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• Made his directorial debut with Siva (1989), which won the Filmfare Award for Best Telugu Film.
• Won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi as producer and writer of Shool (1999).
• A winner of two Filmfare Awards, in the Best Story category for Rangeela (1995) and Satya (1998), which won the Ciritcs Award for Best Movie.
• Released his autobiography titled Na Ishtam, which also discusses his Ramu style philosophy.
• Danny Boyle cited Satya (1998) as the inspiration to his Academy Award winning Slumdog Millionaire (2008).