Sekhar Kammula

Sekhar Kammula is an Indian film director screenwriter actor and producer known for his works exclusively in Telugu cinema As a Master of Fine Arts holder from Howard University he made his directorial debut with the independent film Dollar Dreams 2000 which was a critical success and won him the National Film Award for Best First film of a director The film was screened at the International Film Festival of India Kammula has garnered two Filmfare Awards South and six state Nandi Awards for his works Kammula was among the directors delegation to represent Indian Cinema at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival His second film Anand was a blockbuster in 2004 His next film Godavari was praised by critics and was a hit Happy Days which was released on 28 September 2007 was declared a smash hit It was remade in Tamil and Kannada He was a writer for Tamil version which was released in 2010 He then directed Leader released on 19 February 2010 to positive reviews