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Rajiv Chilaka

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Rajiv Chilaka also known as Rajiv Chilakalapudi and Sitarama Rajiv Chilakalapudi is the founder and CEO of Hyderabad-based Green Gold Animations and the creator of a few cartoons including the Krishna cartoon series and Chhota Bheem which has now been made into an animated series and films. 

 

For his work in presenting cartoons at affordable prices, Chilaka was conferred with an honorary doctorate of humane letters by the Academy of Art University, San Francisco in 2016. He was the recipient of the 2013 School of Computing and Engineering Alumni Achievement Award at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

 

He started working as a software engineer in Kansas City for three years, but in 2000 he switched courses to study animation at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. He has an elder brother, Srinivas Chilaka, who helps him in running Greengold. Chilaka is the youngest son of noted technocrat Madhusudan Rao Chilaka and Ms. Chilaka.

 

The magazine Businessworld named Rajiv Chilaka's company Green Gold Animations and Gamitronics as two of the top ten companies in India for making visual content in 2023.

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