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He was my junior at Siddhartha Engineering college in Vijayawada. The first time I remember seeing him was when he was coming towards our hostel on a scooter. Short and very unassuming looking I hardly took notice of him. Me and a few others together used to be a very tough gang on the campus [...]

If a man is about what he is and not what he was then I would say my birth was at Siddhartha Engineering College in Vijayawada. This is because if I take into consideration the kind of a person I am today, I can trace back every thought, every idea, every experience and every influence [...]

The year I had the idea of making “RAAT” a cousin of mine called Chitti had an idea of opening a bar & restaurant on Mehdi Patnam Road in Hyderabad. He reasoned that there was a huge colony on that road and not a single bar was there 5kms either way of the location he [...]

When I was hanging out around Annapurna Studios trying to get a break, I used to attend the music composing sessions of “Collector Gari Abbayi”. In the course of those sessions whenever its music director Chakravarti and the director B.Gopal used to go for lunch I used to chat up with the music director’s assistant and once in a while he used to sing tunes which he himself composed. I was very impressed with many of his tunes and one day I described to him a scene from “SHIVA” the way I was intending to shoot it and I asked him about what kind of music he thinks should be there in that scene and he replied that there should not be any music in that scene. I was mighty impressed with the answer especially as it came from a musician and I committed to him that if ever I get a break I will sign him as my music director.

There was an extreme excitement in all us youngsters at Panjagutta Colony in Hyderabad sometime in the early 70’s as somehow word got around that a new film called “Enter the Dragon” was coming starring a new actor called ‘Bruce Lee’. It was supposed to have some mind blowing martial arts sequences. I never heard [...]