Jayanth C. Paranji (born 21 July 1957) is an Indian film director known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema. He introduced Bollywood actresses: Preity Zinta, Aishwarya Rai, Anjala Zaveri, Bipasha Basu, Lisa Ray, Nauheed Cyrusi to the Telugu screen. He has directed films across multiple genres with the fab four of Telugu Film Industry - Chiranjeevi, Balakrishna, Nagarjuna, Venkatesh. He has worked with all the top actors in the Telugu film industry including Pawan Kalyan and Mahesh Babu. Actor Prabhas was launched into films by Jayanth in the film Eeswar (2002).