Kondaveeti Venkatakavi

Kondaveeti Venkatakavi
Born	Kondaveeti Venkatayya Jan 25, 1918 Vipparla, Guntur District, Andra Pradesh, India
Died	Apr 7, 1991
Other names	Kondaveeti Venkata Kavi
Occupation(s)	Poet, Film Writer
Years active	1932 - 1991
Parents	Narayana (father) Sheshamma (mother)

Kondaveeti Venkatakavi is an Indian poet, scholar, and film writer from Andhra Pradesh. He is well known for writing dialogues in the movie Daana Veera Soora Karna.

Childhood

Venkata Kavi was born as Venkatayya to Narayana and Seshamma in the village of Vipparla in Guntur district.

Education

He got primary education was from his scholarly father. He studied Sanskrit poetry and pancha kavyas under the guidance of Narikonda Nammalaraju, a poet from Gadwal. He later moved to Tenali and woked as assitant under Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Chowdary. He mastered Sriharsha Naishada under his uncle Yetukri Narasimhayya. He worked as assitenat under Srimat Tirumala Mudhimalla Varadhacharya, who was working to teach Sanskrit to all sections of the peopole. He learned Sanskrit Vyakarana and Patanjali Bhashya from Kavi Ramanujacharya. He leaned Telugu Vyakarana from Duvvur Venkataramana Sastry. He moved to Vijayanagaram and studied the grammar under the Chinaseetarama Sastry. He later practiced Avadhanam under the guidance of Chellapilla Venkata Sastry.

Career

Teacher

He worked as a Telugu scholar in the Board High School in Macherla from 1948 to 1952, and as Sanskrit lecturer in Ponnur oriental college for forty years from 1955.

Poet

He started writing poetry at the age of 14 and wrote many books. In 1932, he wrote Karshaka Satakam about the problems of farmers. It was banned by the government. In 1940, he wrote Chennakesava Satakam. He wrote Divyasmrutulu remembering Vemana, Gurajada Apparao and other eminent Telugu personalities. He published a research work on Amuktamalyada of Krishna Devaraya. He wrote a book with rational thoughts on Melu Kolupu in 1942.

He wrote a literary series with the name Nehru Charita, as the history of Jawaharlal Nehru. The first part was published in 1954 and was dedicated to Bezawada Gopala Reddy. The second part was dedicated to Guthikonda Narahari. The third part remains unprinted.

Filmography

• Daaana Veera Soora Karna, dialogues (1977) - Debut in Films
• Sri Madvirata Parvam, dialogues (1979)
• Srimadvirat Veerabrahmendra Swami Charitra, dialogues (1984)
• Tandra Paparayudu, dialogues (1986)
• Aadi Dampatulu, lyricist (1986)

Rationalist

He was against caste divisions in society. He translated Upanishads to Telugu to bring ancient secular knowledge to the forefront. He encouraged and arranges intercaste marraiges for both his son and daughter.

Awards

• Kala Prapoorna from Andhra University
• Nandi Award for Best Dialogue Writer - Tandra Paparayudu (1986)