Caution: spoilers ahead. The directorial duo Raj and DK first met as Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK more than 20 years ago at an engineering...
Caution: spoilers ahead.
The directorial duo Raj and DK first met as Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK more than 20 years ago at an engineering college in Tirupati. In 2003, they made Flavors, the first of many films together. Their rock-solid partnership has endured through hits and misses and led them to the point where they have created the Amazon Prime Video web series The Family Man and set up their own company, D2R Films.
D2R Films recently produced the Telugu comedy Cinema Bandi, proof that the filmmakers are committed to backing independent-spirited projects. “We had been working with young writers and directors, helping them make their scripts better, mentoring them if they had a great idea,” Raj said. “D2R was a way of formalising what we had been doing for a long time. We invest our own money with the thought of making a film that will break some ground and hopefully find viewers, while taking into account that we may not make a single penny.”
The Family Man has transformed the fortunes of the filmmaking duo, who say they wrote the screenplay for Amar Kaushik’s box office hit Stree in a cafe. The second season pits Manoj Bajpayee’s intelligence agent Srikant Tiwari against three adversaries: holdover Islamic State terrorists from the first season,...
