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Suryadevara Radha Krishna, also known as S. Radha Krishna or Chinna Babu, is an Indian film producer known for his works in Telugu cinema. [1] He produces films under his production house, Haarika & Hassine Creations. Even though his other production house, Sithara Entertainments, is his own, his nephew, Suryadevara Naga Vamsi, mainly produces the films under the banner, while he presents them.

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He made his film debut in 1988 by producing Aathmakatha, a Telugu remake of Mahesh Bhatt's 1985 film Janam . [2] [3] [4] Years later, he associated with producer DVV Danayya, where he presented Julayi (2012), [5] while Radha Krishna presented Cameraman Gangatho Rambabu (2012) and Naayak (2013). He then went on to form a long association with Trivikram Srinivas from Julayi (2012) and later produced his S/O Satyamurthy (2015), A Aa (2016), Agnyaathavaasi (2018), Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava (2018), and Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo (2020). [6]

Production company

Haarika and Hassine Creations
Haarika & Hassine Creations
Company typePrivately held company
IndustryEntertainment
Founded2012;12 years ago (2012) in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Headquarters
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
,
India
Key people
S. Radha Krishna
Suryadevara Naga Vamsi
Mamtha
ProductsFilms
OwnerS. Radha Krishna
Subsidiaries Sithara Entertainments
Website YouTube Channel

Haarika and Hassine Creations (d.b.a Haarika & Hassine Creations) is an Indian film production company based in Hyderabad. It was established by S. Radha Krishna in 2012. The company also has a subsidiary production company named Sithara Entertainments. [7]

The company's debut production was Julayi starring Allu Arjun, Ileana D'Cruz, Sonu Sood, Rajendra Prasad and directed by Trivikram Srinivas. Upon release, the film received positive reviews, and was commercially successful. [8] The film has garnered the Nandi Award for Best Popular Feature Film. [9] It was remade into Tamil titled as Saagasam (2016). [10]

The company's second production was 2015 Telugu film S/O Satyamurthy collaborating with both Trivikram and Allu Arjun for the second time. [11] In 2016, they produced A Aa , directed by Trivikram and starring Nithiin and Samantha Ruth Prabhu. [12]

In 2018, the company produced 2 films directed by Trivikram. Agnyaathavaasi starring Pawan Kalyan and Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava starring N. T. Rama Rao Jr. and Pooja Hegde. Aravinda Sametha received positive response and was a blockbuster. [13] The film was nominated for SIIMA Award for Best Film – Telugu. [14] The film collected 195 cores in box office worldwide. [15]

The company's 2020 film Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo starring Allu Arjun, Pooja Hegde and Tabu became one of the highest grossing Telugu films of all time. [16] The film received positive response from both critics and audience and won SIIMA Award for Best Film – Telugu and Sakshi Excellence Awards. [17] The company then produced Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo's Hindi remake, titled Shehzada directed by Rohit Dhawan. [18]

Awards and nominations

List of S. Radha Krishna awards and nominations
CeremonyYearCategoryNomineeResultRef.
Nandi Awards 2012 Best Popular Feature Film Julayi Won [9]
Filmfare Awards South 2017 Best Film – Telugu A Aa Nominated [19]
2022 Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo Nominated [20]
2024 DJ Tillu Nominated [21]
South Indian International Movie Awards 2013 Best Film – Telugu Julayi Nominated [22]
2017 A Aa Nominated [23]
2019 Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava Nominated [24]
2021 Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo Won [17]
Sakshi Excellence Awards 2021 Most Popular Movie Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo Won[ citation needed ]

Filmography

Key
†Denotes films that have not yet been released

As producer

List of S. Radha Krishna film credits as producer
YearTitleLanguageNotes
1988Aathma KathaTeluguExecutive producer
2012 Julayi Presented by DVV Danayya
2015 S/O Satyamurthy
2016 A Aa
2018 Agnyaathavaasi
Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava
2020 Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo Co-produced with Allu Aravind
2023 Shehzada HindiCo-produced with Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Aman Gill, Allu Aravind, Kartik Aaryan
2024 Guntur Kaaram Telugu
TBA AA22 †Co-produced with Geetha Arts [25] [26]

Sithara Entertainments

List of Sithara Entertainments film credits
YearTitleLanguageNotes
2016 Babu Bangaram Telugu
Premam Remake of Premam
2018 Sailaja Reddy Alludu
2019 Jersey
Ranarangam
2020 Bheeshma
2021 Rang De
Varudu Kaavalenu
2022 DJ Tillu Co-produced by Fortune Four Cinemas
Bheemla Nayak Remake of Ayyappanum Koshiyum
Jersey HindiCo-produced by Allu Aravind, Dil Raju, and Aman Gill; Remake of Jersey
Swathi Muthyam TeluguCo-produced by Fortune Four Cinemas
2023 Buttabomma TeluguCo-produced by Fortune Four Cinemas; Remake of Kappela
Tamil
Telugu		Co-produced by Fortune Four Cinemas
Mad Telugu
Aadikeshava
2024 Tillu Square
Gangs of Godavari
Lucky Baskhar
2025 Daaku Maharaaj
VD 12
Mass Jathara
Mad Square
AN 63
Magic
Anaganaga Oka Raju
2026 Kohinoor: Part 1
Funky
Akhil 6
As presenter
List of film credits as presenter
YearTitleLanguageNotes
2012 Cameraman Gangatho Rambabu TeluguProduced by DVV Danayya
2013 Naayak TeluguProduced by DVV Danayya
2014 Lovers TeluguProduced by Suryadevara Naga Vamsi and B. Mahendra Babu under Mayabazar Movies
As distributor
List of film credits as distributor
YearTitleLanguageNotes
2023 Jailer TamilDistributed Telugu dubbed version only
Leo Tamil
2024 Bramayugam Malayalam

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