Venu Udugula is a young filmmaker, who made his directorial debut with the movie Needi Naadi oke Katha starring Sree Vishnu in the year 2018.

Venu Udugula was born on 20th July, 1982 in Upparapalle, a Village in Chennaraopet Mandal in Warangal District of Telangana State and is one of the known poets in Telugu. He graduated from Kakatiya University. During that time of education, his inclination towards art since childhood drove him to join the Hyderabad film club and started watching world cinema. He gained his inspiration watching Andrei Tarkovsky, Krzysztof Kieslowski and Iranian films which turned out to have a great impact on his creative being and altered his filmy impulses to vibe his outlook of independent vision. He made his narrative visually more simple and evocative.