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| name= Jayanth C. Paranji<br />
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| birth_date = 21 July 1957<br />
| birth_place = [[Bangalore]], [[Mysore State]], India<br />
| occupation = {{hlist|Film director|producer}}<br />
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|yearsactive = 1997−present<br />
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'''Jayanth C. Paranji''' is an [[Indian film]] director known for his works predominantly in [[Telugu cinema]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/kannada/movies/news/I-am-the-real-life-Raj-from-DDLJ-Jayanth-C-Paranji/articleshow/25436135.cms|title=I am the real-life Raj from DDLJ: Jayanth C Paranji|work=The Times of India}}</ref> He introduced Bollywood actresses: [[Preity Zinta]], [[Aishwarya Rai]], [[Nauheed Cyrusi]], [[Lisa Ray]], [[Anjala Zaveri]], and [[Bipasha Basu]] to the Telugu screen.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/penchant-for-making-love-stories/article2646994.ece|title=Penchant for making love stories|work=The Hindu|date=20 November 2011}}</ref> He has directed films across multiple genres with the fab four of Telugu Film Industry [[Chiranjeevi]], Nandamuri Balakrishna, [[Nagarjuna Akkineni|Nagarjuna]], [[Venkatesh (actor)|Venkatesh]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0419680/|title=Jayant Paranji|publisher=IMDB.com|access-date=29 June 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmibeat.com/celebs/jayanth-c-paranji/filmography.html|title=Jayanth C Paranji|work=FilmiBeat}}</ref> He has worked with all the top heroes in the Telugu film industry including Pavan Kalyan and Mahesh Babu. Actor Prabhas was launched into films by Jayanth in the film Eashwar (2002).<br />
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==Early career==<br />
Paranji was born in [[Karnataka]] to a Tamil speaking family. He grew up in [[Gandhinagar]], [[Bangalore]], which is where most of the [[Kannada film]] distributors have their offices. He began directing well-known plays in English after he settled in [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]]. He started the English theater troupe Muses and was associated with another English theater group, Dramatic Circle Hyderabad.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1000597496|title=Languages and Literary Cultures in Hyderabad|date=2018|isbn=978-1-351-39400-0|editor-last=Azam|editor-first=Kousar J.|location=Abingdon, Oxon|pages=62|oclc=1000597496}}</ref> Then he switched over to directing Telugu serials for the television. He shot to fame when his serial ''Tenalirama'' began to be telecast by [[Doordarshan]]. Shot in expensive sets, this serial quickly climbed to the number one spot. Paranji also contributed documentaries and advertising films before getting into feature films. His directorial debut was ''[[Preminchukundam Raa]]'' with [[Venkatesh (actor)|Venkatesh]] playing the lead role.<br />
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==Filmography==<br />
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! Year !! Film Title !! Lead Cast !! Notes<br />
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| 1997 || ''[[Preminchukundam Raa]]'' || [[Venkatesh (actor)|Venkatesh]], [[Anjala Zhaveri]] ||<br />
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| 1998 || ''[[Bavagaru Bagunnara]]'' || [[Chiranjeevi]], [[Rambha (actress)|Rambha]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| 1998 || ''[[Premante Idera]]'' || [[Venkatesh (actor)|Venkatesh]], [[Priety Zinta]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| 1999 || ''[[Ravoyi Chandamama]]'' || [[Nagarjuna (actor)|Nagarjuna]], [[Anjala Zhaveri]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| 2002 || ''[[Takkari Donga]]'' || [[Mahesh Babu]], [[Lisa Ray]], [[Bipasha Basu]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| 2002 || '' [[Eeshwar (2002 film)|Eeshwar]]'' || [[Prabhas]], [[Sridevi Vijaykumar]] ||<br />
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| 2004 || ''[[Lakshmi Narasimha (film)|Lakshmi Narasimha]]'' || [[Nandamuri Balakrishna]], [[Asin]] ||<br />
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| 2004 || ''[[Shankar Dada M.B.B.S]]'' || [[Chiranjeevi]], [[Meka Srikanth|Srikanth]], [[Sonali Bendre]] ||<br />
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| 2004 || ''[[Sakhiya]]'' || [[Tarun Kumar]], [[Nauheed Cyrusi]] ||<br />
|-<br />
| 2005 || ''[[Allari Pidugu]]'' || [[Nandamuri Balakrishna]], [[Katrina Kaif]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/08/stories/2005100816960200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060218212844/http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/08/stories/2005100816960200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 February 2006|title=An out and out potboiler Commercial potboiler|access-date=29 June 2010|location=Chennai, India|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=8 October 2005}}</ref> ||<br />
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| 2011 || ''[[Teenmaar]]'' || [[Pawan Kalyan]], [[Trisha Krishnan]] ||<br />
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| 2014 || ''[[Ninnindale]]'' || [[Puneeth Rajkumar]], [[Erica Fernandes]] <br />
|Kannada debut<br />
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| 2017 || ''[[Jayadev (film)|Jayadev]]'' || ''Ghanta Ravi Teja '', ''Malavika'' ||<br />
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|}<br />
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