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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).

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Jayanth C. Paranji
Born	(1957-07-21) 21 July 1957 (age 65) Bangalore, Mysore State, India
Occupation	Film director producer
Years active	1997−present

Early career

Paranji was born in Karnataka to a Tamil speaking family.^{[citation needed]} 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

Year	Film Title	Lead Cast	Notes
1997	Preminchukundam Raa	Venkatesh, Anjala Zhaveri
1998	Bavagaru Bagunnara	Chiranjeevi, Rambha
1998	Premante Idera	Venkatesh, Priety Zinta
1999	Ravoyi Chandamama	Nagarjuna, Anjala Zhaveri
2002	Takkari Donga	Mahesh Babu, Lisa Ray, Bipasha Basu
2002	Eeswar	Prabhas, Sridevi Vijaykumar
2004	Lakshmi Narasimha	Nandamuri Balakrishna, Asin	Remake of 2003 Tamil film Saamy[6]
2004	Shankar Dada M.B.B.S	Chiranjeevi, Srikanth, Sonali Bendre	Remake of 2003 Hindi film Munna Bhai M.B.B.S
2004	Sakhiya	Tarun Kumar, Nauheed Cyrusi
2005	Allari Pidugu	Nandamuri Balakrishna, Katrina Kaif[7]
2011	Teenmaar	Pawan Kalyan, Trisha Krishnan	Remake of 2009 Hindi film Love Aaj Kal
2014	Ninnindale	Puneeth Rajkumar, Erica Fernandes	Kannada debut
2017	Jayadev	Ganta Ravi Teja, Malavika	Remake of 2016 Tamil film Sethupathi Ganta Ravi's debut movie

References

External links

• Jayanth C. Paranjee at IMDb

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