Vamsy

Infobox_Celebrity
name = Vamsy
occupation = Film director, author, screenwriter, Music director
website = http://www.vamsy.net
footnotes =

Vamsy is a critically acclaimed Telugu Indian film director, writer and Music director. He forms one of the four corner stones of Telugu Cinema of the '80s and '90s along with K Viswanath, Bapu and Jandhyala.

Biography

Career

Vamsy worked as an assistant director to K Viswanath on Sankarabharanam before becoming making his first film Manchupallaki with Suhasini, Chiranjeevi and Rajendra Prasad in 1982. This movie was a remake of the Tamil movie Palaivana Solai directed by Robert-Rajasekaran [ [http://vamsy.net/manchupallaki.html "Manchupallaki on vamsy.net"] ] . In 1984, Vamsy made the critically acclaimed Sitara, with which he introduced Bhanupriya to the Telugu Film Industry. The movie was adapted from his own novel - "Mahal lo Kokila" (The Nightingale in the Palace). The movie went on to win the National award for best regional film [National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu ] and Best Singer for S. Janaki [National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer] . In 1985, he made Preminchu Pelladu, the first movie with Rajendra Prasad as the sole lead [ [http://www.vamsy.net/pp.html "Preminchu Pelladu on vamsy.net"] ]

For a significant period of his career, Vamsy collaborated with the music director Ilayaraja. Some of their best work has been in cooperation with each other. The two were so attuned to each others' way of thinking that for a song in his movie Ladies Tailor, Vamsy shot the video for a song (Ekkada Ekkada) before the song was even recorded [ [http://www.idlebrain.com/celeb/realstars/vamsi2.html "Article on Vamsy-Ilayaraja combo"] ] . This is against the norm as usually the songs are recorded first and the videos are made later in most movies.

Filmography

Director [ [http://vamsy.net/filmo.html "Vamsy's filmography on Vamsy.net" ] ] [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0885536/ "Vamshi on IMDB" ] ]

Music Director [ [http://vamsy.net/filmo.html "Vamsy's filmography on Vamsy.net" ] ]

ee also

Ilaiyaraaja

Rajendra Prasad (actor)

References

External links

[http://www.vamsy.net Vamsy Fansite]
[http://www.idlebrain.com/celeb/realstars/vamsi.html Series on Vamsy]
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0885536/ Vamsy on IMDB]