Neeraja Kona

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Neeraja Kona
Born (1983-04-29) 29 April 1983 (age 41)
Occupation(s) Stylist, Costume Designer, Lyricist
Years active2012–present
SpouseAjay
Parent Kona Raghupathi
Relatives Kona Venkat

Neeraja Kona is an Indian stylist and costume designer who works in Telugu and Tamil films.

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Career

Neeraja began her career assisting in styling for Jr NTR and Kajal Aggarwal for Baadshah (2013) directed by Srinu Vaitla. She was Nithiin's stylist for Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde . Nithiin then signed her on for his next two movies Courier Boy Kalyan and Puri Jagannadh's Heart Attack . She later met Samantha Ruth Prabhu, and became her personal stylist. [1] [2]

Early on in her career Neeraja got to be part of Trivikram Srinivas and Pawan Kalyan's Attarintiki Daredi [3] and Harish Shankar's Ramayya Vasthavayya. [4] She designed costumes for Samantha Ruth Prabhu in both films. She has worked with the directors Trivikram Srinivas, Harish Shankar, Vamsi Paidipally, and V. V. Vinayak. Her other projects include Hansika's Romeo and Juliet, Gopichand Malineni's Pandaga Chesko , Krishna Vamsi's Govindudu Andarivadele , Nithin and Karunakaran's Movie. She has also assisted in styling Allu Arjun and Kajal Aggarwal in Yevadu , Nithin and Yami Gautam in Courier Boy Kalyan , Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Pranitha Subhash in Jr NTR - Santosh Srinivas's project and Sudheer Babu in two songs from Aadu Magaadra Bujji . She was also a lyricist for few songs in the films Thikka, Chal Mohan Ranga and Miss India which are composed by S.S.Thaman.

Her debut directorial feature film, Telusu Kada featuring Siddhu Jonnalagadda, is scheduled for release in 2024. [5]

Filmography

Costume Designer

YearFilmLyrics
2013 Aadu Magaadra Bujji
Autonagar Surya
Ramayya Vasthavayya
Attarintiki Daredi
Heart Attack
Courier Boy Kalyan
Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde
Baadshah
2014 Alludu Seenu
Rabhasa
Power
Oka Laila Kosam
Govindudu Andarivadele
2015 Pandaga Chesko
2016 Thikka Vellipoke
2017 Mersal (Tamil)
Ninnu Kori
Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru (Tamil)
Velaikkaran (Tamil) [6]
2018 Thaanaa Serndha Koottam (Tamil)
Irumbu Thirai (Tamil)
Chal Mohan Ranga Miami
Saamy Square (Tamil)
2019 NGK (Tamil)
2020 Miss India Naa Chinni Lokkammea

Director

Key
Denotes films that have not yet been released
YearFilmNotesRef
2024 Telusu Kada Debut as feature film director [7]

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