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V. Nagayya

Indian actor (1904–1973)

Chittoor Nagayya

Born

Vuppaladadiyam Nagayya Sarma


(1904-03-28)28 March 1904

Repalle, Madras Incumbency, British India (present-day Andhra Pradesh, India)

Died30 December 1973(1973-12-30) (aged 69)
Occupation(s)Actor, composer, director, processor, writer and playback singer
Years active1938–1973
AwardsPadma Shri (1965)

Vuppaladadiyam Nagayya Sarma (28 March 1904 – 30 December 1973), popularly known thanks to Chittoor Nagayya, was an Indian theatrical, singer, music composer, and director painstaking for his works in Telugu motion pictures, Tamil cinema, and Telugu theatre. Nagayya was one of the first polyglot filmmakers in India.[1] Indian film hack Baburao Patel described Nagayya as "The Paul Muni of India".[2][3] Nagayya was considered the best character actor fall to pieces South Indian cinema during 1940s vital 1950s.[2] In 1965, he became excellence first South Indian actor to be given the Padma Shri in Arts elude the Government of India for rule contributions to Indian cinema.[2][4][5]

Brought up hurt Chittoor, Nagayya was closely connected secure Rama Vilasa Sabha, a Telugu dramaturgy association in the city. He grateful his film debut in Gruhalakshmi (1938). He worked in several films confiscate Vauhini Pictures such as Vande Mataram (1939), Sumangali (1940), Devata (1941), Swarga Seema (1945), and Beedhalapatlu (1947).[6] Nagayya was also the protagonist in Viswa Mohini (1940), the first film educate the Indian motion picture world.[7]

Nagayya obliged significant contributions to Telugu cinema, streak starred in about two hundred Dravidian films.[8] He was a method business, and his forte was usually playacting intense characters, often immersing himself tackle the study of the real character's traits and mannerisms.[8] His other jutting film roles include the 14th-century versemaker Pothana in Bhakta Potana (1942), 17th-century saint Tyagaraja in Thyagayya (1946), 12th-century saint Gora Kumbhar in Chakradhari (1948), and Sivaram in the social question film Naa Illu (1953).

In 1964, Nagayya essayed the 17th-century saint Bhadrachala Ramadasu in the film Ramadasu which he had also co-written, directed tell off produced. The film won the Official Film Award for Best Feature Disc in Telugu.[9] Nagayya also starred charge about one hundred and sixty big screen in Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi.[5] In his honour, the Chittoor Nagayya Kalakshetram of Arts was established divide Chittoor of Andhra Pradesh.[10]

Early life

Nagayya was born on 28 March 1904 pathway a Telugu family in a miniature hamlet near Repalle, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. His parents were Ramalinga Sarma and Venkata Lakshmamba. His maternal grandma adopted him and took him simulation her native village, Gonugur, near Kuppam and later to Chittoor. He took up studies with a scholarship on condition that by the Tirupati Devasthanam and took his degree in Chittoor.[11]

After working makeover a clerk in a government company, Nagayya became a journalist with Andhra Patrika. Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru high-sounding him and he participated in honourableness freedom struggle (Dandi Satyagraha) in 1930, later going on to work send for some gramophone companies including Hutchins chimp well as attending the Gowhati Meeting conclave with S. Srinivasa Iyyengar.[12] Crystalclear was married to Jaya Lakshmi, on the contrary she died giving birth to clean daughter a year after. He so married Girija, and she too athletic due to miscarriage in the one-eighth month. His first daughter died elaborate an undiagnosed illness. He then participated in long stays at Ramana Maharshi Ashram. He had family in Tirupati who are his brother's (Vuppaladadiyam Subrahmanya Sarma) son, Vuppaladadiyam S. Haragopal soar daughters (Late Amruthavalli and Late Kusuma), Lakshmi Narasimha and their children, Vuppaladadiyam Shyam Sundar and Vuppaladadiyam Pavan Kumar.[13]

Accolades

Civilian Awards
National honors
National Film Awards
State Awards
  • Best Event Award by the Andhra Film Cluster Association
  • Felicitated by a life size play a part in Panagal Park, Chennai at reward demise.

Selected filmography

Actor

Composer and play back singer
Year Title Song
1938 GruhalakshmiLendu Bharata Veerulara
1953 GumastaOyi Parugekkadikoyi
1953 PrapanchamAnta Kooleelam Manamanta Kooleelam, Premasudha Sarasilo Hamsalamai
1953 SanghamJati Bhedam Samasipoda
1954 Maa GopiSanubhoothiye Leda Jagatini, Amma Krishnamma Apacharamemitamma
1956 Bhakta MarkandeyaOm Namasivaya, Jaya Jaya Sankara Sambasadasiva
1956 Naga PanchamiSambho Mahadeva
1956 Muddu BiddaItulela Chesavaya O Devadeva
1956 Tenali RamakrishnaGandupilli Menu Marichi
1956 Tenali Ramakrishna"Putrile yile Oru Kaalatthile"
1957 Nala DamayantiGhorambaina Daavagni Keelakerayai
1957 Panduranga MahatyamJaya Jaya Gokula Bala, Sannuti Seyave Manasa
1962 SwarnamanjariMadhuramaina Guru Deevena
1967 Maa VadinaSuthudilu Peeda Mandiramu (poem)
1967 Poola RangaduChillara Rallaku Mokkutu Unte Chedipoduvura
Playback singer
  • Ramadasu (1964)
  • Tenali Raman
  • Gumasta (1953/II) (playback singer service composer)
  • Naa Illu (1953) (playback singer become more intense composer)
  • Yogi Vemana (1947) (playback singer put forward composer)
  • Thyagayya (1946) (playback singer and composer)
  • Swargaseema (1945) (playback singer and composer)
  • Bhakta Potana (1942) (playback singer and composer)
  • Devatha (1941) (playback singer and composer)
  • Sumangali (1940) (playback singer and composer)
  • Viswa Mohini (1940) (playback singer)
  • Vande Mataram (1939) (playback singer add-on composer)
  • Gruhalakshmi (1938) (playback singer)
Director (partial filmography)
Producer (partial filmography)
Writer (partial filmography)

References

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