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'''Bommireddy Nagi Reddy''' (2 December 1912 – 25 February 2004<ref name='NagiReddyCondol'>{{cite news | url=http://www.hindu.com/2004/02/27/stories/2004022709540300.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040918065608/http://www.hindu.com/2004/02/27/stories/2004022709540300.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=18 September 2004 | title= TTD condoles B. Nagi Reddy | date=27 February 2004 | access-date =17 April 2007 | work=[[The Hindu]] | location=Chennai, India }}</ref>) was an Indian film producer and director mainly in [[Telugu cinema]]. He set up [[Vijaya Vauhini Studios]] in [[Chennai]], which was then Asia's biggest film studio.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web|url=http://www.deccanherald.com/archives/feb262004/n5.asp |title=B.Nagi Reddy dead |date=26 February 2004 |access-date=26 February 2004 }}{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> As his elder brother (who was also a director) had the same initials and was known as [[B. N. Reddy]], Nagi Reddy was popularly known as B. Nagi Reddy. Some of the movies produced by Nagi Reddy include ''[[Patala Bhairavi]]'' (1951), ''[[Missamma]]'' (1955), ''[[Maya Bazaar]]'' (1957), ''[[Gundamma Katha]]'' (1962), ''Maduve Madinodu'' (1965-Kannada), ''[[Enga Veetu Pillai]]'' (1965), ''[[Ram Aur Shyam]]'' (1967), ''[[Shriman Shrimati]]'' (1982), ''[[Julie (1975 film)|Julie]]'' (1975), and ''[[Swarg Narak]]'' (1978), ''[[Nam Naadu (1969 film)|Nam Naadu]]'' (1969) the latter two of which were in [[Hindi]]. Reddy has served as the president of [[Film Federation of India]] twice, in 1960–61 and 1962–63.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://filmfed.org/PRE-Members2.html|title=Film Federation Of India|access-date=25 September 2016|archive-date=27 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927031710/http://filmfed.org/PRE-Members2.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Nagi Reddy along with his friend and partner [[Aluri Chakrapani]] produced over fifty films in four decades in the four South Indian languages and also in Hindi.<ref name="NagiReddyCondol"/> He made mythological, devotional, and historical [[Telugu cinema|Telugu]] movies.  Some of his more notable films include ''[[Pathala Bhairavi]]'', ''[[Maya Bazaar]]'', and ''[[Missamma]]''.  He made most of his films in association with screenwriter [[Aluri Chakrapani|Chakrapani]].  Nagi Reddy closed down Vijaya-Vahini after the Telugu film industry moved out of studios in the 1970s, and started the Vijaya Hospital and Vijaya Health Centre.