Kothanda Ramaiah

Kothanda Ramaiah Biography

Kothanda Ramaiah is a film director, producer, distributor and exhibitor associated with Tamil cinema. He joined entertainment industry in the mid-1970s, and has spent over 4 decades in the cine world. He has also produced and distributed Malayalam films too, though a few in number, during his early days. As a director, he can be said to be a director of remakes, who remade many hit Bollywood and south Indian films to Tamil. 2005 film Dancer was his last release. The movie bagged him Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Villain & Best Producer.

Kothanda Ramaiah is also known as Keyar or KR. He enrolled for studying film processing at the Adyar Film Institute in Chennai in 1972, and graduated in 1975. He spent three years as a technician in Doordarshan Kendra before he forayed to films. He started off with Malayalam films and then moved to Tamil movies. Malayalam film Sisirathil Oru Vasantham marked his debut as a director and producer. He had to face a lot of obstacles to see his first film released. In fact it had some distribution issues. The film failed at box office. But his bad experiences with film distribution prompted him to join that field as well.

As a distributor he began his career in the 1980s, soon after his first directorial venture got released. He mostly distributed Tamil movies, apart from a few Malayalam hits like My Dear Kuttichathan 3D. He joined film direction after one decade in 1991, with the Tamil film, Eeramana Rojave. Vanaja Girija, Mayabazar, Irattai Roja, Enakkoru Magan Pirappan, Kadhal Rojave, Dharma, Kavalai Padathe Sagodhara, Thaali Pudhusu etc are among his directorial ventures.

Published: October 28, 2018

Updated: October 28, 2018