- Sainath Thotapalli
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Sainath Thotapalli (born 27 April 1956) is a well-known writer from the Telugu Film industry (also known as Tollywood) and has written for 92 Telugu movies so far including Sitara, Swathimutyam, Swayamkrushi, Sirivennela, Prema, Challenge, Marana Mrudangam, Pavitra Prema and Rocky among others. He was also long associated with the Mumbai film industry (also known as Bollywood) for movies such as Criminal and Gundagardi.
He worked on Padiappa, Veetilo Viseshamga, Madrasi and Villain for the Chennai film industry (also known as Kollywood). Sainath’s contribution to Kannada language films (Years 1995-2000) include the only two films that the ex-chief minister Ramakrishna Hegde acted in – Prajashakthi and Marana Mrudanga. His association with the Kannada film industry has been for 14 Kannada films so far including Haalinda Tavaru, Lion Jagapathi Rao among others.
Biography
Sainath is the fourth born to TSS Sharma and Susheela in Ananthapur from their seven children. Thanks to his father’s job as a railway station master, he travelled extensively during his formative years and did his schooling from Chennai (then Madras), Rajahmundry, Anaparthi, Gudivada, Ongole and Nellore before going to Vijayawada. He did his graduation in BSc from SRR and CVR Government College at Vijayawada.
His writing skills started showing right from his school days when he wrote his first drama in class 7th and continued this work in the form of writing short stories during college. His first serious association with the creative industry started with his joining Kalabharathi, founded by Jandhyala (who he considers his guru) in 1972. Here, he started acting in various plays and wrote his first playlet “Konark Vastunondi” in 1973. His play “Chaitanyam” was aired on All India Radio in 1974 and Vennela Keretam in 1976.
In 1979, he was taken by Jandhyala as his writing assistant. In a span of nine months thereon, he worked on fourteen films as a writing assistant, both for Jandhyala and Satyanand. In 1982, he started his real work in the film industry as a script associate for Amayaka Chakrayavarthi for Janardhan Vallabhaneni (Producer: Vijay Bapineedu).
In 1984, Vamsi’s Sitara was a major hit for which he dubuted as dialogue writer,[1] and he continued his work for some of the most successful movies of the time until 2009. Some of the films include Swathimutyam, Swayamkrushi, Sirivennela, Challenge, Punya Stree, Swarnakamalam, Prema, Criminal and Krishna Vamsi’s Rakhi among 92 films in Telugu. His strong association with the television medium gave several outputs in the form of soaps “Anubandham”, “Kalisiundaam Raa” for Balaji Telefilms and “Gayatri” for Radon Media Ltd. He wrote for “Janani” produced by Jayasudha and “ Manase Mandiram” for Kutty Padmini.
He is writer and director for Saakshi Channel through “Goli Soda”, a political satire during 2008 General Elections. Sainath is currently associated with his long time associate K Vishwanath and working with Larsco Entertainment.
Sainath lives his wife Aruna in Hyderabad with his son Sai Charan and daughter Sameera.
Filmography
Telugu 1984 Sitara (Edida Nageswarrao, Vamsi, Bhanupriya, Sumanth) 1985 Swathimutyam (Edida Nageswarrao, K Vishwanath, Kamal Hassan, Radhika) 1985 Challenge (K S Rama Rao, Kodanda Rami Reddy, Chiranjeevi, Suhasini, Vijay Shanthi) 1985 Punya Stree ( KS Rama Rao, Raviraja Pinisetty, Karthik, Rajendra Prasad, Bhavya) 1985 Sirivennela (Bhaskar Reddy, K Vishwanath, Sarvadaman Banerjee, Suhasini, Moon-Moon Sen) 1986 Swayamkrushi (Edida Nageswarrao, K Vishwanath, Chiranjeevi, Vijay Shanthi) 1987 Marana Mrudangam (K S Rama Rao, Kodanda Rami Reddy, Chiranjeevi, Suhasini, Radha) 1987 Prema (D Ramanaidu, Suresh Krishna, Venkatesh, Revathi) 1988 Prema Yuddham (Samba Siva Rao, SV Rajendra Singh, Nagarjuna, Amala) 1989 Shanthi Kranthi (Ravi Chandran, Nagarjuna, Juhi Chawla, Amala) 1990 Rao Gari Intlo Rowdy (Ramalingeshwar Rao, Kodi Ramakrishna, ANR, Suman)
Several other Telugu movies such as: Pavitra Prema, Criminal, Pelli Gola, Pichhodi Cheti lo Rai, Sanchalanam, Amma-Naanna Kaavaali, Khaidi Dada, Saakshi, Ukku Sankellu, Lady James Bond, Punnami Raatri, Kutra, Darja Donga, Maa Vaari Gola, Babai Hotel, Kongu Chaatu Krishnudu, Paaripoyina Khaideelu, Anna Tammudu, Donga garu Swagatham, Krishna Gari Abbai, Vastaad, Yama Dootalu, Slokam, Sivaram, Villain,Todu Needa, Viyyala Vari Kayyalu, Rakhee, Subhapradam, B4 Marriage etc.
Hindi 1995 Criminal (Mukesh Bhatt, Mahesh Bhatt, Nagarjuna, Manisha Koirala, Ramya Krishna) 1997 Goondagardi (KC Bokadia, Dharmendra, Vijay Shanthi, Simran, Aditya Pancholi)
Kannada 1990 Lion Jagapath Rao (Vijay Kumar, Sai Prakash, Vishnu Vardhan, Lakshmi, Bhavya) 1992 Prajashakthi (Chidambar Shetty, D Rajendra Babu, Ramakrishna Hegde, Malasree) 1993 Marana Mrudangam (Chidambar Shetty, Rama Murthy, Ramakrishna Hegde, Malasree) 1994 Halandu Thavaru (Vizag Raju, D Rajendra Babu, Vishnu Vardhan, Sitara) Other Kannada Movies include: Jagadeka Veera, Roll Call Ramakrishna, Vyuha, Pradhama Sparsa, Soma, Jeeva Nadi, Raja, Swaranjali among others.
Tamil 1999 Padiappa (KS Ravi Kumar, Rajnikanth, Ramya Krishna, Soundarya)
References
Categories:- Indian screenwriters
- Living people
- 1956 births
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