Kamakshi Movies

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Kamakshi Movies
Company type Private
Industry Entertainment
Founded Hyderabad, Telangana in 1987
Headquarters
Hyderabad
,
India
Products Films
OwnerD. Siva Prasad Reddy

Kamakshi Movies is an Indian film production and distribution company established by D. Siva Prasad Reddy, an Indian film producer, in 1987. Ever since its inception, the production house has committed itself to making quality cinema, believing in sensible entertainment, and its cinema is imbued in pure Telugu nativity. Siva Prasad Reddy produced and distributed several Telugu films under the production house. Since 2008, after the retirement of Siva Prasad Reddy, his son, Chandan Reddy D. V., took over the production house. The company has collaborated mostly with Nagarjuna.

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Filmography

Production

YearTitleCastDirectorNotesref
1986Sravana Sandhya Sobhan Babu, Vijayashanti, Suhasini A. Kodandarami Reddy [1]
1987Karthika PournamiSobhan Babu, Radhika, Bhanupriya A. Kodandarami Reddy [2]
1989 Vicky Daada Nagarjuna, Radha, Juhi Chawla A. Kodandarami Reddy [3]
1993 Mutha Mestri Chiranjeevi, Meena, Roja, Sharat Saxena A. Kodandarami Reddy [4]
1993 Allari Alludu Akkineni Nagarjuna, Meena, Nagma, Vanisri A. Kodandarami Reddy [5]
1998 Auto Driver Akkineni Nagarjuna, Deepti Bhatnagar, Simran Suresh Krishna [6]
1999 Seetharama Raju Akkineni Nagarjuna, Nandamuri Harikrishna, Sakshi Shivanand, Sanghavi Y. V. S. Chowdary [7]
1999 Hote Hote Pyar Ho Gaya Jackie Shroff, Kajol, Atul Agnihotri Firoz Irani Hindi Movie [8]
2001 Eduruleni Manishi Akkineni Nagarjuna, Soundarya, Shenaz Treasurywala Jonnalagadda Srinivasa Rao [9]
2004 Nenunnanu Akkineni Nagarjuna, Shriya Saran, Arti Agarwal V. N. Aditya [10]
2006 Boss Akkineni Nagarjuna, Nayantara, Poonam Bajwa V. N. Aditya [11]
2008 King Akkineni Nagarjuna, Trisha, Mamta Mohandas, Srihari Sreenu Vaitla [12]
2010 Kedi Akkineni Nagarjuna, Mamta MohandasKiran Kumar [13]
2010 Ragada Akkineni Nagarjuna, Anushka Shetty, Priyamani Veeru Potla [14]
2011 Dhada Naga Chaitanya Akkineni, Kajal Aggarwal Ajay Bhuyan [15]
2013 Greeku Veerudu Akkineni Nagarjuna, Nayantara K. Dasarath [16]

Distribution

YearTitleCastDirectorNotesref
2008 Pourudu Sumanth, Kajal Aggarwal Raj Aditya [17]
2010 Panchakshari Anushka Shetty, Samrat Reddy V. Samudra
2018 Officer Nagarjuna, Myra Sareen Ram Gopal Varma [18]

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  1. ↑ "Sravana Sandhya (1986)". MovieBuff. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  2. ↑ "Karthika Pournami (1987)". MovieBuff. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  3. ↑ "Vicky Dada (1989)". MovieBuff. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  4. ↑ "Mutamestri (1993)". MovieBuff. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  5. ↑ "Allari Alludu (1993)". MovieBuff. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  6. ↑ "Auto Driver (1998)". MovieBuff. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  7. ↑ "Sitaramaraju (1999)". MovieBuff. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  8. ↑ "Hote Hote Pyar Ho Gaya (1999)". MovieBuff. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  9. ↑ "Eduruleni Manishi (2001)". MovieBuff. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  10. ↑ "Nenunnanu (2004)". MovieBuff. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  11. ↑ "Boss (2006)". MovieBuff. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  12. ↑ "King (2008)". MovieBuff. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  13. ↑ "Kedi (2010)". MovieBuff. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  14. ↑ "Ragada (2010)". MovieBuff. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  15. ↑ "Dhada (2011)". MovieBuff. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  16. ↑ "Greeku Veerudu (2013)". MovieBuff. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  17. ↑ "Pourudu (2008)". MovieBuff. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  18. ↑ "Distribution rights of Nagarjuna – RGV film 'Officer' sold out ". The News Minute. 23 May 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2019.


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