Latest Gen Directors & The Jobs They Did Before Making Their Debut

Sandeep Reddy Vanga

Vanga worked as an apprentice for the film Manasu Maata Vinadhu in 2005 for 25 days at Rushikonda Beach, Vizag. 

He worked for a few Tollywood films, including Kedi (2010) as an assistant director with Kiran Kumar and Malli Malli Idi Rani Roju (2015) as associate director with Kranthi Madhav.

Lokesh Kanagaraj

Lokesh kanagaraj is an ex-bank employee. Before becoming filmmaker, he worked in a bank.

Vivek Athreya

Vivek Athreya is an Electronics Engineering graduate from Sastra University and worked at IBM, Chennai for five years before resigning to pursue a career as film director.

Karthik Subbaraj

Karthik Subbaraj started his career working as a software engineer in Bangalore working for Infosys.

Venkatesh Maha

Venkatesh Maha left his house at the age of sixteen and worked at various job. He worked as a spot boy for the movie Teen Maar

 Nag Ashwin

Nag Ashwin began his film industry career as an assistant director for the film Nenu Meeku Telusa…?. He has then worked as an assistant director with Sekhar Kammula for the films Leader and Life Is Beautiful.

Sailesh Kolanu

He is an associate professor in medicine at the University of New South Wales before making his debut with HIT: The First Case

Gowtham Tinnanuri

He worked as in Engineer in Accenture & then later in Deloitte.