Director and writer · Telugu cinema
Bapu
Bapu movies: 28 Telugu films on file (28 as director, 1 as writer), 1967–2011. Earliest on file: Saakshi (1967). Latest release: Sri Rama Rajyam (17 November 2011).
- Films on file
- 28 (28 as director, 1 as writer)
- Years on file
- 1967–2011
- Selected films on file
- Sri Rama Rajyam, Mana Voori Pandavulu, Seeta Kalyanam
- Record
- Q4857745 on Wikidata
Career on file
Bapu has 28 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 1967 to 2011: 28 films as director and one film as writer. The earliest of them is Saakshi (1967), and the most recent release is Sri Rama Rajyam (2011). The most widely covered of these, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Sri Rama Rajyam (2011), Mana Voori Pandavulu (1978) and Seeta Kalyanam (1976). Other recent releases on file are Sundarakanda (2008), Radha Gopalam (2005) and Rambantu (1995).
In the films Bapu directed, Allu Rama Lingaiah appears most often (eight films), ahead of Gummadi Venkateswara Rao (6) and Kaikala Satyanarayana (5). Music on 18 of them is by K. V. Mahadevan, with Ilaiyaraaja (2) and M. M. Keeravani (2) next. Across these films the credits on file name 8 music directors and 80 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 15 of them; they average 152 minutes, and the longest is Buddhimantudu at 176 minutes. By decade the list splits into 1960s (3), 1970s (10), 1980s (8), 1990s (4), 2000s (2) and 2010s (1).
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.