Biography

Pulagam Chinnarayana is a Telugu Cinema journalist, author, lyricist, dialogue writer and a public relations officer. He started his career as a film journalist for the magazines sivaranjani, Number One, Chitram, Santhosham. Later, he worked for Sakshi newspaper for eight years where he reached a level of in-charge from being a regular reporter. He authored various Telugu books on Telugu Cinema like Jandhya Marutham, Aanaati Aanavaallu, Cine Poornodayam, Swarnayuga Sangeetha Darshakulu, Pasidi Thera, Cinema Venuka Storeelu, Maya Bazar Madhura Smruthulu and Vendi Chandamamalu. He won Nandi Award for Best Book on Telugu Cinema from Andhra Pradesh state Government twice for his books Aa Naati Aanavaallu and Pasidi Thera in 2009 and 2015 respectively. He also won Nandi Award for Best Critic in 2014.

Chinnarayana authored Jandhya Marutham as his first book which was a compilation of 39 films directed by Jandhyala. It had a foreword written by actor Chiranjeevi. It was the first time Chiranjeevi wrote foreword for a book. It was launched at State Art Gallery in Hyderabad organized by Hasam magazine. Actors Chiranjeevi and Rajendra Prasad attended the function, where the former launched the book.

Chinnarayana then authored Aanaati Aanavaallu as his second book which had a foreword written by director Trivikram Srinivas. Within a month of release, all the copies of first print were sold out and this book went for second print. He won Nandi Award for Best Book on Telugu Cinema from Andhra Pradesh state Government for this book, in 2009 and 2016. His next work Cine Poornodayam which was based on life of Edida Nageswara Rao, owner of Poornodaya Creations was successful.

On music directors who worked between 1932 and 1982, Chinnarayana wrote Swarnayuga Sangeetha Darshakulu which was proofread by singer S.P.Balasubrahmanyam. Music director M.M. Keeravani wrote the foreword for this book. Later, Chinnarayana came up with Pasidi Thera which was a compilation of details about 100 films and a sequel to Aanaati Aanavaallu and Cinema Venuka Storeelu which had background details of films made after 2000. Among them, he won Nandi Award for Best Book on Telugu Cinema from Andhra Pradesh state Government for Pasidi Thera, in 2016.

Later, Chinnarayana authored Maya Bazar Madhura Smruthulu, a book on film Mayabazar by associating with Viswanatha Reddy, son of film's producer Nagi Reddy. Chinnarayana made a documentary along with the book and he got commendation from Vice President of India Venkaiah Naidu.

Chinnarayana authored Vendi Chandamamalu along with another writer Vaddi Om Prakash Narayana. It has information about Venditera Navalalu which is the term for novels about a film between 50s and 70s in Telugu cinema. This book was released on 2 October, 2019 by director Vamsy and first copy was received by Ravi Prasad Paadi, a higher level official of South Central Railway.

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