Siva Shankar Lalam, better known by his stage name Shiva Nirvana, is a Telugu cinema director and screenwriter from India. Ninnu Kori (2017) and Majili (2017) are two films directed by Nirvana (2019). Nirvana is from the Andhra Pradesh town of Sabbavaram in the Visakhapatnam district. He earned a Bachelor of Education degree and spent two years as a Biology teacher. Nirvana then relocated to Hyderabad, where she began working as an Assistant Director. He chose the surname Nirvana because he felt "extremely attached to it" the first time he saw it. Shiva served as an associate director on films such as Rakhta Charitra (2010) and Solo (2012). (2011).