Nagendra Karri is an American film director, screen writer and producer who resides and works primarily in United States. His movies are primarily suspense thrillers and crime dramas. He is the founder of Eternal Mind Productions, an Independent film production company based in New york City in United States of America.

Karri received critical acclaim for his debut feature Where are you, Sophia? which premiered in Marche Du Film Market in 2009 Cannes Film Festival

2009 Cannes Film Festival

The 62nd annual Cannes Film Festival was held from May 13 to May 24, 2009. French actress Isabelle Huppert was the President of the Jury. It was announced on March 19, 2009, that Pixar's film Up would open the festival...

. Nagendra Karri is a Computer Science graduate from Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon who gave up a six figure salary on Wall Street to go after his dream of Hollywood film making.

Karri's body of work addresses such themes as Jewish Russian Identity, RED Mafia, and the conceptual core of Organized crime in the present day world starting from the post-soviet era.

He was born in a middle class family in coastal city Visakhapatnam

Visakhapatnam

Visakhapatnam is a major sea port on the south east coast of India. With a population of approximately 1.7 million, it is the second largest city in the state of Andhra Pradesh and the third largest city on the east coast of India after Kolkata and Chennai. According to the history, the city was...

, Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh , is one of the 28 states of India, situated on the southeastern coast of India. It is India's fourth largest state by area and fifth largest by population. Its capital and largest city by population is Hyderabad.The total GDP of Andhra Pradesh is $100 billion and is ranked third...

, India. His next project is the $40 million Mobster currently in pre-production as of Sept 2009.