Anjana Productions

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Anjana Productions
Company type Private
Industry Entertainment
Founded Hyderabad, in 1988
Founder Chiranjeevi
Headquarters,
India
Key people
Chiranjeevi
Nagendra Babu
Pawan Kalyan
Ram Charan
Products Films
Subsidiaries

Anjana Productions is an Indian film production company established by Chiranjeevi and his brother Nagendra Babu in the year 1988, named after their mother Anjana Devi. It is considered as the home production company of Konidela family. [1] [2]

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Film production

1988–1999

Anjana productions' first film was the musical drama film Rudraveena (1988), directed by K. Balachander starring Chiranjeevi. It won the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration. [3] It later produced films such as Trinetrudu (1988), Mugguru Monagallu (1994) and Bavagaru Bagunnara? (1998). [1]

2000–2009

In 2000, Nagendra Babu produced Kouravudu with himself playing the lead role. Later, he produced Gudumba Shankar (2004) with his younger brother Pawan Kalyan, and Stalin (2006) with Chiranjeevi in lead. [1] [4]

2010

After the failure of the 2010 romantic drama Orange , starring his nephew Ram Charan, Naga Babu is said to have incurred deep losses and announced that he will not be producing films anymore. [5] [6]

Filmography

YearFilm NameCastDirector
1988 Rudraveena Chiranjeevi, Shobana K. Balachander
1988 Trinetrudu Chiranjeevi, Bhanupriya, Nagendra Babu A. Kodandarami Reddy
1994 Mugguru Monagallu Chiranjeevi, Nagma, Roja, Ramya Krishna K. Raghavendra Rao
1998 Bavagaru Bagunnara? Chiranjeevi, Rambha, Rachana Jayanth C. Paranjee
2000 Kauravudu Konidela Nagendra Babu, Ramya Krishna Jyoti Kumar
2004 Gudumba Shankar Pawan Kalyan, Meera Jasmine Veera Shankar Bairisetty
2005 Radha Gopalam Srikanth, Sneha, Brahmanandam Bapu
2006 Stalin Chiranjeevi, Trisha, Khushbu A. R. Murugadoss
2010 Orange Ram Charan, Genelia D'Souza, Shazahn Padamsee Bhaskar

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