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Bejawada Gopal is an Indian film director who works in Telugu cinema. He has directed over 30 Telugu films, including successful films such as Bobbili Raja, Lorry Driver, Assembly Rowdy, State Rowdy, Rowdy Inspector, Samarasimha Reddy, Narasimha Naidu, Indra, Maska. He won Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu for the film Samarasimha Reddy. He also directed two Hindi films, Insaaf Ki Awaaz and Kanoon Apna Apna.

B. Gopal
Born	Bejawada Gopal 24 June Nidamanuru, Andhra Pradesh, India
Occupation	Director
Years active	1977 – present

Childhood and early years

B. Gopal was born at M. Nidamanuru village near Tangutur, Prakasam district, Andhra Pradesh to B. Venkateswarulu and Mahalakshmi. He has two siblings, one brother Subba Rao and sister Suseela. He did his schooling in Karumanchi. Later he attended C.S.R.Sarma college in Ongole. After finishing his education, With his father permission he chose to pursue his career in movies.[1] He is the uncle of Telugu film Actor Venu Thottempudi.^{[citation needed]}

Career

He started his career working as an assistant director under P.C. Reddy. After working in two movies with P.C. Reddy, he got an opportunity to work as an assistant director in the film Adavi Ramudu under K. Raghavendra Rao.[2] He considers K. Raghavendra Rao as his Mentor and Guru in Telugu cinema industry. He worked under him for almost 12 years and for movies like Adavi Ramudu, Devatha, Justice Chowdary, Agni Parvatam etc. In 1982, while he was working as an associate director for the movie Devatha under K. Raghavendra Rao, he was spotted by the producer of the movie Dr. Daggubati Ramanaidu. Impressed by B. Gopal, Ramanaidu offered him the chance to direct a movie under his banner. This led to B. Gopal's debut movie as director Prathidvani with Sharada, Arjun and Rajani. The movie was released in 1986.

He went on to direct many commercially successful movies like Bobbili Raja, Lorry Driver, Assembly Rowdy, Rowdy Inspector, Samarasimha Reddy, Narasimha Naidu, Indra etc. His association with Paruchuri Brothers is well known in Telugu cinema industry and they worked together on many successful movies. He is also famously known to collaborate with Nandamuri Balakrishna to do movies. He was the only director to have three Industry Hits, those being Samarasimha Reddy, Narasimha Naidu and Indra until 2017,then with the release of Baahubali 2 S.S.Rajamouli became 2nd director to have 3 industry hits, those being Magadheera, Baahubali: The Beginning, Baahubali 2: The Conclusion. Gopal's career hit a rough patch when his subsequent ventures like Palnati Brahmanayudu with Balakrishna and Narasimhudu with Jr. NTR becoming disasters in box office. After a gap of four years, he directed Maska with Ram Pothineni which was released in 2009. The movie was commercially declared a hit.[3] In 2011, it was announced that he would again collaborate with Balakrishna in a project called Hara Hara Mahadeva but the project got stalled after the launch.[4] In 2017, he directed Aaradugula Bullet starring Gopichand and Nayanthara but due to financial problems, the movie was delayed to 8 October 2021.

Awards

• Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu – Samarasimha Reddy (1999).
• Nandi Award for Best First Film of a Director - Prathidvani (1986).[5]

Filmography

• All films are in Telugu unless otherwise noted

Year	Film	Cast	Notes
1986	Prathidvani	Arjun, Rajani
1986	Insaaf Ki Awaaz	Rekha, Anil Kapoor, Richa Sharma	Hindi
1987	Collector Gari Abbai	Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Nagarjuna
1988	Raktha Tilakam	Venkatesh, Amala
1988	Aswathama	Krishna, Vijayashanti
1989	Vijay	Akkineni Nagarjuna, Vijayashanti
1989	State Rowdy	Chiranjeevi, Radha, Bhanupriya
1989	Kanoon Apna Apna	Dilip Kumar, Nutan, Sanjay Dutt, Madhuri Dixit	Hindi
1990	Lorry Driver	Nandamuri Balakrishna, Vijayashanti
1990	Bobbili Raja	Venkatesh, Divya Bharti
1991	Assembly Rowdy	Mohan Babu, Divya Bharti
1992	Chinarayudu	Venkatesh, Vijayashanti
1992	Brahma	Mohan Babu, Aishwarya, Shilpa Shirodkar
1992	Rowdy Inspector	Nandamuri Balakrishna, Vijayashanti
1993	Mechanic Alludu	Chiranjeevi, Vijayashanti
1994	Gangmaster	Rajasekhar, Nagma
1995	Street Fighter	Vijayashanti
1995	Khaidhi Inspector	Suman, Maheswari
1997	Collector Garu	Mohan Babu, Sakshi Sivanand
1997	Adavilo Anna	Mohan Babu, Roja
1999	Samarasimha Reddy	Nandamuri Balakrishna, Anjala Zaveri, Simran, Sanghavi
2000	Ravanna	Dr. Rajasekhar, Soundarya
2000	Vamsi	Mahesh Babu, Namrata Shirodkar
2001	Narasimha Naidu	Nandamuri Balakrishna, Simran, Preeti Jhangiani
2002	Allari Ramudu	N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Aarthi Agarwal
2002	Indra	Chiranjeevi, Aarthi Agarwal, Sonali Bendre
2003	Palnati Brahmanaidu	Nandamuri Balakrishna, Aarthi Agarwal, Sonali Bendre
2004	Adavi Ramudu	Prabhas, Aarthi Agarwal
2005	Narasimhudu	N. T. Rama Rao Jr, Ameesha Patel, Sameera Reddy
2009	Maska	Ram, Hansika, Sheela
2021	Aaradugula Bullet	Gopichand, Nayanthara	Releasing after 4 years

References

External links

• B. Gopal at IMDb

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