Y. V. S. Chowdary

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Y. V. S. Chowdary
Chowdary on sets of Rey
Born	Yalamanchili Venkata Satyanarayana Chowdary Gudivada, Krishna, Andhra Pradesh,[1] India
Occupations	screenwriter film director film producer film distributor film exhibitor music label owner
Years active	1998 – present

Yalamanchili Venkata Satyanarayana Chowdary is an Indian Telugu cinema writer, director, producer, distributor, exhibitor and a music company owner. He made his debut as a director in 1998 with the film Sri Sita Ramula Kalyanam Chootamu Raarandi produced by Nagarjuna under the banner "Great India Entertainments". He then directed Seetharama Raju starring Nagarjuna and Nandamuri Harikrishna, and Yuvaraju starring Mahesh Babu. He then established his own production house "Bommarillu Vari" and started producing his own directorial efforts with Lahiri Lahiri Lahirilo. Later, he directed Seetayya, Devadasu, Okka Magaadu, Saleem, Rey. Among these, Saleem is the only film which is not from his production house.^[2] He has directed nine films till date. In 2012, he produced Nippu starring Ravi Teja and Deeksha Seth^[3] under the direction of Gunasekhar.^[4][5]

Chowdary says he entered the Telugu film industry inspired by Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao.^[6][7] He introduced various actors including Venkat, Chandini and Chandu with his debut film Sri Sita Ramula Kalyanam Chootamu Raarandi (1998), Aditya Om and Ankitha with Lahiri Lahiri Lahirilo (2002), Ram Pothineni and Ileana with Devadasu (2006), Sai Dharam Tej and Saiyami Kher with Rey (2015), though Sai Dharam Tej's second film Pilla Nuvvu Leni Jeevitham (2014) was released earlier than Rey.^[4]