Badri Venkatesh

Badri Venkatesh

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Badri Venkatesh Biography

Badri Venkatesh is a National award winning filmmaker associated with Tamil cinema. He also scripts and directs Tamil TV shows, and has more than two decades of work experience in the entertainment industry. Venkatesh made his directorial debut with the 2010 Tamil film Baana Kaathadi. In 2016 he directed his second film, Semma Botha Aagathey. He marked his directorial debut with a short film, Vidiyalai Nokki in 1996, which won National Film Award for Best Short Fiction Film. It was the first Tamil fictional short film to win a National award.

 

Venkatesh hails from the Nesapakkam of Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He started off with short films before taking full-fledged film projects. In fact he owns a successful television career. He marked his directorial debut with the short film, Vidiyalai Nokki in 1996, and has spent more than 22 years in the industry. Television fiction writing, reality show direction, event direction, cinematic teaching, creative management etc are a few more entertainment areas he is associated with. He writes novels too.

 

He scripted and directed the 2010 Tamil romance film, Baana Kaathadi. Adharvaa, son of Tamil actor Murali, made his debut as a hero in this movie. In his second film Semma Botha Aagathey too, Adharvaa played the lead role. Baana Kaathadi opened to highly positive reviews from critics, but fared only average at box office. The director is still identified with his debut flick. Venkatesh has successfully done event direction and show direction many times. Miss South India, Celebrity Cricket League (3rd Edition), and the Mirchi Music Awards are among the shows which he worked as an event director.

 

Published: December 04, 2018

Updated: December 04, 2018

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