C. Umamaheswara Rao is an

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director,

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, aesthetician and producer known for his works predominantly in

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. He has also scripted and directed a few television serials for

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. He has garnered two

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, and the

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. He is also Social and Cultural activist. He is born in Vijayawada now the new capital of Andhrapradesh.

Career

His Telugu film ''

Ankuram ''Ankuram'' () is a 1993 Telugu-language drama film written and directed by C. Umamaheswara Rao. It stars Revathi, Sarath Babu and Om Puri. The film is about an inspiring journey of a middle-class woman to return an abandoned child to his fath ...

'', first film of its kind on human rights and civil liberties bagged him National Award and AP State's Best Director Award and many Civilian. His Sreekaram, a Telugu film on hazardous trail on in-camera court against woman rape victim by defence lawyers, gained him AP state's Feature film Award. Actually, this film dealt with Kiranjit Ahluwalia's case prior to Aishwarya Ray's film ‘Provoked’. To mention some more are much accoladed ‘Stree’, a documentary on the exploitation faced by Indian woman, very popular TV serials like ‘Himabindu’, ‘Mr. Brahmanandam ‘and Telefilms like Hamsafar (Hindi), Manchu Bomma and many more. He had many short and ad films to his credit. Recently he had done 15 Telefilms on Film aesthetics for Ur films. They have been successfully telecast in 10 TV. And they are being shown in so many short film festivals for educating the participants. He is the Chairman of Jury in 4 Short Film festivals and had been the jury member in AP State Awards Committee 2010 and twice Juror in UNESCO Ladli Awards Committee. He acted as the Chairman of the West panel of National Film Awards 2019 and had been in the Central Committee. He was in the Jury for Oscars in Indian Entry Selections 2020. He has formed Center for New Perspectives in Film and Media, Hyderabad. He is the Chairman for Dadasaheb Phalke School of Film and Media, which has an Advisory Board chaired by Mr. Allu Aravind and members being M/s Vijayendra Prasad, Resool Pookutty, Madhu Ambat, Neelakanta, Sreekar Prasad, Indraganti Mohan Krishna, Paruchuri Bros., etc. as advisors.

Awards

;

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* Best Feature Film in Telugu (director) - ''

'' (1992) ;

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- ''

'' (1992) *

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- ''Sreekaram'' (1996) Revathi won her First Film Fare Award in Telugu K.V.Reddy Award - Best Director -

(1992)

Filmography

Director

Documentary

Many documentaries to his credit, one of which is * ''Sthree'' (APFDC Award for Best Documentary)

Telefilm

* ''Hamsafar'' (Hindi) * ''Manchu Bomma'' (2011) (Telugu): ETV telefilm.

References

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* Telugu film directors Telugu film producers Film producers from Andhra Pradesh Filmfare Awards South winners Nandi Award winners Living people Film directors from Andhra Pradesh 20th-century Indian people 21st-century Indian people Telugu screenwriters Writers from Vijayawada 20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Indian dramatists and playwrights Businesspeople from Vijayawada Screenwriters from Andhra Pradesh Year of birth missing (living people) {{India-film-bio-stub