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1946 film
Tyagayya
Poster of Tyagayya
Directed byV. Nagayya
Screenplay byV. Nagayya
S. V. R. Acharya or Samudrala Sr. Dialogues and other songs
Story byV. Nagayya
Based onThe life of Tyagaraja
Produced byNagayya
Sri Duvvuri Narayana Reddy
StarringV. Nagayya
B. Jayamma
CinematographyMohamed A. Rehman
Edited byGovind Dinkar Joshi
Music byV. Nagayya
Production
companies		Sri Renuka Films, Madras
Release date
  • 1 November 1946 (1946-11-01) (India)
Running time186 minutes
LanguageTelugu

Tyagayya is a 1946 Telugu-language film produced and directed by V. Nagayya It is based on the life of the saint Tyagaraja.

Cast

Male cast
  • V. Nagayya as Tyagayya
  • Lingamurthy as Japesam
  • Nyapathi Narayana Moorthi M. L. A., (Central) as King Sharabhoji
  • Rayaprolu Subrahmanyam as Venkataramana Bhagavatulu
  • K. Doraiswamy as Sundaresa Mudaliar
  • M. C. Raghavan as Marthanda Bhagavatar
  • Natesam as Bobbili Kesavayya
  • K. V. Subba Rao as Dhanapala Chetti
  • Prayaga Narasimha Sastry as Ganapati (Sishya)
  • Aswatdhama as Ramudu
  • Narayana Rao as Commander-in-Chief
  • Vedantam Lakshmikantam as Narada-in disguise
  • Kumpatla Subba Rao as Kuchipudi - Bhagavatulu
  • A. L. Narayana as Kuchipudi - Bhagavatulu
  • Appalacharyulu as Kuchipudi - Bhagavatulu
  • G. Venkataswami Raju as Sishya
Female cast
  • B. Jayamma as Dharmamba
  • Sarita Devi as Chapala
  • C. Hemalatha Devi as Kamalamba
  • Sundaralakshmi as Seethalakshmi
  • Jayavanti as Court Singer
  • G. Visweswaramma as Venkamma
  • Baby T. Shyamala as Radha
  • Baby Vanaja as Krishna

Production

The film was jointly produced by Nagayya and Sri Duvvuri Narayana Reddy, and directed by V. Nagayya. Nagayya also wrote the story and handled the scenario. The dialogues were written by S. V. R. Acharya i.e., Samudrala Venkata Raghavacharya otherwise popularly known as Samudrala Sr. Photography and special effects were handled by Mohamed A. Rehman. Audiography was done by Dinshaw K. Tehrani, editing by Govind Dinkar Joshi, and art by C. Rama Raju and F. Nagoor. The dances were choreographed by Vedantam Raghavayya.

Music

The music was composed by V. Nagayya and the Renuka Orchestra headed by the Trivellore Violinist Brothers. While the lyrics of most of 37 songs were written by S. V. R. Acharya (Samudrala Sr.), the Tamil songs were written by Papanasam Sivan and Chandilyan. One Hindi song was written by J. A. Rehman. Nagayya had introduced lyrics in Kannada with the song Purandaradasa Devara Nama (film credits). Songs in Tamil and Hindi were sung by D. K. Pattammal and J. A. Rehman respectively.

See also

References

  1. ^ Nagayya, V. (1946). Tyagaiah (motion picture) (in Telugu). Sri Renuka Films Ltd. Opening credits, from 0:08 to 2:08.

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