Neeraja Kona

Neeraja Kona is a stylist and costume designer for many of the Tollywood celebrities on and off screen.

Career

Neeraja started her career assisting styling for Jr NTR and Kajal Aggarwal for Baadshah (2013 film) directed by Srinu Vaitla. One of her biggest breakthrough was styling Nithin for Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde which went on to be a blockbuster success. Nithin recognized her talent and signed her on for his next two movies Courier Boy Kalyan and Puri Jagannadh's Heart Attack. But her biggest success came after meeting Samantha Ruth Prabhu and becoming her personal stylist.^[1][2] Their friendship on and off screen helped push Neeraja much more into limelight.

Early on in her career Neeraja got to be part of the two big budget movies Trivikram Srinivas and Pawan Kalyan's Attarintiki Daredi^[3] and Harish Shankar's Ramayya Vasthavayya.^[4] Costumes for Samantha Ruth Prabhu were very much appreciated in both the movies. Attarintiki Daredi went on to become an industry hit as the biggest success in TFI. Her talent and hardwork helped Neeraja gain a good name as costume designer. Early on in her career she got to work with top class directors such as Trivikram Srinivas, Harish Shankar, Vamsi Paidipally, V. V. Vinayak. Her current projects include Hansika's Romeo and Juliet, Gopichand Malineni's Pandaga Chesko, Krishna Vamsi's Govindudu Andarivadele, Nithin and Karunakaran's Movie. She has also assisted in styling Allu Arjun and Kajal Aggarwal in Yevadu, Nithin and Yami Gautam in Courier Boy Kalyan, Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Pranitha Subhash in Jr NTR - Santosh Srinivas's project and Sudheer Babu in 2 songs from Aadu Magaadra Bujji.

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