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'''Geetha Krishna''' is an [[India]]n film director, who has made Telugu and Tamil films. He made his debut with the Telugu film ''[[Sankeertana]]'' starring [[Nagarjuna (actor)|Nagarjuna]], for which he won the [[Nandi Award for Best First Film of a Director]]. Since then he has directed a series of Telugu and Tamil films.

==Career==
Geetha Krishna's debut film ''[[Sankeertana]]'' was a musical love story, set against religious taboos featuring [[Nagarjuna (actor)|Nagarjuna]] and [[Ramya Krishnan]]. The film became a successful venture commercially and he won the [[Nandi Award for Best First Film of a Director]]. Next he made ''[[Kokila (1990 film)|Kokila]]'' - a crime-mystery based on eye transplantation, a socially relevant theme in the late 1980s and the film also fared well critically. Geetha Krishna next made two further experimental films with ''Keechuraallu'' and ''Priyathama'' on the issue of [[schizophrenia]]. After a sabbatical, he returned in 1996 with ''Server Sundaramagaari Abbayi'' which dealt with heart transplantation as the main theme, where he also composed the film's music himself.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140331145732/http://www.sify.com/movies/telugu/interview.php?id=6006408&cid=2410 sify.com]</ref>

He went on to make a Tamil film in 1999, ''[[Time (1999 film)|Time]]'' featuring [[Prabhu Deva]] and [[Simran (actress)|Simran]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/46173.html|title = Tamil Cinema News | Tamil Movie Reviews | Tamil Movie Trailers - IndiaGlitz Tamil}}</ref> In the late 2000s, he began work on a trilingual venture known as ''Coffee Bar'', with the Telugu version releasing in 2011 and the Tamil version, ''Nimidangal'', two years later. In 2013, he revealed he was working on sixty five hour docudrama that maps the history of India starting from the Indus Valley civilization. Titled ''My Country India Time Capsule'', Geetha Krishna researched the project extensively and expressed that the venture would involve top technicians and artistes.<ref>[https://archive.today/20140206000405/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-05-17/news-interviews/39335234_1_docu-feature-ar-rahman-college-professor ]</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/geetha-krishnas-docufeature/article4726553.ece|title = Geetha Krishna's docu-feature|newspaper = The Hindu|date = 18 May 2013}}</ref>

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;"
! Year !! Film !! Language !! Notes
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| 1987 || ''[[Sankeertana]]'' || Telugu || [[Nandi Award for Best First Film of a Director]]
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| 1990 || ''[[Kokila (1990 film)|Kokila]]'' || Telugu ||
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| 1991 || ''[[Keechurallu]]'' || Telugu ||
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| 1992 || ''[[Priyathama (1992 film)|Priyathama]]'' || Telugu ||
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| 1996 || ''[[Server Sundaramgari Abbayi]]'' || Telugu ||
|-
| 1999 || ''[[Time (1999 film)|Time]]'' || Tamil ||
|-
| 2011 || ''[[Koffi Bar]]'' || Telugu ||
|-
| 2013 || ''[[Nimidangal]]'' || Tamil ||
|}

==References==
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