Anand Neelakandan

Anand Neelakantan is the author of the Bahubali trilogy, the official prequel to S S Rajamouli's prequel. The first book in the series is Rise of Sivagami. The book received Kalinga International Literary award for the best popular fiction in the year 2017.

He is also the best-selling author of Asura: Tale of the Vanquished, which told the Ramayan from Ravan's point of view. Anand followed it up with the tremendously successful Ajaya series which told Duryodhana’s Mahabharata.

Both Asura and Ajaya were shortlisted for Crossword award in 2013 and 2014 respectively. All the books of Anand have been translated in more than 9 languages including Indonesian.

S S Rajamouli has announced a mini-series on Anand's books in the lines of Game of Thrones in an international channel.

 Anand has also written script/screenplays for hugely popular TV series like ‘Siya Ke Ram’, ‘Ashoka’, ‘Mahabali Hanuman’, etc.  He has upcoming series in Discovery channel, Star TV, Netflix and Amazon to be aired in 2019.

Anand is also a prolific writer in Malayalam and regularly publishes his stories in prestigious literary Malayalam Magazine. Anand is a cartoonist too who has many of his works published.

Anand's latest work is Vanara- the legend of Baali, Sugreeva and Tara and was released in November. The film adaptation rights have been brought by DAR movies and KR Media for the record breaking single book deal in the country.

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