Personal Info:
Name: Vasu Manthena
Nick Name: Vasu
Date of Birth: 1 January 1970
Profession: Director
Height: 4.5”
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Biography:
Personal life:
Vasu Manthena was born on 1 January 1970. He is an Indian movie director working in the Telugu film industry.
Career:
He has directed the Telugu film Basthi which released in the year 2015. He was also the writer, Producer, and Screenplay writer of this movie starring lead actors Abhimanyu Singh, Pragathi, Shreyan, and many more. Being his first film, He tried his skill in writing and directing a love story with a mix of action sequences, but it is high on the love quotient. Vasu has bought the rights to direct a movie based on a book authored by Khushwant Singh and he is very versatile. He has stepped into different fields in his career life and he is known in the education field as he owns few institutions. He has also dabbled in ballet and theatre arts and he is not new to the television industry as he has started a news channel called iNews. After all these, Vasu stepped into filmmaking.
He is planning to make a mark internationally for which he acquired the rights of Khudhwant Singh’s novel The Company of Women. This movie is said to be made in English with the international casts, and it is produced by Vasu Manthena’s movie production company called Vazman Productions. The Company of Women is said to be a racy novel and given his reasons for choosing this novel as it is considered Khushwant Singh’s best work. He has also bought the right to remake hit Punjabi films in Telugu like Sardarji, Juliet 2, and Jat. He is also producing a biopic in the Hindi language. He has made ventures in the USA, India, and even Africa and his most successful venture was the start-up of news channel iNews, but in 2011, he left the channel.
Although he had no experience whatsoever in the TV or Film industry, making news channels and films like Basthi was a very fulfilling experience for him. For his upcoming international flick, he is said to cast actors from Hollywood and Bollywood and is very keen on roping in Irrfan Khan for one of the characters who will all get selected through auditions. When asked if any Tollywood actors are in his interest, He dismissed it.

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