Sekhar Kammula

Sekhar Kammula () is an award-winning Indian Film director, writer and producer from Telugu cinema.

Early life

Sekhar was schooled at St. Patrick's High School, Secunderabad. He completed his intermediate studies from St. Alphonsa's and graduated with a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology affiliated to Osmania University, Hyderabad. He later went to the United States of America to pursue a Graduate degree in Computer Sciences at New Jersey. After a brief stint in the IT industry, he enrolled in the MFA program at Howard University, Washington, D.C.

==Career==nn

Sekhar's first film, "Dollar Dreams" was away from the so called 'commercial formula'. Nevertheless, all his movies have been critically very well received and have been commercially successful at the box-office, creating a genre and formula unique to himself.Dollar Dreams was a critical success, and won him the National Film Award for best debutant director. His second film, Anand, was huge hit in 2004. His next film, Godavari, was praised by critics, but was a moderate success. Happy Days, which was released on September 28, 2007, was declared a smash hit.Sekhar's latest film LEADER (2010) released on 19 February 2010, after a gap of two years post his last blockbuster film Happy Days (2007). The film being a...
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