Vasiraju Prakasam

Vasiraju Prakasam is a film critic, producer, and journalist in the Indian film industry predominantly in Telugu cinema. He is also the producer of few television serials in the channel Doordarshan. Vasiraju Prakasam has produced some famous films such as Balaraju Katha, Kalam Marindi and Bapujee Bharatham. Vasiraju Prakasam was born in Andhra Pradesh, India.

He now resides in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. Vasiraju Prakasam was invited as a jury member to evaluate the nominees in the category "Best Wring on Cinema" in the 54th National Film Awards The National Film Awards gets presented every year >> Read More... . He was also a jury in the International Film Festival of India, Film Star Charity Cricket Association, and also International Children's Film Festival. For the Telugu daily magazines "Vaartha" and "Andhra Pradesh Film Chamber," Vasiraju Prakasam was one of the feature editors. In the year 2000, Vasiraju Prakasam won the award for the category Best Film Critic in the National Film Awards.

He got a special mention for the category Best Writing on Cinema in the year 2003 again in the National Film Award. Vasiraju Prakasam has also won Nandi Awards for the movies "Balaraju Katha" in the year 1970 and the movie "Kalam Marindi" in the year 1972. Both these awards were for the category, "Best Feature Film." The cine-journalist Vasiraju Prakasam released a publication compiling 70 articles on movie personalities and other aspects of the Indian Film Industry named Chitrabharathi.

The then Governor of Tamil Nadu K. Rosaiah appreciated Vasiraju Prakasam for the efforts taken by him. Vasiraju Prakasam dedicated this book to Rajya Sabha member T. Subbirami Reddy who was highly impressed by Vasiraju Prakasam for giving his thoughts on movies made in about 14 languages and also on the other aspects of cinema including the different personalities involved as technicians, art directors, stuntmen and many more. C. Narayana Reddy Bio coming soon... >> Read More... , the winner of the Gnanpeeth Award, pointed out that the book is a compilation of selected articles from Vasiraju Prakasam's column, Vaartha.

Vaartha was a weekly article which ran in the papers for more than 750 weeks. C. Narayana Reddy is a fan of Vasiraju Prakasam's writing, and he said that he first turns to the column "Chitrabharathi" every Sunday. The veteran critic got also associated with Dasari Narayana Rao Dasari Narayana Rao is an Indian cinema director w >> Read More... , Minister for Coal and Mines during his career life which is more than 35 years. The Film Critics Association which includes Vasiraju Prakasam felicitated Dasari Narayana Rao in the year 2004.