Karthik Gattamneni is an Indian

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and director known for his works in

Telugu cinema Telugu cinema, also known as Tollywood, is the segment of Cinema of India, Indian cinema dedicated to the production of Film, motion pictures in the Telugu language, widely spoken in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Based in Film N ...

. He made his debut as a cinematographer with ''

Prema Ishq Kaadhal ''Prema Ishq Kaadhal'' () is a 2013 Telugu anthology romantic comedy film directed by Pavan Sadineni. The film was produced by Bekkam Venugopal of Lucky Media. The film stars Harshvardhan Rane, Sree Vishnu, Harish Verma, Vithika Sheru, Ritu Var ...

'' in 2013, and has worked on several films since his debut. He is also one of the key founders of Pondfreaks Entertainment, a short film production house.

Early career

After graduating in

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from the Institute of Aeronautical Engineering, Karthik aimed to become a director and tried to enter the

Film and Television Institute of India The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) is a film institute under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India and aided by the Central Government of India. ...

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, but could not make it. He then decided to try cinematography as an alternative and enrolled himself in

Rajeev Menon Rajiv Menon (born 20 April 1963) is an Indian filmmaker who has worked as a director and cinematographer in several Indian regional film industries. After making his breakthrough as a film cinematographer with Mani Ratnam's Tamil drama ''Bombay' ...

's Mindscreen Institute for a year-long course. Later, he directed a short film titled ''Infinity'', which featured

Harshvardhan Rane Harshavardhan Rane (born 16 December 1983) is an Indian actor, who primarily works in Bollywood, Hindi and Telugu language, Telugu films. Rane made his screen debut with the Telugu film ''Thakita Thakita'' (2010), and made his hindi film debut ...

in the lead role. It drew critical acclaim with celebrities like

Farhan Akhtar Farhan Akhtar (born 9 January 1974) is an Indian actor, filmmaker and singer who works in Hindi films. Born to screenwriters Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani, he established the production company Excel Entertainment, along with Ritesh Sidhwa ...

appreciating Karthik's work. This appreciation resulted in him meeting Pavan Sadineni and both of them collaborated on ''

'', which marked both of their feature film debuts.

Filmography

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* Telugu film cinematographers Living people Cinematographers from Andhra Pradesh 1987 births People from Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh {{cinematographer-stub Telugu film directors Indian film directors 21st-century Indian people