Harish Shankar is a film director and screenwriter who works in Telugu cinema. He is one of the successful directors introduced by Ravi Teja.
Harish Shankar was born in Dharmapuri, Karimnagar district to a Brahmin family. He spent his childhood in BHEL, Hyderabad. Throughout his early teen years, he used to act in many stage dramas across Andhra Pradesh conducted by the Drama Companies Seeta Nilayam and Lalitha kala Mandiram. In the next few years, he worked more on backstage writing, where he learned various aspects of writing such as dialogues, modulation, diction, and dialect.
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