Jayanth C. Paranji
Born (1957-07-21) 21 July 1957
Bangalore, Mysore State, India
Occupations
  • Film director
  • producer
Years active1997−present

Jayanth C. Paranji (born 21 July 1957) is an Indian film director known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema.[1] He introduced Bollywood actresses: Preity Zinta, Aishwarya Rai, Anjala Zaveri, Bipasha Basu, Lisa Ray, Nauheed Cyrusi to the Telugu screen.[2] He has directed films across multiple genres with the fab four of Telugu Film Industry - Chiranjeevi, Balakrishna, Nagarjuna, Venkatesh.[3][4] He has worked with all the top actors in the Telugu film industry including Pawan Kalyan and Mahesh Babu. Actor Prabhas was launched into films by Jayanth in the film Eeswar (2002).

Early career

Paranji was born in Karnataka to a Tamil speaking family. He grew up in Gandhinagar, Bangalore, which is where most of the Kannada film distributors have their offices. He began directing well-known plays in English after he settled in Hyderabad. He started the English theater troupe Muses and was associated with another English theater group, Dramatic Circle Hyderabad.[5] Then he switched over to directing Telugu serials for the television. He shot to fame when his serial Tenalirama began to be telecast by Doordarshan. Shot in expensive sets, this serial quickly climbed to the number one spot. Paranji also contributed documentaries and advertising films before getting into feature films. His directorial debut was Preminchukundam Raa with Venkatesh playing the lead role.

Filmography

YearFilm TitleLead CastLanguageNotes
1997Preminchukundam RaaVenkatesh, Anjala ZhaveriTelugu
1998Bavagaru BagunnaraChiranjeevi, RambhaTelugu
1998Premante IderaVenkatesh, Priety ZintaTelugu
1999Ravoyi ChandamamaNagarjuna, Anjala ZhaveriTelugu
2002Takkari DongaMahesh Babu, Lisa Ray, Bipasha BasuTelugu
2002EeswarPrabhas, Sridevi VijaykumarTelugu
2004Lakshmi NarasimhaNandamuri Balakrishna, AsinTeluguRemake of Saamy[6]
2004Shankar Dada M.B.B.SChiranjeevi, Srikanth, Sonali BendreTeluguRemake of Munna Bhai M.B.B.S
2004SakhiyaTarun Kumar, Nauheed CyrusiTelugu
2005Allari PiduguNandamuri Balakrishna, Katrina Kaif[7]Telugu
2011TeenmaarPawan Kalyan, Trisha KrishnanTeluguRemake of Love Aaj Kal
2014NinnindalePuneeth Rajkumar, Erica FernandesKannadaDebut in Kannada cinema
2017JayadevGanta Ravi Teja, Malvika RaajTeluguRemake of Sethupathi

References

  1. ↑ "I am the real-life Raj from DDLJ: Jayanth C Paranji". The Times of India. 9 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "Penchant for making love stories". The Hindu. 20 November 2011.
  3. ↑ "Jayant Paranji". IMDB.com. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
  4. ↑ "Jayanth C Paranji". FilmiBeat.
  5. ↑ Azam, Kousar J., ed. (2018). Languages and Literary Cultures in Hyderabad. Abingdon, Oxon. p. 62. ISBN 978-1-351-39400-0. OCLC 1000597496.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ↑ "'Lakshmi Narasimha' ahead!". Sify. 17 January 2004. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  7. ↑ "An out and out potboiler Commercial potboiler". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 8 October 2005. Archived from the original on 18 February 2006. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
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