Geetha Krishna is an Indian film director, who has made Telugu and Tamil films. He made his debut with the Telugu film '' Sankeertana'' starring

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, for which he won the

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. Since then, he has directed a series of Telugu and Tamil films.

Career

Geetha Krishna's debut film '' Sankeertana'' was a musical love story, set against religious taboos featuring

and

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. The film became a successful venture commercially and he won the

. Next he made '' Kokila'' - a crime-mystery based on eye transplantation, a socially relevant theme in the late 1980s and the film also fared well critically. Geetha Krishna next made two further experimental films with ''Keechuraallu'' and ''Priyathama'' on the issue of

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. After a sabbatical, he returned in 1996 with ''Server Sundaramagaari Abbayi'' which dealt with heart transplantation as the main theme, where he also composed the film's music himself. He went on to make a Tamil film in 1999, ''

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'' featuring

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and

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. In the late 2000s, he began work on a bilingual venture known as '' Koffi Bar'', with the Telugu version releasing in 2011 and the Tamil version, ''Nimidangal'', two years later. In 2013, he revealed he was working on sixty five hour docudrama that maps the history of India starting from the Indus Valley civilization. Titled ''My Country India Time Capsule'', Geetha Krishna researched the project extensively and expressed that the venture would involve top technicians and artistes.

Filmography

References

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