Pattabhirami Reddy Tikkavarapu

Pattabhirami Reddy Tikkavarapu

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Pattabhirami Reddy Tikkavarapu Profile

  • Name:
  • Pattabhirami Reddy Tikkavarapu
  • Born:
  • February 19, 1919
  • Died:
  • May 6, 2006

Pattabhirami Reddy Tikkavarapu Biography

Pattabhirami Reddy Tikkavarapu is remembered most as the harbinger of the new wave in Kannada and Telugu cinema. He is fondly called Pattabhi. He was known as a screenwriter, film producer, director and a popular poet of Kannada and Telugu language. He has received three National awards and many international awards and his movies have been shown in many international film festivals. As a poet, his noted works are Fidelu Ragala Dozen (1939), (Telugu); Kaitha Naa Daitha 1978, (Kannada) and Pattabhi Panchangam (1980), (Telugu). He has produced and directed Samskara (1970), Devara Kaadu (1993), Sringara Masa (1984) and Chanda Marutha (1977) of which Samskara bagged national award for Best Indian feature film in the year 1971. The movie also received Bronze Leopard at Locarno International Film Festival (1972). His Telugu movies - Nimajjanam (1979) and Pellinati Pramanalu (1958) won best regional feature film awards.

 

He was born in a rich family of Nellore of Andhra Pradesh on February 19, 1919. He studied in Shantiniketan under Rabindranath Tagore. He rejected his ancestral wealth to study in Shantiniketan. Later he went abroad and earned degrees in English Literature and History of Cinema at Columbia University, New York. During Second World War, he was shocked seeing the misery around him and he returned to Chennai in 1938.

 

His first published literary work was the Fidelu Ragala Dozen, a collection of 12 poems which is regarded as a milestone work of Telugu poetry. With his internationally acclaimed movie, Samskara, it began a new wave movement in Telugu film industry. He has also been associated with many charity organisations and was the founder of Concerned for Working Children. He has been honoured with Puttanna Kanagal Award from the Government of Karnataka.

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Updated: February 03, 2014

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