Babu (The Artist) and Ramana (The Writer) is worth a great friendship
A eye arresting painting or an
art work or a beautiful film heroine is always referred to ‘Babu Bomma’ around
the world. That is the honour Babu, the painter gained in Indian artist’s
arena. Babu is considered as the natural artist of nature and women.
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| Babu And Rmana - The Body and Soul |
From the days of Adam and Eve, it
is female that is the focus point of beauty. The natural beauty and charm of a
female is responsible for human race though male is instrumental. That natural
attraction, the female, is further escalated with the touch of a brush to raise
the erotic emotion in is ‘Babu Bomma’
Babu is not only an artist but a film maker. Babu
and Ramana (film writer) are the inseparable duo and people call them ‘body and
soul’. These inseparable pair had set an example for ideal friendship. Lived
together for 50 years in the same house ,sharing good and bad with poise and
tranquillity they are called ‘Nishkama Rishis’ (unattached to worldly
attractions). They never came public for popularity and fame. They dislike show
and celebrations. Babu is well known for
creative art and captured the hearts of thousands through his portraits, cartoons,
paintings, caricatures, illustrations and calligraphy. Bapu creates wonderful
and creative painting with few free hand strokes. His drawings and pictures depict
100% Indian culture.
In
recognition of his contribution to the field of Art in general and for telugu culture
in particular, Bapu was honoured by various Govt and non Govt organisations. To
name a few
- 1982 - Honoured by the Rajalakshmi Foundation, Chennai
- 1987 - Honoured
by A.P. Kala Vedika
- 1987 - RaghupathivVenkaiah Memorial Award by
Govt of Andhra Pradesh
- 1991 - "Kala Prapoorna" by Andhra
University
- 1992 - "Siromani" award by the American
Telugu Association
- 1995 - Honoured by the Telugu Association of
North America (TANA) in recognition of his 50 years contribution to the Telugu
art, films, literature and culture
- 2002 - Visishta Puraskaaramu by Potti Sree
Ramulu Telugu university
Satthiraju Lakshmi Narayana also known as Bapu
was born in the year 1933, December 15. He breathed his last on August 31, 2014. Mullapudi Venkata Ramana on the other hand is a story writer.
Ramana was born in Dhavaleswaram June
28, 1931 and passed away on February
23, 2011, Chennai
Awards:
- Nandi Award for Best Dialogue Writer
- Nandi Award for Best Story Writer
- Nandi Award for Second Best Feature Film
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| Babu's Naughty Budugu |
Mullapudi Venkata Rmanas’ created Budugu a
fictional character and Budugu is a very naughty boy. ‘Budugu’ the child
character is a house hold name in Telugu Nadu is a precocious and bratty child,
bu this actions end up in good humour and entertainment. Mullapudi’s Budugu
represents the world as seen by the character. Budugu has an opinion about
everything. Budugu talks about politicians, culture and informs reality of the
world. Budugu wanted to become a jhatka (horse-cart) rider/engine(train)
driver. Many characters come and go in his stories like his parents – Radha and
Gopalam, and unmarried uncle – baabai and various neighbours like laavupaati
pakkinti pinnigaru and her husband, budugu's child love is ghana
Pasoonamba and a
detective makes a
comedy appearance.
Both Ramana and Babu created history in Indian
Telugu film industry. Their best contribution is for mythological films. Babu
draws the whole film in the form of drawings before it goes for production.
That is his way of screen plot before direction. Gew of the famous films they
produced are ‘Sampurna Ramayanam’, ‘Rama Rajyam’, ‘Andala Ramudu’ and ‘Mutyla
Muggu’. The films where Babu has s[ecial attention to women and the heroines in
those films are called ‘Babu Bommalu’ are
Few Babu's Paintings:
Different Postures of a Female with different Expressions:
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| Romantic Mood | | | |
Bhapu's heroines
Mullapudi Ramana died well before babu and Babu could not tolerate the separation. In his own words he wrote while screening a film 'Midhunam" : Ref; http://www.indiaglitz.com/bapu-felt-the-loss-of-ramana-in-mithunam-telugu-news-89678
That is the height of true friendship.
References:
http://pusthakalu.in/telugu-novels/bapu-ramana