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<div>{{short description|Indian theatre activist}}<br />
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| name = Pasupuleti Purna Chandra Rao<br />
| image = Pasupuleti Purnachandra Rao.jpg<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1948|5|22|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Khammam]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|10|18|1948|5|22|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Hyderabad]]<br />
| occupation = Theatre Activist,<br>Film Critic,<br>Cinema Scholar <br />
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| spouse = Lakshmi Tayaru<br />
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| website = https://sites.google.com/site/pasupuletipurnachandrarao/home<br />
| alma_mater =[[Osmania University]], [[Hyderabad]],<br>[[Film and Television Institute of India]], [[Pune]]<ref>[https://sites.google.com/site/pasupuletipurnachandrarao/home P. Purnachandra Rao on Google site]</ref><br />
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'''Pasupuleti Purna Chandra Rao''' (May 22, 1948 – October 11, 2019) was an Indian theatre activist, film editor and critic.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kinige.com/tag/Pasupuleti+Purnachandra+Rao|title=Pasupuleti Purnachandra Rao – Tags – Home – తెలుగు పుస్తకాలు Telugu books – Kinige : By the Telugu for the Telugu|work=Kinige}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anandbooks.com/Pasupuleti-Purnachandra-Rao|title=Pasupuleti Purnachandra Rao|work=Anand Books}}</ref> In 2014, he garnered the [[National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema]] for his book on silent cinema titled ''Silent Cinema (1895–1930)'' at the [[62nd National Film Awards]]<ref name=62ndfinal>{{cite web <br />
|title=62nd National Film Awards for 2014 (Press Release)|url = http://dff.nic.in/writereaddata/62nd%20National%20Film%20Awards%202014%20-%20Press%20Release.pdf |work=[[Directorate of Film Festivals]]|date=24 February 2015|access-date = 2015-03-25 }}</ref> by then President, [[Pranab Mukherjee]].<br />
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==Awards==<br />
;[[National Film Awards]]<br />
*[[National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema]] (2014) – ''[[Silent Cinema (1895-1930)]]''<br />
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