V. V. Rajendra Kumar

Rajendra Kumar was born as Chalapathi Naidu in Koruturu, Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh, in 1932. He was often known in the film industry as V. V. R. Kumar. He assisted the National Film Award winning art director T. V. S. Sarma before working independently.

His first film as an art director was Chivaraku Migiledi[1] (1960). Apart from Telugu movies, he worked on 15 Tamil films by C. V. Sridhar's Chitralaya and V. C. Guhanathan. His first film as a producer was Mathru Murthy (1971) in partnership with Kandepi Satyanarayana. His second film as producer, Manushulanta Okkate (1976), was the first partnership of the director Dasari Narayana Rao and the actor Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao. The producer credit published for his films was V. Mahesh, who is his younger brother.

Kumar had two sisters named V. Sudarsanamma, S. Leelavathi, and a brother V. Mahesh who is a film and television producer and writer. Kumar was married and had three daughters named Suhasini, Sunandini and Shalini, and a son, V. Yajuvendra.

Below is a list of few films worked by Kumar as an art director. Apart from the below listed films, Kumar worked onn over 100 movies as publicity designer under his company Studio Roopkala.

• V.V. Rajendra Kumar's Photo
• Rajendra Kumar at Chithr.com