Bhaskar (director)

Bhaskar is an Indian film director who works mainly in Telugu cinema. He was born in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, and studied at the Film and Television Institute of Tamil Nadu in Chennai. Early in his career he was an associate director on the films Bhadra and Arya. His first film as director, Bommarillu, starred Siddharth and Genelia D'Souza and earned him two Nandi Awards, for Best Debut Director and for Best Original Screenplay. Its dialogue was written by shutting himself in a room with Abburi Ravi and turning lines from casual conversation into speech for the characters. He followed it with Parugu, a box office hit with Allu Arjun, and with Orange, starring Ram Charan, which drew mixed reviews at first and later became a cult classic. Ongole Gittha was a box office failure. In 2016 he made his Tamil debut with Bangalore Naatkal, a remake of the Malayalam film Bangalore Days that also failed commercially, and in 2021 he directed Most Eligible Bachelor with Akhil Akkineni and Pooja Hegde, which was well reviewed and a success.