Sirivennela (Telugu: సిరివెన్నెల) is a 1986 critically acclaimed and block buster Telugu film. The movie was produced by Ch. Ramakrishna Reddy, N. Bhaskara Reddy, and U.Chinaveerraju, and directed by K. Viswanath.

The movie revolves around Pandit Hari Prasad, a blind flautist (played by Sarvadaman Banerjee), and a painter (Suhasini) who is mute.

Hari Prasad lives with his only sister in a village which is also a minor tourist attraction. He makes a living by playing flute and entertaining the tourists. His life changes dramatically once Jyothirmayi (Moon Moon Sen) comes there and hears his musical talent. She helps him reach high standards in classical music.

Years pass by and Hari Prasad becomes one of the greatest flutists in India; he develops; a great love towards Jyothirmayi for whom he dedicates all his albums.

Sirivennela (one of the most celebrated musical masterpieces in Telugu) abounds in classical music composed by K. V. Mahadevan with flute renditions by the renowned flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia. The movie saw the debut of Sirivennela Sitaramasastri as a lyricist, who wrote all of the songs. Because of "the wonderful songs," rich in meaning, he penned for the movie, Sitarama Sastry has taken the name Sirivennela as a prefix to his own name. Each of the songs is remembered to this day as a part of landmark Telugu film music.

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.

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.

Chembolu Sirivennela Sitaramasastri (Telugu: సిరివెన్నెల సీతారామ శాస్త్రి) (born 20 May 1955) is an Indian lyricist known for his works in Telugu Cinema. He is a multiple winner of Nandi Award for 10 Best Lyricist and 3 Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist – Telugu. He was the key note speaker at the Telugu Association of North America's celebrations held in Chicago between 2 and 4 July 2009 He is currently the highest paid film lyricist in Andhra Pradesh. Recently, He was also felicitated by the Bay area Telugu association

Sitarama Sastri was born in the town of Anakapalli in Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh. While pursuing his habit of poetry writing, he worked with the state-owned Telephone department for a living before he started writing film-songs. He discontinued studying medicine in Andhra Medical College.

His father Dr C V Yogi was a multi faceted scholar who worked as a lecturer in Anakapalli (AMAL College) and Kakinada (Ideal College).

Sitramasastri debuted with writing songs for K. Viswanath's Sirivennela. The songs in the movie were so phenomenally popular that the name of this movie got tagged to his given name.

Moon Moon Sen (also credited as Moonmoon Sen) (Bengali: মুনমুন সেন born 28 March 1948) is an Indian film actress. She did movies in Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi and Kannada films. Sen is part of a three generational family of actors and was a staple of the Bengali film industry, starring in many hit films. She eventually starred in Bollywood films, which she was not as successful as the Bengali film industry. She has appeared in 60 films and 40 TV serials. Her performance in the Telugu film Sirivennela directed by K.Vishwanath is possibly her best performance.

Moon Moon Sen was born into a Bengali family in Calcutta to popular Bengali actress Suchitra Sen and Dibanath Sen. Her father, of Ballygunge Place, was the son of one of the wealthiest businessmen of Calcutta, Adinath Sen. Her great grandfather Dinanath Sen was the Diwan or a Minister of the Maharaja of Tripura.

She was educated at Loreto Convent, Darjeeling and at Loreto House, Calcutta, then in a school in England and after coming back, she graduated from Loreto College, Calcutta. She received her masters in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV (born 7 April 1962) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres — psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road movies, horrors, politician-criminal nexus, and musicals in multiple languages.

He gained recognition in Bollywood with the Hindi film, Shiva premiered at International Film Festival of India in kolkata and Rangeela (1995). The next film he directed was Satya (1998), which won six Filmfare Awards, including the Critics Award for Best Film, and was show cased among the Indian panorama section, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.Satya, together with his 2002 film Company (which he directed and which won seven Filmfare Awards) and the 2005 film D (which he produced), form an "Indian gangster trilogy".

Other acclaimed films that Varma directed include Kshana Kshanam (1991), Gaayam (1993), Anaganaga Oka Roju (1997), Prema Kadha (1999), Kaun (1999), Jungle (2000), Bhoot (2003), Sarkar (2005), Sarkar Raj (2008), Rakta Charitra (2010) Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju (2011) and Dongala Mutta (2011).