Dil Raju

Dil Raju (Telugu: దిల్ రాజు), born as V. Venkataramana Reddy in Narsingpally, Nizamabad District of Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh is one of the most successful Telugu film distributors and producers. He produces his films along with his two partners, cousin Shirish and friend Lakshman. He has produced successful films such as Dil, Arya, Bhadra, Bommarillu, Kotha Bangaru Lokam and Brindavanam. His recent film is Mr.Perfect.

Biography

He was born in Narsingpalli in Nizamabad district. He completed his high school in Mudakpally, near Badsi (13 km from Nizamabad) and studied intermediate in Nizamabad. He has been interested in films since his 9th class.

His village is 10 km away from Suddulam, Dichpalli(mandal). He used to go to his relatives home in this village to spend his school holidays.

He shifted to Hyderabad and started working in the automobile business started by his elder brother Narsimha Reddy in RP Road, Hyderabad. They used to sell tractor spare parts. Incidentally RP Road is famous for film distribution offices. The drivers and staff of those distribution offices used to come to his shop to do telephone calls; he also used to watch many films. He worked in automobile business from 1988 to 1991. He has two production banners: Sri Venkateswara Creations (established in 2003) and Matinee Entertainments (established in 2009)

As Producer

Year	Title	Cast	Director
2003	Dil	Nitin Reddy, Neha Bamb, Prakash Raj	V.V. Vinayak
2004	Arya	Allu Arjun, Anuradha Mehta, Siva Balaji	Sukumar
2005	Bhadra	Ravi Teja, Meera Jasmine, Arjan Bajwa, Prakash Raj	Boyapati Seenu
2006	Bommarillu	Siddharth, Genelia D'Souza, Prakash Raj	Bhaskar
2007	Munna	Prabhas, Ileana D'Cruz, Prakash Raj	Vamsi Paidipally
2008	Parugu	Allu Arjun, Sheela, Prakash Raj	Bhaskar
2008	Kotha Bangaru Lokam	Sandesh, Shweta Prasad, Prakash Raj	Srikanth Addala
2009	Akasamantha	Prakash Raj, Trisha Krishnan, Jagapati Babu	Radha Mohan
2009	Josh	Naga Chaitanya, Karthika Nair, J. D. Chakravarthy, Prakash Raj	Vasu Varma
2010	Maro Charitra	Varun Sandesh, Anita Galler	Ravi Yadav
2010	Rama Rama Krishna Krishna	Ram, Arjun Sarja, Bindu Madhavi, Priya Anand	Srivas
2010	Brindavanam	N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Kajal Aggarwal, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Prakash Raj	Vamsi Paidipally
2010	Mr.Perfect	Prabhas, Kajal Agarwal, Prakash Raj	Dasaradh
2011	Gaganam	Nagarjuna Akkineni, Prakash Raj, Poonam Kaur	Radha Mohan
2011	Oh My Friend	Siddharth, Shruti Haasan, Hansika Motwani	Venu Sriram
2012	Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu	Venkatesh, Mahesh Babu, Prakash Raj, Samantha, Anjali	Srikanth Addala
2012	Yevadu	Ram Charan Teja, Samantha, Amy Jackson, Allu Arjun	Vamsi Paidipally

Filmography as distributor

• Love Failure (2012)
• Gabbar Singh (2012)
• Rachaa (2012)
• Dammu (2012)
• Darling (2010)
• Arya 2 ( 2009)
• Saarai Veerraju (2009)
• Mallanna (2009)
• Ganesh (2009)
• Aakashamantha (2009)
• Ready (2008)
• Surya s/o Krishnan (2008)
• Kotha Bangaru Lokam (2008)
• Parugu (2008)
• Yuvatha (2008)
• Happy Days (2007)
• Aata (2007)
• Munna (2007)
• Dhee (2007)
• Jagadam (2007)
• Hello Premistara (2007)
• Annavaram (2006)
• Bommarillu (2006)
• Ashok (2006)
• Pokiri (2006)
• Godavari (2006)
• Chatrapati (2005)
• Athadu (2005)
• Bhadra (2005)
• Arya (2004)
• Dil (2003)
• Aadi (film) (2002)
• Khushi (2001)

External links

• Dil Raju at the Internet Movie Database
• Its All About – Dil Raju