He is the favorite director for many heroes, heroines, producers and major section of audience since he is known for showing stars in massy best, heroines in most glamorous way, making films in limited budgets and in short working days much to the delight of producers and provides enough entertainment with his witty writing and stylish taking.
Body language, diction and mannerisms of his heroes are completely mass appealing. Simply, he presents stars in the way fans dream to see them in.
The man we are talking about is none other than dynamic director Puri Jagannadh who completes twenty years in the industry today.
Puri’s first film Badri starring Pawan Kalyan was released exactly on this day (April 20), twenty years ago (2000).
The director himself admitted that he cheated on Pawan Kalyan with different storyline initially, only to get chance to narrate him Badri story.
The Puri mark dialogue Nuv Nanda Ayithe Nakenti Nenu Badri... Badrinath- we can’t forget forever. There are numerous such dialogues we could get to hear in most of his films.
Puri says he breaths cinema till his death. Of course, he never felt bad of flops, since the only thing he known is making films. Like a phoenix bird, he came back strongly from flop streak to deliver blockbusters.
When everybody thought, his career is almost coming to an end, Puri gave a ‘mass’ive surprise delivering a smashing hit with iSmart Shankar.
Puri has one industry hit to his credit with Pokiri and also gets the credit of introducing Ram Charan with Chirutha.
Perhaps, the pleasant atmosphere he creates on the sets, stars wish to work with him again and again.
Stars like Pawan Kalyan, Mahesh Babu, NTR, Allu Arjun and Ravi Teja worked for at least two films with him.
Puri is presently making a Pan India film with Vijay Deverakonda. An exclusive information is that he has decided to make only Pan India films from now on.
His next film after the ongoing one will also be a multi-lingual film and utilizing the lockdown, he is readying script for the same.
Puri may announce details of his next project, once hero is finalized.
Let’s congratulate Puri for completing two decades and hope he will continue to entertain us for few more years.
