Srinivas/Sreenivas/Shrinivas/Shreenivas (Sanskrit श्रीनिवास) is a common given name for males in India. The word Srinivas is combination of two Sanskrit words, Sri (श्री) and nivasa (निवास). Sri means 'radiance' or 'diffusing light'; nivasa means 'place of residence'. Srinivas is a common reference to Venkateswara, who is considered to be the source of light (as a metaphor for life) in Hindu scriptures. This is very common name in Andhra Pradesh. Srinivas is a modernised version of the original Sanskrit/Hindu name Srinivasa.

Srinivasan is another variant of Srinivas with the same meaning. The use of the word Srinivasan instead of Srinivas is common in the south Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Notable people[link]

Music and art[link]

• P. B. Sreenivas, Indian singer
• Srinivas, Indian singer
• Srinivas Avasarala, Indian actor
• Ghazal Srinivas, Indian singer
• Trivikram Srinivas, Indian filmmaker
• U. Srinivas, Indian musician
• Vandemataram Srinivas, Indian musician

Politics[link]

• Dharmapuri Srinivas, Indian politician
• Grandhi Srinivas, Indian politician
• Ullal Srinivas Mallya, Indian politician

Science[link]

• Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician

Business[link]

• Vaman Srinivas Kudva, Indian businessman

Sports[link]

• Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, Indian cricketer
• Madapusi Srinivasaprasad, Indian cricketer

Others[link]

• M. N. Srinivas, Indian sociologist
• Srinivas Kumar Sinha, Indian soldier

Religion[link]

• Venkateswara, Hindu deity

Other[link]

• Srinivas college

See also[link]

• Srinivasan

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U. Shrinivas
Shrinivas performing in Pune, January 2009
Background information
Born	(1969-02-28) February 28, 1969 (age 43) Palakol, West Godavari Dist, Andhra Pradesh, India
Genres	Indian classical music
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	mandolin
Website	Official website

Uppalapu Shrinivas (Telugu: ఉప్పలపు శ్రీనివాస్), (born February 28, 1969) is an Indian mandolin player of the Carnatic musical tradition of Southern India.^[1] Shrinivas plays an electric mandolin and has collaborated with John McLaughlin, Michael Nyman, and Michael Brook.^[2] He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1998 and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2010.^[3][4]

Early life[link]

Shrinivas was born February 28, 1969, in Palakol in Andhra Pradesh.^[5] At the age of six he picked up his father Satyanarayana's mandolin. Upon realising the talent of his son, his father started teaching him. Soon, Satyanarayana's guru, Rudraraju Subbaraju, realized the potential of U. Shrinivas and started teaching him. Since Rudraraju Subbaraju did not know how to play the mandolin he would just sing and U. Shrinivas would play it on the mandolin. His brother U. Rajesh is also an accomplished mandolin player.

Performing career[link]

U. Shrinivas made his first public Carnatic concert performance in 1978 in Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh, during the Thyagaraja Aradhana festival. Soon, he came to perform in the Madras Music Season in 1981 for the Indian Fine Arts Society. In 1983, he performed at the JazzFest Berlin where the audience requested him to do a repeat performance.

He continued touring the world—Australia, Southeast Asia and then Southwest Asia, followed by the United States and Canada.

Jazz tours[link]

Shrinivas performing in Germany, 2001

• In the West Berlin Jazz Festival in 1983, he pitted against Miles Davis and his All Star Band.
• In 1987, U. Shrinivas became the first South Indian Carnatic music artist to perform at the Cevantino Festival in Mexico.
• Olympics Arts Festival at Barcelona, 1992

Awards and achievements[link]

U. Shrinivas runs a music school called the Shrinivas Institute of World Music (SIOWM).

Some of the awards that Mandolin U. Srinivas has received:

• Padma Shree on April 12, 1998 by The President of India
• Sangeeta Ratna
• Sanatan Sangeet Puraskar from Sangeet Sanskriti
• Titled Asthana Vidwan of Govt. of Tamil Nadu in July 1984, Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam on October 1, 1990, Pillayarpatti Temple on 27 August 1995
• Raja-Lakshmi Award for 1985 from Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation, Chennai
• Mysore T. Chowdiah Memorial National Award
• Sangeetha Bala Bhaskara by Sangeetha Kalanidhi M.S. Subbulakshmi
• National Citizen's Award, 1991 by The President of India
• Special TTK Award and Best Artist Award by the Madras Music Academy in 1983 and 1993 respectively
• Rajiv Gandhi National Integration Award

Discography[link]

Shrinivas has performed with Western artists such as John McLaughlin, Michael Brook, Trey Gunn, Nigel Kennedy, Nana Vasconcelos, and Michael Nyman, as well as with Hindustani music artists such as Hariprasad Chaurasia and Zakir Hussain. He has recorded a CD of Carnatic compositions by Ilaiyaraaja called Ilaiyaraaja's Classics in Mandolin. Recently, U Shrinivas also released Samjanitha featuring Debashish Bhattacharya (Lap Steel Guitar), John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain, Sivamani, Vikku Vinaykram, Dominique Piazza George Brook, U Rajesh, Anil Srinivasan and others.

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: U. Shrinivas

• U. Shrinivas at Allmusic
• The official website

Trivikram Srinivas (Telugu: త్రివిక్రమ్ శ్రీనివాస్) born Akella Naga Srinivas Sarma (November 7, 1972) is a dialogue writer turned screenwriter and film director in Telugu Cinema.^[1][2]

Early life[link]

Trivikram was born in Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh into a Telugu Vaidiki Brahmins family. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Physics from DNR College in Bhimavaram.

His excellent teaching skills made an easy way for him to become a tutor.

While teaching comedian Gautam Raju’s children, he developed contacts in the industry. Swayamvaram was the first film for which he got a chance to frame dialogues. But the movie Nuvve Kavali released before that and became his debut with dialogues. The dialogues of his first releases which echo the most are Chirunavvutho, Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, Malliswari and Manmadhudu.

Nuvve Nuvve was his critically acclaimed directorial debut. But it was Athadu that strengthened his rank and position by roping in the Filmfare Best Director Award for him. He has also directed Jalsa. The director has done playback singing for Nuvve Nuvve.

Trivikram Srinivas has won the Nandi Award for Best Dialogue Writer five times for his dialogues in the movies Chiru Navvutho, Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, Nuvve Nuvve, Malliswari and Athadu.

Career[link]

Trivikram never had plans to write film dialogue, but instead had an interest in directing.^[1][2] Sunil, a friend and former roommate from college, introduced Trivikram to T.D.V. Prasad, who asked Trivikram to write the dialogue for the climax scene of the movie he was working on. Prasad, impressed with the result, then asked Trivikram to work as an assistant to director K. Vijaya Bhaskar. It was during this project the Trivikram received an offer to write dialogue for the movie Swayamvaram.^[1][2]

Although Swayamvaram was the first movie for which Trivikram wrote dialogue, but Nuvve Kavali, was released first.^[3] Trivikram went on to write dialogue for Chiru Navvutho, Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, Malliswari and Manmadhudu.^[1]

And though known as a dialog writer, Trivikram also penned lyrics for the Oka Raju Oka Rani movie, and sang the song Computersu Artsu Scienceu in the film Nuvve Nuvve.^[1][2]

Director[link]

Trivikram receiving Nandi Award from then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy.

Trivikram received critical acclaim for his directorial debut with the film Nuvve Nuvve,^[3] a movie dealing in depth with family sentiments along with high doses of comedy. This was followed by the critically acclaimed film Athadu, rated highly for its technical standards.^[4] Athadu collected a distributors' share of Rs.220 million in its total run, thus becoming the 2005 box office hit in Tollywood.^[1] Its satellite rights were sold for Rs.18 million. Following upon its initial recognition, the film was dubbed into Tamil, Malayalam, and Hindi, as well as being dubbed into Polish for a release in Poland as a Poszukiwany, becoming the first Telugu film released in Poland.^[1]. The assassination scene of political leader in the movie "Athadu" has been used in hollywood movie " The International" released a couple of years later.

Trivikram's film Jalsa became the most anticipated film of the year 2008, with a release of 320 prints in 1000 theaters. The film's audio rights were sold to Aditya Music for 90 lakhs, the highest for a Telugu film ever in the recent times. Jalsa became a major hit at box office by grossing 30 Crores in its whole run.^[1] Jalsa was followed by Khaleja released on October 7, 2010, for which Trivikram directed Mahesh Babu in two Thums Up soft drink commercials to assist in promoting the film.^[5]

Trivikram provided the screenplay for the film, Theenmaar, starring Pawan Kalyan and Trisha Krishnan^[6] in a remake of Love Aaj Kal released in March 2011.^[7]

He gave lyrics for the film Oka Raju Oka Rani starred by Raviteja & Namitha which was released in 2003.

He also shot Pepsi Commercial advertisement with Ram Charan Teja & Indian Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

Personal life[link]

He is married to Soujanya, niece of Sirivennala Seetha Rama Sastry.^[1]

Filmography[link]

As director[link]

As writer[link]

Recognition[link]

Of Trivikram's work on Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, Fullhyd.com wrote "The highlights of the film are all the original humor and the subtlety in approach so alien to Tollywood. The dialogue writer, Trivikram Srinivas, is perhaps the real hero in this one."^[8]

The Hindu compared Trivikram favorably with Shankar, noting that while Trivikram "started his career as a filmmaker with a light-hearted film Nuvve Nuvve", and has been known for "his light-hearted scripts and dialogues, his work on the action film Athadu is "said to be on par with such Hollywood flicks."^[9]

Awards[link]

Nandi Awards

• 2000, Best Dialogue Writer for Chiru Navvutho^[3]
• 2001, Best Dialogue Writer for Nuvvu Naaku Nachav^[3]
• 2002, Best Dialogue Writer for Nuvve Nuvve^[3]
• 2004, Best Dialogue Writer for Malliswari^[3]
• 2005, Best Dialogue Writer for Athadu^[10][11]

Filmfare Awards South

• 2005, Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu for Athadu

Other awards

• 2009, Vamsee International Film Award for Best Director for Athadu^[12]

References[link]

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External links[link]

• Trivikram Srinivas at the Internet Movie Database
• ayaskantam.com, Itz All About: Trivikram Sreenivas

Pawan Kalyan
Born	Konidala Kalyan Babu (1971-09-02) 2 September 1971 (age 40)[1][2] Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh, India [3]
Residence	Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Other names	Pawan Kalyan, Power Star[4][5]
Occupation	Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Action Choreographer, Choreography, Playback Singer, Producer
Years active	1996 – present
Spouse	Renu Desai (2009 – present)[6]
Children	Akira Nandan Aadhya
Parents	Venkat Rao Konidala Anjana Devi Konidala
Relatives	Chiranjeevi Konidala (brother) Nagendra Babu Konidala (brother) Ram Charan Teja Konidala (nephew) Arjun Allu (2nd nephew) Aravind Allu (brother-in-law) Rama Lingaiah Allu (father-in-law of brother)

Pawan Kalyan (Telugu: పవన్ కళ్యాణ్; born Konidala Kalyan Babu on 2 September 1971)^[2] is an Indian film actor, director, screenwriter and action choreographer in Telugu cinema. He is the brother of Indian actor Chiranjeevi. He made his acting debut in 1996 with Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbayi.

In 1998, he was starred in Tholi Prema which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu for that Year. He is known for his works in other blockbusters like Gokulamlo Seetha, Suswagatham, Thammudu, Badri, Kushi, Jalsa and Gabbar Singh ^[7]

Personal life[link]

Born to Konidela Venkata Rao and Anjana Devi,^[8] Pawan Kalyan is the younger brother of Chiranjeevi and Nagendra Babu.^[9] After his divorce from Nandini,^[10] Pawan Kalyan married Renu Desai on 28 January 2009. She co-starred with him in the films Badri and Johnny^[10] and has worked as costume designer for most of his films. The couple have two children, a son named Akira Nandan born in 2004 and a girl named Aadhya born in 2010. Akira was named after Pawan Kalyan's favorite director Akira Kurosawa.

Kalyan is trained in martial arts.^{[11][12][13][14]} He holds a black belt in karate^[15] and has displayed his skills in several of his films. He publicly performed his martial arts skills at several auditoriums.^[16] He was awarded the title "Pawan", symbolizing Hanuman. From then, Kalyan Babu became popular as Pawan Kalyan.^[17][18][19]

His brother-in-law Allu Aravind is an Indian film producer. Ram Charan Teja Konidala and Allu Arjun are other actors from the family. Pawan Kalyan is a vegetarian. He is highly influenced by Che Guevara, Jiddu Krishnamurti and Swami Vivekananda's philosophy.^[20]

Career[link]

Pawan Kalyan entered the Telugu movie industry with Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbayi (1996) as Kalyan Babu in which he performed martial arts action sequences. His second movie was Gokulamlo Seetha (1997), which is a remake of the 1996 Tamil film Gokulathil Seethai. He also starred in Suswagatham, which is also a remake of a Tamil film Love Today (1997).

In 1998, Tholi Prema released and received 6 Nandi Awards and National Award for the Best Feature Film (Telugu).^[21] After Tholi Prema, Pawan acted in Thammudu (1999) playing the role of a kickboxer. Pawan In 2000, he featured in Puri Jagannadh's first directorial venture Badri. Pawan acted in Kushi (2001) directed by S. J. Surya.

After the release of Kushi, Pawan Kalyan took a long gap of two years in his film career. He went to Japan for a brief period to learn a martial art called Aikido. He learnt this stunt to use in his first directorial venture Johnny. His next releases were Gudumba Shankar, Balu ABCDEFG, Bangaram and Annavaram

In 2008, Jalsa directed by Trivikram Srinivas released. His subsequent release Puli arrived on 10 September. The audio sales reached a total of 1.6 lakhs of CDs in the first three days, which is an all-time record in Telugu film history.^{[22][relevant? – discuss]}

Pawan Kalyan first release of 2011 was Theenmaar directed by Jayanth C. Paranjee in which he portrayed the two contrasting characters of present and yesteryear generations. Following this, Pawan Kalyan appeared in a Vishnuvardhan's gangster film Panjaa.This film is now set to release in Tamil.^[23] In September 2011, Pawan began shooting for the movie Gabbar Singh. The movie is being directed by Harish Shankar and produced by Bandla Ganesh. The movie is a remake of the Hindi film Dabangg.^[24] In 2012, Pawan is slated to work in Puri Jagannadh's Cameraman Ganga Tho Rambabu. The film is being produced by D. V. V. Danayya and filming is set to begin in May 2012.^{[25] [26]}

A social networking community on his name in the popular social networking website orkut is the second most active community in india. After orkut 'India' community, orkut 'Power Star Pawan Kalyan' community takes second place in Top 10 orkut National communities.^[27][28]

Filmography[link]

Actor[link]

Action Choreographer[link]

Playback singing[link]

Choreography/Songs Visualization[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Pawan Kalyan at the Internet Movie Database

Kesiraju Srinivas, popularly known as Ghazal Srinivas, is a Telugu Ghazal Maestro, an Indian classical vocalist, and Pioneer of Art of Telugu ghazal singing. He has set three Guinness world records and Limca Record by singing ghazals on Gandhism in 125 world languages.^[1]

Early life[link]

Ghazal Srinivas was born on 14th October 1966 in Tekkali, Srikakulam (native of Palakol West Godavari) Andhra Pradesh to Narisimha Rao and Ratnavali.

He did his B.A. in Political Science from Andhra University. He studied in Taylor High School, Sri YNM college, Narsapuram and in ASNM Govt college of Palakol. He also earned a degree in Library Science from University of Madras.

Career[link]

Ghazal Srinivas worked as a librarian at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bhimavaram and Sainik School, Korukonda for a decade before quitting.

Music career[link]

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He started singing Telugu Ghazals in 1986. He has developed a unique style. He uses Kanjeera, a common instrument, as his only accompaniment.

References[link]

http://www.greatandhra.com/ganews/viewnews.php?id=16947&cat=10&scat=25

External links[link]

• http://www.ghazalsrinivas.com/english/aboutus.html

www.telugughazal.com www.ghazalcharitabletrust.org