Gunnam Gangaraju is an Indian producer, screenwriter, and director known for his works in Telugu cinema and Telugu television.
19 Facts About Gangaraju Gunnam
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Gangaraju Gunnam is best known as the creator and co-producer of the TV sitcom Amrutham, widely considered to be the greatest Telugu comedy TV series of all time.
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Gangaraju Gunnam received two National Film Awards for the films Aithe and Bommalata that he produced.
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Gangaraju Gunnam is the only son to his parents and has three sisters.
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Gangaraju Gunnam was put up in a boarding school at the age of five.
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Gangaraju Gunnam studied up to sixth standard in St Josephs Convent in Kakinada.
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Gangaraju Gunnam moved to Hyderabad along with his family at the age of ten.
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Gangaraju Gunnam received a Government of India scholarship and got into Hyderabad Public School.
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Gangaraju Gunnam finished his schooling and wanted to do medicine, but never got through.
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Gangaraju Gunnam waited for one year and joined Bachelor of Arts Literature at Andhra Loyola College in Vijayawada.
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Gangaraju Gunnam joined Master of Arts in English from Andhra University PG Centre, Kakinada.
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Gangaraju Gunnam worked as a door to door sales representative for Navbharath Cigarettes and later passed the Probationary officers exam in State Bank of India.
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Gangaraju Gunnam started to work as a copy-writer at his friend's advertising agency.
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Gangaraju Gunnam was interested in filmmaking but could not find the time.
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Gangaraju Gunnam priced his greeting cards at 15 per card, higher than the then market leader Hallmark Cards whose cards were priced at 9 per card.
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Gangaraju Gunnam wanted to improve upon the original and added a brother character and cast Tarun for the role.
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Gangaraju Gunnam said the hardest part about the film was making the three-year-old girl Kavya, who played one of the prominent characters in the film, to act.
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Gangaraju Gunnam feels the film would have performed better with a different publicity strategy.
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Gangaraju Gunnam mentioned the long shooting time as a reason for the film's losses.