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Prasād (Sanskrit: प्रसाद, Bengali: প্রসাদ, Marathi: प्रसाद, Hindi/Urdu: प्रशाद/پرشاد/prashad, Kannada: prasāda ಪ್ರಸಾದ, Gujarati: પૃસાદ, Oriya: ଭୋଗ, Tamil: பிரசாதம் and Malayalam: പ്രസാദം prasādam, Punjabi: ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ, Telugu: Telugu: ప్రసాదం prasadam, Bhojpuri: persādi) is a material substance that is first offered to a deity in Hinduism and then consumed.
Literally, a gracious gift. Anything, usually an edible food, that is first offered to a deity, saint, Perfect Master or an Avatar and then distributed in His or Her name to their followers or others as a good sign. The prasad is then considered to have the deity's blessing residing within it. In contemporary Hindu religious practice in India, the desire to get prasada and have darshan are the two major motivations of pilgrimage and temple visits.[citation needed]
As a mental condition, prasāda has a rich history of meanings in the Sanskrit tradition from Vedic literature onwards. In this textual tradition, prasada is a mental state experienced by gods, sages, and other powerful beings which is marked by spontaneous generosity and the bestowing of boons. Prasāda is understood in this sense of a mental state from the earliest literature (Rig Veda) onwards — not as an aspect of ritual practice. In later texts such as the Shiva Purāna, references to prasada as a material substance begins to appear alongside this older meaning.[citation needed]
Mandali Buddha Prasad (Telugu: మండలి బుద్ధప్రసాద్) (born 26 May 1956, Nagayalaka, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh) was politician and former minister of Andhra Pradesh, India. Sri Mandali Buddha Prasad carved a niche for himself in the political field of Andhra Pradesh with his unique personality. He is a staunch follower of Gandhian Principles and a leader with service motto and national outlook. Especially, he is known for his love and affection for Telugu Language and Culture and for his unstinted efforts for their development and also for the welfare of Telugu people living all over the world.
He is born to Sri Mandali Venkata Krishna Rao, Smt. Prabhavathi Devi on 26.05.1956 at Nagayalanka Village in Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh. His father Sri Mandali Venkata (M.V.) Krishna Rao was a staunch follower of Gandhian Philosophy and a social worker. He served as a Member of Parliament and a Cabinet Minister in the State for a long time and influenced the State politics. He got the rare distinction of conducting the First World Telugu Conference during the year 1975, thereby bringing all Telugu people scattered throughout the world to one platform. His services to the victims of cyclone and tidal wave that hit the coastal area of Andhra Pradesh on 19th November, 1977 were attracted the entire world and still remembered. He is known as a great humanist and selfless leader.
Srinivas Avasarala is a script-writer, director and actor.
A mechanical engineer by qualification, Srinivas has worked in Princeton University before leaving his lucrative career for fulfilling his life-long ambition of being an actor. He has also done a screenwriting diploma at UCLA and other film related courses at Lee Strasberg school of acting. Originally from Hyderabad, Srinivas has spent a few years in Vijaywada, New Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata as well.
Srinivas Avasarala is a Telugu actor and an aspiring director. He has worked in many telugu films like Mugguru, Pilla Zamindar, Vara Prasad Potti Prasad.
Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Ashta Chamma at the 56th South Filmfare awards 2009.
Actors: Iniya (actress), Thangar Batchan (director), Shantanu Bhagyaraj (actor), Thangar Bachan (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Uttej (actor), Jagapathi Babu (actor), Chandramohan (actor), Gopalakrishna Paruchuri (actor), Babu Mohan (actor), Aahuthi Prasad (actor), Charmy Kaur (actress), Sunitha (miscellaneous crew), Satya Prakash (actor), Siva Reddy (actor), Nandi Srihari (producer), Yasho Krishna (composer), Prem Raj (director),
Plot: Niharika (Charmi) is a young journalist working in a Telugu News Channel. After being chided by her boss for bringing 'boring' news, she starts looking for some controversial material. For this purpose she ventures out alone in the night into Hyderabad. Unknowingly, Niharika has a pen camera, which happens to capture a secret talk of a politician, which if it could come out, will dismantle his status. He sends his men after her. Niharika in the mean time starts looking at Hyderabad's dark secrets during the night. She also meets Prasad (Jagapathi Babu) who is a drunkard with a good heart, and along with him tries to solve the political problem. How things turn completely against her and how she overcomes the difficulties form the rest of the story.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Dharmavarapu Subramanyam (actor), Telangana Sakuntala (actress), Mukesh Rishi (actor), Subbaraju (actor), Srinivasa Rao Kota (actor), Sudha (actress), Mukesh Rishi (actor), Venkatesh Daggubati (actor), Venkatesh Daggubati (actor), Ali (actor), Chandramohan (actor), Raghu Babu (actor), Brahmanandam (actor), Devi Sri Prasad (composer), Surekha Vani (actress),
Plot: Unable to find a suitable bride due to issues with his astrological chart, Hyderabad-based mimicry artiste/ventriloquist Venkat Ramana, is told that he must marry within one month or remain single forever. He travels to Paris to perform and meets with Prasad, the Manager, as well as his niece, Pooja, with whom he falls in love. He is thrilled when he finds out that Pooja also loves him and upon his return back home accordingly informs his family. He does not know that Pooja was only pulling the wool over his eyes - as she is slated to marry Chhotu, the brother of dangerous gangster Chengal Naidu. Things change rapidly when he finds out that Pooja is being forced to marry against her wishes. Prasad and he decide to intervene, not realizing that Pooja has not been forthright with him again, while the enraged Naidus will never permit them to return home alive.
Genres: Action, Crime, Romance, Thriller,Actors: Suneel (actor), Brahmanandam (actor), Aahuthi Prasad (actor), Hari Nandamuri (editor), Priyamani (actress), Tarun (actor), Raj Kumar S.A. (composer), Ankita (actress), Paras Jain (producer), Prasad N.V. (producer), Rohit (actor), Akash (actor), Rajendra Kumar (writer), Perry Rambabu (costume designer), Shah Jahan (director),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Raju Sundaram (miscellaneous crew), Koti (composer), A. Sreekar Prasad (editor), Rajitha (actress), Banerji (actor), Hema (actress), Tanikella Bharani (actor), Aahuthi Prasad (actor), Brahmanandam (actor), Srinivasa Rao Kota (actor), Chalapathi Rao (actor), Dharmavarapu Subramanyam (actor), Suneel (actor), Lakshmi Venugopal (miscellaneous crew), Venkatesh Daggubati (actor),
Plot: Malliswari is the heiress of Raja of Mirjapur. Her deceased father wrote in his will that she would inherit the property worth 750 crores after she becomes major at the age of 21. The entire property is under the care-taking of Bhavani Prasad, who wants to inherit the entire property by killing her. As he hatches the plans to eliminate Malliswari, she is sent to Vizag to a relative's place as a normal girl so that she can live with anonymity. Prasad works as bank accountant in Andhra Bank at Vizag. He is a bachelor who has been desperately seeking for marriage alliance for the past seven years. He would be looking at every unmarried girl with dreams in his eyes. Just call him 'Pellikaani Prasad' and he would get instantly irritated. He accidentally meets Malliswari and falls deeply in love with her. Malliswari is traced by the goons in Vizag and they start running after her. Prasad escorts her and drops her safely in Hyderabad. To know what happened next, you must watch Malliswari on a big screen.
Keywords: bachelor, bank-accountant, car-crash, character-name-in-title, heiress, marriage, princess, propertyActors: Manish Malhotra (costume designer), Shankar (miscellaneous crew), Devi Sri Prasad (composer), Brahmanandam (actor), A. Sreekar Prasad (editor), Nagarjuna Akkineni (producer), Ananth (actor), Ranganath (actor), Dharmavarapu Subramanyam (actor), Suneel (actor), Chandramohan (actor), Tanikella Bharani (actor), Nagarjuna Akkineni (actor), Sudha (actress), Raju Sundaram (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Abhiram is a manager in his own ad agency. He hates women and he feels that all women are traitors. Abhirams uncle, who is the chairman of the ad agency, appoints Harika as an assistant manager. Though Abhiram does not like a girl joining his company, he has to live with it as the appointment is made by his uncle. He starts mistreating her. Harika, vexed by Abhirams acts, submits her resignation to Abhis uncle, who then narrates the flashback of Abhiram to Harika.
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Asokan (actor), Rajan P. Dev (actor), Dilip (actor), Sphadikam George (actor), Indrans (actor), Mammukoya (actor), Kalabhavan Mani (actor), Oduvil Unnikrishnan (actor), Machan Varghese (actor), N.F. Varghese (actor), Nedumudi Venu (actor), Philomina (actress), Johnson (composer), Kanakalatha (actress), Manka Mahesh (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,Actors: Vikas Anand (actor), Mithun Chakraborty (actor), Mithun Chakraborty (actor), Mithun Chakraborty (actor), Prem Chopra (actor), Avtar Gill (actor), Puneet Issar (actor), Shakti Kapoor (actor), Kader Khan (actor), Gavin Packard (actor), Yunus Parvez (actor), Gurbachchan Singh (actor), Tiku Talsania (actor), Moushumi Chatterjee (actress), Madhoo (actress),
Plot: A young, dashing, and honest Police Inspector, who lives with Mr. and Mrs. Prasad, goes to a small town in Southern India to be introduced to a prospective bride, Koyal, the daughter of Gopinath. The Police Inspector falls head over heels in love with Koyal and wants to marry her. Koyal too falls in love with him. When the time comes for finalizing their marriage, a man comes forward alleging that the Police Inspector is not who he claims to be, but a man who is a bastard, born out of an unknown biological father. This leads to the postponement of the marriage, and the Inspector questioning Prasad and his wife as to who he really is and who his father was. Prasad starts recounting his mother, Gayetri's, life, the fact that she married an obnoxious man named Amavas - a man who was selected by a shady politician to lure the innocent public to vote for him - so that he can plunder the nation to no end. Watch as this story takes you back in time, showing the greed and avarice that can encompass even the simplest of men - making him turn into a demon.
Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family,Actors: Rahi Masoom Reza (writer), Praveen Paul (actress), Rakesh Bedi (actor), Dulari (actress), Poonam Dhillon (actress), Bindu (actress), Satyendra Kapoor (actor), Sunny Deol (actor), Shreeram Lagoo (actor), Dharmendra (actor), C.S. Dubey (actor), Prem Chopra (actor), Jankidas (actor), Om Shivpuri (actor), Rahul Dev Burman (composer),
Plot: Ravidas (Sunny Deol) lives in a village in rural India. He is the son of Chediram (Dr. Shreeram Lagoo) who is of highly respected in the village. Ravidas falls in love with Jyoti (Poonam Dhillon). Their love becomes known in the village. Because of differences of caste, the villagers are opposed to Ravidas marrying Jyoti. Chediram commits suicide due to the shame his son has brought upon him. Ravidas is a gifted poet, but he cannot fulfill his dream of being recognized as a great poet, his poems being published and shown to the world, because he lives in a village. So he decides to go to the city to fulfill his dreams and to eventually marry Jyoti. In the city he recovers the purse of a young lady from a thief. The young lady turns out to be the daughter of a big newspaper publisher. The newspaper publisher hears of Ravidas's talent for poetry through his daughter. He publishes some of Ravidas's poems in a column in his newspaper. Ravidas starts becoming famous and his dream is fulfilled. He communicates to Jyoti by writing on the side of the morning express train, hence the title of the film Saveray Wali Gaadi. Jyoti reads these message each morning hoping for the time when Ravidas will return and take her away with him.
Genres: ,Actors: Naseeruddin Shah (actor), Bunny Reuben (miscellaneous crew), Shabana Azmi (actress), Shyam Benegal (director), Vanraj Bhatia (composer), Bunny Reuben (miscellaneous crew), Amrish Puri (actor), Kulbhushan Kharbanda (actor), Smita Patil (actress), Mohan Agashe (actor), Girish Karnad (actor), Anant Nag (actor), Sadhu Meher (actor), Satyadev Dubey (writer), Satyadev Dubey (actor),
Plot: Vishwam (Naseeruddin Shah) is the youngest son of the powerful, and influential village Zamindar (Amrish Puri). The Zamindar will not hesitate to do anything for the welfare and protection of his family, which also includes bending the law to his own advantage. Vishwam is married to Rukmani (Smita Patil), and unlike his brothers, does not indulge in alcohol or women, nor does he have any bad habits. Then the village gets a new schoolmaster (Girish Karnad), who has a wife, Sushilla (Shabana Azmi). When Vishwam sees for the first time, he is unable to take his off of her, and unable to get her out of his mind. Sushilla does not reciprocate his attentions. Then one night, while the schoolmaster is returning home, he sees a vehicle pull up outside his house, and two men grab Sushilla and take her forcibly. Several people are present no one dares to raise a hand nor even a voice to stop this abduction. What will the schoolmaster do to get his wife back, knowling fully well that the Police patel (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) is one of the Zamindar's men.
Keywords: 1940s, abduction, abuse-of-power, anger, angry-mob, anguish, apathy, axe, beaten-to-death, beatingTo what do you not drive
Mortal hearts
Accursed hunger for gold?
Cheaply bought, but deadly sold
With new light they shine on through
On fields of shredded goals
Reap crop of clinging hope
Harvest our brave new world
Ancient woe, be gone
Foul illusions of better life
Compared to what, I ask
Does this truth of life coerce?
Juxtaposed they are not