This story is from February 03, 2023
Film actors and actresses getting divorced is not a new phenomenon across the film industries and the globe. Not just the actors, singers, musicians, and other technicians, but writers and directors who talk a lot about love and marriage in their movies couldn’t safeguard their marital relationships. Ahead of 2023 Valentine’s day let's have a look at Telugu film directors whose marriages didn’t pass the testing times.
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Known for his crime dramas and gangster films Ram Gopal Varma discussed much love and marriage in a few of his films such as 'Shiva' 1989, 'Prema Katha' 1999, and 'Love Ke liye Kuch Bhi Karega' 2001. Got Married to Ratna and had been together for long until their daughter grew up and Ramu reportedly divorced her a few years before of his daughter's marriage and both of them reportedly live alone.
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Tollywood director Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi aka Krish who made multi-genre films in multiple languages got married to a Telugu doctor based in Hyderabad and is now rumoured to have divorced her over compatibility issues. Currently, he is directing a Pan-India film ‘Hari Hara Veera Mallu’ starring Powerstar Pawan Kalyan in the lead role. Krish married Ramya Velaga in 2016 is reported to have separated from her with mutual consent in 2021.
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Veteran director K.Raghavendra Rao’s son, Screenwriter and director Prakash Kovelamudi who made films such as ‘Once Upon a Warrior’ (2011), ‘Size Zero’(2015), and award-winning 2004 film ‘Bommalata’, tied the knot to a Mumbai-based film writer Kanika Dhillon grandly in Hyderabad after dating each other. However, their marriage didn't last long as within four years of their marriage, Kanika Dhillon divorced Prakash and married fellow writer, Himanshu Sharma in the year 2021.
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‘Love Failure ' (2012) writer-director Balaji Mohan who married Aruna in 2012 in an arranged marriage setup, divorced her a year later and remarried actress Dhanya Balakrishna in 2022 after being single for almost a decade. He is said to be born to a Telugu father and Tamil mother settled in Chennai. Dhanya worked as an his assistant on couple of his films before becoming his 2nd wife.
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Tamil-Telugu director AL Vijay who made Telugu films such as Abhinetri in 2016, Kanam in 2018, and Abhinetri 2 in 2019 got married to actress Amala Paul in 2014 after being in a relationship with her for a period. However, the marriage could only last for 3 years and they parted ways due to reasons known to them. Later, AL Vijay married R.Aishwarya in 2019.
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Tamil – Telugu Director Selva Raghavan who worked with Sonia Agarwal in back-to-back films, married her in 2006. Unfortunately, the marriage could only last for 4 years. After divorcing Sonia, Selva married Gitanjali Raman in the year 2011. Currently, he has 3 children with Gitanjali.
There are a few other film directors who too have been in news multiple times rumoured to have been separated or applied for divorce such as Tollywood's writer-director Srinu Vaitla, and Malayali director Priyadarshan who made straight Telugu films such as 'Nirnayam' with Nagarjuna and 'Gaandeevam' with Balakrishna.
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