Puri Jagannadh

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name = Puri Jagannath
birthname = Puri Jagannath
birthdate = birth date and age|1966|9|28
birthplace = Bapiraju Kothapalli, Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh, India. [http://www.cinegoer.com/puri1.htm Birth place]
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website = http://www.purijagannadh.net
filmfareawards= Telugu Filmfare Best Director Award
2006 "Pokiri"

Puri Jaganath (Telugu:పూరి జగన్నాధ్), born September 28, 1966, is a Tollywood film director and producer. His brother SaiRam is also a hero in Tollywood.

Background

His directorial debut was "Badri", with Pawan Kalyan in the lead role and Renu Desai, Prakash Raj, and Bollywood actress Amisha Patel in the supporting roles.

He started his own film production house Vaishno Academy. His production house went on to produce hit films such as "Idiot", "Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi", "Shivamani 9848022338", and "Pokiri" (which went on to be the biggest hit of Telugu film industry).

His recent film was "Chiruta", with Ram Charan Teja and Neha Sharma in the lead roles.

Jagannadh directed Ram Charan Teja's first film "Chiruta" and C. Ashwini Dutt produced the film under Vyjayanthi Movies.

All his movies start with a divide talk and end as block busters. His Pokiri was his first movie which had a silver jubilee run at the box-office. Pokiri even completed 200 days and Completed 562 days in Kurnool.Mahesh Starrer Pokiri is the only film in 75 years of Telugu Industry to Run for more than 500 days.Its total run was of 562 Days which is an All Time South India Record.

His next film with Prabhas titled Bujjigadu - Made In Chennai is another Average movie in spite of huge expectations

His upcoming film NenuInthe with [RaviTeja] is in progress which is full of expectations due to the crazy combination who delivered HatTrick

Filmography

* "Chachipote (2008) (Announced)
* "Neninthe" (2008) (Filming)
* "Bujjigadu" (2008)
* "Chiruta" (2007)
* "Desamuduru" (2007)
* "Pokiri" (2006) (also producer)
* "Super" (2005)
* "143 (2004) (also producer)
* "Andhrawala" (2004)
* "" (2004)
* "Shivamani" (2003) (also producer)
* "Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi" (2003) (also producer)
* "Idiot" ( [2002)
* "Appu" ( Kannada ) (2002)
* "Itlu Sravani Subramanyam" (2001)
* "Baachi" (2001)
* "Yuvaraja" ( Kannada ) (2001)
* "Badri" (2000)

References

http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/

External links

* [http://www.purijagannadh.net Official Website]
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