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Narasimha (Sanskrit: नरसिंह, Narasiṃha) or Nrusimha (नृसिंह, Nṛsiṃha), also spelled as Narasingh and Narasingha, whose name literally translates from Sanskrit as "Man-lion", is an avatar of the Lord Shri Vishnu according to Shrimad Bhagwat Purana, Scandh(chapter) Seven. "In the fourth incarnation, the Lord appeared as Nrisimha and bifurcated the strong body of the atheist Hiranyakasipu with His nails, just as a carpenter pierces cane." and one of Hinduism's most popular deities, as evidenced in early epics, iconography, and temple and festival worship for over a millennium.
He is often visualized as half-man/half-lion, having a human-like torso and lower body, with a lion-like face and claws. This image is widely worshiped in deity form by a significant number of Vaishnava groups. He is known primarily as the 'Great Protector' who specifically defends and protects his devotees in times of need.
References to Narasimha are found in a wide variety of the Puranic scriptures, with seventeen versions of the main narrative, some in more detail than others. The Bhagavata Purana (Canto 7), Agni Purana (4.2-3), Brahmanda Purana (2.5.3-29), Vayu Purana (67.61-66), Harivamsa (41 & 3.41-47), Brahma Purana (213.44-79), Vishnudharmottara Purana (1.54), Kurma Purana (1.15.18-72), Matsya Purana (161-163), Padma Purana (Uttara-khanda 5.42), Shiva Purana (2.5.43 & 3.10-12), Linga Purana (1.95-96), Skanda Purana 7 (2.18.60-130) and Vishnu Purana (1.16-20) all contain depictions of the Narasimha Avatar. There is also a short reference in the Mahabharata (3.272.56-60) and a Tapani Upanishad (Narasimha tapani Upanisad), earliest of Vaishnava Upanishads named in reference to him.[citation needed]
Dr. Garikipati Narasimha Rao "Maha Sahasraavadhani" is a Telugu Avadhani (literary performer) in Andhra Pradesh, India.
He has conducted more than 150 avadhanams, including Dvigunita Avadhanam at Dallas for the American Telugu Association in 2002. Garikipati is known for his Dhāraṇā (control of the mind and the breath), which is a key requirement for performing Avadhanams.
Dr. Garikipati has been awarded titles such as Satavadhhana Geeshpati, Avadhana Sarada, and Dharanaa Brahma Raakshasa.
He was awarded a Gold Medal by the former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, N. T. Rama Rao, for standing first in Masters of Philosophy, and received Pratibhaa Puraskaaram, both from Telugu University.
Noted scholar ‘Mahasahasravadhani” Garikapati Narasimha Rao was presented the ninth Kopparapu Kavula Pratibha Puraskaram in the presence of Courtalam Peethadhipati Sri Siddheswarananda Bharati Mahaswami and Sadguru K. Sivananda Murthy.
The award is presented every year by Kopparapu Kavula Kalapeetham in memory of brothers Kopparapu Venkata Subbaraya Kavi and Venkata Ramana Kavi.
Actors: Ali (actor), Raghu Babu (actor), Banerji (actor), Brahmanandam (actor), Chalapathi Rao (actor), Jayaprakash Reddy (actor), Mukesh Rishi (actor), Ashish Vidyarthi (actor), Hema (actress), Sudha (actress), Gautham Raju (editor), Thaman S. (composer), Hansika Motwani (actress), Harish Pai (miscellaneous crew), Kalyan Ram (actor),
Genres: Action,Actors: Gulshan Grover (actor), Lalit Pandit (composer), Anant Mahadevan (director), Makrand Deshpande (actor), Anant Mahadevan (writer), Seema Biswas (actress), Anant Mahadevan (writer), Naseeruddin Shah (actor), Murli Sharma (actor), Sunil Shetty (actor), Vinod Khanna (actor), Zakir Hussain (actor), Ashish Vidyarthi (actor), Sameera Reddy (actress), Ehsan Khan (actor),
Plot: While delivering food in a forest area in Andhra Pradesh, impoverished Narasimha is held against his will by a band of Naxalites led by Velu, and forced to join them. He is anxious to collect his dues and return home to his wife, Uma; daughter, Chinna; and son, Mohan, but Velu keeps on putting it off. Narasimha gets to know and sympathize with members of this band, and befriends Lakshmi, who was gang-raped by several policemen. He is then asked to prove his loyalty by killing an informant/plainclothes police inspector - which he does - and even accompanies the band on an assault on a school, resulting in the death of some children. Traumatized after this incident, he decides to flee - and it is this decision that will not only estrange him from his family but also force him to be on the run from the band as well as the police.
Keywords: color-in-title, gun, identity-card, insurgency, insurgent, jungle, machine-gun, naxalite, rape, rape-victimActors: Aahuthi Prasad (actor), Ranganath (actor), Banerji (actor), Mumait Khan (actress), Jagapathi Babu (actor), M.S. Narayana (actor), Rami Reddy (actor), Mohan Duvvasi (actor), Vandemataram Srinivas (composer), Rajeev Kanakala (actor), Narra Venkateswara Rao (actor), Raghunatha Reddy (actor), Sunitha (miscellaneous crew), Dhani Aelay (miscellaneous crew), Fish Venkat (actor),
Plot: Chandra is the editor of the newspaper 'Addam'. He has a gang of friends who help him with the operations. Chandra is a victim of home minister Raju who murdered his father. Chandra wants to eradicate corruption in society. Towards this goal he conducts sting operations to get hold of secret tapes of important corrupt people. Sometimes he even resorts to blackmailing techniques. Likewise, Chandra gets hold of home minister Raju and blackmails him to do positive things like serving people. The rest of the story is all about how Chandra teaches Raju the greatness in being a good man and changes him into a positive political leader.
Keywords: blackmail, corruptionActors: Ali (actor), Suneel (actor), Brahmaji (actor), Brahmanandam (actor), Jeeva (actor), Dharmavarapu Subramanyam (actor), Sriram L.B. (actor), Lal (actor), Venu Madhav (actor), Mallikharjunarao (actor), Nagendra Babu (actor), M.S. Narayana (actor), Ranganath (actor), Tanikella Bharani (actor), Ashish Vidyarthi (actor),
Plot: Varam's brother Annavaram dotes on her. They stay in a village. Annavaram arranges the marriage of his sister to a guy from Hyderabad. Goons in the city harass Varam and her husband. When his sister comes to his village for delivery, Annavaram goes to Hyderabad. The rest of the story is all about how he eradicates the goons in Hyderabad by the time her sister delivers her baby and returns to Hyderabad.
Keywords: brother-sister-relationship, corrupt-cop, firecracker, lemon, loss-of-loved-one, marriage, orphan, pregnancy, revenge-drama, sickleActors: Telangana Sakuntala (actress), Tanikella Bharani (actor), Brahmanandam (actor), M.S. Narayana (actor), Prakash Raj (actor), A.V.S. Subramanyam (actor), Suman (actor), Suneel (actor), Lakshmi Venugopal (miscellaneous crew), Venkateswara Rao Kotagiri (editor), K. Raghavendra Rao (director), M.M. Keeravani (composer), K. Raghavendra Rao (producer), Pragathi (actress), Allu Aravind (producer),
Genres: Drama, Romance,Actors: Ganesh Acharya (miscellaneous crew), Farah Khan (miscellaneous crew), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (actress), Sridevi (producer), Deepti Naval (actress), Nana Patekar (actor), Prabhudheva (actor), Vijay Raaz (actor), Prakash Raj (actor), Anupam Shyam (actor), Tiku Talsania (actor), Shah Rukh Khan (actor), Divya Dutta (actress), Karisma Kapoor (actress), Rocky Verma (actor),
Plot: Settled in Canada, of Indian origin, Nandini and Shekhar live a fairly harmoniously and busy lifestyle with their young child. While Nandini has family in Canada, Shekhar has no one to call his own. Then one day there is breaking news of violence in India, and that's when Shekhar asks Nandini to accompany him to India as he fears that his parents may have been in killed. Nandini is shocked to find out that Shekhar does have family, but had never discussed this with her, nevertheless she accompanies him. Upon arrival, they are greeted by Shekhar's uncle and cousin, and it is then that this young couple learn that they have entered a war between the two families - a war that they and their child may not survive.
Keywords: cameo, cigarette-smoking, family-relationships, loss-of-husband, railroad-track, remake, tough-guy, villageActors: Subbiraj (actor), Om Shivpuri (actor), Anjan Srivastav (actor), C.S. Dubey (actor), Brij Gopal (actor), Shafi Inamdar (actor), Johnny Lever (actor), Sunny Deol (actor), Achyut Potdar (actor), Om Puri (actor), Sharat Saxena (actor), Veerendra Saxena (actor), Mahavir Shah (actor), Satish Shah (actor), Babbanlal Yadav (actor),
Plot: Narasimha a young and captive man lives a middle class life with his family in a quite neighbor hood. He gets his beautiful sister marry to an eligible young man in there vicinity. On the occasion of his sister giving birth, he returns home to find that a conflict arise between his neighbor hood and another neighbor hood where he seek refuge in a dwelling area nearby only to return and find out that his whole family has been murder. Without no aim left in life Narasimha decided to turn to crime and alcohol. He later decided to work for a man call Suraj Narayan Singh. But when Suraj asks him to kill Ravi Rastogi for falling in love with his daughter, Meenu. Narasimha refuses, and on the contrary joins forces with Ravi, his sister, Anita, to force Suraj to get the young couple married. This kind of conflict escalates to such proportions that Suraj finally gets arrested and lodged in a cell. Everything seems clear for Ravi and Meenu to get married, but Meenu wants proof that her dad is a criminal, and she gives Ravi 24 hours to find proof or she will marry the boy of her dad's choice. And ruin everything and every plans between them.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, criminal, loss-of-family, murder-of-familyActors: Shyam Benegal (director), Annu Kapoor (actor), Harish Patel (actor), Neena Gupta (actress), Vanraj Bhatia (composer), Mohan Agashe (actor), Shyam Benegal (producer), Satish Kaushik (actor), Kulbhushan Kharbanda (actor), Om Puri (actor), Shabana Azmi (actress), Pankaj Kapur (actor), K.K. Raina (actor), Pallavi Joshi (actress), Ravi Jhankal (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Raogopalrao (actor), Chandramohan (actor), Chiranjeevi (actor), Satyanarayana Kaikala (actor), Jayasudha (actress), Srinivasa Rao Kota (actor), Ramaprabha (actress), Nutan Prasad (actor), Madhavi (actress), Kranthi Kumar (producer), Chalam (actor), K. Vasu (director), Jit Mohan Mitra (actor), Sankar Rao Kota (actor), Narayana Murthy R. (actor),
Genres: Drama,