This is a chronicle of a master story teller who was instrumental in creating such big hits and trend setters for years together. Even now at various occasions those mammoth creations remembered and compared with present day huge technical entertainers.
Born in a village of Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh in the year of 1908, 5th August, 'Chakrapani' alias Alur Venkata Subbha Rao rose to the heights of challenging strong Hindi film world in terms of production that involved heavy budgets and technical aspects of films produced under the banner of Vijaya-Vauhini.
His extraordinary ability in weaving a story by just knowing four or five lines (knot) of any story and integrating necessary items such as dialogue, songs and fight sequences.
He mastered himself with Hindi through a freedom fighter Prajanandan Sharma who inspired him to write in Hindi with a pen-name 'Chakrapani'.
While he had to attend medical treatment at Vellore, AVS Rao met a patient and learned Bengali and later utilized to translate Sharath Chandra's novels in to Telugu and credited with introducing the great Bengali to Telugu readers.
Later he entered into flourishing Telugu cinema world with P Pullaiah's Dharma Patni. During the tenure he met Nagi Reddy and BNK Reddy a combination that extended up to 30 years since 1945 to 1975.
At first together with Nagi Reddy he founded a children's magazine Chandamama, and other two Andhra Jyothi and Vijaya Chitra, among them Chandamama expanded into other ten Indian languages, in subsequent years.
The hit movies of Vijaya-Vauhini productions not alone remain as the ever-green hits which are on top, in the list of favourites, for Telugu people but also dubbed and remaked into other languages including Tamil and Hindi.
Patala Bhairavi, Maya Bazar, Gundamma Katha, Missamma, Shavukaru and Appu Chesi Pappu Kudu, are some those hits.
It is high time not only for the film industry to pay honor for the legend but also every film lovers of land to appreciate any work that sequel Chakrapani's contribution.
