Personal info
Known for
Director
Gender
Male
Birthday
23 May
Location
Andhra Pradesh, India
Edit pageY. V. S. Chowdary
Biography
Yalamanchili Venkata Satyanarayana Chowdary is an Indian Telugu cinema writer, director, producer, distributor, exhibitor, and 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 directorial efforts with Lahiri Lahiri Lahirilo. Later, he directed Seetayya, Devadasu, Okka Magaadu, Saleem, and Rey. Among these, Saleem is the only film that is not from his production house. He has directed nine films to date. In 2012, he produced Nippu starring Ravi Teja and Deeksha Seth under the direction of Gunasekhar.
Chowdary says he entered the Telugu film industry inspired by Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao. 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.
