The month of
June has created despair in Telugu film industry by taking away
four of the valuable directors from us. On, 8th of this month Sri
Pratyagatma was expired. He entered the industry as a cinema journalist.
Later on he started giving stories for the films. He got introduced
as a director with 'Bharya Bhartalu' in which ANR acted as the hero.
He got national recognition for Telugu cinema by delivering classics
like 'Bharya Bhartalu', 'Manushulu - Mamathalu', 'Aadarsha Kutumbam'
and 'Kula Gotraalu'. He did also introduce the rebel star Krishnam
Raju in Telugu field by producing and directing the film 'Chilaka
Gorinka'.
On 10th of June,
the young talented director Tirupati Swamy met with an accident
near Chennai and expired. He did also start his career as journalist.
D Suresh Babu spotted him. Suresh production made an award winning
film 'Ganesh' with Tirupati Swamy as the director. He used all his
real time life experiences in the film, as Venky's character in
Ganesh too is that of journalist. Later on he directed another film
with Nag 'Azad', which did also have a message in it. He used the
lady journalist character (played by Soundarya) to make a village
lad become a country legend Azad. He completed his latest venture
'Salute' with Vijay kanth and this film is due for release. He is
also supposed to do three films in Telugu.
On the same
day (10th of June), a senior director Lakshmi Deepak was expired.
He made his debut with Superstar Krishna's 'Pachani Samsaram'. He
did also give a silver jubilee hit 'Pandanti Kapuram' with Krishna.
He made 'Gandhi Puttina Desam' with Krishnam Raju and 'Karthika
Deepam' with Sobhan Babu.
On 19th of this
month, Hasya Brahma Jandhyala
expired by leaving all the Telugu movie lovers in despair. He is
equally good for all the films in penning dialogues. He gave the
dialogues to a commercial film 'Adavi Ramudu' the way he has given
for classical 'Sankara Bharanam'. In a particular year, he penned
dialogues for 72 films, which is an unbeatable record in the films.
He did write dialogues for more than 400 films and directed around
64 films.
With in 48 hours
after Jandhyala left us, music maestro KV Maha Devan expired on
21st June. He won the national award twice with his film. He did
also score for commercial films like 'Adavi Ramudu' with the panache
he did for a classic film 'Sankara Bharanam'. He gave musical hits
to prestigious banners like Babu Movies, Jagapathi, Yuva Chitra
and Bhargav Arts.
We at idlebrain.com,
pay tributes to these five technicians who made a difference to
Telugu cinema on behalf of our esteemed visitors. May their souls
rest in peace.
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