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Banupriya
Bhanupriya (born Mangabhanu; 15 January 1967) is an Indian actress, Kuchipudi dancer, and voice artist. In a career spanning over 4 decades, Bhanupriya has appeared in 155 feature films- predominantly in Telugu & Tamil, in addition to occasional performances in Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi films as well. She has started in a variety of roles, ranging from slapstick comedy-to-epic dramas. She has garnered three state Nandi Awards, two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, two Filmfare Awards South and two Cinema Express Awards. Early life Bhanupriya was born on 15 January 1967 in Rangampeta village near Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh in a Telugu-speaking family, to Pandu Babu and Ragamali. She was named as Mangabhanu. Her family later moved to Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She has an elder brother Gopikrishana and a younger sister Shantipriya, who has also been a film actress since the 1990s. Career She was one of the mainstream top actresses for more than a decade from 1983 to 1995. She made her ...
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Sakshi (newspaper)
''Sakshi'' () is an Indian Telugu language daily newspaper sold mostly in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. It was launched on 23 March 2008 by Jagati Publications Ltd. owned by Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy. ''Sakshi'' was the first Telugu daily to publish all of its pages in colour for all editions. It is currently run under the chairmanship of Y. S. Bharathi Reddy, wife of Jagan Mohan Reddy. The media group also owns the Telugu news channel, Sakshi TV. From July to December 2019, ''Sakshi'' had an average daily circulation of 10.64 lakh. It ranks second in circulation among Telugu daily newspapers behind ''Eenadu'' and sixteenth in India across languages. The newspaper is widely regarded as a propaganda outlet for Jagan Mohan Reddy and his party YSR Congress Party (YCP). It is criticized for its biased coverage of the political rivals of Reddy and YCP. History ''Sakshi'' was founded by Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, the son of then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Y. S. Rajas ...
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Sitaara
''Sitaara'' () is a 1984 Indian Telugu-language drama film written and directed by Vamsy. The film marked the debut of Bhanupriya in Telugu film industry. The film was adapted from Vamsy's own novel ''Mahal lo Kokila'' (). The film deals with the friendship of two people in the backdrop of peasants, zamindars, Indian movie world, and paparazzi. Upon release, the film received very positive reviews and remained a cult classic, and the soundtrack became all time chart-buster. The film has garnered three National Film Awards, and was screened at the 1984 International Film Festival of India, the Moscow Film Festival, and the Asian Film Festival. Plot Devdas ( Subhalekha Sudhakar) is a professional photographer. Once, on a train, he meets a strange melancholic woman (Bhanupriya) who boards the train without a proper ticket. He helps her with the money and tries to strike up a conversation. She only tells him that her name is "Sitaara" and that she has nowhere to go in the big city. Th ...
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Aararo Aariraro
''Aararo Aariraro'' (referring to the starting words of Tamil lullaby song) is a 1989 Tamil romantic drama film, written and directed by K. Bhagyaraj. The film was remade in Kannada as ''Thooguve Krishnana'' (1994), with Ananth Nag and Soundarya. Bhanupriya won Tamil Nadu State Film Award Special Prize and Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her performance in this film. Plot Babu (K. Bhagyaraj) is a care-taker in a mental hospital who shows much devotion to his job and more affection towards the patients in the hospital. He wears the patients' dress and moves like one among them. Due to this, the chief doctor, also a priest Father, likes him much more than others, fetching Babu the enmity of two compounders in the hospital. One of the financial donors of the hospital brings a wandering girl ( Bhanupriya) to the hospital, suspecting that she is mentally ill. Since nobody knows anything about her and she is mentally challenged, the hospital admits her. Babu moves with the girl li ...
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Filmfare Award For Best Actress – Telugu
The Filmfare Best Actress Award is given by the ''Filmfare'' magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for Telugu films. The awards were extended to "Best Actress" in 1972. Film world, p 43 The year indicates the year of release of the film. Superlatives * Vijayashanti has maximum awards with six wins, following by five actresses who have won the award thrice; in chronological order, they are Vanisri, Jayasudha, Soundarya, Trisha, and Anushka Shetty. * Vanisri won the award the most times in the 70's with three wins. Vijayashanti won the most in the 80s and 90s with three wins each decade. In the 90s, Soundarya had three wins. Trisha won the award three times in 2000s, while Anushka Shetty has the most wins in 2010s with three. * Jayasudha and Tabu are the two actress who have won both Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress – Telugu. * Six actresses have won the awards in consecutive years: Vanisri (1973–19 ...
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Nandi Award For Best Actress
The Nandi Award for Best Actress was commissioned in 1977. The winner is awarded a "Silver Nandi" and a cash award of 30,000. Most Awards were received by Vijayashanti and Jayasudha (4 awards each). List of winners of Nandi Awards for Best Actress References See also * Nandi Awards * Cinema of Andhra Pradesh {{DEFAULTSORT:Nandi Award For Best Actress Actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek ... Film awards for lead actress ...
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The Indian Express
''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932. It is published in Mumbai by the Indian Express Group. In 1999, eight years after the group's founder Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split between the family members. The southern editions took the name ''The New Indian Express'', while the northern editions, based in Mumbai, retained the original ''Indian Express'' name with ''"The"'' prefixed to the title. History In 1932, the ''Indian Express'' was started by an Ayurvedic doctor, P. Varadarajulu Naidu, at Chennai, being published by his "Tamil Nadu" press. Soon under financial difficulties, he sold the newspaper to Swaminathan Sadanand, the founder of ''The Free Press Journal'', a national news agency. In 1933, the ''Indian Express'' opened its second office in Madurai, launching the Tamil edition, '' Dinamani''. Sadanand introduced several innovations and reduced the price of the newspaper. Faced with financial difficultie ...
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9th Cinema Express Awards
On 9 March 1989, '' Cinema Express magazine'' editor V. Ramamurthy announced the best of South India South India, also known as Dakshina Bharata or Peninsular India, consists of the peninsular southern part of India. It encompasses the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana, as well as the union territ ...n films for the year of 1988, selected by the readers of the magazine. G. Lakshma Reddy, sales manager of Dyanora Television, co-sponsor also announced the ''Dyanora Gold cine awards'' for excellence in film industry. Only four category of awards are selected for the languages Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu. Tamil Telugu Kannada Malayalam Dyanora Gold cine awards References External links * {{IMDb event, 0002778, Cinema Express Awards 1989 Indian film awards Cinema Express Awards ...
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Ann Arbor Film Festival
The Ann Arbor Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Ann Arbor in the U.S. state of Michigan. Established in 1963, it is the fourth-oldest film festival in North America (after the Yorkton Film Festival, 1947; Columbus International Film & Video Festival, 1953; and the San Francisco International Film Festival, 1957); and the oldest ''experimental'' film festival. It has become one of the premier film festivals for independent and, especially, experimental filmmakers to showcase their work. Now entering its 60th year, the Ann Arbor Film Festival attracts over 3,000 entries from filmmakers in more than 60 countries, and distributes over $20,000 in cash awards. As a pioneer of the traveling festival concept in 1964, each year the Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour continues to present a collection of short films at more than 30 art house theaters, universities, galleries and cinematheques throughout the world. Created as an alternative to commercial cinema, the annual week-long f ...
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International Film Festival Of India
The International Film Festival of India (IFFI), founded in 1952, is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia. Held annually, currently in the state of Goa, on the western coast of the country, the festival aims at providing a common platform for the cinemas of the world to project the excellence of the film art; contributing to the understanding and appreciation of film cultures of different nations in the context of their social and cultural ethos, and promoting friendship and cooperation among people of the world. The festival is conducted jointly by the National Film Development Corporation of India (under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting) and the state Government of Goa. Vision ''Ayam nijam paroveti gananā laghuchetasām, Udāracharitānām tu vasudhaiva kutumbakam'' (Extract from the Vedic scripture Maha Upanishad, meaning "This is for me and that is for other – is the thinking of a narrow-minded person. For those who are broad-minded, liberals, ...
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Swarnakamalam
''Swarnakamalam'' () is a 1988 Indian Telugu-language dance film written and directed by K. Viswanath. The film stars Venkatesh and Bhanupriya in the lead, while Sharon Lowen appears in a special role. The choreography is helmed by Kelucharan Mohapatra, and soundtrack is composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The song sequences were extensively shot at the Valley of Flowers National Park, the Nanda Devi National Park, the Shanti Stupa and Bhringesvara Siva Temple at Dhauli; and other locations in Visakhapatnam. The film was screened at the Indian panorama section of the 12th International Film Festival of India, the Asia Pacific Film Festival and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. The film received three Indian Express Awards, three state Nandi Awards, and two South Filmfare Awards, including Nandi Award for Best Feature Film and Filmfare Best Film Award (Telugu). Plot Meenakshi ( Bhanupriya) and Savitri (Devilalita) are daughters of a Kuchipudi doyen, Vedantam Seshendra Sharma. While a ...
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Directorate Of Film Festivals
The Directorate of Film Festivals in India was an organisation that initiated and presented the International Film Festival of India, the National Film Awards and the Indian Panorama. Although the Directorate helped appoint members of the jury panels each year, it had no input on which films are selected for consideration and which films ultimately win awards at the various functions it initiates. The Directorate set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt of India,Directorate of Film Festivals
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Dosti Dushmani
Dosti Dushmani () is a 1986 Indian Hindi-language action drama film, produced and directed by T. Rama Rao under the Srinath Productions banner. It stars Jeetendra, Rajinikanth, Rishi Kapoor, Poonam Dhillon, Kimi Katkar and Bhanupriya, with music composed by Laxmikant–Pyarelal. The film was a remake of 1977 Tamil film '' Chakravarthy'' which was also remade later in Telugu as ''Mugguru Mithrulu'' (1985) and later in Kannada as '' Brahma Vishnu Maheshwara'' (1988). It marked Bhanupriya's Bollywood film debut. Plot The film begins with 3 childhood bosom friends Sandeep, Ranjith, & Prakash. Daga father of Ranjith is a gangster. In a swap, Ranjith hands over his father to Police. However, he absconds with his wife & daughter Rekha evading Ranjith and he too is fostered by Sandeep’s parents. Years roll by, the 3 mates grow along with their friendship. Sandeep becomes a renowned Doctor, Ranjith is a valiant Police Officer, and Prakash is a leading criminal lawyer. The 3 always ha ...
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