Neeraja Kona
Indian costume designer and director
Neeraja Kona (born 29 April 1983) is an Indian stylist, costume designer, lyricist and director who works in Telugu and Tamil films.
Career
Neeraja began her career assisting in styling Jr NTR and Kajal Aggarwal for Baadshah (2013), directed by Srinu Vaitla. She was Nithiin's stylist for Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde. Nithiin then signed her on for his next two movies Courier Boy Kalyan and Puri Jagannadh's Heart Attack. She later met Samantha Ruth Prabhu, and became her personal stylist.
Early on in her career, Neeraja got to be part of Trivikram Srinivas and Pawan Kalyan's Attarintiki Daredi and Harish Shankar's Ramayya Vasthavayya. She designed costumes for Samantha Ruth Prabhu in both films. She has worked with the directors Vamsi Paidipally, and V. V. Vinayak. Her other projects include Hansika's Romeo and Juliet, Gopichand Malineni's Pandaga Chesko, Krishna Vamsi's Govindudu Andarivadele, and Karunakaran's movie. She has also assisted in styling Allu Arjun and Kajal Aggarwal in Yevadu, Nithiin and Yami Gautam in Courier Boy Kalyan, Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Pranitha Subhash in Jr NTR - Santosh Srinivas's project and Sudheer Babu in two songs from Aadu Magaadra Bujji.
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