Sriraj Ginne

Sriraj Ginne (Telugu: శ్రీరాజ్ గిన్నె), born 22 November 1946, is a story and dialogue writer active in "Tollywood", the cinema of Andhra Pradesh, in India. His film scripts include the blockbuster melodrama Kalikaalam as well as Surigaadu and Preminchu. He has written for Telugu television serials including Sneha. Ginne has also written short stories, plays and short plays, and translations.

Sriraj is a reputed short story writer (credited with about 100 of which a few by choice were translated into English, Kannada, Oriya and Hindi and published in popular journals, a poet with about 25 compilations and a playwright (full plays like 'Kaaladharmam' staged at Akhila Bharata Telugu Mahasabhalu in 1990 at Bangalore, 15 playlets and 25 short plays broadcast by Akashvani and telecast on Sneha TV as multi and single episode serials). Sriraj is also credited with scripts for 15 feature films, 'Kalikaalam', 'Surigadu' (ranked as the best at the Indian panorama 1993 and was selected for China Film Fest in the same year), 'Preminchu' which won AP Bangaru Nandi award in 2001, 'Rajeswari Kalyanam', 'Akka Baagunnava' and the likes. Not only that, the retakes of 'Santhan' in Hindi, 'Kalikaalam' in Tamil, Kannada, Maraathi, Bengali and Oriya and 'Surigadu' in Tamil and Hindi were hits at the box office.