Bapu collaborated with Ramana to give life to Ramana's child prodigy character Budugu in the form of appealing caricatures. Ramana provided an able foil, providing script and dialogue to suit Bapu's visuals. Bapu is one-half of the Bapu-Ramana (Mullapudi Venkata Ramana) pair that made movies in Telugu cinema.
He worked with Satyam Sankaramanchi and drew 101 pictures for each of the stories in Amaravati Kathalu. Bapu also later served on their advisory board to guide and have an outstanding content for the magazine that catered to Telugu people. Telugu Naadi Magazine published from USA for Telugu audience have published Bapu's great paintings. The font is his own handwriting and reflects the same simplicity as his art.īapu's paintings also decorated the cover pages of many magazines in India and Abroad. Bapu has also introduced a new style of cursive writing in Telugu. His character portrayals, such as Shiva, Bhima, Duryodhana, look distinctly male with wide chests, large jaws and large biceps while Krishna and Rama are more feminine in build. His paintings focus on Hindu mythological characters, and he has painted the Hindu epic Ramayana as a pictorial story. His unique style consisted of economy of strokes, freehand drawing and a lack of background clutter. In 2013, he was awarded the Padma Shri, for his contribution to Indian art and cinema.īapu introduced a painting style of simple bright colours. He was also a music artist, film director, and screenwriter known for his works in Telugu cinema.
Sattiraju Lakshmi Narayana (15 December 1933 – 31 August 2014), known professionally as Bapu, was a painter, illustrator, cartoonist, and designer, and bollywood.
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