Pulagam Chinnarayana

Pulagam Chinnarayana is a Telugu Cinema journalist, author, lyricist, dialogue writer and a public relations officer. He started his career as a film journalist for the magazines Sivaranjani, Number One, Chitram, Santhosham. Later, he worked for Sakshi newspaper for eight years where he reached a level of in-charge from being a regular reporter.[1] He authored various Telugu books on Telugu Cinema like Jandhya Marutham, Aanaati Aanavaallu, Cine Poornodayam, Svarnayuga Sangeetha Darshakulu, Pasidi Thera, Cinema Venuka Storeelu, Maya Bazar Madhura Smruthulu and " Vendi Chandamamalu ". He won Nandi Award for Best Book on Telugu Cinema from Andhra Pradesh state Government twice for his books Aanaati Aanavaallu and Pasidi Thera in 2009 and 2015 respectively. He also won Nandi Award for Best Critic in 2014.[2]

Pulagam Chinnarayana
Born	Bhimavaram, West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Writer Lyricist Journalist Public Relations Officer
Years active	2000–present

Literary career

Chinnarayana authored Jandhya Marutham as his first book which was a compilation of 39 films directed by Jandhyala. It had a foreword written by actor Chiranjeevi.[1] It was the first time Chiranjeevi wrote foreword for a book.[2] It was launched at State Art Gallery in Hyderabad organized by Hasam magazine. Actors Chiranjeevi and Rajendra Prasad attended the function, where the former launched the book.[3]

Chinnarayana then authored Aanaati Aanavaallu as his second book which had a foreword written by director Trivikram Srinivas. Within a month of release, all the copies of first print were sold out and this book went for second print. He won Nandi Award for Best Book on Telugu Cinema from Andhra Pradesh state Government for this book, in 2009 and 2016. His next work Cine Poornodayam which was based on life of Edida Nageswara Rao, owner of Poornodaya Creations was successful.[2]

On music directors who worked between 1932 and 1982, Chinnarayana wrote Svarnayuga Sangeetha Darshakulu which was proofread by singer S.P.Balasubrahmanyam. Music director M.M. Keeravani wrote the foreword for this book. Later, Chinnarayana came up with Pasidi Thera which was a compilation of details about 100 films and a sequel to Aanaati Aanavaallu and Cinema Venuka Storeelu which had background details of films made after 2000. Among them, he won Nandi Award for Best Book on Telugu Cinema from Andhra Pradesh state Government for Pasidi Thera, in 2016.[1]

Later, Chinnarayana authored Maya Bazar Madhura Smruthulu, a book on film Mayabazar by associating with Viswanatha Reddy, son of film's producer Nagi Reddy. Chinnarayana made a documentary along with the book and he got commendation from Vice President of India Venkaiah Naidu.[2]

Chinnarayana authored Vendi Chandamamalu along with another writer Vaddi Om Prakash Narayana. It has information about Venditera Navalalu which is the term for novels about a film between 50s and 70s in Telugu cinema. This book was released on 2 October, 2019 by director Vamsy and first copy was received by Ravi Prasad Paadi, a higher level official of South Central Railway.[4]

Publications

Chinnarayana authored the following books on Telugu cinema.[1]

• Jandhya Marutham
• Aanaati Aanavaallu
• Cine Poornodayam
• Swarnayuga Sangeetha Darshakulu
• Pasidi Thera
• Cinema Venuka Storeelu
• Maya Bazar Madhura Smruthulu
• Vendi Chandamamalu[4]

Film career

Chinnarayana started is continuing as public relations officer, dialogue writer and lyricist for Telugu cinema. As he was acquainted with Puri Jagannadh during the film Badri, he worked on the film Itlu Sravani Subramanyam as a PRO for the first time. He then worked on Nuvvu Nenu, directed by Teja and worked as PRO for more than 300 films till date. He is the permanent PRO for actors Ram Pothineni, Kartikeya Gummakonda and Saptagiri. He turned lyricist with Mahesh, starring Sundeep Kishan. He turned dialogue writer with Prema Oka Maikam starring Charmy Kaur.[1]

As lyricist

Year	Title	Director	Music Director	Song Name	Ref(s)
2013	Mahesh	R. Madan Kumar	Gopi Sundar	"Madi Moose"	[5] [6]
2014	Preminchali	Susindran	Yuvan shankar raja	Kotha ala ee premaraa... Konte kaala ee premaraa!	[7]
2016	Garam	R. R. Madan	Agastya	"Rabbaa Rabbaa"	[8] [9]
	Manalo Okadu	R. P. Patnaik	R. P. Patnaik	"Dum Maro Dum"	[10] [11]
2017	Paisa Vasool	Puri Jagannadh	Anup Rubens	"Padhamari"	[12] [13]
2018	Aatagadharaa Siva	Chandra Siddhartha	Vasuki Vaibhav	"Rama Rama Re"	[14] [15]
	Janatha hotel	Anwar Rasheed	Gopi Sundar	Chal Chal Kalame, Agena Keratame	[16]
	Shubhalekha+Lu	Sarrath Narwade	K. M. Radha Krishnan	"Cheppaka Tappadu Antey"	[17] [18]
2019	7	Nizar Shafi	Chaithan Bharadwaj	"Idhivarakepudu"	[19] [20]

As dialogue writer

Year	Film	Cast	Director	Producer	Ref(s)
2013	Prema Oka Maikam	Charmy Kaur, Rahul haridas	Chandu	Venkata Suresh, Srikanth Surya	[21]
2017	Gulf	Chethan Madineni, Dimple	Sunil Kumar Reddy	Yakkali Ravindra Babu	[22]
2018	Bluff Master	Satyadev Kancharana, Nandita Swetha	Gopi Ganesh Pattabhi	Ramesh P Pillai	[23]

Awards and recognition

• 2006 Santosham cinema Awards as a Best Journalist and PRO Award (for Pokiri)
• 2007 A.P ConeGoers 36th Annual Film Awards for Best Film Journalist Award.
• 2009 Nandi Award for Best Book on Telugu Cinema (for Aanati Aanavaallu)[24]
• 2014 Nandi Award for Best Film Critic on Telugu Cinema[25]
• 2016 Nandi Award for Best Book on Telugu Cinema( for Pasidi Tera)[26][27]

References

1. "Pulagam Chinnarayana's interview on national-level recognition for Maya Bazar Madhura Smruthulu". ibtimes.co.in. 19 February 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
2. "So happy for getting such a rare honor : Pulagam Chinnarayana". thehansindia.com. 13 February 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
3. "Book Release: Jandhya Marutam". idlebrain.com. 2 May 2005. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
4. "వెండితెర నవలలపై ఇది ఓ పరిశోధన!: వంశీ". cinejosh.com. 3 October 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
5. "Madi Moose". jiosaavn.com. 13 August 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
6. "Mahesh (Telugu)". in.bookmyshow.com. 20 September 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
7. "Preminchali". in.bookmyshow.com. 27 February 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
8. "Garam". in.bookmyshow.com. 12 February 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
9. "Garam". gaana.com. 29 March 2018. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
10. "Dum Maro Dum". jiosaavn.com. 27 August 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
11. "Manalo Okadu". in.bookmyshow.com. 4 November 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
12. "Padhamari". jiosaavn.com. 17 August 2017. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
13. "Paisa Vasool". in.bookmyshow.com. 1 September 2017. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
14. "Aata Gadha Ra Shiva". gaana.com. 15 June 2018. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
15. "Aatagadharaa Siva". in.bookmyshow.com. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
16. "Janatha Hotel". in.bookmyshow.com. 14 September 2018. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
17. "Shubhalekha+lu". gaana.com. 9 August 2018. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
18. "Subhalekha+lu". in.bookmyshow.com. 7 December 2018. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
19. "7". gaana.com. 24 April 2019. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
20. "Seven". in.bookmyshow.com. 5 June 2019. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
21. "Prema Oka Maikam". BookMyShow. 30 August 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
22. "Gulf". BookMyShow. 13 October 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
23. "Bluff Master". BookMyShow. 28 December 2018. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
24. "Nandi awards 2009 announced". idlebrain.com.
25. "Andhra Pradesh state Nandi film awards for the year 2014". idlebrain.com.
26. "Journalist "Pulagam Chinnarayana" Grabs A Nandi Award". Moviemanthra.com.
27. "Andhra Pradesh state Nandi film awards for the year 2016". idlebrain.com.

External links

• Pulagam Chinnarayana on IMDb
• Pulagam Chinnarayana on Facebook