Santosh Srinivas Rowthu is an Indian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer who works in Telugu cinema. He directed Kandireega which featured Ram Pothineni in lead role.

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Santosh was born and brought up in Visakhapatnam. He completed his schooling and graduation in Visakhapatnam.^[1]

He started his career as a cinematographer. He worked as cinematographer for films that include Khatarnak, Takkari, Rainbow.^[2] he made his directorial debut in 2011 with Kandireega starring Ram Pothineni and Hansika Motwani.^[3] Later he started Rabhasa featuring N. T. Rama Rao Jr and Samantha Ruth Prabhu in lead roles.^[4]