Posani Krishna Murali

Posani Krishna Murali (born 22 January 1958) is an Indian screenwriter, actor, director and producer who primarily works in Telugu cinema.

He worked as a writer for over 150 Telugu films and directed a number of films.

Posani was born on 22 January 1958 in Pedakakani, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh.

His father Posani Subba Rao worked as a small-time employee in Pedakakani and his mother was a housewife.

He has an elder sister Rajyalakshmi and a younger sister Prameela.

He also has a younger brother Posani Amar Bhosale.

He is the cousin of Boyapati Srinu.

Growing up, Posani's family struggled financially and his father was not educated and wanted Posani to study well so that he could have a better life.

Posani did his schooling in a small village in Guntur district and went on to do his BComm.

He joined Acharya Nagarjuna University in Guntur and graduated with an MA degree.

During his time in Nagarjuna University, he was elected as the general secretary for the student body.

After completing his master's degree, he worked in a small chit fund company in Hyderabad.

He was offered a job in Margadarsi Chit Fund.

After a year of working there, he resigned his job and went back to Guntur.

Posani, saddened and distressed after his father's untimely death, went to Chennai to find work.

With no friends in Chennai, Posani met Paruchuri Gopala Krishna at his home and asked him for work.

Gopal Krishna gave him an opportunity to work as an assistant under him.

Posani later joined Presidency College and graduated with a MPhil degree, which was his second master's degree.

He wanted to obtain a PhD degree.

Although he joined a college to do so, he later discontinued his studies because of his work.

He joined as an assistant writer under the writing duo Paruchuri Brothers.

While he was still working under them and pursuing his MPhil degree in Madras, Ram Gopal Varma asked him to write dialogues for one of his films.

Posani declined the offer and told Ram Gopal Varma that he still had a lot to learn from the Paruchuri Brothers and he wasn't ready to take up a film on his own.

Posani worked for five years under the Paruchuri Brothers assisting them in over 100 films.

In 1992, he finally quit as assistant writer to further his career.

He played a small cameo role in the 1992 Telugu film Dharma Kshetram.

He landed a job of writing story and dialogues for the film Police Brothers under the direction of Mohan Gandhi.

Also Ram Gopal Varma gave him an opportunity to write dialogues for his 1993 film Gaayam.

Varma also recommended Posani to Nagarjuna, which led him to write for the film Rakshana.

He was also given a breakthrough opportunity to write for Chiranjeevi's Alluda Majaka directed by E. V. V. Satyanarayana.

He wrote the story, dialogues and screenplay for the film.

He continued working in successful films such as Pavithra Bandham, Thaali, Preminchukundam Raa, Pellichesukundam, Gokulamlo Seetha, Sivayya, Ravanna and Master.

In 1999, he worked as a writer for eight films, the highest by any Telugu writer in that year.

In 2000, he worked as a writer for nine films.

In 2001, while still busy as a writer, he began his acting career with Srihari's Evadra Rowdy for which he also wrote the story and screenplay.

In 2002, his second film as an actor Gemini starring Venkatesh was released.

The same year also saw Posani in Mahesh Babu's Bobby which was directed by Sobhan.

Although the film was a failure at the boxoffice, Posani's performance in the film was praised.

He continued to appear in films such as Good Boy and Bhadradi Ramudu.

In 2009, he also contested in Andhra Pradesh state legislative assembly elections from Chilakaluripet constituency but lost the elections.