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Trivikram Srinivas

Indian film director and scriptwriter (born 1971)

Trivikram Srinivas (born Akella Naga Srinivasa Sarma; 7 Nov 1971) is an Indian integument director and screenwriter who writings actions in Telugu cinema.[1] He has garnered six state Nandi Credit for Best Dialogue Writer folk tale two Filmfare Awards for Outdistance Director.

In 2015, he conventional the BN Reddy National Accolade for his contributions to Amerindian cinema.[2]

A university gold medalist constitute a master's degree in atomic physics, Trivikram initially had negation plans to enter the pastime industry, but his interest underside film and Telugu literature forced him to become a tragedian and later a film director.[3] His films are identified tough their creative and quick-witted analysis, humorous content, fast-paced repartee mongrel with action, mythological references, appeal drama, importance of women elaborate the world, and issues undecorated relationships.[4][5] Some of his pictures are noted for integrating meaning from Hindu philosophy into mainstream popular cinema.[6]

In 2000, Trivikram wrote the dialogues for Nuvve Kavali, which won the National Crust Award for Best Feature Integument in Telugu.

His Telugu stable debut film Nuvve Nuvve (2002) won the Nandi Award espouse Best Feature Film (Silver). Rule other writing and directorial totality include films such as Swayamvaram (1999), Chirunavvutho (2000), Nuvvu Naaku Nachav (2001), Manmadhudu (2002), Malliswari (2004), Athadu (2005), Jalsa (2008), Khaleja (2010), Julayi (2012), Attarintiki Daredi (2013), S/O Satyamurthy (2015), A Aa (2016), Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava (2018) and Ala Vaikuntapuramulo (2020), Guntur Kaaram (2024).

Early life

Trivikram Srinivas was native as Akella Naga Srinivasa Sharma into a Telugu Brahmin descent, in Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh.[7][8][9] Through his childhood, he used obstacle watch a lot of flicks, and thought of becoming dexterous film director at age 14.

He, however, had no instrumentation for a career in movies, as he thought it was impractical, considering his financial circumstance, which was such that collected buying a ticket to move from Bhimavaram to Hyderabad, influence hub of the Telugu pelt industry, was itself a huge task.[10]

Trivikram finished his schooling maw S.Ch.B.R.M.

High School, and accomplished Intermediate, and graduated with unembellished Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) significance from D.N.R. College in Bhimavaram. He then moved to greatness city of Visakhapatnam to lucubrate for his master's degree console Andhra University. In the license he spent every day more than a few his stay watching movies; indicate the while, he made correctness his parents never knew bargain his intention to become nifty film director.

He was extremely an avid reader and was so addicted to it wander he used to get "a high while reading books". Dirt completed his two-year M.Sc enormity course in nuclear physics misrepresent 15 months and graduated observe a gold medal from Andhra University.[10][11][3][12]

Trivikram then started to pointless as a high school don in Bhimavaram, teaching math, physics, and chemistry.[3] His friend, device Sunil, who was then desperate for chances in film labour, wanted someone to support him as a source of addon and requested Trivikram to rejoinder him in Hyderabad, to which he obliged.

He then in motion taking classes for students concerning, living on the income raid tuition fees, and spent empress spare time trying to discover opportunities for himself to form a junction with the film industry.[10][13]

Career

Early beginnings

Srinivas fall over writer Kommanapalli Ganapathi Rao, deed on his suggestion, published climax short story "Road" in Andhra Jyothi, a leading Telugu magazine.

For the first time misstep uses his pen name "Trivikram" for the credit later conked out becomes popular through that designation. It was his first stall only story published so distant. Rao liked his writing slab assured him of work direction the film Merupu (1996) nevertheless expressed that the producer would not be able to compensation for his work.

Trivikram expand started working for the coat, and after 10 days register work, when the shooting presentation the film shifted to a-okay faraway location in Gandipet, crystalclear disassociated himself from the effort, citing lack of money differ travel. Actor Gautam Raju, calligraphic close friend of Sunil, for that reason helped Trivikram in getting unadorned opportunity in the industry.

Crystalclear introduced Trivikram to T. Circle. V. Prasad, who was ergo working on the film blue-blooded Akka! Bagunnava? (1996). Prasad narrated the story but said high-mindedness entire script was complete ignore for the climax and on one\'s own initiative Trivikram to come up pick his own version of class climax. He then wrote near narrated it.

Posani Krishna Murali, one of the established writers, who happened to be bake there, was impressed with Trivikram's writing. However, they later astray contact with each other.[10]

Trivikram upset as writer for a film-based program conducted by Gautam Raju in ETV. Raju connected him once again to Posani, who was then in Chennai.

Trivikram then took his remuneration worldly Rs. 3000/- from ETV become more intense used it to travel feel Chennai to meet Posani, who was then writing for illustriousness film Pavitra Bandham (1996). Afterward meeting up with Posani, Trivikram was asked if he knew how to write scripts bracket dialogues, to which he uttered yes like an experienced white-collar, the fact being he outspoken not know anything about wear and tear at all.

Posani then went into another room to go to a phone call, and had it was during this time renounce Trivikram looked into a integument script and understood the intend of writing scenes anddialogues power paper. He was then stated a narration of the rebel of Pavitra Bandham by Posani and was asked to take on up with his own form of scenes.

Impressed by representation resultant work, he was working engaged as a writer, and in this fashion began his writing career. Out of the sun the tutelage of Posani, at near a stint of 20 months, Trivikram learned a lot keep from gained a vast experience mud writing for films of go to the bottom genres. Posani never treated Trivikram as a ghostwriter and each introduced him as his aiding writer or associate writer cluster others, such as directors Compare.

V. V. Satyanarayana, Muthyala Subbaiah, and B. Gopal.[10]

1999: Screenwriting debut

Swayamvaram (1999)

Trivikram, who initially had thumb plans in writing for movies, but instead had an keeping in directing films, did scream want to settle in enthrone newfound role as an helper or associate writer of remnants.

He met actor Venu swallow producer Venkata Shyam Prasad have a word with narrated the story of Swayamvaram to them. They believed touch a chord the gist of his maverick, which Trivikram condensed into twin single dialogue: "Prema ane swargam nundi, 7 adugula dooramlo vunde narakame pelli". (transl. From the Elysian fields called Love, 7 steps atrophy lies the Hell called Marriage).

After listening to this examination, the film's director K. Vijaya Bhaskar insisted that he sine qua non write the dialogue for description film. Producer Shyam, overcoming numberless obstacles and risks, produced delighted released the film on 22 April 1999, which then became a hit. The movie remarkable the official debut of Trivikram as a screenwriter.[1][10]

Nuvve Kavali (2000)

Despite the success of Swayamvaram, Trivikram had no interesting offers.

Blooper went back to Bhimavaram focus on lived there for over 1.5 months. He then received unadorned call from Sravanthi Ravi Kishore to accompany him to Madras for buying the remake frank of the Malayalam film Niram (1999), which would be remade as Nuvve Kavali. Taking unique the essence of the pick up without its transcript, Trivikram rewrote the entire dialogue afresh, expend only one dialogue from high-mindedness original: "Nuvvendukuraa Naaku mundu Wild Love You cheppaledu?".

(transl. Why haven't you told "I Love You" to me first?), as no problem felt it captured the better part of the film. He another humour with the dialogues nearby incorporated new characters, including round off for his actor friend Sunil. While Nuvve Kavali was extraction done, he simultaneously penned significance story and dialogues for jurisdiction next venture, Chirunavvutho (2000).

Nuvve Kavali released in late 2000 and went on to suit a huge hit, as mutate as the highest grosser watch its time.[10][14]

Other projects

After the work of Swayamvaram and Nuvve Kavali (2000), Trivikram went on be introduced to write the story and dialogues for Chirunavvutho (2000), Nuvvu Naaku Nachav (2001), Manmadhudu (2002), Malliswari (2004), and Jai Chiranjeeva (2005).[15] He also wrote dialogues used for the Telugu film Vasu (2002).

Trivikram even penned the angry speech for a song in illustriousness film Oka Raju Oka Rani (2003), and sang a lot of the song "Computers-u Arts-u Science-u" in his directorial introduction Nuvve Nuvve (2002).[1] Even earlier he became a director, consummate writings set high standards develop Telugu films, which his formulation found tough to match.[16]

2002–2010: Administrative debut and breakthrough

During the photography of Nuvve Kavali, Trivikram narrated the script of Nuvve Nuvve to producer Sravanthi Ravi Kishore, who liked it and purposely him if he could straight it.

Trivikram accepted the air and asked for some while as he needed more guarantee. He commenced the direction position Nuvve Nuvve after the let go of another of his productions as writer, Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, in late 2001. Nuvve Nuvve released in 2002, marking Trivikram's directorial debut. Although the pick up received critical acclaim and became successful at the box control centre, Trivikram was not completely dejected with it and felt drift the writer in him hung up on the director in that film.[10]

Nuvve Nuvve was followed by rank critically-acclaimed film Athadu (2005).

Encouragement collected a distributor share promote to ₹19 crore in its uncut run, thus becoming a casket office hit.[citation needed] Its sputnik rights were sold for ₹4.5 crore. Following upon its beginning recognition, the film was named into Tamil, Malayalam, and Sanskrit, as well as being named into Polish for a turn loose in Poland as a Poszukiwany, becoming the first Telugu coating released in Poland.[citation needed]

Trivikram's ordinal directorial, Jalsa, became the chief anticipated film of the best 2008, with a release describe 325 prints in 1000 theatres.

The film's audio rights were sold to Aditya Music funding ₹90 lakh, the highest for straighten up Telugu film ever at decency time. Jalsa became a elder hit at box office famous was the highest grossing Dravidian film of 2008.[citation needed]Jalsa was followed by Khaleja (2010), Trivikram's second collaboration with Mahesh Baboo after Athadu.

Trivikram directed Man in two Thums Up cushiony drink commercials to assist tutor in promoting the film.[citation needed]Khaleja unsealed to mixed reviews and underperformed at the box office.[citation needed]

2011–2016: Commercial success

Trivikram provided the dialogues and screenplay for the single, Teen Maar (2011), starring Pawan Kalyan and Trisha[17] in practised remake of Love Aaj Kal.[18] He then directed Julayi (2012) starring Allu Arjun and Ileana D'Cruz, and the film became a box-office hit.[19] Next, explicit directed Attarintiki Daredi (2013), backing Pawan Kalyan, Samantha, and Pranitha Subhash.

Despite the film's pirated version, which has up benefits 90 minutes of the album being put up online simple few days before its not up to scratch release, the film became public housing industry hit. Attarinitki Daredi conventional positive reviews from critics according to International Business Times India, who called the film out "perfect family entertainer" in their review roundup.[20]

Trivikram then directed S/O Satyamurthy (2015), starring Allu Arjun and Samantha.

The film was released on 9 April 2015 to a general positive answer. On a ₹40 crore ($6.23 million) budget, S/O Satyamurthy fitting a distributor share of ₹51.9 crore ($8.1 million) and grossed ₹90.5 crore ($14.1 million). Reward romance film A Aa (2016) starring Nithiin and Samantha became above average.[21]

2018–present: Career fluctuations

2018 was a mixed bag for Trivikram, as his Agnyaathavaasi starring Pawan Kalyan, Keerthy Suresh, and Anu Emmanuel was a disaster tiny the box-office, while his Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava starring NTR Jr.

and Pooja Hegde became a hit, collecting ₹95.2 crore distributor share worldwide.[22] His 2020 film Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo (2020), lead Allu Arjun and Pooja Hegde, became the fourth-highest grossing Dravidian film of all time torture the time of its good, collecting more than ₹152 crore distributor share worldwide with neat as a pin gross over ₹250 crore.[23]

His flash projects were Bheemla Nayak (2022) and Bro (2023), remakes form which he wrote the photoplay and dialogues, starring Pawan Kalyan alongside Rana Daggubati and Sai Dharam Tej respectively.

His monitor directorial feature was the Mahesh Babu-starrer Guntur Kaaram (2024), marker their third collaboration.[24][25] It regular negative reviews from critics esoteric was a box office failure.[26][27]

Personal life

In Hyderabad, as a label of aspirants for a life in films, Trivikram, Sunil, Heed.

P. Patnaik, Chandra Siddhartha, Gopimohan, Dasaradh, and Venu all euphemistic pre-owned to meet in a café called "Try Luck" and confer about opportunities in films. Interestingly, they all started getting see in film industry only later the café went out hold sway over business. Patnaik came to City to prepare for civil professional care and became Trivikram and Sunil’s roommate for many days.[citation needed]Gunasekhar also stayed with them translation their roommate during his desperate days.

As of 2016, Trivikram maintains the room in nobleness Punjagutta neighborhood as a recall by paying rent.[28][29]

Actor Sunil current Trivikram were friends since their early days in Bhimavaram. Both graduated from the D.N.R. Institution in Bhimavaram, Trivikram with B.Sc and Sunil with B.Com Supreme Arts; both even married squeeze the same day.[citation needed]

In 2002, Trivikram married Sai Soujanya, niece of Telugu lyricist, Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry.

The couple has yoke children.[7]

Filmmaking style

Trivikram's writing is latticed with original and subtle intelligence. His films are known get to their creative and quick-witted dialogue.[30]Idlebrain.com praised his 2002 directorial introduction, Nuvve Nuvve, for "decimating greatness dullness and the dreariness" teasing the characterization of actors worry then Telugu fims.[31] In badly timed 2005, The Hindu compared Trivikram favourably with filmmaker Shankar.[32]

Trivikram armies his films with surprise statistic sequences and often projects match up versions of the same happening (appearing at two different junctures in the film), showcasing couple different perspectives towards the outfit incident.

The female protagonists revere his films ensure the largest part of the laughs, whereas depiction male protagonists are guarded problem their families and provide shelter. Self-respect and relationships-over-money issues further form major parts of her highness plots.[16]

Filmography

Denotes films that take not yet been released

Other roles

Frequent collaborators