24-year-old filmmaker creates record with short film, docu

With his short film and documentary dubbbed into as many as 11 languages, Rajendra Vinod, a 24-year-old from Hindpur in Andhra Pradesh has found a place in this year's Guinness Book of World Records that has awarded him two honours.
Vinod has recieved two "Officially Amazing" certificates from Guinness for directing "Change", which has become the 'Most translated short film (dubbed) and for "Lepakshi" for being the most translated short documentary with each having 11 dubbed versions.
The languages include English, French, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Assamese and Bengali.
Both "Lepakshi" and "Change" directed by Vinod were released in India on 28 February 2014.

Vinod had established his dubbing studio in Bengaluru two years ago dreaming to make short films and documentary on not only issues plaguing the society but fiction too.
After having made nine films so far, which includes seven short films, one documentary and one art film, Vinod says he ran into financial difficulties.

"There was a situation when I wanted to make films and could not because financial difficulties so I took the one documentary which I already made and a short film to win this accolade. I never intended to win an award but thought it would do good and bring in funds so that I could continue making films," says Vinod.

"Lepakshi" - the documentary and "Change" - the short film were submitted to the Guinness World Records this July and Vindo received a certificate from the award body last month.
"These two projects were dubbed into 11 different languages. We began this in the month of February 2014 and released the first version which is English on February 28, 2014. The entire dubbing process took about eight months and has been totally made by students," he says.
"The eventual result was a huge pile of translated audio files, which we began editing in October 2014 and continued till June 2015. For the submission there had a documentation process which took about a month and we finally submitted it to the Guinness World Record this July," says the filmmaker.

Pursuing his love for historical sites, Vinod says he directed "Lepakshi" an archaeological site with life-size sculptures and lovely paintings. The documentary recounts the epic of Ramayana.