Chinna (art director)

Chinna (చిన్నా) is one of the art director in Indian Telugu cinema. His debut venture was Kalisi Naduddam (Telugu). He started Art direction together with his guru B Anand Sai (son of senior art director B.Chellam). His first movie was as Assistant Art Director for the Tamil movie Roja Malare starring Murali. Next was '‘Santosham'’ followed by ‘'Enasare Asave'’ and so on.

Then shifted to Hyderabad for ‘'Tholiprema'’. Again together with his guru Anand Sai, he did Telugu movies like '‘Tholiprema'’, ‘'Thamudu'’, '‘Badri'’, ‘'Kushi'’ and ‘'Prematho ra'’. While this was happening he met great producers like Burugupalli Sivarama Krishna, T. Trivikrama Rao and with their encouragement he became Art director in their movies. ‘'Kalisi Nadudham'’ (Telugu) was my first movie as Art director. He also worked with his senior classmate Murthy Sreeram's movie Vechi Vunta. Chinna in an interview said "This was actually my first movie but it got released as my second movie."

He started working on the film Khadgam starring Srikanth and Sonali Bendre but stopped working for the film due to unknown reasons.

He worked for almost 22 films with the tollywood Director puri jagannath ...

He also started wedding designs ...



Filmography
This list is not a completed one.. Partial filmography is selected.


 * Kalisi Naduddam (2001)
 * Vechivunta (2001)
 * Anandam (2001)
 * Aaduthu Paaduthu (2002)
 * Pellam Oorelithe (2003)
 * Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi (2003)
 * Taarak (2003)
 * Sivamani (2003)
 * Thoda Tum Badlo Thoda Hum (2004)
 * Andhrawala (2004)
 * Shart: The Challenge (2004)
 * 143 (2004)
 * Intlo Srimathi Veedhilo Kumari (2004)
 * Super (2005)
 * Lakshmi Songs (2006)
 * Happy (2006)
 * Pokiri (2006)
 * Hello Premistara (2007)
 * Yogi (2007)
 * Chirutha (2007)
 * Desamuduru (2007)
 * Bujjigadu: Made in Chennai (2008)
 * Chintakayala Ravi (2008)
 * Neninthe (2008)
 * Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam (2009)
 * Wanted Hindi (2009)
 * Ride (2009)
 * Anjaneyulu (2009)
 * Bumper Offer (2009)
 * Ek Niranjan (2009)
 * Arya 2 (2009)
 * Golimar (2010)
 * Nagavalli (2010)
 * Nenu Naa Rakshasi (2011)
 * Adhinayakudu (2012)
 * Kandireega (2011)
 * Businessman (2012)
 * Cameraman Gangatho Rambabu (2012)
 * Devudu Chesina Manushulu (2012)
 * Manushulatho Jagratha (2013)
 * Traffic (2013)
 * Anamika (2014)

Controversy
Art director chinna's best industry friend and tollywood director Puri Jagannath were split during the allu arjun starrer Iddarammayilatho. The reasons were given why they both split up in spite of their best friendship but the industry people are saying they were not true and the reason is unknown.

Awards
Only few awards are considered ...

Chinna won 10-15 other awards ...

Best art Director for the movie NAGAVALLI in 2010

Best art director for the movie Pokiri