Tharun Bhascker

Tharun Bhascker was born in Madras and brought up in Hyderabad. His father hails from Warangal while his mother is from Tirupati.[1] Bhasckar studied at Hyderabad Public School, and Swami Vivekananda Institute of Technology.[3][4] He later graduated from New York Film Academy.[5]

His father Uday Bhaskar died in 2015.[6] His mother Geetha Bhaskar made her acting debut in Sekhar Kammula-directed Fidaa (2017).[7]

Bhascker started his career with short films such as Anukokunda, and Sainma. Anukokunda was screen at the Cannes Film Festival.[8]

His first full length feature film was Pelli Choopulu (2016).[9][10] The film received National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu, and Bhasckar won Best Screenplay for Dialogues. The film was remade in Hindi as Mitron (2018), in Malayalam as Vijay Superum Pournamiyum (2019), and in Tamil as Oh Manapenne.

In 2018, Bhasckar played the role of Singeetham Srinivasa Rao in the biopic, Mahanati. His second directorial is the buddy comedy film Ee Nagaraniki Emaindhi (2018). Later in the year, he wrote the screenplay for the Zee5 web series, B. Tech.[11]

In 2019, Bhaskar made his debut in a lead role with Meeku Maathrame Cheptha.[12]

Bhasckar is married to Latha, co-founder of Miss Baker. She is a Telugu film industry production designer, handles both costumes and art for films and advertisements. She also worked as a production designer for Pelli Choopulu, Ee Nagaraniki Emaindi and U Turn.