Badri Venkatesh (born 2 May 1974) is an Indian film director and television professional of work experience in film direction,
film writing, television fiction writing, reality show direction, event direction, and film making, cinematic teaching, creative management, novel writing and short fiction film making. Venkatesh made his directorial debut with the 2010 Tamil film ''
Baana Kaathadi''.
Career
Venkatesh won the
National award
The National Film Awards are awards for artistic and technical merit given for "Excellence within the Indian film industry". Established in 1954, it has been administered, along with the International Film Festival of India and the Indian P ...
for his short film, ''VIdiyalai Nokki'', which also is the first Tamil short fiction film to win this accolade.
Venkatesh's popular works include screenplay and direction for the Tamil feature film ''
Baana Kaathadi'', released in 2010 and starring
Atharvaa,
Samantha
Samantha is an English feminine given name in use since the 17th century that is of uncertain derivation. It is now in popular use worldwide due to various popular culture influences.
Etymology
Some etymologists have suggested Samantha might ...
, and
Prasanna.
Apart from mainstream Tamil cinema, Venkatesh has been credited for leading a large number of TV shows including ''Nalaya Natchathiram Thangamazhai'' and ''Amul Super Kudumbam'' which is a wide-ranging mix of reality shows. He is also directing Miss South India, who is a beauty pageant for all 4 South Indian States.
Venkatesh hails from the Nesapakkam district of Chennai. He is well known as the show director of the popular Celebrity Cricket League (3rd Edition), and the
Mirchi Music Awards
''Mirchi Music Awards'' are presented annually by ''Radio Mirchi'' to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the Hindi language film music industry of India. The awards, given in seventeen different categories, were i ...
, the biggest Music awards in South India and various other events in South India.
Badri Venkatesh is back to feature films after a hiatus with the
Atharvaa starrer ''
Semma Botha Aagathey
''Semma Botha Aagathey'' () is a 2018 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by Badri Venkatesh, with Pon Elango as assistant director and dialogues written by G. Radhakrishnan. The film stars Atharvaa, who also produces the fil ...
'' (2018). The long-delayed comedy-entertainer ''
Plan Panni Pannanum'' starring
Rio Raj
Rio Raj is an Indian actor and video jockey, who has appeared in Tamil language films and television. Often working on shows by network Star Vijay, and Sun Music. He was listed by the Chennai Times as the ninth most "Desirable Man on Televisi ...
and
Remya Nambeesan was released in December 2021.
Filmography
References
External links
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Film directors from Chennai
Tamil-language film directors
Tamil screenwriters
Living people
1974 births
20th-century Indian people
21st-century Indian people