
Vasu Varma is an Indian film director who 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 ...
.
Career
Vasu started his career as an apprentice in direction for the movie
Sakutumba Saparivaara Sametam directed by S.V.Krishna Reddy. Later, he started assisting
V. V. Vinayak from his first film
Aadhi
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as an Associate Director and later became a co-director. Right from the first movie of
Dil Raju Productions ''
Dil'', Varma has given his support and acted as a backbone to
Dil Raju
Velamakucha Venkata Ramana Reddy (born 18 December 1970), known professionally as Dil Raju, is an Indian film producer and distributor, who is known for his work in Telugu cinema. He has also financed some Tamil cinema, Tamil and Hindi cinema, ...
's direction department and has continued to do so. In 2009,
Dil Raju
Velamakucha Venkata Ramana Reddy (born 18 December 1970), known professionally as Dil Raju, is an Indian film producer and distributor, who is known for his work in Telugu cinema. He has also financed some Tamil cinema, Tamil and Hindi cinema, ...
gave the first direction opportunity to Varma, to launch a
Naga Chaitanya
Akkineni Naga Chaitanya (; born 23 November 1986) is an Indian actor who works in Telugu cinema. Chaitanya is a recipient of several accolades including one Filmfare Awards South, Filmfare Award South and one Nandi Award for his work.
Born in ...
(son of
Nagarjuna
Nāgārjuna (Sanskrit: नागार्जुन, ''Nāgārjuna''; ) was an Indian monk and Mahayana, Mahāyāna Buddhist Philosophy, philosopher of the Madhyamaka (Centrism, Middle Way) school. He is widely considered one of the most importa ...
) in ''
Josh''. He also launched another
Karthika Nair
Karthika Nair (born 27 June 1992) is a former Indian actress who primarily worked down South in all language films. She made her debut in the 2009 Telugu film ''Josh (2009 Telugu film), Josh'', opposite Naga Chaitanya. She rose to fame starrin ...
(daughter of yesteryears star actress
Radha
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) in the same movie. With Josh, he became one of the rare directors who launched two star kids in one movie.
After Josh, Varma got another chance from Raju for his second movie,
Krishnashtami.
Filmography
References
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21st-century Indian people
Indian film directors
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Telugu film directors
Year of birth missing (living people)