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Yugander V. V.

Film director and screenwriter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ8060335
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Yugander V V (born 20 January 1974) also known as Yugander Vungaralla, is an Indian Filmmaker, Screenwriter, Producer and Television Channel Head, based in Mumbai.

Yugander was born in the city of Secunderabad in Telangana, India.

His debut film 'The Goodbye Trip' was an ambitious effort in Independent Film-making with a cast of mostly new faces but for a few notable exceptions.

He is a Telecommunications Engineer but turned to film-making via associating with prominent filmmakers Ketan Mehta, Shyam Benegal and Mahesh Mathai.

He went on to head B4U Television Network as the Creative Head. At 29 he was one of the youngest Creative Heads across networks.

He has also directed music videos for Zambezi Funk and Blaaze that have gone on to garner cult status. Zambezi Funk's 'In my father's words' video directed by Yugander was the first Indian Video to air on VH1.

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Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1974-01-20. The account is most persuasive where Yugander, Film and director can be independently traced.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q8060335. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1974.

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This entry incorporates text from Yugander V. V.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.