Yalamanchili Venkata Satyanarayana Chowdary is an Indian Telugu cinema writer, director, producer, distributor, exhibitor and a music company owner.

He made his debut as a director in 1998 with the film Sri Sita Ramula Kalyanam Chootamu Raarandi produced by Nagarjuna under the banner "Great India Entertainments".

[6][7] He introduced various actors including Venkat, Chandini and Chandu with his debut film Sri Sita Ramula Kalyanam Chootamu Raarandi (1998), Aditya Om and Ankitha with Lahiri Lahiri Lahirilo (2002), Ram Pothineni and Ileana with Devadasu (2006), Sai Dharam Tej and Saiyami Kher with Rey (2015), though Sai Dharam Tej's second film Pilla Nuvvu Leni Jeevitham (2014) was released earlier than Rey.

[4] Chowdary was born on at Gudiwada of Krishna district as a last child to the couple Yalamanchili Narayana Rao and Ratnakumari.

Chowdary's directorial debut, Sri Sitaramula Kalyanam Chutamu Rarandi (1998), started with Nagarjuna as producer, under the "Great India Entertainments" production house.

[6] Starring ANR and debutant Venkat in the lead roles, it released on 26 June 1998 to positive reviews and was successful, which brought him 26 offers from different producers.

The film, Devadasu (2006), featured Kishore's nephew, Ram Pothineni, and Ileana D'Cruz in the lead roles.

[16][17][18] Chowdary then directed Saleem starring Manchu Vishnu, Ileana and Mohan Babu in prominent roles.

[2][19][20][21] In 2012, Chowdary produced the film Nippu under the direction of Gunasekhar, starring Ravi Teja and Deeksha Seth.

Chowdary and Ravi Teja shared same room and Gunasekhar lived in another floor of same building at Madras, during their trails in film industry.

[5][23][24][25][26] In 2010, Chowdary launched the film Rey introducing Chiranjeevi's nephew Sai Dharam Tej and Saiyami Kher as lead actors.

Chowdary had a good personal rapport with Nandamuri Harikrishna from the time of Pattabhishekam, as the latter was the producer of that film.

[11] Chowdary is a big fan of Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao whom he claims as his inspiration to enter the film industry.

Every film produced in his production house "Bommarillu Vaari" starts with a prayer song on NTR by showing his picture on screen.