Vemuri Satyanarayana

Vamsy's Manchu Pallaki, Ladies Tailor, Maharshi, or Kranthi Kumar's Swathi, etc. all have one name in common - Vemuri Satyanarayana. If you talk to Vamsy or Sravanthi Ravikishore, they speak of several nice things about him. I called him one day to talk to this invisible personality who was there behind many successful films, but he didn't show any interest in talking about himself. After talking to him for a couple of times and mentioning common people that we both know, he reluctantly agreed to talk on a weekend. Here are the excerpts from the brief chit chat, exclusively presented to the visitors of TeluguCinema.Com:

About his family background:
I was born in a small middle class family in Ghantasalapalem in Krishna district. My father is a farmer and owns three acres of land in the village. My father gave more importance to education and even sold the three acres of land for the cause of my education. I was unable to get the seat in MPC group in Vijayawada or Gudivada, and I was thus forced to take a seat in MMC in B.Sc. My plan was to complete it and join in engineering. However, due to some problems, I failed in one subject, and I had some time to complete that subject. In the meantime, I joined in Andhra Foundry and Machine Company in Hyderabad as a storekeeper. At the time of the exams, when I asked for some vacation to prepare for the exams, I was refused to be given any leave and I thus resigned the job and started preparing for the exams. I got married to my niece by then and she was carrying a baby at that time. My father-in-law lives in Singarayakonda and when my wife delivered the baby, the boy had a problem with legs and doctors bandaged both the legs for the day-old baby! Hearing that, I rushed to Singarayakonda and was not able to concentrate on exams and eventually I didn't write exams even that year! The baby boy also died after an year. After that too, we had problems with babies for another two years which made me so upset that I wanted to go with the vasectomy to ensure that at least my wife will have a healthy life. But, before the operation, my father-in-law got the news from the doctor who was his friend and he was totally against the idea. One of my friends, Baburao, said that he knew a homeopathy doctor who can cure this, which made me move to Hyderabad to take the medicine. After using it, she became cured and we have two children now.

Getting into the literary field:
I was an avid reader of books from my childhood! When we moved to Hyderabad, I started working in PWD Groundwater Division as a non-technical bEldaar mEstrii on daily wages. When I was working in Rudrapaka on this work, my friend Vemuri Balaram came one day and said that he wanted to start a magazine called Swathi and asked me to join with him. Thus, from 1970-'73, I worked with him on the magazine after which he took over it fully, and I moved to Jyothi monthly in Madras. Jyothi was run by Leelavathy Raghavayya gaaru after her husband Raghavayya gaaru passed away. From 1973-'81, I worked in Jyothi monthly where I met many writers like Malladi, Yandamuri, Vamsy, etc.