Chittajallu Pullayya (

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: చిత్తజల్లు పుల్లయ్య; 1898 – 6 October 1967) was an

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director and screenwriter. He is one of the earliest film personalities in Telugu cinema being associated with the industry right from the

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. Pullayya started his film career in 1921 as a camera apprentice to the father of Telugu cinema, Raghupati Venkaiah Naidu’s 'Star of the East' in Madras, and at 'Kohinoor' in Bombay. He was also the

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for Kakinada-based Young Men’s Happy Club. He made a silent three- reel short film ''Bhakta'' ''Markandeya'' (1926 or 1931) and to exhibit it he started a tent theatre named 'City Electric Cinema' and took the projector and chairs to various towns and exhibited the film, thus pioneering a movie theatre movement in Andhra. He later ran the permanent Minerva theatre. In 1933, he made his feature film directorial debut with East India Film Company's first Telugu film ''

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'' in Calcutta which received an honorary diploma at the Venice Film Festival. He then directed '' Lava Kusa'' (1934) and ''Sati Anasuya'' (1936), the first Telugu children's film made with sixty child actors. He continued to direct films like ''

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'' (1939), ''Maalati Madhavam'' (1940), '' Pakka Inti Ammayi'' (1953) under the East India Film Company. He directed '' Bala Nagamma'' (1942) and ''Apoorva Sahodarulu'' (1950) under Gemini Pictures after shifting base to

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. He is well remembered for '' Lava Kusa'' (1963), the story of Lava and Kusa in Hindu epic '' Ramayana'', which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu. Pullayya introduced Bhanumathi and

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to the film industry through ''Vara Vikrayam'' (1939) and ''Gollabhama'' (1947) respectively.

Filmography

# ''Ramadasu'' (1933) # ''

'' (1933) # '' Lava Kusa'' (1934) # ''Sri Krishna Tulabharam'' (1935) # ''Anasuya'' (1936) # ''Dhruva'' ''Vijayam'' (1936); Event occurs at 6:08 # ''Chal Mohana Ranga'' (1937) # ''Dasavataramulu'' (1937) # ''Kasula Peru'' (1937) # ''Mohini Bhasmasura'' (1938) # ''Satyanarayana Vratam'' (1938) # ''

'' (1939) # ''

Malathi Madhavam ''Malathi Madhavam'' is a 1940 Telugu film directed by C. Pullaiah Chittajallu Pullayya (Telugu language, Telugu: చిత్తజల్లు పుల్లయ్య; 1898 – 6 October 1967) was an Indian film director and screenwrite ...

'' (1940) # '' Bala Nagamma'' (1942) # ''Narada Naradi'' (1946) # '' Gollabhama'' (1947) # '' Vindhyarani'' (1948) # ''Apoorva Sahodaralu'' (1950) # ''Sankranti'' (1952) # '' Pakka Inti Ammayi'' (1953) # '' Devanthakudu'' (1960) # '' Naan Kanda Sorgam'' (1960) # '' Lava Kusa'' (1963) # '' Paramanandayya Sishyula Katha'' (1966) # ''Bhuvana Sundari Katha'' (1967) # ''

Bhama Vijayam ''Bhama Vijayam'' () is a 1967 Indian Telugu-language swashbuckler film, produced by Somasekhar and Radha Krishna, and directed by C.Pulliah. It stars N. T. Rama Rao and Devika, with music composed by T. V. Raju. The film is based on ''Gollabh ...

'' (1967)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pullaiah, C. Telugu film directors Indian male dramatists and playwrights Indian theatre directors Indian arts administrators 20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights 1898 births 1967 deaths 20th-century Indian film directors People from Kakinada Film directors from Andhra Pradesh Screenwriters from Andhra Pradesh Telugu screenwriters 20th-century Indian male writers 20th-century Indian screenwriters