Rajiv Chilaka
| Dr. Rajiv Chilaka రాజీవ్ చిలక |
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| Education | Osmania University, Hyderabad, India |
| Alma mater | Hyderabad Public School, University of Missouri – Kansas City |
| Occupation | Creator & director of animated tv & film |
| Organization | Green Gold TV |
| Notable work | Chhota Bheem |
| Home town | Hyderabad, India |
| Website | greengold |
Rajiv Chilaka (Telugu:రాజీవ్ చిలక) also known as Rajiv Chilakalapudi is the founder and MD of Hyderabad-based Green Gold Animation and the creator of a host of cartoon TV programs including Krishna cartoon series and Chhota Bheem which has now been made into an animated film. Chilaka, in a few of his interviews, has likened himself to the next Walt Disney and believes that his Chhota Bheem franchise to be a bigger crowd-puller and money-spinner than even the Indian Premier League. For his awe-inspiring work and pioneering acumen in presenting cartoons at affordable price, Chilika was conferred with an honorary doctorate of humane letters by the Academy of Art University, San Francisco in 2016. He was the recipient of the 2013 School of Computing and Engineering Alumni Achievement Award at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. Chilaka is the youngest son of noted technocrat Madhusudan Rao Chilaka and Ms. Chilaka.
Dr. Chilaka went to St. Georges Grammar School, Hyderabad. He later obtained a BE in Electronics and Telecommunications engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad in 1995 and went on to the University of Missouri - Kansas City for his master's degree in Computer Science. He then worked as a software engineer in Kansas City for three years, but in 2000 he switched courses to study animation at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. He has an elder brother, Srinivas Chilaka, who helps him in running Greengold.
In January 2001, Chilaka set up Green Gold Animation Pvt Ltd. According to a report in the Indian newspaper, The Hindu it is now "perhaps the largest animation production company in India that caters primarily to children."
His first break came in 2003 with the animation series Bongo about an alien who lands on Earth. That led to Vikram Betal, an 80-minute 2D animation on the Cartoon Network in 2004. Chilaka and his team made a series of four animated telefilms on the life of Krishna for the Cartoon Network, before its sister channel Pogo agreed to air their next project Chhota Bheem in 2008. In various interviews Chilaka has shared that were it not for the windfall his company made from Bheem, he and his Greengold would still be in the 'hand to mouth' stage like hundreds perhaps even thousands of other animation companies. Chhota Bheem changed everything.
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