S. S. Rajamouli

S.S.Nandi (Screen Name : S.S Rajamouli)
Born	October 10, 1973 Raichur, Karnataka, India.
Occupation(s)	Film director and producer
Spouse	Rama Rajamouli.
Children	s.s. karthikeya

S.S. Rajamouli is a film director in Tollywood. He was introduced as a director by K. Raghavendra Rao. Starting from his first venture as a director, Student No. 1, all his movies have had great success at the box office. Simhadri was a success. His movies, Yamadonga and Magadheera have a mythological background, and show the director's versatility apart from his handling of predominantly contemporary subjects, such as Sye. Rajamouli's movies often boast a good story, superior technical values and are overall, proven powerful packages.

Previously, Rajamouli directed teleserials under the guidance of his guru K. Raghavendra Rao. His first gig was Student No. 1, which he directed under K. Raghavendra Rao's supervision. He often collaborates with Vijayendra Prasad (Writer),who is also Rajamouli's father, M. M. Keeravani (Music director and his Cousin), R Ravinder (Art Director) and Kalyani Malik (Music director).

Early life

Rajamouli(Real Name : S.S.Nandi) in Raichur of Karnataka. However, his native place is Kovvur and was born in a Telugu family. He studied up to Class IV at Kovvur and continued his education till Intermediate at Eluru. Moreover his father and brother are in the film industry. So, he joined as an assistant with Editor Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao for some time.

Later, he worked for some days in AVM recording theatre. After that, he joined his father as an assistant with his father S Vijayendra Prasad for about six years. During that time, Rajamouli used to narrate his stories to several directors.

After his home production Ardhangi turned out be a disaster, his family returned from Chennai to Hyderabad.

Career

Rajamouli joined as an assistant with director K. Raghavendra Rao and worked for Santi Nivasam, a teleserial. However, his seniors Vara Mullapudi and Yeleti Chandrasekhar used to get more importance than he did. Consequently, worked harder, which earned him the 'working devil' (Pani Rakshasudu) title from K. Raghavendra Rao.

Rajamouli finally got an opportunity to direct a film under the supervision of K. Raghavendra Rao as Student No. 1 with Jr. NTR, which turned out to be a a super hit.

Later on, he got another chance to direct Jr. NTR again for Vijaya Maruthi Combines. That is Simhadri which was an Industry Hit that broke box office records at that time of its release. His third film Sye with Nitin was a musical hit. After the completion of a hat-trick of hits, Rajamouili directed Prabhas for Chatrapathi, which was a blockbuster hit.

Then he chose Raviteja as hero for 'Vikramarkudu' which was also a blockbuster film. During the shooting of the film Rajamouli was injured. After completing five successive hits, Rajamouli brought out a socio-fantasy film with Jr. NTR again- Yamadonga which relaunched NTR's Career. Rajamouli brought out the film on his own banner 'Viswamitra Creations'. With this, he had completed a double hat-trick personally. His next venture was Magadheera which upon its release turned out to be an Industry Hit broke all telugu box office records at the time. His latest film titled Maryada Ramanna (2010) is with comedian Sunil as a hero . Maryada Ramanna was a successful film and with this movie he has 8 straight successful movies in a row. He is planning to do a film with Prabhas for the second time, for which further details are awaited. Recently Mahesh Babu has written in his twitter that he is about to work with Rajamouli. Rajamouli is also planning a small budget quickie named Eega [house fly], which is about the life of a fly.

Filmography

Year	Film	Cast	Boxoffice	Notes
2002	Student No. 1	Jr. NTR, Gajala	Hit	Director under supervision
2003	Simhadri	Jr. NTR, Bhumika Chawla, Ankita	Blockbuster
2004	Sye	Nitin, Genelia D'Souza	Hit	Also Screenplay Writer
2005	Chatrapati	Prabhas, Shreya Saran,	Hit	Also Screenplay Writer
2006	Vikramarkudu	Ravi Teja, Anushka Shetty	Super Hit
2007	Yamadonga	Jr. NTR, Priyamani	Super Hit	First film as Producer Also Screenplay Writer
2009	Magadheera	Ram Charan Teja, Kajal Agarwal	Blockbuster	Also Screenplay Writer
2010	Maryada Ramanna	Sunil, Saloni	Hit
2011	Brahmarsi viswamitra	Prabhas		Filming
2011	Rajanna	Akkineni Nagarjuna, Sneha		Director of action sequences alone
2011	Samart	Mahesh Babu

External links

• S.S. Rajamouli at IMDb
• Rajamouli's adventures at Vikramarkudu shoot
• Maryada Ramanna film launch
• Happy Birthday to SS Rajamouli
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Trivia

• S.S. rajamouli is the only telugu film director to have never seen flopdom the whole Tollywood Industry. His consecutive record of 8 straight hit films is a record.

References

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'Maryada Ramanna' Movie Working Stills - Sunil, Saloni