Teja: The Journey of an Author

Many of the youngsters will not have a proper dream and always has an oscillation of mindset in their minds. Same comes to the point of this particular guy named, Teja.

He is a brilliant and topper student in schools during his 11th and 12th. Despite being an avid book reader and having been known for his crispy writing styles, Teja never realizes his own talent and instead prefers to join the Indian Army, since he considers story writing as his hobby career.

However, his father Rathnaswamy, a retired Army brigadier, realizes how much talented is his son and decides to make him enrolled in Visual communications so that, he will learn the method of writing stories and directing those things. Initially, Teja disagrees to his father's words, because the dreams of Indian Army haunts Teja still.

However, Teja eventually agrees having been touched with his talent of writing the stories. In order to decrease his weights and heights, Teja takes up NCC and gets trained physically through rigorous and vigorous methods of exercises. Later, he takes up martial arts training and makes himself stronger by physically as well as mentally.

In colleges during the competition times, where famous directors like Mani Rathnam, Gautham Menon use to take part, meets Teja and they were impressed with his story writing skills and are further impressed, with his screenwriting techniques. Hence, Teja's English teacher, praised him as "Wizard of Words."

Having studied Visual communication for three years, Teja took up his post-graduation in Animations and graphic designs, where he learned the method of film-making. After this, Teja is further motivated by his parents to do a film in his college programs in-order to test himself.

Teja agrees to this, and his short film on Child abuse impressed his friends and teachers after which, he was met by film directors of Telugu and Tamil Industries to write screen play for them, to which Teja agrees to do, once after he finishes his course.

During the period of course, Teja learned Super 35 and other concepts that were related to the film making. After finishing up his studies, Teja worked as a Visual effects designer for three years and later on, he joined the film industry by meeting Director Rajesh Mehra, for whom he wrote screenplays for about five films. Later, Teja worked as an assistant director for some more directors and in-further worked as a Visual designer for director S.S.Rajamouli.

After this, Teja was asked to make a cameo appearance in a Telugu film, Goodachari, based on spy story. After this, he played a supporting role in Telugu film, Maharshi and antagonist in Robertt. Later on, Teja decided to make his directorial debut with his story, Shatabdi: The journey of love.

He decides to make this as a bilingual film being made in Tamil and Telugu languages. In this romantic-drama film, he introduces several other new faces to the film industries especially his close friend Guna, who aspired to act in cinema industry and was his close friend from childhood and a Brahmin guy, Akilesh, who wanted to become a musician and some other old cinematographers and stunt directors for his first film while, his relative Damu produces this film.

Teja faced several hurdles for this film since, the producers were reluctant to take up his film stories and it took a 3-long months for himself and it was his relative, who gave him the support for making this film.

Being the first film, its unique storyline was praised and won positive response from critics and both the versions were successful thus, becoming as one of the highest grossing films of the year. He won two awards as the Best director given by Nandi and IIFA Screen festivals.

Besides Teja, Guna and Akhilesh won Best debut Actor and Best debut music director respectively, particularly due to the music composing style of Akhilesh. Supporting characters Krishna, who too is Teja's friend, won Best Supporting actor award while, the female lead, Darshini, who is Teja's niece won, Best Debut Actress award under Nandi award screen.

Pertaining to the film's success, Teja's films were remade into several other languages and after two years, Teja again came back to the film called Police War: The Beginning, which he wished to make as his first film, but on the request of his friend Guna, who felt it as a negative point, he made the romance story as his first debut. 

Again, Teja brings the actors like, Rishi Khanna and Aravinth to this film after his first film friends refuse to act in the film because, they were busy with other project ventures, shortly after the first film of Teja.

In the media, Teja tells this film to be based on Undercover police officer in a mission to trap the dangerous criminal, in a mission to destroy India. This film was released on all over South Indian states and it received rave reviews from critics, who mentioned it as the "Realistic and career-high film." Teja won the Santhosam award for Best Director in Telugu film festivals and Nandi Award for Best director was nominated for him in the Tamil and Kannada industry of which, he won the award by Kannada industry.

The other lead characters of the film also became a popular face in the South Indian Film Industry. In a media meeting, Teja reveals that, "It is at this time, he had become fluent with all the South Indian Languages and this helped him a lot."

Teja again made an Investigation trilogy stories which he told that, he will make on three different genres: Crime Thriller, Neo-Noir Action thriller and Tragedy Action thriller. The trilogies were praised for using high Super-35 throughout and for it's unique style and theme, thus again proving as an favorite director in 2025.

The next five years became a crucial point in Teja's life. Since, he met mixed point of success and failures. He was nationally recognized for his writing style. Besides, working in South Indian Film Industry, Teja also debuted with his Bollywood film industry in his Hindi debut, for the story, War: The sword to Fight, which he tells will release on Tamil also and this story became as the highest grossing films of 2032 and Teja received several accolades while, Guna became as the superstar from that year, whom he placed for this film.

While, Akhilesh became the stylish music director from this period, which he mentioned as the crucial times in his year. Now, Teja decided to direct his epic story Ganges: The Powerful empire. For this film, he brings the new actors like Ram and many other yesterday actors into the film and this has been made with a higher budget because of the use for visual effects and so many other processes.

After the release in all Indian languages like Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi, the film received highly positive reviews praising the performances and direction, thus becoming as the highest-grossing films of 2038. Teja won several accolades for this film.

After directing these films, Teja took a short break in his directorial career since, Guna wished to direct his comedy story and for writing screenplay to his friend, he decides to stop this for two years and his friend's film becomes a huge success praising for the slapstick and high doses of comedy.

Seeing to the success of his friend's first film, Teja continued to assist Guna for his next films based on Action-comedy and Crime-thrillers and those films are a huge success for Guna and Teja. Impressed with Guna's writing style, they decides to become joint directors and this time, Teja is going to direct a film on Operation Puttur.

This film received decent reviews and performed well at the box office. Later on, the directors continued to make films on patriotic, comedy and thriller themes and after this, Teja decides to stop directing serious themes and instead decides to make films on emotions and family sentiments to which, Guna agrees.

But, before they can make these films, the duo decides to finish their long dream of making a film on the basis of Interstate water sharing disputes which they names as Hometown: The journey, because the issues are based on their real incidents.

Based on the disputes between Chittoor and Meenakshipuram across Pollachi-Kerala borders in Tamil Nadu, the film received positive response praising for the realistic nature of the film and it was screened for the International film festival award and these joint directors received well acclaim for their writing style.

Teja becomes the most admired director in every part of India and is a reason for many of the actor's and other new faces to get developed, he didn't expect to like any publicity and besides doing films, he contributed so many of his money by running trusts where, he has adopted several orphan and disowned children, who are either blind, handicap and disabled ones.

Teja as the journey of film-maker and author had not only achieved his career-success but, he has also made his country and surrounding people happier, besides living a life for his happiness alone. Teja as a writer and film-maker will still continue his fruitful journey in a smooth and happier way…