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Baskar

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Nationality Inde
Birth at Vellore (Inde)
Awards Nandi Awards

Baskar (Tamil: பாஸ்கர்) is a Telugu film director. In his early career, he worked as assistant director on films Bhadra and Arya. Dil Raju then gave him a chance to debut as director. His directorial debut was Bommarillu, which became a huge sensation in India and United States of America. His next venture, Parugu, released on 1 May 2008. Allu Arjun starred in the lead role and Dil Raju produced it.Orange was his next film,which gained some mixed response.Now he started his fourth film with Ram with title "Ongole Gitta" was released on Feb 1 2013, which was garned average response

A student of the Film and Television Institute of Tamil Nadu, Chennai and he is born in Vellore, Tamil Nadu.

Usually with

Prakash Raj
Prakash Raj
(7 films)
Dil Raju
Dil Raju
(2 films)
Brahmanandam
Brahmanandam
(3 films)
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Filmography of Baskar (10 films)

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Actor

Parugu
Parugu (2008)
, 2h46
Directed by Baskar
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Allu Arjun, Sheela, Poonam Bajwa, Prakash Raj, Subba Raju, Dhanraj
Rating70% 3.543773.543773.543773.543773.54377
Neelakanta (Prakash Raj) is a revered person in the village he resides whose daughters Subbalakshmi (Poonam Bajwa) and Meenakshi (Sheela) are more than anything for him in the world. Subbalakshmi loves a native called Errababu with whom she elopes on the night of her arranged marriage ceremony. Neelakanta's relative Chinnabbai (Subbaraju) suspects that Errababu's friends are involved in this and when interrogated brutally, they reveal that two more people Sarma from Ongole and Krishna (Allu Arjun) from Hyderabad also helped the couple to elope. By mistaken reference of initials in the names, P. Yagnanarayana Sarma (Sapthagiri) was kidnapped at Ongole while the original man was left unevoked. At Hyderabad, a drunk Krishna is kidnapped at night near his house who is notoriously known for being a nomad and an expert in escaping. They are literally imprisoned at the village's Temple and all of them plan to escape the next early morning by catching a train. While all others almost approach the train next morning, Krishna stops when he sees Meenakshi at an Anjaneya statue and falls in love with her though Meenakshi is unaware of his presence. They all are kidnapped yet again by Neelakanta's men there and are imprisoned in a small pent house near the main house of Neelakanta. Its doors remain closed an locked and only 3 windows are there where a man can see the entrance door of main house and the nearby flooring and parking area. While his friends are horrified, Krishna is not influenced by the fact that he is in love with a native of the village and on eloping with her, all of them have to face big trouble from the villagers. Meanwhile, Meenakshi tries to speak with them with an intention to find out details about Subbalakshmi and neither Krishna nor his friends can see her face because of the pent house's style of construction.
I Drink Your Blood, 1h23
Directed by David E. Durston
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Lynn Lowry, Baskar
Rating59% 2.952142.952142.952142.952142.95214
A Manson Family style cult conduct a bizarre Satanic ritual in the woods at night. A member notices a local girl, Sylvia, furtively watching the event. She had befriended a member, Andy, who invited her to watch. The angered group leader Horace Bones leads an assault on the girl.

Director

Ongole Githa
Directed by Baskar
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Ram Pothineni, Kriti Kharbanda, Ajay, Prakash Raj, Prabhu, Ahuti Prasad
Rating51% 2.561342.561342.561342.561342.56134
The film opens with Narayana (Prabhu) and his son escaping from a gangster (Abhimanyu Singh) who intend to kill them. The film then shifts to 2001 where a young boy named White, an orphan entering the Ongole market. He manages to catch the attention of many people including the chairman of the market, Adikeshavulu (Prakash Raj) who is god to the people of the market, with his tactical ways of business and establishes him as a Businessman there. Years later, White (Ram Pothineni), still a leading merchant in the market is the owner of four shops. On the innaugrational event of his fourth shop, he meets Sandhya a.k.a Sandy (Kriti Kharbanda), Adikeshavulu's daughter and falls for her. The MLA (Ahuti Prasad) wants to buy the market so he can shift it to a land on the outskirts of the city. During this it is also revealed that Adikeshavulu is not a good man but is pretending to be a good one. Whenever he returns home after difficultly pretending to be a good person he stands in front of the mirror and removes all of his clothes. Out of anger for Adikeshavulu not giving him the market, The MLA makes White the chairman of the market. Adikeshavulu beats the MLA to a pulp and makes him announce Adikeshavulu the chairman. When the White agrees on the condition that Adikeshavulu's daughter must marry him. Out of greed for the market, Adikeshavulu agrees and gets White and Sandy engaged. On the night after their engagement, White goes to Sandy's house to meet her. But she escapes from him and reaches outside the house with her grandmother and mother and complains on White. Just then, Adikeshavulu comes in drunk but controlled but White understands and goes away but his fatherlike business partner in a drunk mode reveals that White has a father who lives in Tripura. Adikeshavulu uses this information and sends his man Durga (Abhimanyu Singh) to find White's father. But at Tripura, Durga bumps into White while trying to kill an old enemy. It is now revealed that the 'old enemy' (Prabhu) is White's father and that White's real name is Dorababu. White's partner finds out and blames White of being the son of the person who murdered his family. It is now that White reveals his past. Years back, Narayana used to be the chairman of the Ongole market. Adikeshavulu was the brother of another man (Jaya Prakash Reddy), who envied Narayana and wanted his post. The man commits suicide as he could not get the post and taking pity, Narayana appoints Adikeshavulu his man and the market continues to prosper with Adikeshavulu pretending to be good. One day, Adikeshavulu starts collecting money from the sellers as the funds for building shelter and giving food for the sellers were insufficient. Narayana comes there, stops Adikeshavulu and tells him that he will give the money. Another man in the market who envies Narayana blames him of acting in front of the people and accuses him of telling Adikeshavulu to collect the money. But nobody believes him and continue to trust Adikeshavulu. Adikeshavulu kills the man along with Durga and it is revealed that it is he who killed his brother. White (Dorababu), decides now to take revenge. Meanwhile, Adikeshavulu kidnaps Narayana and decides to put him in a sack in the market and burn the market to ashes as he will get the insurance as profit. The market is burnt that night but White comes to save it and ends up chasing Adikeshavulu into the announcement office. There, Adikeshavulu reveals everything about himself, including the fact that he was the one who killed his brother, which White accidentally catches on the announcement mike. Everybody outside hears everything and charges at Adikeshavulu who ends up being killed by their beatings. The people welcome Narayana back in the market and finally he gets his post as market president back.
Orange
Orange (2010)
, 2h40
Directed by Baskar
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Ram Charan, Genelia D'Souza, Shazahn Padamsee, Sanchita Shetty, Prabhu, Srinivas Avasarala
Rating65% 3.2981153.2981153.2981153.2981153.298115
Set on the backdrop of Australia, the film opens with an angry Ram (Ram Charan), who just broke up with his girlfriend, narrating the story of his love life to a police officer, Abhishek Verma (Prakash Raj) as he defaces a graffiti of his lover while her father (Prabhu Ganesan) listens.
Parugu
Parugu (2008)
, 2h46
Directed by Baskar
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Allu Arjun, Sheela, Poonam Bajwa, Prakash Raj, Subba Raju, Dhanraj
Rating70% 3.543773.543773.543773.543773.54377
Neelakanta (Prakash Raj) is a revered person in the village he resides whose daughters Subbalakshmi (Poonam Bajwa) and Meenakshi (Sheela) are more than anything for him in the world. Subbalakshmi loves a native called Errababu with whom she elopes on the night of her arranged marriage ceremony. Neelakanta's relative Chinnabbai (Subbaraju) suspects that Errababu's friends are involved in this and when interrogated brutally, they reveal that two more people Sarma from Ongole and Krishna (Allu Arjun) from Hyderabad also helped the couple to elope. By mistaken reference of initials in the names, P. Yagnanarayana Sarma (Sapthagiri) was kidnapped at Ongole while the original man was left unevoked. At Hyderabad, a drunk Krishna is kidnapped at night near his house who is notoriously known for being a nomad and an expert in escaping. They are literally imprisoned at the village's Temple and all of them plan to escape the next early morning by catching a train. While all others almost approach the train next morning, Krishna stops when he sees Meenakshi at an Anjaneya statue and falls in love with her though Meenakshi is unaware of his presence. They all are kidnapped yet again by Neelakanta's men there and are imprisoned in a small pent house near the main house of Neelakanta. Its doors remain closed an locked and only 3 windows are there where a man can see the entrance door of main house and the nearby flooring and parking area. While his friends are horrified, Krishna is not influenced by the fact that he is in love with a native of the village and on eloping with her, all of them have to face big trouble from the villagers. Meanwhile, Meenakshi tries to speak with them with an intention to find out details about Subbalakshmi and neither Krishna nor his friends can see her face because of the pent house's style of construction.
Bommarillu
Bommarillu (2006)
, 2h48
Directed by Baskar
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Siddharth, Genelia D'Souza, Prakash Raj, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Jayasudha Kapoor, Satya Krishnan
Rating81% 4.095474.095474.095474.095474.09547
The film begins with a baby taking his first steps on a beach supported by his father. The narrator (Murali Mohan) states that, it is right for a father to support his child in his infancy, but questions whether the father should continue to hold the child's hand even after he is 24 years old. As the credits roll, a visibly angry Siddharth Siddhu Addala (Siddharth Narayan) begins verbally abusing all the fathers in the world. When queried about his disgust, he says that his father, Aravind (Prakash Raj), gives him more than what he asks for. He cites instances where his choices of dressing, hairstyle, and many others are overruled by his father's. However, he vows that his career and the woman he marries will be his own choice.

Scriptwriter

Heropanti
Heropanti (2014)
, 2h26
Genres Action, Romance
Actors Tiger Shroff, Kriti Sanon, Sandeepa Dhar, Prakash Raj, Vikram Singh, Sunil Grover
Roles Original Story
Rating52% 2.6021152.6021152.6021152.6021152.602115
Chowdary (Prakash Raj) is a very well known and respected man in his village. He is a very strict patriarch of the Jat family consisting of four brothers – Chowdary himself, Bhuppi (Samar Jai Singh), Pappi (K. C. Shankar) and Sukhi (Prashant Singh). On the night of her marriage, Renu (Sandeepa Dhar), the elder daughter of Chowdary, elopes with her boyfriend, Rakesh. Chowdary decides to find them at any cost.
It's My Life
Directed by Anees Bazmee
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Harman Baweja, Genelia D'Souza, Nana Patekar, Asrani, Anuradha Patel, Sanjay Kapoor
Rating54% 2.721032.721032.721032.721032.72103
Rohit (Harman Baweja) has an over-protective businessman father. Every decision in Rohit's life is taken by his father. This causes Rohit frustration. He half-heartedly agrees to become engaged to a rich man's daughter, but then falls for a middle-class young woman called Natalie (Genelia Deshmukh). The film focuses on Rohit's realization that he has to come out of his father's protective shell and try to live by his terms. Rohit also finally decides to speak to his father that, for once, he would like to do what his heart desires.
Ongole Githa
Directed by Baskar
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Ram Pothineni, Kriti Kharbanda, Ajay, Prakash Raj, Prabhu, Ahuti Prasad
Rating51% 2.561342.561342.561342.561342.56134
The film opens with Narayana (Prabhu) and his son escaping from a gangster (Abhimanyu Singh) who intend to kill them. The film then shifts to 2001 where a young boy named White, an orphan entering the Ongole market. He manages to catch the attention of many people including the chairman of the market, Adikeshavulu (Prakash Raj) who is god to the people of the market, with his tactical ways of business and establishes him as a Businessman there. Years later, White (Ram Pothineni), still a leading merchant in the market is the owner of four shops. On the innaugrational event of his fourth shop, he meets Sandhya a.k.a Sandy (Kriti Kharbanda), Adikeshavulu's daughter and falls for her. The MLA (Ahuti Prasad) wants to buy the market so he can shift it to a land on the outskirts of the city. During this it is also revealed that Adikeshavulu is not a good man but is pretending to be a good one. Whenever he returns home after difficultly pretending to be a good person he stands in front of the mirror and removes all of his clothes. Out of anger for Adikeshavulu not giving him the market, The MLA makes White the chairman of the market. Adikeshavulu beats the MLA to a pulp and makes him announce Adikeshavulu the chairman. When the White agrees on the condition that Adikeshavulu's daughter must marry him. Out of greed for the market, Adikeshavulu agrees and gets White and Sandy engaged. On the night after their engagement, White goes to Sandy's house to meet her. But she escapes from him and reaches outside the house with her grandmother and mother and complains on White. Just then, Adikeshavulu comes in drunk but controlled but White understands and goes away but his fatherlike business partner in a drunk mode reveals that White has a father who lives in Tripura. Adikeshavulu uses this information and sends his man Durga (Abhimanyu Singh) to find White's father. But at Tripura, Durga bumps into White while trying to kill an old enemy. It is now revealed that the 'old enemy' (Prabhu) is White's father and that White's real name is Dorababu. White's partner finds out and blames White of being the son of the person who murdered his family. It is now that White reveals his past. Years back, Narayana used to be the chairman of the Ongole market. Adikeshavulu was the brother of another man (Jaya Prakash Reddy), who envied Narayana and wanted his post. The man commits suicide as he could not get the post and taking pity, Narayana appoints Adikeshavulu his man and the market continues to prosper with Adikeshavulu pretending to be good. One day, Adikeshavulu starts collecting money from the sellers as the funds for building shelter and giving food for the sellers were insufficient. Narayana comes there, stops Adikeshavulu and tells him that he will give the money. Another man in the market who envies Narayana blames him of acting in front of the people and accuses him of telling Adikeshavulu to collect the money. But nobody believes him and continue to trust Adikeshavulu. Adikeshavulu kills the man along with Durga and it is revealed that it is he who killed his brother. White (Dorababu), decides now to take revenge. Meanwhile, Adikeshavulu kidnaps Narayana and decides to put him in a sack in the market and burn the market to ashes as he will get the insurance as profit. The market is burnt that night but White comes to save it and ends up chasing Adikeshavulu into the announcement office. There, Adikeshavulu reveals everything about himself, including the fact that he was the one who killed his brother, which White accidentally catches on the announcement mike. Everybody outside hears everything and charges at Adikeshavulu who ends up being killed by their beatings. The people welcome Narayana back in the market and finally he gets his post as market president back.
Orange
Orange (2010)
, 2h40
Directed by Baskar
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Ram Charan, Genelia D'Souza, Shazahn Padamsee, Sanchita Shetty, Prabhu, Srinivas Avasarala
Roles Story
Rating65% 3.2981153.2981153.2981153.2981153.298115
Set on the backdrop of Australia, the film opens with an angry Ram (Ram Charan), who just broke up with his girlfriend, narrating the story of his love life to a police officer, Abhishek Verma (Prakash Raj) as he defaces a graffiti of his lover while her father (Prabhu Ganesan) listens.
Santosh Subramaniam
Directed by Mohan Raja
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Jayam Ravi, Genelia D'Souza, Prakash Raj, Kirat Bhattal, Kausalya, Geetha
Roles Original Story
Rating74% 3.7421553.7421553.7421553.7421553.742155
A baby takes his first steps on a beach while the father supports him. The narrator states that it is right for a father to support his child in his infancy, but questions whether the father should continue to hold the child’s hand even after he is grown up. The son, Santosh (Jayam Ravi)—who is now 24 years old— becomes abusive while drunk, expressing contempt towards his father, Subramaniam (Prakash Raj). He complains that his father gives him more than what he asks for, and still chooses his clothes and hairstyle. Santosh vows that he will become an independent man, and select a career and future wife for himself.
Bhalobasa Bhalobasa, 2h35
Directed by Rabi Kinagi Adhikari
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Hiran Chatterjee, Srabanti Chatterjee, Laboni Sarkar, Kamalika Banerjee, Locket Chatterjee
Roles Original Story
Rating69% 3.471193.471193.471193.471193.47119
The film begins with a baby taking his initial steps on a beach while the father is supporting him. The narrator in the background (Prasenjit) states that, it is right for a father to support his child in his infancy, but questions whether the father should continue to hold the child’s hand even after he is 24 years old. As the credits roll, a visibly angry Siddhu (Hiran Chatterjee) begins uttering abuses at all the fathers in the world. When inquired about his disgust, he says that his father, Aravind (Sabyasachi Chakrabarty), gives him more than what he asks for. He cites instances where his choices of dressing, hairdo and many others are stashed away by his father’s. However, he vows that the two things that will be of his choice would be, his career and the woman he would marry.
Parugu
Parugu (2008)
, 2h46
Directed by Baskar
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Allu Arjun, Sheela, Poonam Bajwa, Prakash Raj, Subba Raju, Dhanraj
Roles Story
Rating70% 3.543773.543773.543773.543773.54377
Neelakanta (Prakash Raj) is a revered person in the village he resides whose daughters Subbalakshmi (Poonam Bajwa) and Meenakshi (Sheela) are more than anything for him in the world. Subbalakshmi loves a native called Errababu with whom she elopes on the night of her arranged marriage ceremony. Neelakanta's relative Chinnabbai (Subbaraju) suspects that Errababu's friends are involved in this and when interrogated brutally, they reveal that two more people Sarma from Ongole and Krishna (Allu Arjun) from Hyderabad also helped the couple to elope. By mistaken reference of initials in the names, P. Yagnanarayana Sarma (Sapthagiri) was kidnapped at Ongole while the original man was left unevoked. At Hyderabad, a drunk Krishna is kidnapped at night near his house who is notoriously known for being a nomad and an expert in escaping. They are literally imprisoned at the village's Temple and all of them plan to escape the next early morning by catching a train. While all others almost approach the train next morning, Krishna stops when he sees Meenakshi at an Anjaneya statue and falls in love with her though Meenakshi is unaware of his presence. They all are kidnapped yet again by Neelakanta's men there and are imprisoned in a small pent house near the main house of Neelakanta. Its doors remain closed an locked and only 3 windows are there where a man can see the entrance door of main house and the nearby flooring and parking area. While his friends are horrified, Krishna is not influenced by the fact that he is in love with a native of the village and on eloping with her, all of them have to face big trouble from the villagers. Meanwhile, Meenakshi tries to speak with them with an intention to find out details about Subbalakshmi and neither Krishna nor his friends can see her face because of the pent house's style of construction.
Bommarillu
Bommarillu (2006)
, 2h48
Directed by Baskar
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Siddharth, Genelia D'Souza, Prakash Raj, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Jayasudha Kapoor, Satya Krishnan
Roles Writer
Rating81% 4.095474.095474.095474.095474.09547
The film begins with a baby taking his first steps on a beach supported by his father. The narrator (Murali Mohan) states that, it is right for a father to support his child in his infancy, but questions whether the father should continue to hold the child's hand even after he is 24 years old. As the credits roll, a visibly angry Siddharth Siddhu Addala (Siddharth Narayan) begins verbally abusing all the fathers in the world. When queried about his disgust, he says that his father, Aravind (Prakash Raj), gives him more than what he asks for. He cites instances where his choices of dressing, hairstyle, and many others are overruled by his father's. However, he vows that his career and the woman he marries will be his own choice.