Tyagayya (1946 film)

Name: Tyagayya (1946 film)
Director: V. Nagayya
Released: 2025-09-04T02:56:09Z
Duration: 3 h 6 min

Tyagayya
Tyagayya
	Poster of Tyagayya
Directed by	V. Nagayya
Produced by	Nagayya; Sri Duvvuri Narayana Reddy
Screenplay by	V. Nagayya; S. V. R. Acharya or Samudrala Sr. Dialogues and other songs
Story by	V. Nagayya
Based on	The life of Tyagaraja
Starring	V. Nagayya; B. Jayamma
Music by	V. Nagayya
Cinematography	Mohamed A. Rehman
Edited by	Govind Dinkar Joshi
Production; company	Sri Renuka Films, Madras
Release date	1 November 1946 (India);
Running time	186 minutes
Language	Telugu

Tyagayya is a 1946 Telugu-language film produced and directed by V. Nagayya It is based on the life of the saint Tyagaraja.

Cast[edit | edit source]

Male cast^[1]

V. Nagayya as Tyagayya
Lingamurthy as Japesam
Nyapathi Narayana Moorthi M. L. A., (Central) as King Sharabhoji
Rayaprolu Subrahmanyam as Venkataramana Bhagavatulu
K. Doraiswamy as Sundaresa Mudaliar
M. C. Raghavan as Marthanda Bhagavatar
Natesam as Bobbili Kesavayya
K. V. Subba Rao as Dhanapala Chetti
Prayaga Narasimha Sastry as Ganapati (Sishya)
Aswatdhama as Ramudu
Narayana Rao as Commander-in-Chief
Vedantam Lakshmikantam as Narada-in disguise
Kumpatla Subba Rao as Kuchipudi - Bhagavatulu
A. L. Narayana as Kuchipudi - Bhagavatulu
Appalacharyulu as Kuchipudi - Bhagavatulu
G. Venkataswami Raju as Sishya

Female cast^[1]

B. Jayamma as Dharmamba
Sarita Devi as Chapala
C. Hemalatha Devi as Kamalamba
Sundaralakshmi as Seethalakshmi
Jayavanti as Court Singer
G. Visweswaramma as Venkamma
Baby T. Shyamala as Radha
Baby Vanaja as Krishna

Production[edit | edit source]

The film was jointly produced by Nagayya and Sri Duvvuri Narayana Reddy, and directed by V. Nagayya. Nagayya also wrote the story and handled the scenario. The dialogues were written by S. V. R. Acharya i.e., Samudrala Venkata Raghavacharya otherwise popularly known as Samudrala Sr. Photography and special effects were handled by Mohamed A. Rehman. Audiography was done by Dinshaw K. Tehrani, editing by Govind Dinkar Joshi, and art by C. Rama Raju and F. Nagoor. The dances were choreographed by Vedantam Raghavayya.^[1]

Music[edit | edit source]

The music was composed by V. Nagayya and the Renuka Orchestra headed by the Trivellore Violinist Brothers. While the lyrics of most of 37 songs were written by S. V. R. Acharya (Samudrala Sr.), the Tamil songs were written by Papanasam Sivan and Chandilyan. One Hindi song was written by J. A. Rehman. Nagayya had introduced lyrics in Kannada with the song Purandaradasa Devara Nama (film credits). Songs in Tamil and Hindi were sung by D. K. Pattammal and J. A. Rehman respectively.

References[edit | edit source]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Nagayya, V. (1946). Tyagaiah (motion picture) (in తెలుగు). Sri Renuka Films Ltd. Opening credits, from 0:08 to 2:08.

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[Filmtitle-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Nagayya, V. (1946). Tyagaiah (motion picture) (in తెలుగు). Sri Renuka Films Ltd. Opening credits, from 0:08 to 2:08.

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