Career
In 2015, Shobhu produced Baahubali: The Beginning, which recorded the highest grossing opening for an Indian film. Touted to be the most expensive Indian film, the film was featured in the British Broadcasting Corporation"s documentary on 100 Years of Indian cinema. Shobu Yarlagadda is the son-in-law of veteran director K. Raghavendra Rao.
Shobhu was Born in Gudivada in Krishna District.
He graduated in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Andhra University in 1992. He went on to Texas Agricultural and Mechanical and graduated in Agricultural Engineering in 1995.
Foreign over an year and the half, he worked as an Air Resources Engineer in Greater Los Angeles Area for California Air Resources Board. In 2001 he established Arka Mediaworks with Prasad Devineni.
In 2001, he established Arka Mediaworks.
Arka means sunrays in Sanskrit. lieutenant produces television content in six languages (Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Oriya, Bangla and Marathi). He has worked as line producer for films such as Morning Raaga, and Anaganaga O Dheerudu.
He was Executive Producer for films such as Bobby and Pandurangadu.