Chandra Mahesh
Chandra Mahesh is an Indian film director, producer and actor known for his work in the South Indian film industry. Chandrra Mahes (formerly Chandra Mahesh) made remarkable presence with his outstanding story telling for the movie 'PREYASI RAVE' giving Srikanth and RASI a much required break in the film industry and then remaining movies have been history Chandrra Mahes has won ‘Nandi Award – 2006' for the movie ‘HANUMANTHU’ starring Sri Hari, Madhu Sharma and many more. He has directed many successful hits like AYODHYA RAMAIAH, OKKADE to name few Chandrra Mahes is best known for identifying his approach from the audience prospective and delivering subject oriented films Early Life – Chandrra Mahesh was born as Chandra Mahesh on 8 November 1968 to Mr. Ravinder Rao, who has been a health officer and Mother Mrs. Triveni Rao– Hindi Teacher in East Godavari District, Shankavaram Village along with two other younger brothers As a child, he was always influenced by cinema and was always interested in watching movies and in 9th standard, he has decided to become director and drop education from intermediate and start directing movies. His major influencer movies were Sardar Paparayudu, Bobbili Puli and Kondaveeti Simham, Justice Chowdary, Khaidi, Abhilasha, Premabhishekam and many more Chandrra Mahes cites Dr. Ramanaidu Garu as his god father for Cinema and Suresh & Venkatesh Babu Garu as his mentor from very early age Personal Life – Chandrra Mahes was married at a tender age. Since, he was hailing from a small town and got married at 20 Years on 24 Jan 1988 and has two kids and he has been always thankful to his wife for her immense support, as she has been the driving force for him to get into films, to come to Hyderabad and become Film Director
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| Born | Chandra Mahesh 8 November 1968 East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh |
| Occupation | Director, Producer, Actor |
| Parent(s) | Ravinder Rao Triveni Rao |
| Website | www.chandrramahes.com |
Early Career Entry Journey
Chandrra Mahes's passion towards Suresh Production House has pulled him to join their film Direction department in initial days. Since, he was not qualified enough to get into the direction department as per the criteria set by Ramanaidu studios, he was rejected and to get an opportunity, he was always out of Ramanaidu studios saluting to Dr. Ramanaidu Sir and Suresh Babu and once they started noticing him. He did get the required entry into the office and he joined as fair notes writer for a well known script writer for INR 1000 per month and from there he has begun his journey and learning various crafts of film making till he gets a break as a director from Ramanaidu studios less than 5 years of his due course. Chandrra Mahes has always emphasized Ramanaidu studios is temple for him
Rise To Fame
Dr. Ramanaidu was so impressed with his judgement skills and perception towards film making that, he was offered to direct a film under the banner of Suresh Productions. That is where Preyasi Raave has been developed; the story was given by Posani Krishna Murali. Ideally it was Hero Sumanth who was to do the role, but since there was a factor of hero being dead at the end due to some health alignment, this wouldn't match hero Sumanth image and people will take him into this character regularly, so he declined the offer. That is where Hero Meka Srikanth came down into the picture as there was some fresh image required. Meka Srikanth and Chandrra Mahes association has been built so well during the filming of Preyasi Raave. Initially Srikanth has always been having reluctant expectations on Preyasi Ravve, as his last movies have been bombed on the box office. But, he has been always a best performer, when it comes to delivering, what is required for the film. He is a director's actor and since the release of Preyasi Raave on 19 November 1999, there has been no looking back for Chandrra Mahes and entire cast and crew, where the entire cast & crew has been immensely supported by Chiranjeevi Garu and many more big film personalities Ayodhya Ramayya starring Srihari, Bhanu Priya with complete mass backdrop was the next movie and it was a splendid hit in his career. Next directorial venture was introducing Hero Akash to tollywood, which was almost done and due to some patch work pending for prakash raj, it got delayed as he was banned from Telugu films for a while, which has led the producer Taranga Subrahmanyam Garu to move into losses and movie got halted completely. Bellamkonda Suresh and Vadde Naveen starred Cheppalani Undi was his next venture, Posani Krishna Murali and Chandrra Mahes share a great rapport. Joruga Husharuga and then okkade starring Srihari and many others hits to his hat, when Hero Sir Hari lost his glory of Hero stardom, he regained the same after the movie release of Okkade and then, there was no looking back for Sri Hari as a Real Star Chandrra Mahes has produced and directed the film 'love in Hyderabad' introducing K. Bhayaraj's son Shanthanu Bhagyaraj in the lead, which is yet to be released, halted due to some commercial problems currently Chandraa Mahes has completed his latest directorial venture in 4 languages namely Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam, which is an action comedy thriller known as RED ALERT. He is the first director to direct in 4 languages with different star cast. This is slated to be released in the 1 August 2015 week globally Awards and Honor – Nandi Award – 2006 for best social awareness film and many more awards to his credit
FilmoGraphy
Below are the selected filmography of Chandrra Mahes.
- 2010: Alasyam Amrutham- Nikhil/Madalsa Sharma.
- 2000: Ayodhya Ramayya- SriHari/BhanuPriya
- 2006: Hanumanthu- Srihari/MadhuSharma
- 2005: Okkade- Srihari/Santoshi
- 1999: Preyasi Raave- Srikanth/Raasi
References
- 'Chandra Mahesh-IMDb'
- "Director Chandra Mahesh filmography". Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
- 'Chandra Mahesh ( Director)'
- 'Chandra Mahesh turns Producer'
- 'Chandra Mahesh Film Director & Film Maker'