CNN-IBN. 17 January 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.

[12] "Maaya is Neelakanta's new film". action cut. Archived from the original on 3 March 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2014.

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