A. Karunakaran (Born: 1971) is a Telugu film director and a good Story Writer.

Before entering Telugu Film Industry, his parents forced him to join polytechnics. After finishing polytechnics in 1989, he went to Chennai. Instead, he became Cinema assistant director to other eminent directors such as Kathir, Shankar and started loving cinema as his career. Karunakaran's first directorial film was Tholi Prema starring Pawan Kalyan in 1998. For this flim he won a National Award in Best Screenplay Writer Category.

All his stories are full of Love. In his direction almost all Movies were Super Hit.

Flimography:

Tholi Prema (1998)

Yuvakudu (2000)

Vasu (2002)

Balu ABCDEFG (2005)

Happy (2006)

Ullasamga Utsahamga (2008)

Darling (2010)

Endukante... Premanta! (2012)

Chinnadana Nee Kosam (2015)