Sailesh Kolanu is an Indian film director and screenwriter who predominantly works in Telugu cinema.

[1] Sailesh was born and raised in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, since his father, Seshagiri Rao Kolanu, used to worked as a production manager for Pratap Art Productions and then late filmmaker, Kodi Ramakrishna.

He graduated in Optometry from LV Prasad Eye Institute.

[2] Kolanu began his career with the 2018 short film, Checklist, which was made for I F P's 50-hour filmmaking challenge.

He went on to direct his first feature film, HIT: The First Case produced by Nani.