Venkateswara Rao Paruchuri

Acting

Venkateswara Rao Paruchuri

Born 1944-06-21 · Meduru,Pamidimukkala, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, India

Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao (born June 21, 1944) is an acclaimed Indian screenwriter, dialogue writer, playwright, director, and actor in Telugu cinema. Alongside his younger brother, Paruchuri Gopala Krishna, he forms the legendary Paruchuri Brothers writing duo. Together, they have written stories, screenplays, and dialogues for over 350 films, shaping commercial blockbusters such as Khaidi (1983), Karthavyam (1990), Samarasimha Reddy (1999), and Indra (2002). A multi-time Nandi Award winner, he has also directed feature films and appeared in dozens of notable character and supporting roles across the Telugu film industry.

Acting credits

Nene Raju Nene Mantri poster
6.3

Nene Raju Nene Mantri is the story of Radha Jogendra and the love of his life, Radha. His whole world revolves around her and he can go to any lengths to make her happy. But what happens when such profound love takes the shape of cavernous ambition?

Nene Raju Nene Mantri

2017

Coolie No. 1 poster
6.5

Raju, a hardworking coolie who seeks revenge on an arrogant heiress, Ranjani, after she wrongly accuses him of rape and sends him to jail, leading to a clash between them.

Coolie No. 1

1991

Govindudu Andarivaadele poster
4.7

Balaraju, the head of his village, lives with his wife Baby along with his two sons Chandrasekhar Rao and Bangari and two daughters. He helps Chandrasekhar become a doctor and builds a local hospital. On the day it opens, Chandrasekhar comes back home with his lover Kausalya, also a doctor. Both express their wish to marry and settle abroad, which upsets Balaraju, leading to their separation. 25 years later, Chandrasekhar, a successful doctor in London, tells the story to his son Abhiram and daughter Indu. Abhiram decides to go home to Balaraju and attempt a reconciliation. He meets his friend, Bunny, at the airport and goes to the village on Bunny's bike the next day.

Govindudu Andarivaadele

2014

Andarivaadu poster
5.2

Andarivaadu (Telugu: అందరివాడు) is a 2005 Tollywood comedy film directed by Srinu Vytla. The film stars Chiranjeevi, Rimi Sen, Tabu and Prakash Raj. This movie was a hit. Govinda Rajulu (Chiranjeevi) is a 'mesthri' who drinks a lot and lives a care-free life. His son Siddartha (Chiranjeevi), on the other hand, is a popular TV show host and is a more disciplined man — the opposite of his dad. The son gets his father married to Shanti (Tabu) to sober him.

Andarivaadu

2005

Mukunda poster
6.4

Set in a small town in Andhra Pradesh, the film revolves around a youngster, Mukunda, who challenges the domination of the Municipal Chairman and the rest of the story is about how he ends up inspiring everyone around him.

Mukunda

2014

Rainbow poster
NR

Director Aditya probably made "Rainbow" under the assumption that there would be a golden pot at the end of this one, based of hero Rahul's track record, but sadly that is not the case.

Rainbow

2008

Desamuduru poster
5.1

After Bala, who works for a TV channel, gets into trouble with a goon, he is sent away for an out-of-town assignment. There he meets and falls in love with a girl who gets kidnapped by a gangster.

Desamuduru

2007

No artwork available
5.0

A young man tries to save the girl he loves and her village from a cruel landlord.

Sri

2005

Dharma Daata poster
8.0

Raja Raghupathi Rao, a generous Zamindar of Sripuram, iswell-renowned for his charity & humanity, and leads a happy family life with his wife, Susheela, sister Lakshmi, and two sons, Shekar & Chakravarthy. Meanwhile, Bhageswaram Zamindar Bhujangam Rao, envious of Raghupathi Rao, wants to grab his property by coupling his son Raju with Lakshmi.

Dharma Daata

1970

Allari Ramudu poster
4.7

Chamundeswari, a headstrong lady, loves money, ignores human relationships and even dominates her family. When her daughter falls in love with a house helper, she tries everything to separate them.

Allari Ramudu

2002

Sindhooram poster
6.3

The story about how a young man (Brahmaji) in a village who wants to become a police officer ends up becoming a terrorist.

Sindhooram

1997

Race Gurram poster
6.8

Ram and Lakshman, aka Lucky, are brothers who are polar opposites in nature. Their mother wishes to see them united.

Race Gurram

2014

DJ: Duvvada Jagannadham poster
5.8

A righteous young man who helps everyone gain their rightful justice, gets recruited as an undercover agent to work on a high profile case that involves a crime lord working for a corrupt minister who also happens to be the father of his romantic interest.

DJ: Duvvada Jagannadham

2017

No artwork available
NR

Rama Swamy (Prabhu) and Ravindra Babu (Nagababu) are childhood friends who stay together. Their kids Karthik (Sumanth) and Nidhi (Rhea) are of the same age but they hate each other and torment each other by playing pranks. After a while, Nidhi is sent abroad for her further studies. After a gap of 12 years, Nidhi comes back and meets Karthik at a family function. It’s love at first sight for Karthik, but he hides his identity. Slowly Nidhi comes to know the truth, and in the process, falls for Karthik’s charms. Just when everything seems rosy, Nidhi’s family wants her to marry someone else. The rest of the story is about how Karthik solves all the issues and wins his love.

Tuneega Tuneega

2012

Kathalo Rajakumari poster
10.0

Arjun is a superstar, famous for his roles as a menacing villain in many films. Shourya is an actor who doesn't get enough recognition despite playing roles of a justice-seeking hero on screen. What happens when the line between real life and reel blur for Arjun? Can his childhood friend, Sita, show him a way out?

Kathalo Rajakumari

2017

Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana poster
6.9

Siri and Santosh fall in love with each other and plan to get married. However, his mother disapproves of their relationship.

Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana

2005

Manasantha Nuvve poster
7.5

Anu (Baby Zeeba) and Chanti (Master Anand Vardhan) are childhood friends at Araku Valley. Anu is a daughter of a wealthy government official and Chanti is the son of a poor widow. Anu leaves Chanti at the age of 8 when her parents shift to Vizag. Later on Chanti loses his mother. Mohan Rao (Chandra Mohan) gets hold of Chanti renames him as Venu and adapts him. Anu (Reema Sen) and Venu (Uday Kiran) grows up at their respective places. Anu finishes her higher studies in Malaysia and returns. Venu does also single-mindedly waits for Anu. Anu starts writing a serial named 'Manasanta Nuvve', which contains her live story, in Swaty magazine hoping that Chanti would read it comes back to her. But she keeps her pen name as Renu, so that her anonymity could be protected (in the serial the heroine's name is Anu and hero's name is Chanti).

Manasantha Nuvve

2001

Saranam Gacchami poster
NR

A young man who is a journalistic scholar researches caste-based reservations in great detail. He strives to implement long-lasting solutions for the upliftment of the downtrodden.

Saranam Gacchami

2021

Maska poster
5.9

Krish is a happy-go-lucky guy who lives with his brother and sister-in-law. He woos a girl named Manju. Manju happens to be the daughter of a Mla Simhachalam. Krish's only intention is to become rich by marrying her and doesn't have any feelings whatsoever toward her. He also meets a girl called Meenakshi, aka Meenu ; he starts to like her for real and falls in love with her. Meanwhile, Simhachalam and Shinde run against each other in a presidential election in Delhi. Shinde is a man of misdeeds. Shinde tries to find faults in Simhachalam's personal life so that he can expose him in front of the high command of the party, so that his route will be clear to get the party ticket. Shinde comes to learn that Simhachalam has another wife (Sita) and a daughter who live in Hyderabad. He sends his men to find them. .

Maska

2009

Manamantha poster
7.0

Sairam, an assistant manager in a supermarket treads on an unethical path for a promotion, leading to dire consequences. Gayatri a thrifty housewife manages her middle class household. Mahitha's friend, a street child goes missing and she goes out of her way to find him. Abhiram, the bright student falls in love with Aira and pursues her. Four stories seemingly unrelated are all bound by one string called family.

Manamantha

2016

Drushyam poster
7.8

Rambabu, a cable operator, lives with his beloved wife Jyothi and two daughters. One day, his family inadvertently gets involved in a grave crime and he must go to great lengths to protect them.

Drushyam

2014

Goutham Nanda poster
6.4

Goutham is a billionaire and his father gives him a year’s time to enjoy his life to the fullest. The deal between the two is that after a year, he’ll take over his father’s businesses. The catch is that, beneath his seemingly perfect life, Goutham is clueless about what happiness or hunger feels like. On the other hand, Nanda, who hails from a lower-middle class background, wants to die rich and his father keeps criticising his aspirations.One fine day, Goutham and Nanda bump into each other, and since both of them are quite vexed up with their respective lives & they decide to swap their places to lead a new life for 30 days.

Goutham Nanda

2017

Sainikudu poster
6.2

Siddharth strives to help flood victims and saves the relief material from falling into the wrong hands. This sets off a war between him and a corrupt politician, which leads to many twists and turns.

Sainikudu

2006

Collector Gari Bharya poster
NR

Indira, a smart woman, is dissatisfied with her role as a housewife. However, when she meets an old friend, she gets motivated to accomplish something even if it means going against her husband.

Collector Gari Bharya

2010

Behind the camera

Indra poster
6.5

A man embarks on a quest to make peace between two families fighting over the water problem in their district. In a bid to solve this crisis, he agrees to marry a girl from the rival family.

Indra

2002

Allari Ramudu poster
4.7

Chamundeswari, a headstrong lady, loves money, ignores human relationships and even dominates her family. When her daughter falls in love with a house helper, she tries everything to separate them.

Allari Ramudu

2002

Sultan poster
6.7

Sultan is a action oreinted movie in which, Balakrishna played dual roles in this movie (Sultan and Prutivi) where as Krishna played a role CBCID officer.story of the movie is about Sultan who is currently wanted person in police list because of his crimes done to the society and Sekhar (Krishna) is given the task of nabbing Sultan. Rest of the movie about how sultan escapes from CBI officers.

Sultan

1999

Maa Voori Magaadu poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Maa Voori Magaadu

1987

Mundhadugu poster
10.0

Misunderstandings arise between two brothers because of their different ideologies. So their sons turns out to be enemies. They need to overcome all the misunderstandings to get united again.

Mundhadugu

1983

Kuch Tum Kaho Kuch Hum Kahein poster
7.2

Two feuding neighbouring families are brought together to celebrate the wedding anniversary of Vishnupratap Singh (Vikram Gokhale) and his wife (Farida Jalal), much to the dislike of Rudra Pratap (Sharad Kapoor). During this get together Abhayendra Singh (Fardeen Khan) falls in love with Mangala Solanki (Richa Pallod). Abhayendra comes to know of the background of the two families' feud, and makes attempts to reconcile the two families - with disastrous results.

Kuch Tum Kaho Kuch Hum Kahein

2002

Balachandrudu poster
5.0

Balachandra, a branded terrorist, seeks revenge for the brutal murder of his father. However, he has to join forces with police officer Ranjit Kumar to punish a group of smugglers

Balachandrudu

1990

Pournami poster
5.7

A dancer trains for an event where she has to perform a special dance in Lord Shiva's temple. But when she suddenly disappears, her younger sister Chandrakala decides to learn the dance.

Pournami

2006

Suryam poster
4.0

A man sets out to fulfil his mother's last wish after serving his term in a juvenile detention center for a murder he did not commit.

Suryam

2004

Allari Pidugu poster
2.0

Allari Pidugu is a action based movie Directed by Jayanth C paranji.Charkavarthy (Puneet Issar), has two sons Giri and Ranjith (both played by Balakrishna). Giri is the younger one, who is the village Romeo and in love with his cousin Subbalakshmi (Charmy). Ranjith turns into an ACP and meets his match Swathi (Katrina Kaif). GK (Mukesh Rushi) is a member of the parliament, whose anti-social activities are contained by Ranjith. Also, Chakravarthy who spends 14 years in prison after falsely charged by GK in a case is released. GK plans to take revenge on the family. But, the person who comes to the rescue of the family and the people threatened by the villain’s plans is Giri. The story is on how he ends as winner, by saving lives and winning respect from his father.

Allari Pidugu

2005

No artwork available
7.0

A gangster with a good heart, shunned by his own family, saves a young woman whose love tempts him to risk everything he’s learned to fear.

Makutamleni Maharaju

1987

Koduku Diddina Kapuram poster
6.7

Chakravarthy and Sasirekha gets married. But false allegations on Chakravarthy regarding a murder creates misunderstandings between them. Their sons who are identical twins, decides to reunite their parents.

Koduku Diddina Kapuram

1989

Preminchukundam Raa poster
6.3

The film starts off with the killing of two lovers by Veerabadrayya who is a Rayalaseema factionist and is against love marriages. Giridhar goes to Kurnool, to his sister’s house where he falls in love with their young and beautiful neighbor Kaveri. She too falls in love with Giri. Kaveris father, none other than Veerabadrayya himself comes to know about their affair and as expected resents, so Giri escape with Kaveri. Veerabadrayya sends his goons in their chase. Finally what happens forms the rest of the story?

Preminchukundam Raa

1997

Anasuya poster
6.2

A spine-chilling suspense thriller about a cat and mouse game between a budding journalist and motivated serial killer.

Anasuya

2007

Sreeram poster
NR

Sreeram's ambition to become a police officer is in jeopardy when he has a fight with Encounter Shankar, a corrupt police officer, when he misbehaves with his girlfriend.

Sreeram

2002

Kodama Simham poster
6.0

Chiranjeevi has to get back the treasures hidden by his father by fighting the bad guys to release his mother from jail.

Kodama Simham

1990

Muta Mestri poster
7.0

A commoner catches the attention of the Chief Minister of a state when he takes on a criminal to protect the rights of vegetable sellers. Impressed, the Chief Minister asks him to enter politics, which he soon does, but there is a price to pay.

Muta Mestri

1993

Saahasa Veerudu Saagara Kanya poster
3.7

A man sets out to find a treasure that is buried deep beneath the sea. Bhairavi, a witch, tells him that only a mermaid will be able to help him acquire the treasure.

Saahasa Veerudu Saagara Kanya

1996

Nee Sneham poster
4.0

Madhav (Uday Kiran) and Seenu (Jatin) are neighbors and best buddies. They play football representing the AP team. During their trip to Calcutta, Seenu gets injured in order to save Madhav from an accident. Doctors say that Seenu is unfit to play football and he can walk only by using a walking stick. Seenu takes a vow from Madhav that he should not tell anybody that he was injured while saving Madhav. Amrutha (Arti Agarwal) is a middle class girl who is raised by their grand parents (K Viswanath and Sujatha). Madhav happens to see Amrutha one fine day and falls in love with her. …… If I start telling the relationships and complexity of the relations, you would complain to me after watching the film that I deprived you of enjoying the happenings on the screen. So let me stop writing the story line and start jumping into actor's performance department.

Nee Sneham

2002

Majboor poster
5.3

Honest retired Judge Justice Deenanath live a happy life-style with his wife and two sons, advocate Ravi and inspector Sunil. One day Ravi brings home a poor girl Sharda to rehabilitate as she has no place to live after her dad expires. The family takes a liking to Sharda and subsequently arranges Ravi and Sharda's wedding. But on the wedding day a jailbird Jankidas suddenly arrives; claiming Sharda to be his wife and providing evidence to prove as such. Everyone is shocked including the Mayor, Kishanchand. Hereafter nothing is the same for the family anymore with Deenanath passing away out of shock; Ravi leaves the house, gets married to Sharda, gets into a fight with Jankidas which ended up leaving one of his henchman dead and is subsequently arrested by his younger brother inspector Sunil.

Majboor

1989

Khaidi Rudrayya poster
8.5

Rudramaraju, alias Rudrayya is arrested for brutally hacking a local thug. The judge however frees him with some hidden agenda. It is revealed that Rudraiah had given shelter to Latha, the adopted daughter of a wealthy Easwara Rao, when the latter was forced into marrying the good-for-nothing Venkatagiri by her uncle Phanibhushan Rao.

Khaidi Rudrayya

1986

Sakhiya poster
4.0

A youngster's family is in financial trouble and is helped by a factionist as he saves her from a rival gang. He then gets into a deal with her for the entire amount but is cheated.

Sakhiya

2004

Chali Cheemalu poster
NR

Chali Cheemalu is a 1978 Telugu film directed by Devadas Kanakala. The film stars Nutan Prasad, Rallapalli and S. P. Sailaja. Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao, elder of the Paruchuri Brothers entered the Telugu cinema field as writer. Novel of Mandha Venkata Ramana Rao was developed into a full-length movie by their writing skills. Nutan Prasad’s catch phrase Notokka jillaala andagaadni became popular among the Telugu audience. The film won two Nandi Awards.

Chali Cheemalu

1978

Bobbili Raja poster
6.6

Raja, a common man, and Rani, the daughter of a powerful minister, are brought together by the forest.

Bobbili Raja

1990