Kondaveeti Venkatakavi

Kondaveeti Venkatakavi is an Indian poet, scholar, and film writer from Andhra Pradesh. He is well known for writing dialogues in the movie Daana Veera Soora Karna.

Childhood

Venkata Kavi was born as Venkatayya to ''Narayana'' and ''Seshamma'' in the village of Vipparla in Guntur district.

Education

He got primary education was from his scholarly father. He studied Sanskrit poetry and pancha kavyas under the guidance of Narikonda Nammalaraju, a poet from Gadwal. He later moved to Tenali and worked as assistant under Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Chowdary. He mastered Sriharsha Naishada under his uncle Yetukri Narasimhayya. He worked as assistant under Srimat Tirumala Mudhimalla Varadhacharya, who was working to teach Sanskrit to all sections of the people. He learned Sanskrit Vyakarana and Patanjali Bhashya from Kavi Ramanujacharya. He leaned Telugu Vyakarana from Duvvur Venkataramana Sastry. He moved to Vijayanagaram and studied the grammar under the Chinaseetarama Sastry. He later practiced Avadhanam under the guidance of Chellapilla Venkata Sastry.

Career

Teacher

He worked as a Telugu scholar in the Board High School in Macherla from 1948 to 1952, and as Sanskrit lecturer in Ponnur oriental college for forty years from 1952.

Poet

He started writing poetry at the age of 14 and wrote many books. In 1932, he wrote ''Karshaka Satakam'' about the problems of farmers. It was banned by the government. In 1946, he wrote ''Chennakesava Satakam''. He wrote ''Divyasmrutulu'' remembering Vemana, Gurajada Apparao and other eminent Telugu personalities. He published a research work on Amuktamalyada of Krishna Devaraya. He wrote a book with rational thoughts on ''Melu Kolupu'' in 1942.

He wrote a literary series with the name ''Nehru Charita''.

Works

* ''Karshaka'' satakam (1932)
* ''Hithabhodha'' (1942)
* ''Bhagavatula vaari Vamsavali'' (1943)
* ''Udayalakshmi Nrusimhavataravali'' (1945)
* ''Chennakesava'' satakam (1946)
* ''Bhavanarayana Charita'' (1953)
* ''Divyasmrutulu'' (1954)
* ''Nehru Charitra'' Part I (1956)
* ''Trisati'' (1960)
* ''Nehru Charitra'' Part II (1962)
* ''Bali'' (1963)

Filmography

* ''Daaana Veera Soora Karna'', dialogues (1977) - Debut in Films
* ''Sri Madvirata Parvam'', dialogues (1979)
* ''Srimadvirat Veerabrahmendra Swami Charitra'', dialogues (1984)
* '' Tandra Paparayudu'', dialogues (1986)
* ''Aadi Dampatulu, lyricist (1986)

Awards

* ''Kaviraju'' title in Guntur district in 1953
* Kala Prapoorna from Andhra University in 1971
* Nandi Award for Best Dialogue Writer - ''Tandra Paparayudu'' (1986)

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1918 births
1991 deaths
Indian lyricists
People from Andhra Pradesh
Telugu-language lyricists
Telugu writers
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Telugu
20th-century Indian poets
20th-century Indian writers
People from Guntur district
20th-century Indian male writers