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Raghupathi Venkaiah Award

State award of Andhra Pradesh for contributions to Telugu Cinema

Raghupathi Venkaiah Award

Summary

State award of Andhra Pradesh for contributions to Telugu Cinema

FieldValue
nameRaghupati VenkaiahAward
subheaderAward for contributions to Telugu Cinema
awarded_forLifetime Achievement
sponsorGovernment of Andhra Pradesh
firstawarded1981
reward
holder_labelMost recent winner
award1_typeTotal awarded
award1_winner38
award2_typeFirst winner
award2_winnerL. V. Prasad
award3_typeRecent winner
award3_winnerYandamuri Veerendranath

The Raghupathi Venkaiah Award is an award issued by the Indian state government of Andhra Pradesh to recognise lifetime achievements in Telugu cinema. The award was introduced in 1981 in honour of Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu, one of India's film pioneers regarded as the "father of Telugu cinema". The winner is presented a Golden Nandi (named after a bull in Hindu mythology), a gold medal, a citation and a cash prize of at the Nandi Awards functions.

Recipients

The namesake of the award: Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu
The first recipient: L. V. Prasad
The first woman recipient: Bhanumathi Ramakrishna
The recent recipient: Chiranjeevi
YearRecipientField of workRef.L. V. PrasadP. PullayyaB. A. Subba RaoM. A. RahmanKosaraju RaghavayyaBhanumathiBapuMullapudi Venkata RamanaB. Nagi ReddyD. V. S. RajuAkkineni Nageswara RaoDasari Narayana RaoK. ViswanathS. Rajeswara RaoD. Madhusudhana RaoAnjali DeviK. S. Prakash RaoInturi Venkateswara RaoV. Madhusudhana RaoGummadiSantha KumariTadepalli Lakshmi Kanta RaoAllu RamalingaiahP. SusheelaV. B. Rajendra PrasadKrishnaveniM. S. ReddyD. RamanaiduTammareddy Krishna MurthyVijaya NirmalaK. RaghavaM. BalaiahKaikala SatyanarayanaKodi RamakrishnaVanisriKrishnam RajuEswarChiranjeevi
1980Director, producer
1981Director, producer
1982Director, producer
1983Cinematographer
1984Lyricist, poet, actor
1985Actor, producer, singer, music director, director, writer
1986Director
Writer
1987Producer
1988Producer
1989Actor
1990Director, producer, actor
1991Director
1992Composer
1993Producer
1994Actress
1995Actor, cinematographer, director, producer
1996Film journalist
1997Director, producer, screenwriter
1998Actor
1999Actress, producer
2000Actor, producer
2001Actor
2002Playback singer
2003Producer
2004Actress, producer
2005Director, producer, writer
2006Producer, actor
2007Producer
2008Actress, director, producer
2009Producer
2010Director, producer
2011Actor, director, producer
2012Director
2013Actress
2014Actor
2015Writer, publicity designer
2016Actor

References

References

  1. "Raghupati Venkaiah Naidu: The man who started it all".
  2. Srinivas, S.V.. (2010). [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241643987_Making_of_a_Peasant_IndustryTelugu_Cinema_in_the_1930s-1950s Making of a Peasant Industry: Telugu Cinema in the 1930s–1950s]. Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies. p. 173. 10.1177/097492761000100207.
  3. (11 September 2011). "Telugu film industry turns 80".
  4. Sanmanalu - Awardulu in Anaganaga Oka Raakumarudu (Autobiography), Creative Links, Hyderabad, 2007, pp. 205.
  5. (2003-04-02). "Nandi Awards Presented". [[The Hindu]].
  6. (2002-02-15). "Nandi awards presentation on 18 February". [[The Hindu]].
  7. (2005-10-23). "Raghupathi Venkaiah Award for Krishnaveni". [[The Hindu]].
  8. (2007-02-18). "Raghupathi Venkaiah award for M.S. Reddy". [[The Hindu]].
  9. (2008-04-01). "Raghupathi Venkaiah award for D Ramanaidu". [[The Hindu]].
  10. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090301031711/http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/44994.html Raghupathi Venkaiah award 2007 to Tammareddy Krishna Murthy]
  11. Ragupathi Venkaiah Award to Vijaya Nirmala
  12. (5 April 2017). "S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, Hema Malini bag NTR awards". The Hindu.
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