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Hanuman and Sita puppets from the tholu bommalata tradition of Andhra Pradesh, India. Tholu bommalata is a form of puppetry which originated in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. [2] It mainly depicts episodes from the epics. Puppets are large, with a jointed waist, shoulders, elbows, and knees.
The culture of Andhra Pradesh embodies some very exclusive and special entities. Women wear Venkatagiri, Pedana, Bandarulanka, Uppada, Mangalagiri, Dharmavaram sarees. The exclusive metal ware, brass, stone and wood carving from Budithi in Srikakulam District and Veenas from Bobbili and colourful toys from Etikoppaka and Kondapalli highlight ...
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Mridangam. Venkateswara Rao was born in 1947, in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in a family of musicians [3] to Rama Murthy and Mahalaxmi. [4] He started his music training at the age of 7 in vocals, violin and veena, apart from mridangam but, later, concentrated more on mridangam and trained under his uncle, Yella Somanna, a known mridangam guru, [5] who later adopted the young Rao. [4]
Andhranatyam, the ancient classical temple dance of Andhra which has been in vogue for the past 2000 years. It was performed in the Buddhist Aramas, temples, and royal courts by the cultured and dedicated female artists. Andhranatyam is formerly known with different names like Aradhana, Kacheri, Darbar, Kelika, Chinna Melam, Mejuvani, and Dasi ...
Sobha Naidu was born in 1956 in Anakapalle, Andhra Pradesh, India. [2] [3] Her father, K. V. Naidu, initially opposed her pursuit of dance, wanting her to become a doctor.. However, her mother, Sarojini Devi, supported her passion for the art f
Patnaik is the current president of Andhra Pradesh Cine Music Association. [ 7 ] Other prominent Telugu film score and soundtrack composers of the present include K. Chakravarthy , Raj–Koti , Mani Sharma , Devi Sri Prasad , Mickey J Meyer , Ramana Gogula , R. P. Patnaik , Chakri (music director) , Kalyani Malik , S. Thaman , S. V. Krishna ...
The 1950s also saw the formation of Andhra State in 1953 and Andhra Pradesh in 1956 leading to calls for the Telugu film industry to relocate from Madras to the new state capital, Hyderabad. Despite these calls, the industry remained in Madras, where studios were already established and actors and technicians were settled. [ 67 ]