Rajiv Chilaka

Rajiv Chilaka Biography

Rajiv Chilaka is an entrepreneur, businessman and founder MD of Hyderabad-based Green Gold Animation. He is best known as the brain behind the most popular Indian cartoon series on Indian television ‘Chhota Bheem’, followed by Krishna cartoon series. In fact Indian children of toady are very much addicted to the character Chhota Bheem created by Rajiv, which has now made to an animated film for kids. His world is the world of animation, whacky ideas and unlimited imagination.

Since childhood he dreamt to enter the word of cartoons and animated films. At the age of 5, he saw Jungle book and his father told him that it was an animated film created with pencil drawings, which could move. He watched Jungle book from theatre and since then he got addicted to animated movies and frequently watched them. He watched ‘Lion King’ in 1995 while doing Master’s Degree in Computer Science at University of Missouri Kansas City. It was that moment when he took a decision his mind to make an animated film of his own, like Lion King. He also discovered that Walt Disney, his biggest inspiration, had spent the initial part of his career in Kansas City.

While at Miller Nichols Library university campus he started reading a few books about Walt Disney. He also read on animation and filmmaking. After graduation, he worked in IT and telecom industry for three years, but quit the job to join Academy of Art in San Francisco to study animation, with the savings of his job. This decision proved to be the turning point of his career.

Chilaka set up Green Gold Animation in 2001, the biggest animation company in India exclusively for kids. The animation series Bongo in 2004 was his first work, followed by Vikram Betal, Chota Bheem and Krishna series. "Chhota Bheem and the Curse of Damyaan" – the movie was released in 2014. The concept of Chota Bheem was first aired in 2004 with Pogo Channel and has completed 10 years; one of the dominating cartoon series of Indian network in the past one decade.  

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Updated: July 08, 2014