Trivikram Srinivas

Trivikram Srinivas (Telugu: త్రివిక్రమ్ శ్రీనివాస్) born Akella Trivikram Srinivas Sarma (November 7, 1972) is a dialogue writer turned screenwriter and film director in Telugu Cinema.

Trivikram was born in Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh into a Telugu Vaidiki Brahmins family. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Physics from DNR College in Bhimavaram.
His excellent teaching skills made an easy way for him to become a tutor.
While teaching comedian Gautam Raju’s children, he developed contacts in the industry. Swayamvaram was the first film for which he got a chance to frame dialogues. But the movie Nuvve Kavali released before that and became his debut with dialogues. The dialogues of his first releases which echo the most are Chirunavvutho, Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, Malliswari and Manmadhudu.
Nuvve Nuvve was his critically acclaimed directorial debut. But it was Athadu that strengthened his rank and position by roping in the Filmfare Best Director Award for him. He has also directed Jalsa. The director has done playback singing for Nuvve Nuvve.
Trivikram Srinivas has won the Nandi Award for Best Dialogue Writer five times for his dialogues in the movies Chiru Navvutho, Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, Nuvve Nuvve, Malliswari and Athadu.

Trivikram never had plans to write film dialogue, but instead had an interest in directing.Sunil, a friend and former roommate from college, introduced Trivikram to T.D.V. Prasad, who asked Trivikram to write the dialogue for the climax scene of the movie he was working on. Prasad, impressed with the result, then asked Trivikram to work as an assistant to director K. Vijaya Bhaskar. It was during this project the Trivikram received an offer to write dialogue for the movie Swayamvaram.
Although Swayamvaram was the first movie for which Trivikram wrote dialogue, but Nuvve Kavali, was released first. Trivikram went on to write dialogue for Chiru Navvutho, Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, Malliswari and Manmadhudu^.
And though known as a dialog writer, Trivikram also penned lyrics for the Oka Raju Oka Rani movie, and sang the song Computersu Artsu Scienceu in the film Nuvve Nuvve
Trivikram received critical acclaim for his directorial debut with the film Nuvve Nuvve, a movie dealing in depth with family sentiments along with high doses of comedy. This was followed by the critically acclaimed film Athadu, rated highly for its technical standards. Athadu collected a distributors' share of Rs.220 million in its total run, thus becoming the 2005 box office hit in Tollywood. Its satellite rights were sold for Rs.18 million. Following upon its initial recognition, the film was dubbed into Tamil, Malayalam, and Hindi, as well as being dubbed into Polish for a release in Poland as a Poszukiwany, becoming the first Telugu film released in Poland.
Trivikram's film Jalsa became the most anticipated film of the year 2008, with a release of 320 prints in 1000 theaters. The film's audio rights were sold to Aditya Music for 90 lakhs, the highest for a Telugu film ever in the recent times. Jalsa became a major hit at box office by grossing 30 Crores in its whole run. Jalsa was followed by Khaleja released on October 7, 2010, for which Trivikram directed Mahesh Babu in two Thums Up soft drink commercials to assist in promoting the film.
Trivikram provided the screenplay for the film, Theenmaar, starring Pawan Kalyan and Trisha Krishnan in a remake of Love Aaj Kal released in March 2011.
He gave lyrics for the film Oka Raju Oka Ranistarred by Raviteja & Namitha which was released in 2003.
He also shot Pepsi Commercial advertisement with Ram Charan Teja & Indian Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

He is married to Soujanya, niece of Sirivennala Seetha Rama Sastry.

DIRECTED MOVIES

• Nuvve Nuvve (2002)
• Athadu (2005)
• Jalsa (2008)
• Khaleja (2010)
• Julayi (2012)

As WRITER

• Swayamvaram (1999) (dialogue)
• Ninne Premistha (2000) (dialogue)
• Nuvve Kavali (2000) (dialogue)
• Chiru Navvutho (2000) (dialogue)
• Nuvvu Naaku Nachav (2001) (dialogue, story)
• Vasu (2002) (dialogue)
• Nuvve Nuvve (2002) (dialogue, story, screenwriter)
• Manmadhudu (2002) (dialogue, story)
• Oka Raju Oka Rani (2003) (Lyrics)
• Malliswari (2004) (dialogue, story)
• Athadu (2005) (dialogue, story, screenwriter)
• Jai Chiranjeeva (2005) (dialogue, story)
• Jalsa (2008) (dialogue, story, screenwriter)
• Khaleja (2010) (dialogue, story, screenwriter)
• Theenmaar (2011) (dialogue, screenwriter)
• Julayi (2012) (Story, Screenplay, Dialogues)