Chittoor nagaiah biography sample paper

Chittor V. Nagaiah Biography

Chittor V. Nagaiah was an actor, composer, director, producer, writer and playback singer of Telugu film industry, known by the name - ‘The Paul Muni of India’.

Nagaiah has acted in about 200 Telugu films, and 160 films in Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. He was honoured by Padma Shri in 1965, one of the earliest south Indian actors to receive this honour. He died on December 30, 1973 aged 69.

 

Nagaiah was born on 28 March 1904 in a Telugu speaking Brahmin family in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh.

His parents were Ramalinga Sarma and Venkata Lakshmamba. During his childhood the family moved to several places and finally settled at Tirupati in Chittoor district.

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He took up studies and became a graduate with a scholarship provided by the Tirupati Devasthanam. He worked as clerk and journalist before entering film industry. He has also participated in freedom struggle movement. He had strong association wit