Geetha Krishna is an Indian film director, who has made Telugu and
Tamil films. He made his debut with the Telugu film Sankeertana
starring Nagarjuna, for which he won the Nandi Award for Best First
Film of a Director. Since then he has directed a series of Telugu and
Tamil films.Geetha Krishna's debut film Sankeertana was a musical love
story, set against religious taboos featuring Nagarjuna and Ramya
Krishnan. The film became a successful venture commercially and he won
the Nandi Award for Best First Film of a Director. 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 schizophrenia. 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, Time featuring Prabhu Deva and Simran. In the late 2000s, he
began work on a trilingual venture known as Coffee 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.
Tamil films. He made his debut with the Telugu film Sankeertana
starring Nagarjuna, for which he won the Nandi Award for Best First
Film of a Director. Since then he has directed a series of Telugu and
Tamil films.Geetha Krishna's debut film Sankeertana was a musical love
story, set against religious taboos featuring Nagarjuna and Ramya
Krishnan. The film became a successful venture commercially and he won
the Nandi Award for Best First Film of a Director. 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 schizophrenia. 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, Time featuring Prabhu Deva and Simran. In the late 2000s, he
began work on a trilingual venture known as Coffee 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.
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