Mullapudi Ramana

Mullapudi Venkata Ramana known as Mullapudi Ramana is a Telugu writer who is known for his hilarious style of writing. Ramana was born in a middle class traditional family and his childhood was spent in Dhowaleswaram near Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh. During his studies Ramana had shown interest for literature in Telugu and inclination in writing up short but effective storyline. During these days he met Bapu and both became unconditional friends where Ramana was goot at write ups and Bapu at painting and caricature drawing. Slowly they excelled their talent and entered into films. 

Ramana created a child character called Budugu. Many excellent characters have been penned by Ramana in the films directed by Bapu. The famous characters include Radha Gopalam, Cotractor in Muthayala Muggu and Tutthi in Mister Pellam. Ramana shortly grabbed a name for his versatile and heart touching writing. Ramana had a 60 year association with director Bapu. While Bapu achieved much of his fame sticking to a subtle style of artistic elegance. Beginning as an illustrator-story writer team, Bapu and Ramana then turned into a film-director-writer duo and they have contributed immensely to the enrichment of Telugu cultural ethos through literature and cinema.

Ramanas' career had many faces – journalist, story teller, film critic, film story writer, dialogue writer and a popular film personality who represented a genre that produced the finest work in film arts, literature, journalism. However, he received endless appreciation of the Telugu people for his excellent work and has made a respectable place in their hearts. He is one of those who kept the flag of Telugu pride flying high. He was felicitated with Raghupathi Venkaiah Award for excellence in Films in 1986 instituted by the state of AP. Ramana died aat the age of 80 in Chennai due to illness on February 24th 2011. 

-Siva Kumar.