Ugadi Utsavaalu, TAMA’s cultural event to celebrate Telugu New Year Day, was celebrated on March 24th, 2012 at Independence High School, Alpharetta, GA. Our event sponsors for this Ugadi was Pramod Sajja (Paramount), Rajan Raju (Virtue Group), Srinivas Tatineni (Tecknosol Inc), Srinivas Nimmagadda (VensaiTechnologies), Thirumal Reddy ( Radio Kushi)

A beautiful Saturday evening with warm and crisp weather, breaking the continuous spell of cold, turned out to be a perfect setting for a huge turnout that seemed to have enjoyed an eclectic mix of dances, songs and instrumentals featuring classical, folk and film songs. What more, a Medley Dance with Cine Hero-In Archana/Veda and comedy by Venky entertained audience thoroughly.

One of the special aspects of this event was an enthusiastic participation from various local dance schools around the town. Panchaanga Sravanam by Mallikarjuna Sharma’s provided insight into what’s in store this year for people various sun signs. In TAMA 30 years history the very first time successfully introduced ‘Banthibojanalu’, which is really highlighted for entire event received fabulous response from TAMA Members.

Emcees for the event, Ranganath N and Tejaswini D, Alekya engaged the audience with their comic exchanges and succinct anecdotes related to the importance of Ugadi festival.

The event itself was flagged off by Cultural Secretary Varaprasad Yadana’s words followed by Ganesh prayer. President Suresh Peddi and Chairman Seetha Valluripalli explained about TAMA Long term projects and TAMA helpline. Vice President Mahesh Pawar provided vote of thanks for the event. Special thanks were extended to Anjaya Chowdary Lavu and Siva Gaddamanugu for assisting and hosting Cine artist Archana & Venky.

TAMA Board and Executive Committee extends special thanks to the below, listed in alphabetical, for their support and participation, without which this event would not have happened.

Sri Krishna Vilas Indian Restaurant – For BanthiBojanalu (Dinner)
Ram Durvasulu – For audio and lighting
Sridhar Vakiti and Prashant Kollipara – For photos and video coverage
Hari Krishna Inturu, Thirumala Rao Ponnam (People Media) Video coverage to telecast in MAA, Sakshi, Studio N India, AP.
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All Participants, Program Coordinators and numerous Volunteers that helped at the event.

Thank you to all TAMA volunteers, good team work.

TAMA energetic volunteers: Abdul, Anil Yalamanchili, Arun Vuyuru, Bachi, Chelsey, Chotu, Divya, Dr. Ganesh, Geethiki, Harish Sajja, Harsha Yerneni, Hemanth, Kalyan, KDV Prasad, Kondal Nallajerla, Madhu Tata, Mahi, Meghana, Murali Kakumani, Murali Raju, Murthy, Nagesh Doddaka, Poorna Veerapaneni, Ramesh Meda, Sairam Surapaneni, Sandeep Mandarapu, Sandeep S, Satish Musunuri, Segireddy Srinivas reddy, Seshagiri mandava, Siva Turlapati, Siva Velivelli, Sravan Yerramaneni, Srikanth Vallabaneni, Srinivas Babu, Srinivas Nukavarapu, Subbarao Maddali, Sudakar Borra, Suresh Sajja, Vamshi S, Vasu Nalla, Venkat Gogineni, Venkat Reddy, Venkat Veeraneni, Vijay Anup

Once again thank you so much for your participation and help, Always TAMA needs Volunteers like you.