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Ram Achanta with his brother Gopichand Achanta and Anil Sunkara started the production company in 2009. All three of them are [[Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin|NRI]] businessmen and have previous experience in film distribution. Anil Sunkara owns another production company called "AK Entertainments" and produced ''[[Bindaas (2010 film)|Bindaas]]'' and 2011 film ''[[Aha Naa Pellanta (2011 film)|Aha Naa Pellanta]]''. In 2009, the three decided to enter film production and approached their long time friend and director [[Srinu Vaitla]]. In 2009, they started their first film ''[[Namo Venkatesa]]'' under Vaitla's direction and with [[Venkatesh (actor)|Venkatesh]] and [[Trisha Krishnan]] in lead roles. The film was released in 2010 and opened with mixed to negative reviews.

After Namo Venkatesa, they again teamed up with Sreen Vaitla to produce ''[[Dookudu]]'' with [[Mahesh Babu]] and [[Samantha Ruth Prabhu|Samantha]] in lead roles. The film production started in late 2010 and was released in September 2011. Upon release the film took the largest opening for a [[Telugu cinema|Telugu film]], and collected a total share of  {{INR}}{{INR}} 50.07 crores. The film was nominated in 10 categories for the [[59th Filmfare Awards South|Filmfare Awards South]] and won 6 awards including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor.

After Dookudu, they once again teamed up with Mahesh Babu for [[1 (2014 film)|1 (Nenokkadine)]], directed by [[Sukumar (director)|Sukumar]]. The film stars [[Kriti Sanon]] opposite Mahesh Babu and was scheduled to release in 2014. 1 nenokkadine collected {{INRConvert|60|c}} domestic nett and {{INRConvert|5|c}} in the rest of India. At overseas 1 nenokkadine boosted up with {{INRConvert|13|c}} nett being 2nd highest grosser at Overseas despite of mixed reviews. 1 nenokkadine collected {{INRConvert|75|c}} nett in 80 Days worldwide with a gross of {{INRConvert|115|c}}.

They began film distribution under the 14 Reels banner in 2010 with [[S. S. Rajamouli]]'s [[Maryada Ramanna]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cinemahour.com/celebgossippage.aspx?id=5291 |title=14 Reels Bought Rights for Krishna |publisher=Cinemahour.com |accessdate=9 July 2012}}</ref> They distributed the film in [[Krishna district]]. They went on to distribute  ''[[Thakita Thakita]]'', ''[[180 (2011 Indian film)|180]]'', ''[[7aum Arivu|7th Sense]]'', ''[[Rachcha]]'', ''[[Endukante... Premanta!]]'' and more recently ''[[Eega]]''. They usually distribute films in Krishna region of Andhra Pradesh and Overseas.

In 2018, Ram and Gopichand Achanta started producing under ''14 Reels Plus LLC'' marking [[Gaddalakonda Ganesh]] as their first production with out the involvement of [[Anil Sunkara]] who was actively producing under ''AK Entertainments''.<ref name="IndExp">{{Cite web |url= https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/telugu/varun-tej-new-film-valmiki-launched-5556987/lite/|title=Varun Tej’s new film Valmiki launched|website=Indian Express |accessdate=13 August 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/atharvaa-makes-his-telugu-film-debut-with-valmiki/article29449437.ece|title=Atharvaa makes his Telugu film debut with 'Valmiki'|first=Y. Sunita|last=Chowdhary|date=18 September 2019|via=www.thehindu.com}}</ref>