Aarani Satyanarayana or Arani Satyanarayana (11 November 1898 – 2 July 1969) was a Telugu film and drama actor during the early period of

Telugu cinema Telugu cinema, also known as Tollywood, is the segment of Cinema of India, Indian cinema dedicated to the production of Film, motion pictures in the Telugu language, widely spoken in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Based in Film N ...

.Sahajanata Aarani Satyanarayana, Tolinati Gramophone Gayakulu by Modali Nagabhushana Sharma, Creative Links Publications, Hyderabad, 2010, pp. 36-7. He was born in Sangadi Gunta village in

Guntur district Guntur district is one of the twenty six districts in the Coastal Andhra region of the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The administrative seat of the district is located at Guntur, the List of urban agglom ...

in 1898. He acted in ''

Gayopakhyanam ''Gayopakhyanam'' ( Telugu: గయోపాఖ్యానం) is a Telugu play written by Chilakamarti Lakshmi Narasimham in 1890. It is also called Prachanda Yadavam (The story of fierce Yadava King - Sri Krishna). This play is the forerunner ...

'' drama as Satyabhama at the age of 14 in 1912. He entered the cinema industry during the silent era, where he was introduced by R. S. Prakash in 1921. He later acted in ''Ramadasu'' (1933) of Ghantasala Balaramayya. He got a good name for portraying the role of Vidura in ''

Draupadi Vastrapaharanam Draupadi (), also referred to as Krishnā, Panchali and Yajnaseni, is the central heroine of the ancient Indian epic ''Mahabharata''. In the epic, she is the princess of Panchala Kingdom, who later becomes the empress of Kuru Kingdom. She i ...

'' (1936) from Saraswati Talkies. He acted in ''Kanakatara'', ''

Balayogini ''Balayogini'' ( ''Girl Saint'') is a 1937 Indian film made in Tamil and Telugu languages. It was directed by K. Subramanyam. It is one of the earliest Tamil films to be set in a contemporary social setting and to advocate reformist social pol ...

'', ''Dharmangada'', ''Ratnamala'', and ''Laila Majnu'' and played various roles. He joined Vinoda Pictures as an accountant and acted in their ''Devadasu'' and ''Shanti'' films.

Filmography

# ''Ramadasu'' (1933) .... Thanisha # # ''

'' (1936) ... Vidura # '' Kanakatara'' (1937) # Balayogini (1937) # '' Chandika'' (1940) # '' Ratnamala'' (1947) # ''Dharmangada'' (1949) # '' Laila Majnu'' (1949) # ''Shanti'' (1952) # '' Devadasu'' (1953) .... Dharmanna

References

External links

Satyanarayana Aarani page at IMDb.

Arani Satyanarayana page at IMDb.

1933 telugu movie.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Satyanarayana, Aarani 1898 births 1969 deaths Telugu male actors Indian male stage actors 20th-century Indian male actors