This was the yr 2012. An auditorium in Hyderabad was full of bigwigs from the Telugu movie trade and followers gathered for the Maa Sangeet Awards 2012. Legendary Telugu lyricist Sirivenela Sitaram Sastri was to be felicitated throughout the award evening. Before the felicitation ceremony started, the anchors invited director Trivikram to talk just a few phrases in regards to the lyricist. After Trivikram’s speech, which is memorable even at this time, the entire auditorium was full of claps and whistles.
In his speech, Trivikram mentioned: “My power and vocabulary are inadequate to explain the poetry of Sitaram Shastri. Because his music ‘Pragadisha Veniya Pena Dinkara Mayugha Thanthrula Pena’ from Sirivenela made me really feel that there are dictionaries in Telugu. I purchased a Telugu dictionary to grasp the which means of the phrases of the music. He is the one who made us consider {that a} music can’t be written solely to be understood by the viewers, however a music can be written to make the viewers want to perceive it. He is the sort of poet who can excite you to find new Telugu phrases, and he’s the sort of poet who all the time tries to behave like that. He used highly effective phrases, that are tough to make use of in cinema songs. First, we should respect him for that. As a director, I can think about how brave he might have been to put in writing a music like ‘Tharaliraada Thane Vasantham Thana Darikirani Vanala Kosam’ in Chiranjeevi’s Rudraveena. I salute him for that. He is the sort of poet who makes his place for bringing in surrealist parts in his songs. In a world the place everybody believes that literary works don’t have any worth in industrial cinema, he makes room for delivering an important music. He is the one that wakes up after everyone seems to be asleep. He is the solar that rises at midnight. He goes looking with phrases and letters. He throws questions at us which might be tough to reply and encourages us to by no means hand over.
“I nonetheless bear in mind. In my early days in Hyderabad, I noticed Sindhuram, and there was a small discontent in me. But in the long run, the traces from ‘Ardhashatabadapu Agnanani Swatantram Andama’ (written by Sirivanella) left me in a trance You will likely be influenced solely by literature. I’m very disillusioned that he stayed right here solely as a result of he’s a lyricist of Telugu cinema. Everyone began to consider the notion that cinema songs don’t have any literary worth So we couldn’t respect writers like Malladi Ramakrishna Sastri, Devulapalli Krishnashastri, Dasarathy and Veturi. Today we’re lucky to have Sirivenela Sitarama Sastri, who got here up with a regular for Vachan Kavitam.
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In truth it’s no exaggeration to say that Sirivenela Sitaram Sastri was the bridge between conventional music writing and up to date literary works. He will not be with us at this time, however his lyrical work for movies will make him dwell within the hearts of cine-lovers perpetually.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
