Tyagaiah
Poster of Tyagayya
Directed byV. Nagayya
Screenplay byV. Nagayya
S. V. R. Acharya or Samudrala Sr. Dialogues and other songs
Story byV. Nagayya
Based onThe life of Tyagaraja
Produced byNagayya
Sri Duvvuri Narayana Reddy
StarringV. Nagayya
B. Jayamma
CinematographyMohamed A. Rehman
Edited byGovind Dinkar Joshi
Music byV. Nagayya
Production
companies
Sri Renuka Films, Madras
Release date
  • 1 November 1946 (1946-11-01) (India)
Running time
186 minutes
LanguageTelugu

Tyagaiah is a 1946 Telugu-language film produced and directed by V. Nagayya It is based on the life of the saint Tyagaraja.

Cast

Production

The film was jointly produced by Nagayya and Sri Duvvuri Narayana Reddy, and directed by V. Nagayya. Nagayya also wrote the story and handled the scenario. The dialogues were written by S. V. R. Acharya i.e., Samudrala Venkata Raghavacharya otherwise popularly known as Samudrala Sr. Photography and special effects were handled by Mohamed A. Rehman. Audiography was done by Dinshaw K. Tehrani, editing by Govind Dinkar Joshi, and art by C. Rama Raju and F. Nagoor. The dances were choreographed by Vedantam Raghavayya.[1]

Music

The music was composed by V. Nagayya and the Renuka Orchestra headed by the Trivellore Violinist Brothers. While the lyrics of most of 37 songs were written by S. V. R. Acharya (Samudrala Sr.), the Tamil songs were written by Papanasam Sivan and Chandilyan. One Hindi song was written by J. A. Rehman. Nagayya had introduced lyrics in Kannada with the song Purandaradasa Devara Nama (film credits). Songs in Tamil and Hindi were sung by D. K. Pattammal and J. A. Rehman respectively.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Nagayya, V. (1946). Tyagaiah (motion picture) (in Telugu). Sri Renuka Films Ltd. Opening credits, from 0:08 to 2:08.


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