Suryadevara Radha Krishna, also known as S. Radha Krishna or Chinna Babu, is an Indian film producer known for his works in Telugu cinema.^[1] He produces films under his production house, Haarika & Hassine Creations. Even though his other production house, Sithara Entertainments, is his own, his nephew, Suryadevara Naga Vamsi, mainly produces the films under the banner, while he presents them.

He made his film debut in 1988 by producing Aathmakatha, a Telugu remake of Mahesh Bhatt's 1985 film Janam.^[2][3][4] Years later, he associated with producer DVV Danayya, where he presented Julayi (2012),^[5] while Radha Krishna presented Cameraman Gangatho Rambabu (2012) and Naayak (2013). He then went on to form a long association with Trivikram Srinivas from Julayi (2012) and later produced his S/O Satyamurthy (2015), A Aa (2016), Agnyaathavaasi (2018), Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava (2018), and Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo (2020).^[6]

Production company

Haarika and Hassine Creations (d.b.a Haarika & Hassine Creations) is an Indian film production company based in Hyderabad. It was established by S. Radha Krishna in 2012. The company also has a subsidiary production company named Sithara Entertainments.^[7]

The company's debuted production was Julayi starring Allu Arjun, Ileana D'Cruz, Sonu Sood, Rajendra Prasad and directed by Trivikram Srinivas. Upon the release, the film positive reviews, and was commercially successful.^[8] The film has garnered the Nandi Award for Best Popular Feature Film.^[9] It was remade into Tamil titled as Saagasam (2016).^[10]

The company's second production was 2015 Telugu film S/O Satyamurthy collaborating with both Trivikram and Allu Arjun for the second time.^[11] In 2016, they produced A Aa, directed by Trivikram and starring Nithiin, Samantha Ruth Prabhu.^[12]

In 2018, the company produced 2 films. Agnyaathavaasi starring Pawan Kalyan and Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava starring N. T. Rama Rao Jr. and Pooja Hegde. Aravinda Sametha received positive response and was a blockbuster.^[13] The film was also nominated for SIIMA Award for Best Film – Telugu.^[14] The film collected 195 cores in box office worldwide.^[15]

The company's 2020 film Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo starring Allu Arjun, Pooja Hegde and Tabu became one of the highest grossing Telugu films of all time.^[16] The film received positive response from both critics and audience and won SIIMA Award for Best Film – Telugu and Sakshi Excellence Awards.^[17] Then the company produced the film Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo's Hindi remake, titled Shehzada directed by Rohit Dhawan.^[18]

Filmography

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